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Submitted in partial fulfillment towards the Process Work Certificate, Process Work Institute, Portland, OR
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http://www.processwork.org/files/Finalprojects/Tan_T_October_2012.pdf
Introduction
I read The Alchemist when I was 21. I was as dense as a literary block of wood. I could not get why this simple story is an international bestseller but I finally understood and doing so experientially with my own life. The following pages recount the seemingly random encounters that actually laid out the very path that I am meant to travel. Briefly, I began to question the premise of what is reality and the Self in my teens; the implicit is does God exist, what or who is God. Growing up in a free-thinker household and influenced by my mother’s own wonderment of the universe and her ideal of a direct encounter with the divine, gave me the freedom to wonder about the truth and the greater scheme of things that encompasses the world as we know it. After a decade of search, I finally encountered awareness/consciousness work in 2003, and began self work that encompassed pre-personal to transpersonal states of consciousness. My answers began to come. Since the start of the journey, which eventually Process Work became a part of,I began to see the lines of causality in my life and the deeper transcendental meaning of what I simply have to experience. My life took a huge change in trajectory. One of the key transformations was the uncovering of my ability to work deeply with people.This was a total turnaround from my then self-identity as an introvert who was clueless about people, this identity partly contributed to me working solo as a scientist for seven years. Since then, I trained and served as a life coach for the past 9 years with an organization where our approach to coaching is a form of awareness work; I was introduced to Process Work through my organization and had the fortune of attending the 2010 Winter Intensive. My curiosity that sparked this paper is the process of my encounters that led to what Eastern philosophy refers to as a person’s ‘awakening’ or consciousness in Western culture; and the unfolding of the Personal Legend in Coelho’s quote, also known as the Myth in Process Work terms. Ever since my first major Aha! (awakening) moment in 2003 and looking back in time, I have been in awe and wonder of an invisible force that presented itself through time and through seemingly random events (Chapters 1) that are actually building blocks leading me to meet the force itself.
Introduction
I read The Alchemist when I was 21. I was as dense as a literary block of wood. I could not get why this simple story is an international bestseller but I finally understood and doing so experientially with my own life. The following pages recount the seemingly random encounters that actually laid out the very path that I am meant to travel. Briefly, I began to question the premise of what is reality and the Self in my teens; the implicit is does God exist, what or who is God. Growing up in a free-thinker household and influenced by my mother’s own wonderment of the universe and her ideal of a direct encounter with the divine, gave me the freedom to wonder about the truth and the greater scheme of things that encompasses the world as we know it. After a decade of search, I finally encountered awareness/consciousness work in 2003, and began self work that encompassed pre-personal to transpersonal states of consciousness. My answers began to come. Since the start of the journey, which eventually Process Work became a part of,I began to see the lines of causality in my life and the deeper transcendental meaning of what I simply have to experience. My life took a huge change in trajectory. One of the key transformations was the uncovering of my ability to work deeply with people.This was a total turnaround from my then self-identity as an introvert who was clueless about people, this identity partly contributed to me working solo as a scientist for seven years. Since then, I trained and served as a life coach for the past 9 years with an organization where our approach to coaching is a form of awareness work; I was introduced to Process Work through my organization and had the fortune of attending the 2010 Winter Intensive. My curiosity that sparked this paper is the process of my encounters that led to what Eastern philosophy refers to as a person’s ‘awakening’ or consciousness in Western culture; and the unfolding of the Personal Legend in Coelho’s quote, also known as the Myth in Process Work terms. Ever since my first major Aha! (awakening) moment in 2003 and looking back in time, I have been in awe and wonder of an invisible force that presented itself through time and through seemingly random events (Chapters 1) that are actually building blocks leading me to meet the force itself.