Thank you for this connection!
– Amy Kathryn Colleen Messegee, PhD
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Where This Roadmap Came From
I was 31 when I woke up. I remember it vividly. I looked in the mirror like I had been asleep in the car and someone else had driven us into a ditch. I did not like where things were going physically or financially, or career-wise and I felt like there was something really important that I was completely clueless about. I wanted to take the journey that so many others had taken – the journey of self-development and self-understanding towards a more fulfilling life. This journey has taken more than a decade of walking through some of the worst and best times in my life. What I wish I had back then, was a roadmap. I wish I had something to guide me on what to do first, and what to do next, and the next step after that, etc. If I had been handed a roadmap to self-development back then, I might have gotten to this point a LOT sooner and with a lot less pain. Perhaps twelve years could have been more like one or two and many mistakes and wasted effort could have been avoided. If I had a roadmap, I might have been able to get quickly to my purpose, and a life of peace and joy. So this roadmap is for you. May it guide you on your journey and speed you to where you want to be, wherever that is.
This roadmap is the result of aggregating the research and writings of more than fifty scholars, researchers, authors, speakers, and thought leaders over that twelve year period. It stands on the shoulders of giants to distill their findings and influence into a single coherent roadmap that accelerates your self-understanding. It is a process and a practice for keeping you in the beautiful states of your choosing through complete connection to yourself and every aspect of your life.
How To Use This Book
This book is a roadmap for self-understanding through complete connection. It guides you through eleven stages, each with tasks, recommended resources and questions to spark your thinking. Work through each task starting from Stage One. When you complete the roadmap, you can read parts of it again and repeat exercises to help keep you in the stages you want experience most.
Although it is simple, it may not be easy… This journey will not be instant. Depending on where you are now, you may have significant baggage to unpack and you may have major mistakes to correct. Your circle of friends and family may change dramatically. If you are with the wrong person, you are about to find out. If you are in the wrong career, that too is about to become clear. That dissatisfaction you feel is based in your soul and to feel the kind of peace that you seek, you will need to face the realities of your past choices and start consciously making better ones.
If you are lucky, perhaps you are not too far off the mark. But even if you are with the right person and in the right career, this journey is not easy. You will face yourself – your beautiful reality and your dark side. Your humanity will be laid bare for you to see and you will be challenged to love yourself, not in spite of your humanity, but because of it. On the other side of this journey is a life so amazing and joyous; peaceful and content, that words will fail and all you will feel is gratitude for each day.
The Stages
There are eleven stages of development that you CAN experience. (That does not guarantee you will.)
Almost everyone wakes up at some point in their lives (usually between stages five and six). Some call it a midlife crisis, or a quarter-life crisis. Some people wake up much later and some not at all. Some wake up and decide to not take the journey and essentially go back to sleep. Earlier stages are not lesser; in fact, they are essential and must be completed, or you will keep being pulled back into them again and again. The large majority of people in the western world do not make it past stages five or six and spend most of their days there, happily enough.
These eleven stages are not a staircase or a straight line of milestones to be achieved. They are not a race for achievement. They are a circle – a cycle of human development that we traverse over and over, trying to pick up the pieces and complete stages as we revisit them again and again over the course of our lives. Even as you spend more time in later stages, you will periodically be pulled back to earlier stages by major life events (injury, family issues, elections, etc). You cannot avoid coming around the cycle again and again. But you can spend a lot less time in these earlier stages where life is hard and negative emotions dominate; and you can spend a lot more time in later stages where life is easy, joyous, fulfilling and peaceful.
About The Author
Dr. Amy “Kathryn Colleen” Messegee is an American-born author, composer and artist better known for her foundational work: Purna Asatti, a process and practice that uses connection to self, others and every aspect of your life for managing challenges and accelerating self development.- academia (as a professor of Mathematics),
- defense technology (as a Scientist, CTO, and DARPA Program Manager),
- online media (as founder of a business website and video podcast with a reach of 1.3 million),
- venture capital (advising VC firms on evaluating technologies and reading the founders for their true intent),
- private education (as founder of a local network of elite tutors and private instructors),
- and her current passion: personal development and energy work.
In each of these, the theme is always the same: aggregating seemingly unrelated perspectives to distill a new approach for accelerated results. She has published 8 books, hundreds of articles and papers, dozens of unique art pieces and released 5 albums.
She is known for taking only four students each year but influences and leads thousands around the world in more than 70 countries through speaking, writing, music, art and podcasts. She is a Reiki Master Practitioner/Teacher and is travel-proficient in nine languages which she is learning simultaneously so she can live out her dream of traveling the world, speaking at pop up events and aggregating insight on life, the universe and being human.
Purna Asatti is highly practical, with specific tasks, questions and exercises. At the same time, it is part art book, part poetry book and part coffee table book. 240 full color pages challenge you to evolve your perspective, accelerate your personal development, and do it all in a beautiful environment that you won’t want to put down.
As beautiful as all the art and sketches are, they serve two important purposes…
(1) to offer another method for understanding each stage or idea, and
(2) to slow you down. This s not a book to devour in one sitting. The art functions as a visual break that reminds you to take one stage at a time, and one task at a time.
The ideal pace is one stage per month.
NOTE: the ebook edition of the book found on kindle and iBooks has most of the illustrations removed due to e-formatting requirements. The page photos here are from the print edition. The ebook edition keeps all the most critical illustrations and art, so no worries if ebook is your favorite format.
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