Note from the Editor:
If you’re out in the middle of nowhere, and a Native American invites you to his reservation, why not do a vision quest?
My maternal grandfather had always told us Native American stories and jokes. Now I was getting to travel out to remote reservations and meet the people he had been good friends with all those decades ago. I think he would have been proud.
The latest Native I met and befriended went by the name Bill, and he had started building a cabin not far from where all the tipis and pow-wows of his tribe were. It was only four hours east of where I was working as a minimum-wage slave, and I had no reason to stay that weekend, so I agreed to ride with him all the way out there and back. We met up a week or two later, and set out across the plains and rolling hills of central and eastern Montana… all the way to the border of Wyoming and (almost) North Dakota.
I’d learned from him that there were a few acceptable ways to prepare for and complete a vision quest, and that the vision one receives during it is just for you; you aren’t supposed to talk about it with anyone else, lest their take on things cloud the intended message and interpretation. I fasted for FOUR DAYS, including from water, if you can believe that, and was quite ‘spent’ by the time it came for me to leave his part of the reservation, walking out into the wild alone, naked, with no weapons, until I found the sacred place up on a cliff overlook he’d told me about. It was there that I would ‘sleep’ that night, hoping for a vision from beyond.
The Marine Corps and all my homeless experiences prepared me well enough for this, but I’d never been so vulnerable, humbled, and weakened. Coyotes howling not far from my position didn’t help, but still added some good bragging-rights. I remember how much closer, bigger, and brighter the stars looked, as if they were more like circles and saucers than dots or pinpoints, and this reminded me of the dreams I’d had years before… in which the stars there got closer, bigger, and brighter, too, communicating with me in that way, as well as by moving themselves into circular sigil-like shapes (just like those ‘angelic script’ names you might see in magic-based cartoons and elsewhere online).
Yes, I received a vision that was more than a dream. Yes, it was along the lines of the calling I felt to focus on establishing Inisfree and The Inisfreean Way. No, I’m not going to tell anyone what it was beyond that.
All I will say is that you should do a proper vision quest, too. It doesn’t have to be at a sacred spot only known to Natives living far out away from any civilization. Just see where life leads you, and when the opportunity makes itself known… accept it.
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Poking Fun at Fake News:
“News” claiming a disease outbreak somewhere too far away for anyone to confirm? It’s fake. They highlight entire countries, in scary colors, and have people dress up in CDC costumes, all to scare you and keep ratings higher, thereby justifying to their financial backers their ongoing salaries and other compensation. If those outbreaks were really as bad as they claimed, there wouldn’t be functioning countries out there.
When a country stands up to the U.S. or other over-powered super-powers, they ALWAYS make up something as dark and twisted as they can, usually about fake child abuse, pedophilia, alternative belief systems, or life-threatening disease. It’s always something no one can confirm, somewhere far away, handled by people you aren’t allowed or able to contact, and is classified, or about something microscopic that you couldn’t even see if you were there. Occam’s Razor tells us that this is too convenient to be anything other than fake.
And while we’re on the note of the Ebola “news”, Africa is NOT the hellhole it is made out to BE;
it is vast and diverse, blanketed in rich ecosystems, full of useful resources, populated by plenty of good people, and is being held back by its competitors overseas, who keep trying to scare people away from it, which keeps it at its current levels of development, thereby unable to pose what they consider to be a threat to them. Even its actual Ebola outbreaks (if there really ARE any) are INCREDIBLY isolated and brief, UNABLE to spread to the rest of the continent, as 99% of it, like 99% of ALL our continents, is wilderness withOUT cities, roads, people, or even ANIMALS in most places.
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