Anastasia's Prophecy

Anastasia, The Super Sleuth, says --

Update: January 23, 2019

What Watergate taught me.

I am preparing now to lay out the wisdom behind my well-orchestrated "return to the D.C. fast track" with messages of guidance and hope for a day to come in which the citizens of the United States of America will, more and more, choose for our nation to be a country where Light supersedes Darkness.

I have worked diligently, now, for close to forty-five years to bring my fellow citizens of the U.S.A. the golden nuggets of wisdom I have carefully seeded, nurtured and grown to what I believe to be maturity, over these many decades past.

My story begins with the prophecy which I have written of below, my passion to understand the dynamics Watergate prompted me to see that I did not yet understand and the motivations behind that passion. 

Then my meeting Martin G. Groder, M.D., a psychiatrist, who became my mentor for more than ten years, until his own, personal Dark Side, sabotaged a beautiful teaching relationship that had at one time become collegial. 

You can read about Marty, some of the history of what went into our innovative work together and the theories that evolved from it, stemming from my need to unders tand what I could glean from the Watergate scandal, and the dynamics I saw as operative between Richard Nixon and his constituents in the American public. There are various articles related to my work with Marty throughout this site and on my Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure Of A Lifetime site.

The basic principles of what you will read of my work, have to do with how I view society and politics. These came to me, initially, out of Groder's original thinking.

I hope you will use what I offer here with the honor and respect this endeavor of mine merits, having been one of the several driving forces behind the course my life has taken. 

Dedication and the discipline behind it to stick to an objective of such magnitude and long duration, as this has been for me, warrants due consideration. 

Even more, I hope that what I have accomplished will serve to inspire you.

Anastasia, The Super Sleuth, Says –

Updated: June 11, 2017

The importance of "My Prophecy" for the era we are presently living in, the era of "Trump and Team in the White House," is that this prophecy of mine, as recounted below, emerging out of the Watergate break-in, serving as a life-long assignment for me, has had as its objective that I would bring certain of the lessons my adventures brought me, as gifts to you, whomever you are, with the hope that, with these, I would be contributing to helping to better our world. 

My "call to adventure," as Joseph Campbell described such promptings in the Hero With A Thousand Faces,  began with my needing to answer certain questions for myself -- and -- someday, bring back to the nation's capital, specifically, the citizens of the U.S.A., nationwide, and then to the populations of the world -- my findings. 

Why I was compelled to do this is something I still ponder. 

Perhaps, as I seem to be discovering, these days, this whole adventure, in its entirety, is simply a blessing for me, of my being gifted to see, on occasion, beyond the ordinary. 

And, I would do well to simply accept it, in that vein.

However, I also come close to gaining clarity on my pondering this question of mine with these points: 

1. I found myself caught up in the Watergate scandal, albeit on the periphery, as I was just leaving my being heavily entrenched in D.C. of politics at the time, having exited in 1973, as the scandal was gearing up to become what it would be, following the Watergate break-in; 

2. After many years of wondering how and why the drama of Watergate had enchanted me, I concluded that I had seen Richard Nixon being a stand-in for my mother, one of the most amazing discoveries I made on this adventure, personally!

And I saw his cohorts as substitutes for my large, very toxic, maternal extended family. 

With this as a context, albeit out of my awareness at the time, I found myself watching the theatrics around Watergate unfold, like a member of an audience, watching the actors play out a replication of interpersonal dynamics I had experienced growing up, with John Dean the wrongfully blamed renegade, playing me;

3. Thus investing myself in understanding the interpersonal, collusive workings of Watergate, I was granted a playing field for exploring -- and -- possibly doing some good from -- a situation that might benefit others, whereas I experienced myself as totally helpless to make any impact whatsoever in my family.

The following were the two questions that prompted my original explorations.  Over the decades I found no others to supplant them in importance.

In answering them, with Marty's guidance and support, I created an entire, comprehensive working approach to dealing with the Dark Side in society and politics.

Not bad for an outcome from being enchanted, I'd say!

For an introduction to the theories and treatment strategies that developed out my "assignment," visit this site: Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure Of A Lifetime.

Question #1 was:

How could the President of the United States of America lie to the American people?

Question #2 was:

How could so many people believe this lying president, or seem to?

As a result of the prophecy and how I chose to respond to it, I created a quest to find the answers to the questions. This quest became the center, outside of my family, of my life -- my life's work.

The culmination of the quest; again, according to Joseph Campbell, is the hero's return with the golden challis; in my case, as I see it, is my return to the Washington, D.C. fast track that I left at the time of Watergate with the answers to those two questions and a message regarding what to do with my findings. That effort is now unfolding; long time coming.

What you are reading on this blog and my other two: Anastasia The Storyteller, Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure of A Lifetime and the New Horizons Small "Zones of Peace" Project, present what I have learned. Thus, you might say, the collection of articles on these sites is my answer to this life-long quest, to the best of my ability.

Updated: February 18, 2017

"My Prophecy" is a miracle that has guided my entire adult life! 

A significant part of that miracle is that it became the Light that brought about the creation of New Horizons Small "Zones of Peace" Project. I wish I could pull you into my mind and my heart and the weave they have created with the journey of my soul, so that you could "see" first hand just how magnificent this creation has become and what my story looks like in total.

Sometimes I have thought, along with some of my supporters and devotees, that my story would make a fine movie. Especially the part about blindness making a shaman out of me. And the part I am trying to write about in Hot Pants, Motorcycles And K Street mss. 

But there are so many others like myself, products of the sixties, whose adventures in living full face to the front of whatever adventure one is called to pursue, might be more exotic than mine.

So I/we will put book writing and screen play writings to the side for now.

Besides writing books -- and -- even blogs takes a great deal of time. And, I am learning, these days, to enjoy coming down from the solitude of my mountain into the city, Frederick City, that is, and mingle with the people. 

That cuts into my writing time. So I must just simply do as best I can.

Nonetheless, in my case, the reality of my prophecy experience, among innumerable other occurrences, has helped me believe that there has been and will continue to be an intrinsic relationship, between the challenges I have experienced with my eyesight and the ability I have developed to have a unique visionary perspective about American society and politics. 

As a result, I believe I "see" what is occurring now with a heightened vision, beyond the ordinary.This proclivity, combined with my professional training, gives me a unique window on the world.

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Note: September 26, 2016. On the eve of the first presidential candidates debate for 2016, I pray that the wisdom and expertise I have gained as a result of the quest I have been on can serve our country at this desperately critical and challenging time. 

The "Making Violence Obsolete" project and its companion  the Counterculture Community Development Experiment, are my best offerings, for now, out of these gifts.

If you are reading this and are inspired by what I am sharing, please use me, especially at this critical time, in any way you think I can be of service! May we all come through this time safe and secure and be able to realize a healthy and prosperous future.

Anastasia's Prophecy -- On August 7, 1974

The day before Nixon resigned as President of the United States of America, due to his culpability in the Watergate break-in scandal.

Wikipedia defines “prophecy” as a statement that something will happen in the future or the power or ability to know what will happen in the future. This definition fits with what occurred for me on August 7, 1974, the day before Nixon resigned his presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal. The evidence of what this affair brought into my life is what has happened since.

Letter I wrote to myself just
after Nixon announced
he would resign.

The “instructions” of my prophecy came to me while I was lying on a gurney in an operating recovery room,  having just come out of surgery for a corneal transplant. 

The transplant was to be successful. It was my fourth transplant. 

The other three had failed by rejection but this one would serve me well for close to twenty-five years, only to reject in the heat of another presidential scandal; the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.

Now isn't that interesting!

The coincidence of that circumstance, alone, might alert you to the significance for me regarding Watergate and what was to become my life-long passion; transforming the Dark Side in Amercan society and politics.

My prophecy, as I understand it today, was a “call to adventure” (my adventure of a lifetime). It directed me to answer two  questions --

Question #1 was:

How could the President of the United States of America lie to the American people?

Question #2 was:

How could so many people believe this lying president, or seem to?

It has been more than forty years now since the day of that prophecy. And the prophecy and my dedication to following it has defined the course of my life!

My Prophecy came in the form of a voice that seems, to this day, only to have come from a Higher Source beyond me, or did it? It was accompanied by a hazy image of an entity,

The voice instructed me as follows. “Your instruction/mission/assignment is -- 

• Find the answer to your two questions. Then -- 
• Bring the answers back to the nation’s capital, as well as the entire nation, to the best of your ability when you have them;
• Share freely all that you learn -- about the Dark Side of politics and society -- with others and how to transform it to its Higher Good for the sake of this nation;
• Then fully accept and enjoy that which you have come to "see" and  know about by both “analyzing and solving the problem.” 
• This is your pot of gold!

The challenge has been -- and still is -- that “knowing” the answers to my questions and “doing/applying solutions” are not the same. 

The latter, application of knowledge in this case, as it turns out, is totally a “we” thing. 

Yet even when I know that this "we" thing might need to begin with me, I falter, still afraid as I was as a child to speak truth to power. 

Oh dear. Oh dear. But I am working on it.

I believe, however, that among the many miracles that have allowed me to carry out the instructions of "My Prophecy" is that a Divine Power Greater Than Me brought me a metaphorical goose, named Martin G. Groder,M.D. to teach and guide me to develop the nexessary skills and strategies for transforming the Dark Side to its higher good. 

Can you imagine how grand this is; to be confident and that I possess this know how?

Marty was a Transactional Analysis (TA) trained psychiatrist and my TA mentor for many years. 

According to my personal myth, as a result of my having been given this prophecy -- and the seeking it presaged, I eventually, serendipitously, found my way to Marty. 

Marty bequeathed upon me a golden egg that he had laid. What a goose!

Later another mentor, Murat Yagan, came into my life, also serendipitously. You can read, if you choose, of the wisdon Murat brought in Murat’s Ahmsta Kebzeh: The Universal Science of Awe, Volume II. 

Sue deVeer, my collaborator in New Horizons’ Small “Zones of Peace” Project, and I contributed an article to Murat’s book on this wonderment. 

It is posted on our blog site.  Many other articles about Murat as New Horizons’ community development mentor and my personal spiritual mentor are also published there.

Our contribution to the book will give you an overview of Murat’s vast influence on New Horizons and myself. However, almost nothing has been written about Marty’s other than in my three unpublished Random House books. (i.e. Anastasia’s “Random House Trilogy.”)

The presence of both Marty and Murat in my life during two very distinct phases of my adventure, are, probably the most significant, life-changing gifts that came to me as I made my way on my journey. 

However, what I am writing now about My Prophecy is not about either of them. It is primarily about ME!

I have been faulted in the past, especially by Cheryl Woodruff, my former editor at Random House, for writing too much about Marty’s influence on my work and too little of my own. 

The telling of My Prophecy in the coming days, weeks, months and years will, hopefully, bring me to a better balance in this regard.

Now, if you believe in magic and miracles, continue on to hear my tale. It will come out as complete as I can make it, sooner or later.

My immediate task, however, is to pass on to you what I have already learned and come to know. 

Making clear, as I do, how we can, together, use this to help make a glorious soufflé of the days of our lives -- and -- a legacy to pass on to those who come after.

This is in alignment with the instructions of my prophecy.

Read the stories on my two blog sites, Anastasia The Storyteller and the New Horizons Small “Zones of Peace” Project, the web site of “old” New Horizons. 

On the latter, I particularly recommend that you survey the press releases, especially the main one about Murat and New Horizons.  

Also, listen to my two radio shows to find innumerable postings and articles that are parts of the whole of my adventure to date. 

The Anastasia The Storyteller Radio Show offers Hot Pants, Motorcycles and K Street related stories. The Possible Society In Motion Radio Show offers a more philosophical perspective, focusing on society and politics.

I, also, suggest that you read the lovely feature article my dear friend, G.M. Corrigan, wrote about me several years ago.

“Finding Light In The Darkness”

 

Still, you will not be able to fully grasp the monumental landscape I have traversed over the past forty plus years. Yet what I am offering can certainly pave the way for a shared adventure from here forth should you wish to join me.

I have already discovered that many Possible Human, Possible Society Study participants are of a like-mind with me and are already, directly or indirectly, having their own adventures. Storytelling is one of the best vehicles for our sharing our adventures.  

I love doing the interviews for the study because they bring us more closely together. 

Storytelling often rules the interview process. 

It is certainly the most fun for me!

These pages here are, obviously, about “my story.” 

Your stories are also important. I hope mine will inspire yours. If you are not already in our study, I hope you will want to establish this kind of exchange with me. It is open, generally, only to study participants. 

To become a Possible Human, Possible Study participant, contact me at:

zonesofpeacenh@aol.com.

Beyond these platforms and others yet to emerge, it will take me the four hundred and fifty pages I have outlined to recount my story in my “in progress”  memoir, Hot Pants, Motorcycles and K Street: In The Era Before Watergate,.

Yet, regardless of anything I might write or otherwise recount or exchange, the tale of my adventure will still remain incomplete.  

After all, it has: a} now been close to 15,000 days since the prophecy came; and b} in summary the tale is only my version of an adventure purposely pursued for forty years. There were many other actors in the play. Thus there are many other versions than my own, at least for certain segments.

Hopefully, however,  in offering my account, at the very least, the enigma I have appeared to others, since early on will be a little less perplexing.  And, that which I can uniquely offer will be a great deal more available for benefit.

I realize that the riddle of who and what I am truly has been troublesome for some, particularly my children. And, for that I am sorry. 

To others I have been, admittedly a treasure trove, seemingly open for exploration, as if I might even be available as entertainment. That is if one could only get hold of the key. Oftentimes this has been problematic for me. I hope it will be less so in the future.

Together we can enhance our shared vision and co-create that “possible society in motion” for which many of us yearn.