Living a Thriving Life
a modern path of ritual and ceremony
vision quest
mentoring
ceremony
a modern path of ritual and ceremony
vision quest
mentoring
ceremony
Welcome!
This is a first step to a life of practical ceremony and ritual!
Considering the developments in the world today, it is clear that the perspective we have is outdated and sometimes completely wrong. If we want to have a chance at living into the future, we need a new way to think, feel and relate to the world around us. One that deeply connects us to nature, to ourselves, and to our community. We need to be initiated into being an adult and mentored in learning how to live that way. Life becomes rich, full of meaning, and above all a life with abundant and appropriate context. Life will never be the same once you start doing this work!
Life has a way of taking us through initiation, but most of the time our understanding of what these life initiating moments offers us is ungrounded and incomplete. Certainly we gain wisdom and accumulate reflective experience, but there is no guarantee that we have plumbed the depths of who we are, come back with the jewel, or have the success of our experience to stand on. We need a more structured environment, something that gives our river some banks to flow with purpose and meaning. This is what a Wilderness Vision Quest is all about! Find the jewels that await you in the wilds of nature.
“In this life-creative adventure the criterion of achievement will be . . . the courage to let go of the past, with its dogmas of ‘meaning,’ and its gifts: to die to the world and come to birth from within.” Joseph Campbell
We live in a time of awakening. The world is literally shifting under our feet and our old stories can’t hold anymore: the stories of separation, control, dominance, and safety. This offering is a journey for those who are actively asking new questions and seeking different answers. This is not for the faint of heart! This is a hard core reboot of your life. It seeks to do in 3 days what in other circumstances would take years. If you have done spiritual work in the past, perhaps through vision quest, personal seeking, or other ceremony, then you know what this state feels like. This Deep Dive ceremony is a honing - a cutting away of that which no longer serves - an awakening into a deeper state of being. These three days are about communicating with the core essence of who you are and the majesty and eminence of the earth herself.
Destiny is the hammer that forges our soul into the only blade that can cut through the chains that keep us shackled to our ancestral wounding.
-Mark Tollefson
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