The Mountain is Calling: Vision Fast 2026
- Antonia Talayeh
- Aug 15
- 3 min read
A Ritual of Deep Listening
Ganesh Mountain at SkyRhiza Sanctuary
October 1 – 7, 2026 • The Berkshires, MA
The Initiation
The wilderness vigil is a traditional anchor across cultures ... four nights alone in nature.
It’s a sacred story that connects with our ancestors with three movements: severance, threshold, and return.
Every culture that has practiced this has known it as a crucible... a place where you're transformed in relationship to beings that live in a very different slower more eternal time-space, the trees, the night, the wind, the owls, your dreams.
A place to sleep, to dream, to think, to pray.
This gives you a space to truly shed yourself and be immersed in a timeless chrysalis in a way you can't create without entering a different time-space.
A direct connection to magic and synchronicity, to the lull of forgetting yourself…and to entering ritual space, with death-rebirth at the heart of it.
Nature speaks to us as God's body. Out there, we become available to receive what wants to be shown to us.
Rilke wrote about spiritual evolution as a process of being continually overcome - by forces greater than us, so that we're pressed to step into bigger terrain than we knew we could hold.
This is some of the alchemy that a vigil in the wilderness brings.
Who are we in the next embodiment of our calling?
What will benefit not only ourselves but the whole cycle of creation?
When we give ourselves to nature... to the Great Cycle... when the cycle is healthy, we all flourish.
Preparation
Your journey begins with Ontodelic Inquiry sessions to clarify your intent and prepare your spirit for the threshold.
We also have 1 virtual group preparation meeting.
You'll arrive Thursday afternoon. There's time to settle in and set up your camp - the spot in the forest that will hold you for the next four nights.
Then you'll come back up to the house.
We'll eat a delicious organic dinner together, sit and drop in.
We'll share about our intentions,
The Threshold
Spend four days and nights alone in the wilderness, fasting and contemplating, held by the support of the Forrest, guides, and the community fire.
In the morning we open the ceremony, open the prayer.
And one by one, each person will have their individual ceremony, communion with what can be called each of our Oversouls, the multi-dimensional knowing far further up the Tree of life that perceives through a mind that is myriad-perspectival, eternal, cyclical unity.
We'll all bless you as you walk off into begin your vigil.
The Return:
Integration & Storytelling
Monday morning, we come get you from your spot in the forrest.
There's nourishing vital delicious food, time to settle back in your return.
And then we gather - a sharing circle, a mirroring, where each person tells the story of their quest as a dream, and we go around the circle meeting each other's journey. This is the first part of the integration itself.
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2 1:1 Ontodelic Inquiry Integration Sessions
What might become visible if, instead of trying to dream my life into being, I allow myself to be dreamt by the Earth?
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