When the quest is over, the person leaves most often with a message or messages.

Benefits of a vision quest, curing illness.

The people have been diagnosed with illness like cancer and have returned after weeks with nothing to drink but water, no food, have been cured.

I'm not saying that's going to happen.

I'm just reading it.

You are given a vision that will help your soul help its issues and move into a spiritual

space, confidence.

If we emerge from the wilderness alive and healthy, we feel more certain of our abilities and our strength because we have survived raw nature in our own imagined limitations.

We did it alone, but we also discovered additional sources of power from beyond us.

Stronger connections to creation, we enhance our link to nature, humanity, and spirit.

You know, we've done a lot of this stuff already.

A sense of community we have.

Surviving, going through this gauntlet together and many different things.

These people wanting to take from us, take, take, take, take, take, take.

An appreciation of life, we cherish it more intensely after facing possible dangers and death in the wilderness.

You can make that connection in that parallel to today's society,

which does often resemble a wilderness of sorts.

Our temporary deprival also increases our appreciation of our friends, our food, and our material comforts.

The realization that we have our own source of wisdom, the vision comes to us directly,

intimately, without books, without churches, or religious teachers, or the media media telling us what to think.

It's pretty crazy when you think about all the stuff we've done on here and the journey we've been on.

You know, it makes me also, when I read that line our temporary deprival also increases our appreciation

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