March 31, 2023
Teasdale, Utah

Few in our culture have experienced the profound power of the Vision Quest, and many think that this is not a possibility for their own lives. 

In many ancient-indigenous cultures, Vision Quests were considered an essential journey and initiation to finding one's path and becoming a complete human being.

When I was a young man, I reached a point in my life when I found myself as a ship without a rudder on a vast and mysterious ocean. I had no sense of direction or even a meaningful purpose for being here. I was lost, and it was painful. I needed to find purpose and meaning. It was time for a change, and I could not continue business as usual.

In that void of emptiness and not knowing, the clues and pieces began to emerge and fall into place - my Native American friends started telling me about their VISION QUEST and I began to see the same sort of quest from other times and traditions. For example, Siddharta Gautama sending them to the bodhi tree until they got it. Or Jesus' fasting in the wilderness before his ministry began. These were two men that changed the course of human history. It began to make sense, and I felt that I was in good company. 

My heart cried out with hope and my warrior heart said, with Spirit's help: "I will do this". This direction and intuition took me from the San Francisco Bay Area, to the Sierra Madre mountains, and eventually to the wilderness of Southern Utah. I knew what I had to do and found my sacred place in Dark Canyon, deep in the Abajo Mountains. I was tested. I cried out and told the Spirits of that place that I would die rather than leave without a vision. I was going for broke. Mercifully, I was granted a vision, and so my life's work began to unfold and reveal itself quite rapidly. 

What I experienced on that Vision Quest led me to become a wilderness guide for many years and eventually to the founding of iAwake Technologies.

During the pandemic years, a friend asked me, "what are you really good at?" And I answered, "well... Vision Questing!" During the preceding years, I had done a number of additional Vision Quests and have helped start a wilderness program that literally put hundreds of people out on Vision Quests in the wilderness! In addition to that, I have worked with other individuals and friends that felt called to find their path and their purpose.

Somewhere in the above conversation, the idea began to emerge that, perhaps, I could lead a Vision Quest online. I was rather shocked at the idea and didn't know that such a thing was feasible or would be effective. But the powerful voice I sometimes hear said, "do it!" So I did. I had a hundred people in my first group, for which I designed a program and teaching that lasted Five Days. Those of us who worked on putting this together and the participants were gobsmacked!  Not only did it work, but it worked very well. And there was a palpable sense that Spirit was with us and wanted us to do this work.

After that first experience and the overwhelming powerful positive reviews of the participants, we did it again. And it worked - AGAIN! We refined the journey a bit the second time around but still met with the same powerful results. In my experience, Spirit seems to honor the noble intention of finding one's path for service and asking the right questions.

Another remarkable thing that emerged out of these experiences was although it was a very individual and personal journey, it became a collective journey. This is quite different from the traditional Vision Quest in the wilderness. Every day, we would have a time of sharing, where people could talk about their experiences and ask questions. What emerged was a very collective field that not only spoke to us individually but spoke to us as a community. Our insights and visions began to overlap and become part of something bigger than ourselves. The words that come to me when I think about these experiences are sacred, holy, and deep HIGHER POWER guidance.

So dear friends, we are getting ready to do it again. Each day, there will be a teaching or dharma talk by yours truly, and a time for asking questions and sharing. As well as a collective meditation/prayer, which we do online together using iAwake's powerful transformational tools. There will also be assignments to do on your own, again meditating and praying with iAwake's technology. And Journaling once experiences in meditation and prayer. And very importantly, keeping a dream journal. Ask, and you shall find, knock, and it should be open unto you, Jesus said. These words were confirmed to me many times in my experiences as a vision quester and as a guide for others. I take this responsibility and guidance as a very deep sacred endeavor. It's also part of me living out the visions I have been granted.

There are also various reasons that one can conduct a vision quest. Firstly and primarily, it was used by our ancestors as finding your path and your medicine as my Native American friends call it. But it also can be done if one is initiating a profound change in one's life, such as getting married, becoming a parent, changing careers, choosing a field of study, deepening one's connection with your own soul, and reaffirming the path that you're already on or not. It is up to each individual to find that purpose. Because asking the right question, is of primary importance.

Remember this, once a decision is made... the journey has begun.

The Vision Quest is also a wonderful opportunity to review, bless, and let go of the past. It is also a place to let the Spirit know about the seriousness of your intentions, and your willingness to become the person you can be.

This is not a quick fix -- it is a lifelong journey.

This Virtual 5-Day Vision Quest is a day-by-day process in which you will be given guidance and instructions each step of the way.

You will be supplied with very powerful brainwave entrainment tracks. And you will have the support and the connection with others who are also on the Vision Quest, and that of our ancestors and those who have quested before you.

I am honored and humbled to support you on your journey. We start on April 5, 2023. Join me!

With gratitude and love,