The Wilderness Vision Quest is an outdoor retreat which helps participants touch, explore, and develop important latent human resources such as imagination, intuition, creativity, inspiration, and insight. Through the careful and focused use of techniques such as deep relaxation, reflective writing, visualization, guided imagery, symbolic drawing, expressive movement and group process, participants learn how to bond deeply to themselves, each other, and to the natural world, and return to their normal lives empowered and renewed. This article reflects on: (1) the meaning of wilderness in the United States; (2) the dynamics of the process of transformation; (3) effective ways to provoke transformative experiences; (4) transpersonal psychology; (5) the function of the brain; (6) ways to harmonize body and spirit on trips into nature; and (7) a process called Creative Explorations of Inner Space. (Author/CW)