One of the most powerful tools in my own life for developing intuitively and instinctually was when I did a 4 day no water and no food fast for 96 hours on the South Fork of the Trinity River in a Bear Wallow. I did this under the tutelage of a Blackfoot Sioux Medicine man of the tradition around Glacier National Park who lives in California now but was trained in the Glacier park area by his teacher. I did this in 1983.
The experience is not an ordinary kind of experience but needs to be classified as a non-ordinary experience in that you become different from 'starving to death" and not drinking water for 4 days or 96 hours straight.
The first 2 days my mind screamed at me telling me that I was crazy for doing this but I was self disciplined because I knew it was time for me to do this.
After the first two days as I became more and more a part of the forest and the Trinity River I found I could eat the sunlight on the water going by as it flashed and psychologically and spiritually at least it sustained me during these times through my eyes.
One changes a lot during the "Starving to death" while praying for visions. You are praying for guidance of what to do next in your life. You are reaching out to God (Wakon Tonka) The Great moving spirit of the plains Indians called sometimes "Grandfather God" or the "Great moving God" that travels upon the winds of the plains.
Vision quests have been done by Native American people to find out what they needed to do next for thousands and thousands of years by the way.
It was one of the most useful things I ever did in my whole life sort of like getting married and having children and starting and running businesses and traveling the world and becoming a grandparent more than once.
However, I wouldn't attempt this unless your physical and mental health is good because you are going to likely experience visions (especially at night) that are literally more real than anything you might ever experience in your whole lifetime.
So, you have to be prepared to be horrified and enlightened all at the same time and to go through serious changes as a human being in how you see yourself and the whole universe.
Enlightenment and evolution isn't always pretty and happy but it might lengthen your lives from 10 to 50 years too from what you learn about yourselves and your place in the universe.
Being a human being is much more in many ways than anyone really realizes in the material world.
Only by going within and meeting God personally can you understand this more fully.
God is a personal experience. Religions often interfere with this direct connection to God.
But, your physical and psychological survival depends more on your personal connection with God and Life more than anything else in your lives.
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