Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village Ain't Easy!

Join me, Anastasis, former NH/ZOP Executive Director and founder at our Summer Solstice Storytelling Event, Saturday, June 18, when our organization and myself begin to come together to create one year ahead of sharing our experiences of grief, growth and the celebration of surviving Covid, at least so far, through community-building via "breaking bread" together, storytelling.and the simple pleasures of casual hangin' out together.

Best done at a "forest bathing sanctuary" such as our very own Black Bear Mountain Village, a "newly" established work in progress.

Especially with Covid in the background, it ain't easy!!

Hear our stories. Share your own around the warmth of our Beloved Fire Circle that has often brought us together, over the past almost thirty!! years.

Vetted guests may participate by remote.

Look for details forthcoming.

Summer Solstice Storytelling Event Plans Announced

 Saturday June 18

4 p.m. until ??

Dinner plans pending: Catered barbecue meal -- $25? Or potluck.

Donations invited

By invitation only. Spaces are extremely limited due to covid.

Details to come.

Registration: 

Contact New Horizons/Small "Zones of Peace" at:

MountainWomanRJ@aol.com 

Update from Anastasia

Update: April 29, 2022

I erred. I was wrong. Trying to share with you how incredibly profound is the process of our now, at NH ZOP transitioning away from our being a training and retreat center to becoming Black Bear Mountain Village (BBMV) cannot be readily conveyed to you via my quoting a text to Walton (see below).

That expressing is "merely" a helicopter view and not earth plane activities explained adequately so you can follow our lead to awe at such time as you might choose.

One key insight that has been being played out here at BBMV over the past year in our current and communally shared -- pandemic generated "new normal" is how vivid it has become the deadly price lies, denial and psychological discounting exact from the individual, those who are close to us, our communities and workplaces.

A firm commitment to put TRUTH, CONSCIOUSNESS, PERSONAL INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABITY as top priorities in one's life over the long haul is ESSENTIAL.  A life lived alternaty is, in its underbelly, a loser's life.

It's always up to the indi individual.

Your choice.

More on this in the days ahead.

April 26, 2022

We're really in it now!!

Deep into the book writing -- my writing team and me.

Wow! What a trip!

My text to Walton below will explain some -- still only tip of the iceberg.

To Walton, my new writing assistant, 20+ years friend --

Tonight I feel the Oneness of the Universe in my body. And in my heart!

Murat's map got me here.

Marty's brought me to (on Murat's Chart of Ascension) yearning for an unknown something better.

Almost oobe.

Almost like tripping without the psychedelics 

🌈🦄🌤🎇

Experiential Education --- Workday For Volunteers

Coming soon!

To Black Bear Mountain Village.

If you live within the 50 -- 75 mile radius of the Washington  metropolitan area, especially Frederick, Washington or Jefferson counties, events and workdays at Black Bear Mountain Village in the coming warmer months might be just the "getaway from town" adventure for you.

Details on the way.

Next planned project: Readying our Forest Bathing Sanctuary for spring and doing it the small "zones of peace" way.

To make application, contact Anastasia @MountainWomanRJ@aol.com 

Lost Hope Regained

Join the conversation on how Anastasia's anticipated series of four historically-based fantasy novels, titled Lost Hope Regained, beginning with Book One - Camelot Disrupted, intend to address today's social and poltical challenges from a uniquely New Horizons/Small "Zones of Peace" perspective.

Introducing the discussion on unfolding plans --

Lost Hope Regained 

(Program deleted due to technical difficulties)

Friday, March 18 11:30 a.m.

on Blog Talk Radio

"Around the base of a mountain, two rivers rushed toward one another seeking passage to the sea. Nestled into the mountain’s steep side was a secluded, magical spot called Black Bear Mountain Village." (Quote excerpted from first draft - Camelot Disrupted - Book One, Lost Hope Regained)

It is up against this fictionalized mountainside as a backdrop that a correspondingly real life equivalent also exists, with BIG happenings now underway.

The fantasized version, now in progress, is being written by me, Anastasia (ARJ), Sue deVeer, my BFF, business partner and NH/ZOP Board Member, and my team of Manhattan-based, award-winning writers. Due out in 2023.

A book writing project such as this is no small endeavor. Nor had we expected it to be.

What we had not anticipated, however, is that alongside the writing of our imaginary tale set on fictionalized Black Bear Mountain, we would also undertake a full-scale remodeling and property development project that, as circumstances have unfolded are leading to our creating a living version of Black Bear Mountain Village.  As it is now being written in fiction, so it is also coming to be in real time, with real earth, wind, fire and water. And real live people!

All of the above brings us to our forthcoming discussion topic, Lost Hope Regained, designed  for us to begin exploring answers to the blog topic I introduced earlier on the New Horizons Small “Zones Of Peace” Project blog site – “Why & How Is This Going To Be Important For YOU?  -- "Official Now! NH/ZOP Harpers Ferry Retreat Center To Be Renamed -- Black Bear Mountain Village.”

We know ourselves to be well-equipped for the forthcoming adventure which might be summarized as learning how to climb the Mountain of Awe or, minimally, preparing for the adventure. Prepared to us means we have: knowledge, experience, expertise, wisdom, determination and dedication. However, these might all add up to nothing much but the musings of visionaries -- without the collaboration of those who might travel with us, like yourself.

We are after the building of small "zones of peace," a collaborative effort to endeavor if there ever was one.

Please join us for our forthcoming online broadcast for what is intended to be only the first of many discussions on how we can collaborate to make real the promises of Black Bear Mountain Village, a model in fiction and real time for building and sustaining small "zones of peace" in a troubled world.

Experiencing Black Bear Mountain Village

A summer internship.

Watch for details

Open to six -- very select young adults. Ages 18 -- 30.

With sponsors.

Details developing.

Why & How Is This Going To Be Important For YOU? -- "Official Now! NH/ZOP Harpers Ferry Retreat Center To Be Renamed -- Black Bear Mountain Village

 March 8, 2022

Anastasia (ARJ)

Our transitioning from the NH/ZOP Harpers Ferry Retreat Center to becoming Black Bear Mountain Village (BBMV) in reality, as fictionalized in my forthcoming "Camelot Disrupted," is an unfolding adventure in living as in writing.

A work in progress. A journey being lived in real time as well as documented as we live it.

The design is set and well established. The mechanisms of the design in motion are well-honed. But...only people working collaboratively together can turn the potential into a living success, a genuine exceptional community in action, a true small "zone of peace."

My committee, my having recently resigned as Board Chairperson and now Chairing Community Outreach Committee, met for the first time on Sunday to begin developing our personal responses to the title question.

Very quickly we saw where we wanted to head with our plan:  Think global. Act local." 

And very quickly we also began to recognize the multi-level complexity of our endeavor.

Here's what we have so far.

Think global:

The internet and most specifically our three New Horizons sponsored blog sites and our ebay store and our classes, available from almost anywhere and my (ARJ) coaching and consulting will help us deliver our message, present the principles of our model and the applications of its teachings worldwide.

Act local:

BBMV is of course most vitally alive on the mountainside where we reside -- moment by moment, living out the challenges of dialogue versus debate, being an exceptional community, healing and reconciliation, as an intrinsic aspect of daily living among people of diverse natures And from there reaching out again in some modified pre-pandemic form into our surrounding local towns.

With what?

Doing what?

And how?

Follow along as our plans unfold as I/we head for book publication -- 2023 -- when you will get to read how we put it all together -- building small "zones of peace" wherever we BE.

Soon we will want your thoughts and ideas in the mix too.

This is a BIG DEAL!!

Stay updated as our journey continues.

More to come.