​Born amidst the horrific “Culture Revolution” that destroyed all traditional culture and values in China, which is known as the Divine Land where people used to believe in God, Buddha and Tao, Tongwen spent most of her childhood with her grandparents in a very under-developed village called Wen Ling at the southeast part of Mainland China. There, she was immersed in the simple beauty of the nature and the innocent smiles of the villagers. The bitter hardship of the village life became the magic seasonings for the young spirit to learn the true sweetness of inner spiritual life. When school years called her back to the city, the dreams of the villagers for better life and better health went with her and gradually become part of her own. When Cancer took the life of her grandmother, the direction of her career was solidified in her heart. With a simple wish to “Cure Cancer” as a doctor, Tongwen entered the Shanghai Medical University in 1984 when China started to open her door to the Western World. However, by the end of the fourth year in the Medical School, she experienced the total helplessness, as a doctors-to-be, in face of Cancer patients. She turned her direction towards the West and was accepted into the Anatomy and Cell Biology graduate program at the University of Florida in 1988. There, Tongwen was led, by many kind hands, to enter the field, where ardent efforts are made to understand the basic physical components of life, the Cell. The reductionism-based intellectual journey began, from the human body, to organs, tissues, and finally to the level of the Cell. In choosing her thesis focus, Tongwen took one step further and decided to look at the “dance” of the molecules. Her thesis work focuses upon the gene regulation mechanisms, using yeast as a model system. Upon completion of her graduate work, Tongwen decided that she was ready to apply the knowledge she gathered to face the problem of Cancer. She then moved to Boston and started her postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts General Hospital. The focus of her interest was on a family of proteins called the Transforming Growth Factor-beta family, which are critical inhibitors of cell divisions and whose abnormalities are frequently associated with Cancer. The goal of her work is to solve the molecular mysteries behind the biological functions of this powerful family of proteins. Upon delving into the intracellular dimensions and communicating with the proteins through physical instrumentations as the mediators, a story gradually unfolded. The twists and turns in every discovery she made were interwoven with the twists and turns of her life events in the world of Science and the growth of her inner spirit. A journey into the cell finally is connected with a spiritual journey into the nature of consciousness. The search outwardly for the “Cure” of Cancer is turned into a spiritual journey to search inwardly for the “Cure” of self-delusions and the shadow nature of the world we live in.