Week 1 Experiential Exercise as Science Reporter (like Gladwell)

Read the Basic Instructions for All Experiential Exercises before beginning.

After meditating on the people and events in you life, write a 300-400 word outline that narrates your understanding of the circumstances surrounding your life that prompted and encouraged your spiritual development to this point in time. Write the outline in the 3^rd person, as though you are a science reporter who is reporting on your life. Do not use the 1^st person “I.” Of course, you will know things about your life that no one else knows but write about them as though you are a science reporter who has interviewed you and narrates your spiritual biography from is a cultural, social, communal, familial, ancestral, and historical point of view. Transpersonal psychology tends to emphasize the inner qualities that prompted your spiritual life. In this exercise, I am asking you to focus on the outer circumstances that got you where you are now spiritually as Malcolm Gladwell has done for highly successful people in Outliers.