Well over a year ago, I started a post with an old original-to-Sheta survey and my responses. It’s still unfinished in the drafts folder, but I was just looking at it for the first time since and found this question. My answer pleased me, so I’m giving it up here. It serves as a really good description of Processing.
“My spiritual work, mysticism, magick — whatever you’d call it. I work with Meridjet, often along with friends, on transformational work that is very difficult to describe. It involves emotional responses, manipulation of circumstances to an often astonishing degree, and a complex intertwining of idiosyncrasies that result in paradigm shattering realizations. By “paradigm” in this case, I am referring to the view of the world we as individuals build and reside in, our personal comfort zones which reassure us that the world is a predictable and known set of factors. The world, in fact, is not the way we’d like to believe, and people do not fit into the molds that we would prefer they adhere to. The fact that every individual has created this viewpoint based on his or her experiences throughout their life makes every view of the universe unique, and while we may try to assign motives and agendas to particular statements or actions based on what we’ve seen before, it is a mistake to fool ourselves into assuming that everyone we know shares those motives and agendas.
“When Meridjet and I are working with other people, he will bring those biases into play deliberately, to show us that we have scripted our responses based on our histories, and he will try to shake us awake to those tendencies so that we may shed them in favor of more open minded observance of what’s actually happening. Many times this has led to friends deciding we’re too harsh and making their exit. Meridjet is not about coddling. In any case, this is what fires my soul more than anything. I can really sink my teeth into this type of work, though it can be very difficult.”
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