What to Expect on a Vision Quest
What to expect from a vision quest? And how do I hold people on vision quest?
Well, one, one thing to think about is there are kind of three phases of it, and the first one is the preparation. The second is the threshold time of being out in the woods, or going alone into nature. And the third one we could say is incorporation. Incorporating the new information, a new vision, or insight.
So the preparation, each one of these is as important as the others. The preparation is really important, and how to prepare yourself, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. To really gather your intention and make space for an expansion of consciousness, so that you can drop deep in the moment. Drop out of ordinary thinking, and go into deep communion with the spirit of life, to hear the voice of your spirit that’s calling you.
So there are many practices for preparing, and I guide people before we come to the camp. Then we have two and a half days in the camp preparing, making sure they have the physical whatever is needed to take care of themselves on the physical level. And then on the morning that they’re going out, we hold a ceremony to bless them and to really enable them to step over the threshold into this fantastic time of being alone in nature.
And when they go out from the camp, they go to their spot. And I encourage people to really be present with whatever their experience, not to try interpreting it straight away. Often, they’ll get many insights from what they see from nature. They may even get a full blown vision. But it’s important not to try and think about it too much, just to lie down, really receive that.
And then on the fourth morning, they come back in, we bless them, welcome them back into the company of other human beings, and we start to incorporate the information that’s come to them. So we’ll have various ceremonies. There’ll be a time once they’ve broken their fast, if they’re fasting, gathered some energy. They will tell their story. And I’m there to reflect as best I can and take them deeper into understanding.
And then there are practices to turn those images and visions into intentions for daily life. And really this third phase, the incorporation phase, of bringing it back into your daily life, that can be the most challenging.
How do you live into the new understanding?
People ask me, does vision quest change you?
Yes, it does, but it doesn’t change you into anybody other than who you really are. So it’s an initiation, deep into deeper level of who you really are, and who will come here to be in life.
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