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Image: Ideal setting For a Vision Quest Retreat
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)
Vision quest: A period of spiritual seeking often undertaken as a puberty rite.
It typically
involves isolation, fasting, and the inducement of a trance state in
a forest environment. It’s for the purpose of attaining guidance or knowledge
from supernatural forces - Wiki
a forest environment. It’s for the purpose of attaining guidance or knowledge
from supernatural forces - Wiki
What of vision quest
Initiation
ritual
From child to
adult
Spiritual nature
Energies of
creation
Guiding life’s
purpose
Test of
adulthood
Through chasms
of discoveries
The kind of quest all will take
ReplyDeleteVision quest out in the middle of nowhere would be interesting to take
ReplyDeleteWe trust that the shadowy elders will lead us in the right direction!
ReplyDeleteGod Crouches Each Night
All three are indeed kinds of quests. The second is my favorite because it's the one I know and can most relate to. Guidance for life. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteShadowed by elders.........love that!
ReplyDeleteI'm not much for tests, myself. How about you?
ReplyDeleteFasting and Praying
All good. I liked the second one best:)
ReplyDeleteYou have descibed the vision quest in such a nice way in this series of haiku. thank you Hank.
ReplyDeleteThe last one... Oh that one I really like.
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