An extended (> 6 months) period of solitude reveals the reality of our monkey brains. When you’re left alone with your thoughts, you’ll see that they turn against you. You’ll try to avoid solitude. But when life forces it, you must face it. You have no option.

It makes you question, where is all this poison coming from? You dig deeper and deeper. You’ll taste countless flavors of poison as you inquire.

The only way to stop the poison is to get to its roots. After years of inquiry, once you get down there, you’ll realize it was just different flavors of the same thought: fear. Well, somebody might ask about passion or desire. Well, they’re just fear of regrets or fear of death.

Every thought’s root is fear, just trying to express itself in different ways.

If you happen to dig even deeper, you’ll realize that it was coming from the most mature part of your brain, your survival brain, which was creating poison under the misconception that it was a remedy. It is always scanning and trying to protect you by sending fears. That fear manifests itself into anxiety, anger, desire, uneasiness, envy, ego, lust, hate, groupism, loneliness, and all other negative emotions.

Once you catch this, you’ll create peace with solitude.

One more step deeper: You’re four brains and one body.