x2 Step 106 – Journal Step 105 - Review ~ Allow confusion and uncertainty to exist, for this is necessary in this stage of investigation.

Today: Step 106 - There are no Masters living in the world. (MP3)

Greetings All –

From the journal Step 105 - Review 

Saturday, December 2, 2000

 7:45 a.m. Process, planning, people – my role – I need not say the Key point, ask the key question, what counts is the process –

8:30 a.m. Hostile environment – thank you Bev and Steve for enlightening me on the concept of the creation of a “Hostile environment" …

What counts is the regional community – the Regional Council can play a role – but the community is greater.

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9:18 a.m. I am awake in a great flow of energy/ideas when I want to capture as much as I can – the amazement of looking at the bodybuilders – how that is both physical and mental – so I watched with a new respect, a new perspective→ and gained inspiration for my small part –

I'm always amazed that some souls get it more directly – and others must labor. God does not hide the creation from us. It is accessible by our senses.

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→ open design – Region – Linux – a public corporate database – aligned on regional geography

→ one reality – your neighbors may not be your peers – but because you share boundaries – you need to cooperate –

9:11 p.m. In my study – to do the weeks long review. Where am I? Went to the final Battlefield Commission meeting @ New Market – the solution – The Shenandoah National Battlefields Foundation – a private nonprofit – the solution developed in 1995 – came to be. The PDC role was not mentioned, but I reminded people of it…and again found a good response to "Regional Intelligence."

9:28 p.m. Step 105 – Review – Text says "Understand that these ideas must be entertained and experienced through many stages of development."

I hear and see so much in the world. It is joyful – yet I'm alone here. I isolate in order to study.

→for insight and emotional growth, this is been a good week – yesterday – beyond any expectations, yet I know there is much more ahead.

The text says: "Our teaching will thus simplify all things, which will resolve the conflicts that you carry now and which will make conflict in the future unnecessary. For to the extent that you are with Knowledge, conflict does not exist. An unconflicted life is the greatest contribution that can be given into the world, for this is a life that will spark the beginning of Knowledge in all, a spark that can carry itself into the future far beyond your individual life. It is this great spark that you are intended to give into the world…"

An unconflicted life – how does one get there?

"This is your greater purpose in life: to Keep Knowledge – (Holy Spirit) alive in the world – but first to learn, complete lessons

10:24 p.m. – I've quite a ways to go for an unconflicted life –

10:53 p.m. The long practices done. A distance to go – there is. And I shall continue to follow the path to becoming "unconflicted." That has to mean something other than "not caring."

Getting a little deeper on the Steps, but not as far as one can go. We’re told: “Allow confusion and uncertainty to exist, for this is necessary in this stage of investigation.” Next we are reminded in Step 106 - “There are no Masters living in the world.” We went through this the first year. It still must be true. Let us continue.

NNC

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