x2 Step 176 - I will follow Knowledge today. – Journal – Step 175

Today: Step 176 - I will follow Knowledge today. (MP3)

 

“I will follow Knowledge today.” Step 176

UPON EACH HOUR OF THIS DAY experience yourself following Knowledge. Make small decisions about small things as it is necessary, but make no great decisions without Knowledge. You have a personal mind to make small, insignificant decisions. But greater decisions should be made with Knowledge.

FOLLOW KNOWLEDGE TODAY UPON THE HOUR. Allow its peace and its certainty to abide with you. Allow its overall direction to be discerned by you. Allow its potency to affect you. Allow it to give itself to you as you are now learning to give yourself to it.

IN YOUR TWO LONGER MEDITATION PRACTICES TODAY, using the word RAHN, enter deeply into Knowledge. Enter deeply into the presence of life. Enter deeply into this experience. Continue to direct your mind towards this accomplishment. Continue to set aside anything that affects you or holds you back. In this way, you train the mind and prepare it as well for that which is most natural to it to occur.

FOLLOW KNOWLEDGE THIS DAY. If Knowledge indicates something and you are very certain about this, follow it and be observant. See what happens and try to learn to distinguish Knowledge from your impulses, your wishes, your fears and your avoidances. This must be learned through experience. In this way, Knowledge and everything that pretends to be Knowledge are drawn apart in contrast. This will provide for you greater certainty and greater self-confidence, which you will need in the times to come.

PRACTICE 176: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

From the journal Step 175 - Review

8:30 a.m. Saturday, February 10, 2001

Where am I? With S2K learning to be practical about my life – my time in body. Both vision and responsibility are tempered.

→ At the office – Less has become more. Steve can top every Valley problem with a Fairfax story. It is all minimized. My network is intact – and I can push the agenda forward. Watershed Commission – Transportation District Commission

3:26 p.m. – Weekly Practice – @Tysons as Cindy gets her haircut. A wild morning – she's hurt/disappointed that her getting Sarah on the pill did not prevent Sarah from getting pregnant. We had a long – discussion/fight about God's will, …judgment, fear, conservatism – etc. of which – she heard little.

3:57 p.m. Review done. What do I now Know? The necessity of my life – and I likewise Know the necessity of all lives. Here @ the mall – one of hundreds – in multi-cultural Northern Virginia – sensing a piece of the cumulative necessity of all these lives, and the greater necessity of 6 billion human lives on earth, not to mention – all other life forms – a massive necessity – an engine of life – a bio motor – and here – a point in time – may we be uplifted, united as humanity – for it must be a single greatness for a place in the greater community.

11:31 p.m. Earth – Planet of the Crash-test Dummies – is the primary tool for learning – crashing into things – having trauma, blood, guts – pain and suffering – then doing it again. Data is collected – what not to do. Learning takes place sometimes – slowly.

Interesting day remembered. “Earth – Planet of the Crash-test Dummies.” This is an idea that always feels funny and true. Let us continue.

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.