My experience of the Medicine Path

I knew this path would change me and over 3 years time it did. It culminated with a Vision quest of no water and no food for 4 days or 96 hours. This changed my life in ways so amazing it is difficult to talk about if you haven't had this experience yourself because it reminds me of Jesus fasting in the wildnerness for 40 days on water and the same for Buddha under the Bodhi Tree. Every aspect of your life changes through this.

You are not the same person at the end of this and you have to be very very brave to go through this at all and come out the other side (a totally new) but also whole person in every way.

It is not for the faint of heart .When was the last time you ate nothing for 4 days without lights in the wilderness at night and day? If you don't eat or drink anything for 2 days into this fast you are going to see some pretty amazing things as your subconscious mind prepares for death by starvation. You see who you really are and what you are actually about as a soul here on earth.

And this is always overwhelming in a way I cannot really express well in words.

Basically, we are all (human beings) much much more than we think we are here on earth and simultaneously and paradoxically much less than we think too.

So, discovering what it actually is to be a human being really changes a person at core. We are forest creatures. We are nature creatures. We are a part of the forest and the wildnerness. WE always have been. There is no way really to separate us from all the creatures and beings of earth. In a sense we are all one with them, telepathically and physically.

However, simultaneously we are these fragile creatures who could (like all the animals) die any moment in the wilderness too.

So, we are this paradox of being incredibly resourceful in ways most people don't realize while at the same time being fragile and capable of dying any moment from the stupidest of things.

So, coming through a 4 day vision quest one is struck with just how amazing it is to be a human being and to live this paradox and yet finally you understand who you are.

And no one can ever take this away from you either, both the powerfully good part of being a human being or how incredibly fragile we are at the very same moment.

You come away with the realization of what a miracle each human being really is.

You come away with realizing what Jesus and Buddha realized too, that humans generally have no idea at all who or what they really are.

But, after this kind of experience like Buddha and Jesus had you DO know exactly who you are as a human being ever after. And this helps everyone you meet the rest of your life.

By God's Grace