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Vision Quest Events in Hebden Bridge We regularly provide two-day Vision Quest ceremonies. We also provide shorter Vision Quest experiences for particular purposes. These events are held in Hebden Bridge. You go out from base camp supported by us and your fellow Vision Questers. In Vision Quest you are left alone in nature. All the rules have gone. All the socially-imposed meanings you define yourself and your experiences by, are gone. You are a warrior in the face of chaos, yet you are lovingly held in the palm of our mother the earth who gives you everything you need. Depending on age and health, you don’t bring any food: only water. You go to a place you feel will nurture you. Then you can sit there and wait for inspiration for the Earth, or you can pray for a vision, or you can walk and explore a bit and see what inspiration you find. Or you might want to do more active work: a ritual at some point. You could create a power place: draw a circle (a ‘purpose circle’). Then do magical work within it, commanding a vision or a direction, or visualize yourself as you wish to become in the near future. Afterwards, you incorporate the experience and the vision. You tell us and the other Vision Questers who have returned. Your life begins afresh. A major use of Vision Quest is for Rites of Passage.
We currently use two different pieces of land for Vision Quest. In each case the experience lasts from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. The first landscape is the ancient sacred landscape in Yorkshire pictured at the top of the page. You camp near the waterfall cave where the first and final gatherings are held. You do vision quest alone on an ancient mesa landscape. You are assisted and supported to symbolic rebirth and alignment to your new direction in the ‘birth canal’ cave. ‘I have been so seldom been to such wild and deep countryside. I did indeed feel the old gods still walked there’. The second landscape offers a more gentle experience, with the possibility of farm house accommodation:
You start off at base camp. You travel light. You present yourself as nakedly as possible to the world. Never take taped music, alcohol or drugs. Pack your stuff as a ceremony, with everyone there, supporting what you include, blessing the things that will support you. Before you set off, you will speak in council, respectfully listened to, where you will make your statement of intent and be honoured. Vision Quest may be undertaken at any age, by men or women, boys or girls; whoever you are, your elders and your siblings or your juniors, your fellow vision-questers and those at base camp will have faith in you. You will set out what you intend to do and achieve. Maybe you will want to include a ceremony, maybe not. Vision Quest strips away the social. You find out who you are. You are opened to vision. One boy changed his name. Others cut hair, dance or made mask or made ritual that I described above. You call on the land and your spirits and holy ones to be your witness. You attune to the land. When you return, you eat together, perhaps you swim in the waterfall together or wash, then you incorporate the experience into your identity, into your life, into the identity and history of your family, community or network: you tell your story of what happened to you and the other listen to you in honouring silence. This is called a GIVEAWAY ceremony: You might bring back a piece of psychological or relationship or spiritual work you want to do. You might ask for an ally to help you do this. We Are
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