From “Transformation And The Seven Ways To Knowledge”
by Murat Yagan
The NH/ZOP, entwined nonprofit organizations are proud to announce that our struggles through the pandemic, to date, have brought each of our long-term board members to a place of ascending, as Murat guided, beginning in 1999.
We look forward to sharing with you the abundance our struggles have produced through this time of horrorific loss and devestation.
From the Board Members of NH/ZOP
March 29, 2021
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(Note: Murat identifies these as “ways” in his monograph. I
am interpreting them, here, as “levels.” They are presented as a progression,
one building upon the other. In practice, however, they typically overlap.)
Level One: Telling. Murat states: “The first way to knowledge is by being told. There are certain things one can know only by being told.”
My eariest clinical trainers "taught" me, starting with "telling" me, the theoretical concepts that later formed the foundations on how best for me to live a worthy life.
My eariest clinical trainers "taught" me, starting with "telling" me, the theoretical concepts that later formed the foundations on how best for me to live a worthy life.
Level Two: Showing. Murat states that “The second way to knowledge is by physical contact.” Gaining knowledge through our five senses, seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting.
As we continued on, for many years (1974 -- 1991), my early clinical mentors taught me, not only by "telling" but by creating and guiding myself and my fellow students through experiential activities.
However, over time my teachers showed an inability to personally live as they seemed to "tell" was t
best. This disappointed me deeply but taught me how to think on my own and learn from their mistakes how to do better myself.
“Show and Tell” seems an apt label, we think, for what Sue and I offer as New Horizons' offical tour guides on our Bus Ride Story Adventure. We are the "tellers" of Murat’s original Bus Ride Story when we read his story to you.
We become the "show-ers" when we can guide you through the adventure as an interactive process. And, just as my early teachers disappointed me so might we disappoint you.
Storytelling, as we have been discovering at NH/ZOP the past ten years or so, can become a vehicle for building or re-building bridges of understanding with one another, student and teacher, friend and friend, neighbor to neighbor.
Level Three: Study: Murat offers this example, “…if you want to know what kind of city it is, how big an area it has, its population, the specific characteristics of the climate, average precipitation a year, then you need to study in order to know these things.”
The remaining four levels of acquiring knowledge, according to Murat’s offering are knowledge gained by:
Level Four: Understanding;
Level Five: Doing;
Anastasia and Sue, combined between them, have accrued close to one hundred years of study time, comprehension and practical application, "doing," time on individual and collective transformation. This has enabled New Horizons to develop its Cultural Mediation Model to its present spectacular level. (And, we aren't even "old" yet!)
Level Six: Feeling;
Level Seven: Being.
In September, 2017 my Kebzeh mentor, Joan who is one of the attained individuals who carries on Murat's work, again affirmed that I.had reached Level Seven in my personal development. I was much rewarded!
Beyond Levels One through Five: In some ways, we are always as much students as teachers/tour guides. We are, however, grateful we have been able to travel this far. We have been fortunate to have wonderful mentors, such as Murat, Marty Groder and Barry Morley, one of Sue's greatest teachers, to guide us thus far.
(Update: August 28, 2017 -- as of last Thursday, my present mentor, Joan, one of Murat's most esteemed teachers to whom he passed on his teachings, informed me that I am now qualified to accept myself as having attained -- and -- be living in the Seventh Level. How very proud I am!)
We are, also, passionate and skillful as teachers who want to travel with you. And, we are hoping you will want to travel with us by sharing in our up coming Bus Ride Story Adventure events. We have a distinct destination in mind; the Mountain of Awe.
Reaching the peak of this mountain has certain special characteristics, procedures, rituals and practices. The primary characteristic is that it is a work of co-creation; an experiential learning process. New Horizons offers this adventure as an opportunity for participants to have an experience, albeit breifly, to be an active part of an exceptional community.
Murat offered us a window into the essence of that experience with these words.
“Show and Tell” seems an apt label, we think, for what Sue and I offer as New Horizons' offical tour guides on our Bus Ride Story Adventure. We are the "tellers" of Murat’s original Bus Ride Story when we read his story to you.
We become the "show-ers" when we can guide you through the adventure as an interactive process. And, just as my early teachers disappointed me so might we disappoint you.
No matter, in the long haul. The adventure, including the highs and the lows, will ultimately be of your choosing.
Storytelling, as we have been discovering at NH/ZOP the past ten years or so, can become a vehicle for building or re-building bridges of understanding with one another, student and teacher, friend and friend, neighbor to neighbor.
Level Three: Study: Murat offers this example, “…if you want to know what kind of city it is, how big an area it has, its population, the specific characteristics of the climate, average precipitation a year, then you need to study in order to know these things.”
The remaining four levels of acquiring knowledge, according to Murat’s offering are knowledge gained by:
Level Four: Understanding;
Level Five: Doing;
Anastasia and Sue, combined between them, have accrued close to one hundred years of study time, comprehension and practical application, "doing," time on individual and collective transformation. This has enabled New Horizons to develop its Cultural Mediation Model to its present spectacular level. (And, we aren't even "old" yet!)
Level Six: Feeling;
Level Seven: Being.
In September, 2017 my Kebzeh mentor, Joan who is one of the attained individuals who carries on Murat's work, again affirmed that I.had reached Level Seven in my personal development. I was much rewarded!
Beyond Levels One through Five: In some ways, we are always as much students as teachers/tour guides. We are, however, grateful we have been able to travel this far. We have been fortunate to have wonderful mentors, such as Murat, Marty Groder and Barry Morley, one of Sue's greatest teachers, to guide us thus far.
(Update: August 28, 2017 -- as of last Thursday, my present mentor, Joan, one of Murat's most esteemed teachers to whom he passed on his teachings, informed me that I am now qualified to accept myself as having attained -- and -- be living in the Seventh Level. How very proud I am!)
We are, also, passionate and skillful as teachers who want to travel with you. And, we are hoping you will want to travel with us by sharing in our up coming Bus Ride Story Adventure events. We have a distinct destination in mind; the Mountain of Awe.
Reaching the peak of this mountain has certain special characteristics, procedures, rituals and practices. The primary characteristic is that it is a work of co-creation; an experiential learning process. New Horizons offers this adventure as an opportunity for participants to have an experience, albeit breifly, to be an active part of an exceptional community.
Murat offered us a window into the essence of that experience with these words.
“If you want to go further and say, “I want to “know it,” then the way of knowing must be different. In order to “know it” you have to be there, not just read about it, or see a picture, or a movie, or a travel agency brochure.
To know this adventure is to participate in it.
And, travel from start to finish of the trip!
Our destination is to climb to the peak of the Mountain Of Awe with you.
Every intention upon which our every action is predicated is geared toward this.
