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QUESTING:
A Teen's Quest
for Life
by
Patricia Jepsen
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8 1/2" x 5 1/2"
US$6.00
20 pages
May 2003
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DESCRIPTION
Questing addresses the journey,
so often neglected,
into the heart intelligence,
the place where all things are known.
This booklet complements
Six Lessons with Delphi
and Teaching Delphi,
and is required reading by
Sanctuary School facilitators and
parents, and suggested for all teens.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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From Black Elk
Dedication
Looking into the Heart
How Do We Begin?
Where Fools Stop, You Start
The Spiral Chain
The Path of the Quest and the
Sacred Ceremony of the Natural World
Make a Friend of Everyone
The Coming of the New World
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EXCERPT
Looking into the Heart
Every child and young person has a special gift to give the
planet. It is all theirs to give! And unless they understand
this and are allowed to discover their unique gift to earth,
they will not be satisfied. They want to be special!
The search for the special gift that is unique for each young
person begins in a serious manner by the early teens. They will
often sense, "I have something inside of me that is about
to be born." They have deep feelings at this time about
personal identity and purpose. Often, there is an excitement
and inner expectancy of something wonderful! This is the period,
set aside by nature, when the young person finds his or her spiritual
message within and begins to harmonize with the indwelling Spirit
and Creator Intelligence or Heart Mother. Unfortunately, this
sacred and important period is generally overlooked, disregarded,
even laughed at by our schools and the parents themselves! And
because of this, humanity lives in a vacuum without the spiritual
feeding of a creative intelligence. The "child" to
be born of Spirit never happens. It is dulled into complacency,
perhaps even depression.
What is wrong with our educational values when we push the
young person into intellectual stimulus disregarding the heart-intelligence?
Why do we do this to our children? Why haven't we followed the
path mapped by nature, a path that would insure deepening awareness
and creative, compassionate contributions to our earth community?
Between the ages of twelve and fourteen a door is waiting
to be opened. Every parent and every teacher should be ready
to beckon the child through the door. They should be building
toward that moment of the quest when the child ventures forth
into new directions, unknown lands of creative intelligence.
The young seeker should be encouraged to open that door--confident
that they can open it!
Although young men and young women have somewhat different
anticipations in the quest of life's purpose, their paths are
initially the same because they both are seeking--their souls
are seeking--avenues for expression far beyond the present mode
of the world.
What needs to occur in our educational system as well as
at home base is recognition of the Quest and the importance of
making a place for it in our schools and places of worship. Perhaps
teachers and parents might take this time set aside for the rite
of passage in order to experience their own deep yearning for
a renewed self-image and vision for tomorrow. We are talking
about making a "space" in our crowded agendas and curriculum
so that there is ample opportunity, encouragement and stimulus
for the quest. Life is too wonderful to lose it, too magical
to let it be smothered by endless books and tracts of paper.
Where is our sense of adventure? Questing can be fun if we
understand the truth of it!
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Center for International Cooperation.
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Attention: DELPHI
P.O. Box 192
Port Townsend, Washington 98368 USA
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