Read an excerpt from Scott Eberle's new book,
The Soul's Red Thread:
Emerging, Transforming, Trusting
Publication anticipated in 2024
The Law of the Tapping
“You’re all here to do a four-day vision fast,” said Jen Stevens, our lead guide. “A wilderness fast, at its very heart, is a rite of passage ceremony. And any rite of passage has three phases: Severance, Threshold, Incorporation.”
I was fascinated by what this woman was saying. At the age of 43, I’d never experienced a proper rite of passage, a coming-of-age ceremony. In my mind, I ran through a few possibilities. College. Psychedelics. Coming out. Medical school. The AIDS epidemic. These all were vital elements of my own passage into adulthood, but none had offered a true ceremonial marking of the transition. And so, I had come here to Death Valley National Park: a far-off place, 400 miles from home.
I’d come here to do my first-ever wilderness fast.
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