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Originally Posted by Hobbs
Hey Wolf, where are you doing this vision quest? My father-in-law participates in a vision quest somewhere in Death Valley or just outside. He has done several of these over the last couples years. He loves them. In fact he loves it so much, he has started to help out in running them.
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I was very far from Death Valley ...
Just outside of Quakertown, Pennsylvania.
The campground people got a little freaked out when not once, but twice, during the quest, massive thunderstorms with high winds were heading right for us ... and diverted at the last possible moment.
It started raining just as we finished packing up camp at the end.
There are actually several different styles of vision quest ... this was in Taino (indigenous people of Puerto Rico and some other islands down that way) tradition.
The more commonly known quest is in Lakota style ... where the quester goes out for four days alone with a blanket and a loin cloth. The Taino way has you checked on by the Beikes (shamans) once per day, at which time they offer the questers some water.