Tuesday, June 21, 2011

How To Go On A Vision Quest In Nature

By David Styles


There's a spiritual world past the 1 we know. Past the world we see. Beyond the world we listen to. Beyond the seemingly physical world where we live.

For thousands of years we were in touch with this particular other world. The world in which trees spoke their wisdom. We could listen to the gentle voices in the wind. The river spoke to us in subtle tones. Birds would provide us messages through their song. There is a whole world beyond the 1 which we know.

Within this other world there was no separation. For separation didn't exist. Connection was all there was. No boundary in between exactly where you ended. And no boundary between exactly where nature began.

In this other dimension we had the feeling of melting. Melting with nature. For we were everything. Simultaneously. You were the lizard being aware of it is heart quicken next to the rock in the sun. You had been the eagle sensing the air push next to the feathers when it circled on a thermal. And also you were the fish feeling the water flow along it's gills within the ocean. No separation.

But these days we frequently really feel that big sense of separation. We no longer feel we're a part of every thing. Perhaps we really feel we're like a separate drop of water floating inside the ocean. A drop residing beside other drops of water. Instead of the sense that we're the vastness of the ocean.

This sense of separation is not our natural state. It has been learnt. Youthful kids don't feel separate. As you gaze deep in to the eyes of an infant you will see the connection. They know. Every second they experience this connection. The oneness with all beings. No separation in between themselves and other.

For this really is our all-natural state.

I have dipped in and out of this state countless times. Consciously it initially happened when I was 20 years old. At 1 point on my yr long 'rite of passage' I spent 2 weeks alone beside the ocean within a remote national park. One early morning while walking along a deserted beach I bent down and picked up some wet sand. I spent several minutes taking a look at all of the little grains on my finger tip. The various designs. The different colors. The different textures. Each grain of sand completely different from the next. Each grain an individual.

Then I felt the urge to look up at the beach and that is when it occurred. I got to see the entire beach was made up of those separate grains of sand. But the personal grains of sand produced the whole seaside.

In that minute my consciousness expanded. All of a sudden I grew to become a lizard I noticed laying beside a bush with the sensation of my metabolic process quicken within the sun and my scales rub against each other as I moved. Simultaneously I was also a sea-eagle above the ocean feeling the wind push next to my wings and having the ability to peer down with my telescope eyes. And I was also a fish being pushed up and down beyond the breakers feeling the h2o surge along my gills and sense of weightlessness as I swam with the h2o.

In that minute I grew to become every thing all at the same time.




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