Wilderness – a Place of Learning, Spiritual Growth and Understanding

Ironically, according to ancient legend, the word Wilderness didn’t conjure up a place of punishment, but rather a place of learning, spiritual growth, understanding, healing and accomplishment. It referred to a wellspring of Divine energy in the guise of despair, hardship and pain; your experience in the wilderness was designed to prepare or propel you toward your destiny. Or pry you loose from whatever was keeping you from it. Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Jung’s approach puts the whole situation entirely outside the realm of pathology and focuses upon the “normal” adult’s potential need to come to terms with the unconscious as a means of developing into what he could be in the full expansion of his powers.

— Edward C. Whitmont, The Symbolic Quest