How To Read This Blog

To Support Your Personal Adventure To Awe!

Tips for getting the most benefit from this site. (Some of which you probably already know or have figured out. Some which may not be as evident.)

         Follow the story line of a given chapter or topic.

1. Check out “Popular topics” (i.e. "Labels") for item or section;
2. Example: “Prologue”;
3. Click on link to that item. Example: “Prologue;”
4. Read articles that are shown from oldest to newest posting;
5. Example: Oldest “Prologue” article was on December 14, 2014. Begin reading from there forward, chronologically.

   Take advantage of links in a given article to  direct you to  essential  supporting items and data for text.

1. For example survivor/addict or survivor/addict inventory is frequently referenced and linked;
2. If an item such as this shows up from article to article, it is likely you will not be able to understand or apply what is offered without reading – and – sometimes doing the recommended work/application indicated by the link.

    Warning: This site is not intended as pure reading entertainment! 

(If you think/believe that it is, check out your survivor/addict inventory assessment for symptoms of your Dark Side. Pay particular note of those that suggest a drive for "excitement")

1. Recognize that this site is offered as both education/information; and
2. As a teaching tool for making personal and collective change;
3. Please respect our intentions and honor our objectives by using it thus;
4. Be sure to take time, sometimes, to read (or listen to) my supporting and clarifying stories from my personal experience and the principles and applications of what is offered here;
5. My personal stories will generally be found on Anastasia The Storyteller and on the Anastasia The Storyteller Radio Show;
6. Principles, applications of principles and related programs and projects will generally be found on the New Horizons’ Small “Zones of Peace”Project site and the Possible Society In Motion Radio Show.

      Take advantage of my personal availability by contacting me directly for guidance and content interpretations at SuperSleuthDSW@aol.com.

     Join Jack Slattery, my radio show co-host, and myself for live conversation on our Possible Society In Motion Radio Show using the theories and other content offered here.

More as necessary.  Enjoy your adventure of a lifetime!

Through The Doorway of Intellect: Knowing The Force

Murat Yagan, Beloved community development mentor of New Horizons, in his profound monograph, Transformati0n And The Seven Ways To Knowledge, instructs us that the first level of knowledge is through the intellect. Murat, also, teaches that knowledge at the pinnacle of transformation is attained through an expansion of consciousness in the human mind along with an increasing subtlety of human energies.

Nonetheless, the Doorway of Intellect, begins our adventure.

Martin G. Groder, M.D., the psychiatrist mentor of my close association for close to a decade and one-half, did not quite recognize this process of ascension, at least not in the time of my apprenticeship with him.

As a result, the New Horizons Support Network model for personal and relationship transformation, community development and violence prevention, by necessity, required a merging of the teachings of these two mentors of mine to complete the philosophical position that came to underly all of its programs, projects and the workings of our board of directors.

How to convey such an intricate design as this, more than forty years in the making, is no easy task.

I feel quite up to the undertaking, however. So I intend to proceed on this monumental endeavor by taking heed of Murat’s organizing system for sharing the bounty of that which my life and the gifts of my two brilliant mentors, Murat and Marty, taught me by “telling” you what I know as comprehensively as I am able.

In other words by my providing Level One, the “telling,” according to Murat’s design.

How to guide and assist you with the process of personal and shared transformation beyond this I do not yet know. The how remains to be revealed to me as much as to you.  This will be one of my challenges on this shared journey of ours.

Taking the opportunity, nevertheless, that this site provides as a platform for the “telling,” you can look forward to my “telling” you about the power of the New Horizons approach, at whatever pace I can manage, by presenting the entirety of my collected works.

Look forward next to “The Prologue”of Surviving (Adrenalin) Addictions (1991). With this piece I will also invite you to expand upon my “telling” by your doing some personal application exercises of your own.

A journal for recording the knowledge you will gain through my “telling” and your contemplations on what I offer here, plus whatever personal applications you choose to take up from what I offer can be of immense benefit.

Good luck to both of us.

Anastasia, The Storyteller

Anastasia And The Golden Goose: Introduction

Once upon a time there was a woman/child who felt compelled to figure out a certain puzzlement of human circumstances.

The puzzlement had to do with the President of the United States of America, Richard Nixon at the time, his relationship to the American people and a scandal that came to be known as the Watergate Break In Scandal.

That woman/child was me, Anastasia. And the tale I have to tell, centering around the Watergate Scandal, is much more about a goose that laid a golden egg. I was the lucky recipient of this egg which has had a great deal to do with important things other than Watergate. 

Yet Washington politics cannot help but take an on-again, off-again major role in this story.

This goose, whose real name was Martin G. Groder, M.D., was to play the Magician’s part in my story that is all about Watergate and not about Watergate at all.

I have already written of My Prophecy which is the back story where Watergate is concerned. But what I have shared, thus far, is barely a needle in a haystack, a drop in a bucket, the tip of an iceberg.

The whole story is about me, and YOU and our relationships to one another and the world around us, including society and politics.

You will have trouble following my story. But I will do my best, till death do us part, to help  you understand it and be able to use what I am offering to make changes in your life, your relationships and this nation.

This site has been specially set up to accomplish this objective.

When the task is complete, if, indeed, it can ever be, YOU who elect to travel with me will have experienced quite an adventure with me as your guide.

For this is a story about a (Good) “Man Who Believed  In Evil” and taught untold numbers how to look at it with clear eyes so that it might be transformed to a higher good. 

I was one of Groder’s most dedicated, devoted and involved students. And, I had the charge of writing and publishing a significant portion of his life’s work which, also, became my life’s work. So this story is also my personal story of transformation and the philosophical foundations of the New Horizons Support Network.

New Horizons is the primary playing field for all I have learned, personally, and from Marty and Murat Yagan, New Horizons community development mentor and hundreds, if not thousands of others like yourself who were interested, willing and dedicated to personal and collective transformation.

For you to get as much of the story as I can possibly convey, the quartet of New Horizons four sites and many, many hours of storytelling and informal hangin’ out with me must be experienced, studied and understood.

This is as much an adventure of a lifetime as is “Exploring Your Dark Side.” I invite you to come along.

Besides your personal commitment of time, energies (And, yes, sometimes money, as all does not come totally free when you get to the fine tuning.), your travel gear should include repeated visits to the Quartet of four blog sites that will make up an important portion of your tour book.

Much more is available through New Horizons and me but you will have to take initiative and do the legwork to get at it.

For your basic tour guide, keep making your way through the Quartet blog sites.

• Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure of A Lifetime
• Anastasia The Storyteller
• New Horizons Small “Zones of Peace” Project
• Hot Pants, Motorcycles and K Street (Coming in 2015) (Select stories, available now.)

When you have run out of self-help options for your journey, contact me, personally at: SuperSleuthDSW@aol.com.

I’ll do my best to be available to you.

Happy Trails, from

Anastasia who is Anastasia The Storyteller and--  

also, Anastasia, The Super Sleuth who took the time to put this profound adventure together for you –

With Love and Light.

The Many Doorways To The Force

My former mentor, psychiatrist Martin G. Groder, M.D., was a brilliant man. A bit arrogant, a bit grandiose, he was, nonetheless, a man with an exceptional capacity to see life, in general, and the people within it with a vast comprehension.

Out of this astute understanding, Marty was able to interweave complex, interlocking elements into a working system for personal and societal well-being and transformation.

The Groder-Rosen Addiction Development (and Transformation) Theory (GRAD) upon which this blog site is set represents this capacity of Marty’s, augmented by my own contributions to his original thinking and my expansions of it.

Among the intricacies he identified, Marty recognized an array of portals through which contact with the Force could be reached and transformed from the Dark into the Light.

In an article he wrote, published in Transactional Analysis After Eric Berne* (see resource below), Marty identified these doorways as –

• Emotions/feelings;
• Behaviors/doing;
• Body/physicality;
• Thinking/intellect;
• Social Systems, and
• Spirituality.

In a manner of thinking not readily grasped these days, Marty also cultivated the perspective I have passed on to hundreds, if not thousands, that the central playing field for the integration of these elemental, gateway energies for well-being is the community.

Later, when my years of training with Marty had passed, Murat Yagan,** who then became my spiritual guide and New Horizons’ community development mentor, presented the almost identical template for human transformation. Again, community was spotlighted as the essential learning laboratory.

The major difference, for me, between these two, somewhat different in terms of fundamental principles, yet markedly identical perspectives was that Marty’s approach offered a map out of survival-driven living (i.e. the life of the survivor/addict) and Murat’s showed the way to grow and develop beyond that mere subsistence baseline, ascendancy to the highest realms of human life and consciousness.

When, as a result of massive changes in my own life, I came to combine these two ideologies into an integrative whole for myself, especially professionally, I came to view Marty’s methodology as being one of focusing on the “what not to do in life” and Murat’s as the “what to do.”

In other words, one might say that Marty’s work was about wrestling with the Dark Side while Murat’s was with reaching for the Light. Simply, yet not simple at all, two sides of the same coin – the workings of humanity; operations that are far more about process than product, ongoing experiential learning not mere achievements.

Learning by living is how the Inner Warrior gives birth to itself in its highest regard; the potential for the Dark lifted into the Light; the Force being the working ingredient of human alchemy.

This is not an adventure that can be laid out for you in a simple formula. It is an adventure that calls up every facet of your being and doing; body-mind-emotions-spirit, interpersonal interactions, economics, politics, education and more – in the service of the higher good.

Activated these can become the Force for good and better in you and all of humanity. Used in negative, self and life-destructive ways they are the doorway to the Dark.

Visit New Horizons Small “Zones of Peace” Project blogs for stories,  philosophies and hints on reaching for the side of the Light.  And, further stories of a more personal narration on Anastasia The Storyteller.

Today's assignment 

Check yourself out –

How is the balance in you and your life, presently, among these elemental portals?

Emotions/feelings; Behaviors/doing; Body/physicality; Thinking/intellect; Social Systems, and Spirituality.

Try journaling your answers – and – creating a sharing community for this adventure. Remember community is an essential part of the journey!

(Always feel free to share your adventure with me, Anastasia, at SuperSleuthDSW@aol.com.)

We’ve only just begun! 

If you care to read more of and/or from  these two Masters of human development and beyond it, here are several resources –

*Groder, Martin G., M.D. – in Transactional Analysis After Eric Berne,  Edited by Graham Barnes, Harpers College Press, 1977.

**Yagan, Murat – Ahmsta Kebzeh: The Science of Universal Awe,Volumes I and II, Kebzeh Publications.

The Force: What Is It?

So what is this Force, you may ask? 

And, how does it manage to have so much control over us?

Further, how can I use this Force in me might be another question that comes to mind.

So let our conversation on this topic begin here, expecting it to continue, at least, until there is no more.

Art copyright, Marcia E. Rosen,
1990

Till infinity, perhaps? 

That is, indeed, what might be expected of "the adventure of a lifetime," right?

For starters –

By now most of us know that Luke Skywalker of Star Wars, mentored by Obi Wan Kenobi, was reaching for “IT. The Force, of course, is IT!

Okay, you get that. But do you realize that Darth Vadar also was carrying the Force with him?

Obi Wan embodied the Light side of the Force. Darth Vadar the Dark.

Both were of the Force!

But exactly what is the Force?

And, how does one develop mastery in using the Force for the Highest Good?

Energies are the Source of the Force, we surmise. Yet in actuality the mechanics of the Force are far more specific, as well as complex, than can be explained away simply as mere energies. 

How the human brain/mind system works in this regard; the creation of a Force that operates for good or evil, while scientifically-based also goes far beyond that into the realm of the mystical.  So we might say that understanding the Force demands "a marriage of both science and mysticism."

Truly any questions in this regard can be answered only with imprecise responses. And, answered to satisfaction only over time, to be known only with disciplined practice and experience and applied well, only with artful Mastery. At its pinnacle the art brings us to becoming One with the Force.  Thus we come to know, "not about it, but IT!"

We will do our best with this blog site to help you make IT known, understood, developed and aptly applied. How much we are able to succeed at this here will be as much up to your efforts as to ours.

Lesson #1: Introducing The Force

The Force Described

The Force, too often misunderstood and unacknowledged, is the source of the personality’s mysterious capability to create or destroy. It draws its strength from the personality’s most powerful biological influence – your primitive survival instinct, affording you the capacity to either reach the highest levels of consciousness, health, compassion and spirituality – or to self-destruct.

Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure Of A Lifetime 

M. Anastasia Rosen-Jones

Your Assignment For Today

• Write out a brief summary statement of your understanding of the Eric Berne quote;
• Write out a brief summary statement of your understanding of my quote above;
• Post your summary statements to the appropriate blog article as a comment.

If you have difficulty posting to the site, please feel free to forward your completed assignments, as well as any questions or comments you may have, to me and I will post them for you.  (We have had reports of visitors having difficulty posting to our sites.)

My email address is: SuperSleuthDSW@aol.com

Anastasia who is Anastasia The Storyteller,
sometimes, also, Anastasia, The Super Sleuth

“….whoever is not aware of this force ....

“….whoever is not aware of this force in his personality has lost control of it. He has not confronted himself and cannot know where he is headed.”

What Do You Say After You Say Hello?
Eric Berne, M.D.,