INDIAN TEENS
As Indian boys and girls approached puberty it was the custom of all nations for these ones to embark on some customary type of ritual commonly known as a Vision Quest. There were many methods of achieving this goal which we will not attempt to describe at this time. The important thing to remember is the purpose of this quest.
Everybody is born without a memory. Young Indians know this. Perhaps you know it too. Though they could not remember their past lives, Indians knew they had all lived here on earth before, many times before. We all have “past lives.” Realizing this, yet unable to recall them, Indian teenagers embarked upon proven methods that would aid them in penetrating the forgetting. Though certain hallucinating plants were known and available to some nations, youth did not use this artificial means of achieving their visions. Drug inspired information is always of little or no value at all.
Like their younger brothers and sisters, today's teenagers are also most willing, and even eager, to pattern their mental/spiritual lives after their teenage Indian cousins of long ago. This seems to have the makings of a revival unlike any identifying fad of preceding generations.
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Rituals, often painful and long enduring, were used to establish the initial impact of the nature of the vision. This was seen as, or later interpreted as, the life path for the envisionor. This is all well and good but not in any case necessary. A disciplined meditation conducted on a regular daily basis will serve the same purpose and it is always “up to date.” Even after the successful Vision Quest, meditation was absolutely necessary in order to grasp the provoked distortions which resulted from the ritual.
“Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts forever blowing through one’s head.” . . . Mark Twain
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