Today on the show, I get to chat with Anastasia Wasko, a writer, editor, and psychospiritual guide from the NYC area who calls the Deep South her adopted home. She has a BA in Transpersonal Psychology from Sofia University (former Institute of Transpersonal Psychology) in Palo Alto, California and an MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology from The Institute of Psychosynthesis in London, England.

Anastasia manages Planet Dust Enterprises, a visionary book publisher that produces multidimensional, co-creative, intellectually expansive works. The mission of Planet Dust Enterprises is to sow seeds of ideas and creative expression so they create an organic network of connection and support for individuals who are shifting consciousness. Her signature program Self Mastery supports individuals undergoing spiritual emergence and worldview change. She is also available for one on one psychospiritual guidance.

Anastasia is the Associate Editor for Mindfield Bulletin, the official publication of the Parapsychological Association. She wrote about parapsychology and psychosynthesis for Paranormal Ruptures: Critical Approaches to Exceptional Experiences (edited by Dr Jacob Glazier) and released by Beyond The Fray Publishing in 2023.

Anastasia’s fiction and creative non-fiction writing have appeared in Space Cowboy’s Simultaneous Times podcast, Thrive Global, and in Journal of Exceptional Experiences. Her debut work of autofiction SevenThirteen was self-published in 2003. Her subsequent autofiction Meta Work was released in 2021 and KiezKucker was released in 2024.

Anastasia believes that imagination is among our most valuable assets in thinking beyond systems of oppression, environmental crises, and the collective loss of humanity. Imagination helps us remember who we are. Creative writing is medicine administered through the words (worlds) of others to illuminate, inspire, darken, reveal, and provide possible new realities for you to inhabit as you write your own story, reclaim agency, and shine freedom. Thinking “crazy” has been the bedrock of change in our society. Another word for it—usually when it has worked and we’re speaking in hindsight—is vision.

Today Anastasia shares her journey through spiritual emergence and how that's impacted her work and her life. Our conversation weaves through her journey to the south, her work there and beyond, imagination and mental health, and her focus on writing and its medicine. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

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Originally from Cape Town, South Africa and now living in upstate NY, Debbie Lan is a Musician, Singer, Choral Director, vocal arranger and award winning songwriter.

Debbie has entertained audiences as a solo artist, with various bands and Playback Theater companies, written 2 musicals which premiered at The Rosendale Theater in Rosendale New York, and has taught music and singing to children 18 months through 8th grade.

Now in its 17th year, Debbie founded, directs and arranges songs for Bloom, a 50 voice ensemble, as well as The B2s, Perennial and The Resisterhood Community Choir.  The ensembles have performed at many local venues singing an eclectic mix of uplifting and joyful songs.

Debbie also founded Songclub, a drop-in singing experience, that builds community community through singing original arrangements of familiar songs in a safe and welcoming environment. The audience is the choir!

Debbie is passionate about building community through facilitating joyful and fulfilling group singing experiences for all voices.

Today she shares her path to the States and how her music career has evolved over the years from singer/songwriter, to member of a band, music teacher, ensemble leader, kids music bandleader and returning again to her singer/songwriter roots. She's one who follows what inspires her which has served her exceptionally well, finding fulfilling work as well as her role in enriching our community. You can learn about the various ensembles that she leads, how you can join, and hear some of her original music on today's show.

And here are a few links related to Debbie and her work, Grenadilla, YouTube, Instagram.

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Today I begin the show with some reflection and honoring of my friend Jeanne Brooks who recently passed. She and I collaborated in community events, and she was a guest several years back. If you'd like to support her daughter's financial future or her families Meal Train please let me know.

Then I look forward to some of the conversations I am interested in having this year, including a consideration of how we can support an UPSWING in our community and beyond.

Today is a Full Moon so I share the astrology from Tanaaz, and pull archetype cards featuring, The Box, The Creator and The Heart.

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Marielena Ferrer is driving solo today while Theresa returns from Wisconsin. In this show, she sits down with artist Tona Wilson.  http://www.tonawilson.com/

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Kris Journey, a writer, editor, and astrologer, is certified as a professional astrologer with the Organization for Professional Astrology and serves on the editorial board for its magazine, The Evolving Astrologer. Originally from New England, she is delighted to be a new homeowner in Kingston after eight years upstate.

Today Kris entertains my curiosities about her foray into Astrology via some deep personal research for years at https://www.astro.com/horoscope and through other astrologers work including studying with Dawn Bodrogi, and expert on the Goddess asteroids.  She shares insight about the difference between Vedic versus Western/Tropical, how expanding beyond an awareness of Sun sign is vital to a person's astrology, Pluto in Aquarius, the difference between the rising, sun and moon signs and an introduction to four of the Goddess Asteroids Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta.

Join Kris for monthly workshops at People's Place, free to community, supported by the Holistic Health Community, on the first Tuesday of each month from 2-4pm. Each class is free standing. Next one is on January, 7th.

And if you're looking for an astrologer Kris recommends the following resources.

OPA: Organization for Professional Astrology, www.opaastrology.org

ISAR, International Society for Astrological Research, www.isarastrology.com

NCGR, National Council for Geocosmic Research, www.ncgrastrology.org

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Today on the show, I am celebrating the Winter Solstice, Darkness and Capricorn Season with a little help from astrology, Kim Kran's Poet archetype and music.

Sun enters Capricorn from Bill Attride.

I read this article on Darkness.

Here are your Capricorn Season horoscopes.

The Telepathy Tapes podcast. Let me know if you want to discuss this!

Here's the playlist from today.

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Today I get to chat with Alanna Medlock about CURIOUS, her magazine & gift shop in Kingston, and all the other creative things she's been up to.

She was born in New Haven, CT and raised in Chicago, IL. She studied English lit at the University of Pennsylvania and later received an MFA in Acting from Columbia University. She moved to the Hudson Valley in 2011 after 15 years in NYC working as a theater actor along with various day jobs in tech and educational publishing. Alanna has experience as a nonprofit administrator and project coordinator locally for Wave Farm’s WGXC & Upstate Films, and has worked as a freelance proofreader, copy editor, communications coordinator and bookkeeper for small businesses. She currently sings in a choir with the performance art project/rock band The Goddess Party, and hosts a freeform community radio show on WGXC in Catskill. Creatively she’s also helping to develop a site-specific performance at the Russel Wright Design Center in Garrison, and a hybrid performance film about isolation, connectivity and climate change.

Here are the details on Curious Kingston also on Instagram and her show on WGXC There There Archives.

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It's our final show of the year where Marielena Ferrer and I dive into wandering conversations related to politics and spirituality. We reflect on our year and think about how politics could be done more collaboratively, more feminine shall we say, and then muddle our way through an imagining of what living in a more feminine, collaborative and compassionate way would look like.

Full Moon this Sunday!

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Today I spend some time sharing my thoughts about the divine feminine. Sparked by a contradiction that I observed during the most recent presidential election, I wanted to share what I believe to be the divine feminine, how it shows up in our lives, and how we can cultivate it for ourselves and in our community. If you have thoughts about this and want to talk or brainstorm please reach out!

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Today on the show I get to speak with Cristina Bornstein who has worked in the field of energy healing for over 25 years. Her main modality is Eden Energy Medicine (The Eden Method) but also includes techniques from her shamanic studies and her own intuitive experiences with earth and universal energies. She believes that Energy Medicine is an amazing complementary care support system and an
empowering self-care tool. Using different modalities Cristina gently empowers you to tap into your inner wisdom and power to facilitate a deeper sense of health, happiness, and emotional balance to help you live radiantly. Each session or self-care class is customized and Cristina “follows the energy” as Donna Eden would say, which creates a sacred and safe healing space.

Cristina is passionate about self-care believing we are our own health advocates! This is why being the Director of Monthly Self-Care Classes with the Holistic Health Community is perfect match. Cristina also serves on the HHC board and offers energy medicine sessions at the HHC Healthcare Day.Cristina specializes in Self-Care Guidance, Chakra Transformations, Stress Management, Soul Retrievals and Self-Care Empowerment. She offers in person and skype sessions.

We talk about her entry into energy medicine which started very young, how she learned to follow her intuition, and where it has guided her along the way. It has brought her to some of her most transformative teachers, including Shamanic Studies with John Perkins and expeditions to the Ecuadorian rainforest, Guatemala, and Colombia to learn and live with indigenous tribes -- to Donna Eden whose work really connected the dots across so many other areas of studies Cristina was drawn to over the years -- and finally or perhaps more accurately, a return to nature as her teacher.

She shares thoughts on self care as well as simple suggestions of things to do at home or at work to support different emotional states and experiences or just to proactively nourish yourself with some care. As a part of the Holistic Health Community's Self Care Program, she's organized an event happening tomorrow, Tuesday, November 26th at the Institute for Family Health's Pine Street location where I'll be offering Tending to the Heart Sound Bath at 6pm. As with most HHC offerings it is by sacred reciprocity. "Though there is no charge for services, we encourage sacred reciprocity by making a donation, by offering volunteer service or by doing an act of loving kindness toward someone in need."

We also mention a special fundraiser for the Holistic Health Community happening this Sunday, December 1st, at Lifebridge in Rosendale featuring a sound bath with Ricarda O'Connor. If you have the ability to support this vital community organization, this will be not only a gift to them, but a gift to you to receive from this sound experience.

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