In others’ words…

Anastasia Wasko is a writer, editor, and psychospiritual guide from the NYC area who is currently living in Joshua Tree, California. 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 experiencing psychospiritual growth and spiritual awakening.

Anastasia is the Associate Editor for Mindfield, 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.

Here is this vision that she would like to transmute into your worldview: Soul knows. Soul is the experiencer of reality. Human agency binds. Human agency reflects the freedom of knowing and the lack of freedom when not knowing who we are. Lived experience transforms. Lived experience explores the lessons being learned, the ones our soul chose this moment in time-space to show up for. All in divine planning and perfection.

In my own words…

Expressing myself creatively through word play is what keeps me alive. My soul can be seen. I believe the body and the mind that house my soul are made from the same material—energy—and reality is a constellation of body and mind sensory impressions. The compass of the soul speaks to me through those impressions. My inner compass is important. When it points me beyond the body and mind to let my soul be seen, I go. This means I create reality with my words.

Sometimes, I land in fiction. In this realm of reality mixed with imagination, I jump all over the metaphorical universe, converse with non-human characters, and engage with abstraction so I might create a place for the narratives I feel within me.  Sometimes I am a character in the story. And sometimes I speak through other characters. I move through speculative fiction, too. The relativity of time and space is best explored here.

Other times, I show up in creative nonfiction: I write about real travel and cultural exchange and psychosynthesis and the transpersonal. I write to teach. And when I do, I reflect back my identities that have ebbed and flowed within language, geography, and social boundaries. I tell stories because that’s the best way we learn.