{"id":105282,"date":"2018-08-21T12:18:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=105282\/"},"modified":"2020-01-14T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:16:17","slug":"spiritual-lessons-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/ro\/journal\/spiritual-lessons-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Spiritual Lessons of the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Discover the spiritual power of the desert in <a href=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/partners\/greater-palm-springs-cvb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greater Palm Springs<\/a> when you join us for <a href=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wellspring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wellspring<\/a> this October. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitgreaterpalmsprings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plan your trip<\/a> and enjoy all the desert has to offer.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first time I saw the desert as a young high-schooler from the Midwest\u2014the land of retired steel plants and majestic brick factories on river throughways\u2014I was floored. The world had never felt so big; the sky had never seemed so expansive. It\u2019s not as if I hadn\u2019t been awed by a sunset before\u2014I\u2019d certainly had a handful of formative moments at the edge of cornfields watching the sun set the low sky ablaze\u2014but the desert was something else entirely. It was as if my soul was literally turned on for the first time. I was hooked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, there have been many subsequent times in my life, frozen in that \u201cmovie-reel-memory\u201d kind of way, where the desert has played a leading part. There was that time riding a camel through the Rajasthani desert in India, when the stars seemed to drip blessings onto my partner and me; there were dozens of sultry moments I met myself for the first time again and again in Burning Man\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/learning-to-glow-yoga-at-burning-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Rock City<\/a>; there was the inspirational <a href=\"https:\/\/matadornetwork.com\/bnt\/titos-yearly-mota-run-across-oaxaca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">road trip<\/a> through the Oaxacan mezcal fields that led to a previous career as a travel writer. But let\u2019s be real: Couldn\u2019t that have just been random time and place? Is there such thing as the spiritual power of the desert?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Traditions of Desert Spirituality<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turns out that I\u2019m certainly not alone in the supporting role that the desert has played throughout history. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, some theologians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Judaism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assert<\/a> that the 40 days and nights spent crossing the desert was to signify the harsh conditions\u2014punctuated by life-giving oasis\u2014that would lead the Jewish people to their true land, and to their true relationship with God and understanding of themselves. The influence of the desert can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/1195034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">be seen<\/a> in the Islamic tradition\u2014both theologically (sense of the supernatural, virtues of hospitality and alms-giving, an interpretation of divine sternness), and secularly (the social solidarity necessitated by traditions of the nomadic Bedouin people).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the yoga community, we often refer to a time in our lives in which we feel siphoned from the divine as moments of living in a spiritual desert. These are moments in which we feel disconnected, unmotivated, or stuck in a rut. This can manifest in practical ways, such as an inability to leave a job or a relationship; or emotional ways, such as a tendency to repeat the same mistakes or unhealthy behaviors, despite hard-learned lessons. In the same way that the desert taught the Bedouins traditions of radical self-reliance and the Jewish people the transcendence of suffering for liberation, so too must we walk through the metaphoric burning sand of arid land to come to our own personal peace. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are four lessons the desert gives us when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/kundalini-yoga-demystified\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spiritual awakening<\/a> and power.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105283\" class=\"thumbnail aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105283\" src=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/madhu-shesharam-378915-unsplash-768x1152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/madhu-shesharam-378915-unsplash-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/madhu-shesharam-378915-unsplash-992x1488.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">Photo by Madhu Shesharam<\/div><\/div>\n<h3>Desert Blooms<\/h3>\n<p><b>What it is: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year for a period of a couple weeks\u2014and particularly during a year of intensely unusual rainfall\u2014there\u2019s a spontaneous and cinematic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertusa.com\/thingstodo\/du_ttd_bloom2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sprouting of flowers<\/a> in otherwise barren land. Endemic desert wildflowers tend to be brightly colored and deeply contrasting to the spartan-colored sands and ashy succulents that usually come to mind. Deserts in North America bloom during the spring\u2014from about March until May for lower elevation deserts and about March until June for higher elevations. (The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/jotr\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joshua Trees<\/a>, for example, celebrated for their Dr. Seuss-like branches and tufts of spiky fauna, are best seen in March and April.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What we learn from it: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even the most arid of land can bring forth something beautiful. Periods of the most torrential rain yield the most vivid blossoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-105650\" src=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sasha-stories-320885-unsplash-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sasha-stories-320885-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sasha-stories-320885-unsplash-992x661.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Mirages<\/h3>\n<p><b>What they are:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So ubiquitous in popular culture that the name of the actual phenomena has now come to colloquially mean anything that seems too good to be true, mirages are an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/mirage-optical-illusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">optical illusion<\/a> caused by atmospheric conditions. It\u2019s most commonly seen as water in an otherwise extremely arid and dry place. Named for the Latin word \u201c<em>mirari<\/em>,\u201d meaning \u201cto look at, to wonder,\u201d mirages are stereotypically depicted to show an object of our deepest desires; what our imaginations conjure when left to their own devices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What we learn from it:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That which we think we want\u2014what we think we\u2019re going toward\u2014could be an illusion. The answers are not in front of you, but within. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Singing Dunes<\/h3>\n<p><b>What they are: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Singing dunes are the desert phenomena of wind passing over sand dunes causing a singing sound sensation. It may sometimes sound like a deep groaning hum produced by tiny grains of sand rolling down the dune. The acoustics of the desert make it so that the sound often carries for miles. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2012\/10\/121031-singing-sand-dunes-physics-science-whistling\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legend has it<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that Marco Polo attributed these eerie noises to evil spirits. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What we learn from them: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes feelings of fear can simply be attributed to that which we do not understand, or haven\u2019t yet discovered. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Oases<\/h3>\n<p><b>What they are:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> More than simple watering holes boasting palm trees and lush vegetation, oases are made possible by a usually-underground source of freshwater that bubbles up in an otherwise arid climate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/oasis-geological-feature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oases fun facts<\/a>: 1) 75 percent of the Sahara\u2019s human population lives in oases; 2) In the 19th century, Las Vegas was the site of a massive oasis in the Mojave Desert. Development drained underground aquifers, which is why Las Vegas is now as arid as surrounding locations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What we learn from them:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Life can come forth, even in the toughest conditions. The necessary spring may just be underground, unable to be seen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as my personal stories of the desert have been formative on my own spiritual journey, these natural phenomena can be seen as examples of how the desert can be interpreted as a spiritual teacher in and of itself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you found spiritual growth or healing in the desert? 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