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Vision Quest Journal #6

Posted at October 30, 2009 by Edward Mills in Personal Development ⋅ Spirituality

This morning I was thinking how strange it was that I had not seen, or heard, any raptors since being here. Just now, I saw my first hawk. A small one, slightly smaller than a Cooper’s Hawk with thicker wings….

Vision Quest Journal #5

Posted at October 29, 2009 by Edward Mills in Personal Development ⋅ Spirituality

Sunday, September 20th. DREAM: Ben Stiller starred in my dream. It was a movie. He was returning home to his family for the first time in many years. His grandfather was dying. He was a military specialist. Like special forces,…

Vision Quest Journal #4

Posted at October 27, 2009 by Edward Mills in Personal Development ⋅ Spirituality

The wind here is alive. It can be completely quiet and calm here, then, I’ll hear the wind awakening the trees in the valley and I can follow its journey up the valley and up the mountain until it arrives…

Vision Quest Journal #3

Posted at October 22, 2009 by Edward Mills in Personal Development ⋅ Spirituality

You can read all of the posts in the Vision Quest Journal Series here. The first round of tears has come and gone. The sorrow came over me instantly, from out of nowhere that I could determine. From that sorrow…

Vision Quest Journal #2

Posted at October 20, 2009 by Edward Mills in Personal Development ⋅ Spirituality

Saturday, September 19th. Last night, I dreamt of exclusion and alienation. All dreams of how I live my life… on the fringe.. touching the circle, viewing the circle but not stepping into it, not becoming part of it, not claiming…

Vision Quest Journal #1

Posted at October 13, 2009 by Edward Mills in Personal Development ⋅ Spirituality

Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting excerpts from the journal I kept during and after my recent Vision Quest. I initially had not planned to take anything to write with. On a traditional Vision Quest you would not…

Why I’m Going On A Vision Quest

Posted at September 16, 2009 by Edward Mills in Personal Development ⋅ Spirituality

Tomorrow morning I leave for Desolation Wilderness. Even though there are LOTS of wonderful wilderness areas to explore in Northern California, something about Desolation Wilderness keeps calling me back. This time I’m going alone for 7-days with no distractions –…