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	<title><![CDATA[What It's Like to Spend Five Months in Silence]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-michaelson/what-its-like-to-spend-fi_b_204559.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>I have been a law professor, magazine editor, and the director of national nonprofit organization. I went to Yale Law School, founded a successful dot-com software company, and have written three <a href="http://www.metatronics.net">books</a> and 200 articles. My childhood nickname was "Chatterduck." But last year, I decided to spend five months on silent meditation retreat, mostly in Nepal. </p>

<p>What, my friends have asked (at least the ones who didn't think I'd lost my mind), is it like to spend five months...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Living]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-05-19T09:06:00-04:00</date_published>
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