My soul is striving to remember who I am, to make who I am compatible with who I was born to be, to bring who I am into synch with who I will be. - Steven Foster.

Psyche and Nature

Vision Quest

We live in a world marked by borders. We have borders between continents, between people, even between our own hearts and minds. Perhaps one of the most pervasive borders is the one we have placed between ourselves and nature, and the ensuing belief that the natural world is both deaf and mute. Thus, we live as if we were no longer informed by the seasons of change, the ebb and flow of the river, the movement of stars, or the waxing and waning of the moon. As Steven Foster would put it, the Big Lie is that humans are not a part of nature. Or even more so, that humans are not nature. When borders get old and worn out, they bind us to a life that is half-hearted and incomplete.

The modern day vision quest is a border crossing practice. When one steps across the threshold and into the unknown wilderness, boundaries begin to dissolve and our vision begins to expand. The threshold place is a dreamscape, where everything is pregnant with meaning, and nature, once again, speaks to us in the voices of rock, tree, and wind. Following the ancient pathway of this rite of passage, we step into our true nature and remember our home among the wild. We become who we were born to be.

Vision Quest as a Rite of Passage
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From the beginning time, cultures from around the world have created meaningful ways to help both young and old move from one life stage into the next, to assist each person in finding and retrieving their gifts, and for cracking open the inner door to a greater relationship with nature and Self. Although these rites of passage have been largely lost in modern society, the truth of the ceremony still rings true deep in our bones. Drawing from ancient traditions world-wide, the modern day vision quest is a powerful means for finding clarity and healing in the midst of life change, or for simply renewing you relationship with self and nature. For four days and nights, you go alone into the wilderness, with empty belly, where you will enter a world both ancient and new, a world where nature speaks her living language. This twelve-day ceremony involves four days of preparation, four days and nights of fasting alone in a wilderness place, and three days of story council (elder’s council).

Betsy’s 2009 Vision Fast Schedule

To enroll please contact Scott Eberle at seberle@sbcglobal.net .

For enrollment producures, costs, and other vision fasts and programs directed by the School of Lost Borders see our website at www.schooloflostborders.org.

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BuiltWithNOF

Founded by Steven Foster and Meredith Little, for over thirty years, the School of Lost Borders has been the leading center for wilderness passage rites in the modern world. We offer pan-cultural vision quests, training courses, and seminars rooted in traditional initiatory and teaching methods that reflect the changing seasons of our lives.

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