Open to the Spirit… open to your heart… take time to listen… take time to be in the Heart of the Mother…
“Joyful medicine.” That’s what I said to a friend who asked me how the Day Quest went yesterday. Joyful medicine is the essence of 
what I call “the Quest work.“
I go to the mountains to seek solitude, rest, and renewal. I consult with the land about life’s conundrums and difficulties. I have done this for thirty years, ever since my first vision quest with David LaChapelle.
During the summer months, I escort others to do the same. We sit in circles on the ground. We sing. We sit quietly. We pray. We engage in reflective exchanges called mirroring. We sit in the lap of the Earth Mother and come back to our true nature. The painful splits in our being are given a chance to heal.
You can talk to the trees, I say to my people. You can ask them to help you. You can welcome the more than human life forms into the circle of your heart. If you walk and sit quietly without thinking, you become open to the love and communication that is always present in and amongst the hillsides. If you listen patiently, you can receive the bounty that is available there.
It feels like magic, but really it isn’t. It’s reality. The gifts that flower from this practice enrich the lives of the participants. They also hold the promise of a better, more peaceful world, as the people bring back stronger, clearer versions of themselves and apply themselves to what life is asking of them.
My Quest season is almost over for this year. It will renew itself next summer as long as I am still blessed with good health and there are people who heed the call to come home to the Heart of the Mother.
A bow of gratitude to The-Spirit-That-Moves-In-All-Beings-And-Things.
I LOVE this. I feel the ‘just is’ nature of the gifts nature gives coming through your words. As simple and elemental as a mother giving food to her baby– not magic, simply reality, as you say. And yet for those who haven’t realized (or have forgotten) what ‘good medicine’ nourishment is available and so freely given– well it’s just wonderful to remember that reality’s basics feel miraculous, and all we have to do is get out there and listen and allow. Thanks for this little trip out to the mother!
Thank YOU, Talia, for your knowing of this.