To the campers of Camp Quest '98, Greetings. 

As campers from past years know, and as new campers are now to learn, it is traditional at Camp Quest for your beloved Camp Director to each year provide you with certain "Challenges" and invite you to provide answers to them on the final night of camp. 

We are pleased to report that the space ship you assisted with your advice at Camp Quest '97 is safely on its way to the planet Questerion. All of your suggestions were adopted. As a result of your advice, we do now actually have limited communications with the ship--something that had been thought impossible. Because of this, we have learned from the ship that they have somehow found out that a time warp will occur at Camp Quest on the last evening of camp that could change the future of a world. The inhabitants of that world will be able to hear and see us for a short time on that evening, but we cannot see or hear them. These inhabitants are intelligent and curious but lack information. They must decide if the future of their world and their understanding of all that is will be controlled by the principles of science or by the principles of faith and belief in unseen powers. They have asked for advice. They can only understand ideas that are presented to them through analogy, symbolism and myth, that is through stories, art, drama, music, poetry, dance, and other forms of creative symbolic expression. Please provide answers, in a creative form of presentation, to each of the following six questions. One question has been assigned to each cabin. Responses to each question should be no longer than fifteen or twenty minutes. Good luck.  

CABIN # 1: Why is the world here? Why is there a blue bowl over it? Where did all of this come from? Why is it sometimes hot, and sometimes cold? Why does it have plants and animals on it?

CABIN # 2: Why are there humans? Why are they of different colors and have different languages and customs? Why do they sometimes kill each other? 

CABIN # 3: What are the creatures that can fly above the land and the waters? Why are they here? Why cannot we fly like them? 

CABIN # 4: In the dark of the night there are lights that appear in the skies. Some of them move and some do not. What are these lights? Why are they there? Is it true, as some say, that we can learn the future from them?  

CABIN # 5: What are the great waters that seem greater in their size than the land? Why are they here? Why do creatures live in them that cannot live on the land? Why can creatures of the land not live long in the waters? Why do some waters taste of salt and others not? 

CABIN # 6: How do we know what is true, for we have heard many different words that explain many different things in many different ways?

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