IN YOUR REVIEW THIS WEEK allow yourself to realize
the lessons that are being presented to you. Take special care to recognize the
empowerment that is being offered to you as you exert your will for good. Note
as well the requirement that you accept yourself beyond your current
understanding, that you honor yourself beyond your current evaluation of
yourself and that you experience life beyond your own thoughts and prejudices.
Recognize the opportunity that is being given to you, and realize that each
moment that you spend in sincere application furthers your progress
tremendously and establishes a permanent advancement for you. If you think of
what you would want to give to the world, give your advancement. From this all good
things which you have come to give, according to your nature and your design,
will be given completely. Thus, your gift to the world now is your preparation
so that you may learn to give.
IN YOUR LONG PRACTICE PERIOD, review the past
week—your lessons, your practices, your experiences, your accomplishments and your
difficulties. View this objectively and determine how you may give yourself to your practices more completely in the future.
PRACTICE 147: One long practice period.
From the journal Step - 146 I will honor
my teachers today.
Friday, January 12, 2001
On waking→I see a whole local planet made up of regions of
localities and I want to share that vision to make it useful to others. Regional
Intelligence – Making Regions Local by Building Regional Community
The key to understanding is that the terms local
and regional are scalable. In the physical sense – Earth is our local planet.
It is whole – and bounded, relative to human life by the atmosphere. There is
natural vertical penetration by mountains, man made penetration by buildings.
Yet this year itself is used through aviation.
Earth is our local planet.
Public policy research tasks and products
–A scale for local/regional – based on governmental
boundaries/units
– Relationship to other regional delimiters – bio –
region, watershed
– Paradigm shift: Think local planet, act
regionally (2 or more).
→Citizen goals – awareness of the regional option
→Whole planet through local regions.
6:50 AM. My life is changing, moving – there will
be progress.
…
→Needs to be intentional – great intent went into
the formation of countries, states, counties, towns, cities.
→Support to development & promotion of a new
paradigm – local planet regions
– Local planet local regions local
governments/settlements.
– Human activity leads to alteration of the
physical world in a built environment which leads to waste – dilution has
physical limits – Waste is a breeding ground
– The less you have, the greater the need to
cooperate. Incentives for overcoming extreme isolation can be fostered by
government.
Humanity is tribal and warlike –
…
There are networks of localities – regional
community is made up of many geographically nearby communities
Rural Prosperity – small, rural government need the
State – since the responsibilities Lane upon them in mandates task the natural
land-based economy well. In order to be more effective, State agency programs
need to be aligned for economy of scale that matches how local governments work
together.
…
1:45 PM. I honor my Teachers today by writing and
learning.
…
Region is geographic, but also relates to all
manner of relationships among entities.
Regional intelligence is the antidote to the
tragedy of the commons. It is not a "system," but it can be used to
determine the relationships between systems.
Things needed:
– ISO adoption of scale and formulation of basic
geography –
– Standard names & abbreviations with
registration for all – and a search engine that tells by name/postal code/the
regions in which someone resides.
You can be the center of your own global region. –
You are the center of a spherical globe in a multi-– spherical global society –
…
4:55 PM. Writing/re-– writing – "regional
intelligence" – What is it? How can I explain it. I must make it
understandable. – Show the map, explain the map, show the earth –
showed/explained how it is local – you can't fall off the edge – everything
connects. Our local planet – NIMBY – my backyard is the planet.
We are creatures of our habitat. If it goes, we go.
No habitat, no context, no lights in the physical.
Technology can allow life support in marginal or
hostile environments.
11:11 PM. Saw Tom D.. tonight – talked briefly.
What happened I now wonder? I was attacked and did not know to fight back or
even now. I didn't answer Greg's charges – couldn't believe them – and so, as
Ed D… told me, if I didn't respond they'd be taken to be true. Thus the
slippery slope – and here I sit unburdened – not in a ceremonious way – I
learned all the way down, though have yet to become a fighter…. Now more
cautious perhaps, but the pull toward RI will leave this rough patch in the
past. The learning continues.
Today, Step 146 – "I will honor my
teachers." It is Mom & Dad's 55th anniversary – October 16 – was my
goal to leave PDC – I'll be too busy burning up leave to build RI to consider
it. Mom & Dad have been teachers… I honor them.
NNC
Note: If you’ve some interest due to this or other
Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge
and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. You can
use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps. They will remain in
order in the archives - one post per Step.
Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps
once. For this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference
how fast you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts here provide
a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One
may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps
students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as
a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys. There are options as well
through the Free School of the New Message.
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