Table
of Contents for
The Vision Quest: A Script for Life
Chapter 1 The Path of Life
Chapter 2 My Quest
Chapter 3 The Missing Piece
Chapter 4 Why Quest?
Seeking the Self
Chapter 5 The Dream
Chapter 6 The Quest
The Guide
The Sponsor
Preparation
Place
The Dreamcoming
Chapter 7 Walking the Dream
Re-entry
Excerpt...
There comes a time
in a young Person's life when the security and direction of Youth give
way to the nebulous stirrings and expansiveness of Adulthood.
Childhood roles and relationships within family and community are
rather clearly defined; guidance, shelter, and protection are
assuredly provided. The metamorphosis of puberty changes that. The
waning Child is driven by growing feelings of incompetence,
inadequacy, and emptiness. He feels powerless, without worthwhile
skill or talent. He no longer has a relevant identity. New, previously
unknown feelings and energies seek expression. They demand a Path of
their own.
These internal changes give the emerging Adult a sense of
individuality and a base for knowing his Personal Gift. The last task
of Childhood then, is to seek the LifeDream which will root him in
Adulthood and set the course for his continued growing.
If he could not come to know and Walk his Path, he might, as do
many, seek as much easy gratification in his life as possible. To
friends and family, he would then remain as an adolescent. If,
instead, his waning youth could culminate in the Quest for his
LifeDream, he would find his fulfillment and sense of Adulthood by
simply Walking his Dream. In the sharing of his Gift, he would find
fulfillment as easily as a Squirrel tosses aside nutshells.
In the way that Butterfly lies in wait within her chrysalis, so
also does a budding Adult’s DreamPath lie dormant within her. If she
were Native, she would become consumed with the desire to grab hold of
its substance. She would search for the complete Woman who sleeps deep
within, and she would be driven to draw it out in order replace the
outgrown shell of Childhood. With single-mindedness, she would seek
the direct and primal link with her essence. She would open to the
ritual ways that would bring her into the Circle of Balance with her
Kind, and with all of her Relations — the Winged and Scaled and
Furred and Leafed.
If she were to express her need, it would be direct and
pragmatic — to know her LifePath and have clarity of vocation. Along
with it, she would ask to be given the lessons that will teach her, to
hear the Voices that will guide her, and to gain the strength that
will carry her through.
In the Old Way, the strength of the group lies in the strength
of each individual; in the Civilized Way, the strength of the group
lies in the strength of its leader. If she were of the Old Way, she
would know that she must seek and Walk her DreamPath, so that she
could breathe her Gift into her People. Because that is what keeps
them vibrant. She would then be literally of her People, and they
would be of her. That would give her an intrinsic trust in the premise
that as she provides, she is provided for.
In light of this, she would have little reason or inclination
to seek her LifeDream strictly for herself. She would know through the
collective wisdom that if she attempted to so do, she might not be
given her Dream. And if she were, it could eventually consume her. In
self-seeking, she would forsake her trust in the Circle of giving and
receiving. That would break the Circle and in turn weaken her People.
Having thus isolated herself from them, she would have undermined the
very context of her life.
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