ABSTRACT
In the 1970s a reawakening of interest occurred in the value of nature based rites of passage for adolescents, a practice that had seemed essential to the cultural integrity of most indigenous societies. Around this time Steven Foster and Meredith Little began wilderness rites of passage work in California and went on to found The School of Lost Borders. The School of Lost Borders based in a Californian desert landscape, works with a form of vision quest learnt directly from a Native American indigenous elder. Even without facilitation, a natural process similar to vision quest appears to occur quite spontaneously after about three days exposure to the natural world. Bill Plotkin makes the distinction between the Egocentric focus of psychotherapy that can help us function less painfully and more successfully in the context of family or culture, and the soulcentric focus of soul craft work, such as vision quests.
