Today: Step 252 – Review … a confirmation of the presence
of Knowledge in your life. (MP3)
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LET YOUR REVIEW OF EACH LESSON in the past two weeks
be a confirmation of the presence of Knowledge in your life. Review each lesson
and practice. Review objectively the extent of your involvement and realize the
opportunities to give yourself more fully and more completely. Realize how
meaningless your denial is and how great the promise of your reward, given your
participation in life. You will realize this as you review your practices, for
your practices demonstrate your ambivalence towards Knowledge and the presence
of Knowledge itself.
YOU WILL LEARN IN TIME that as you come closer to
Knowledge, all things that are meaningful and valuable will be affirmed, and as
you go away from Knowledge, you will enter the darkness of your own imagination.
This, then, will convince you of where you need to apply yourself. This will
convince you of the great presence that is with you to assist you. This will
convince you that you are included in life and that your Teachers are with you.
Whatever obstacle or inadequacy that you can recognize or imagine can be easily
overcome with Knowledge. It is your desire for Knowledge and your capacity for Knowledge
that need to be strengthened. And once this is done, Knowledge will express
itself and you will be the beneficiary of life’s greatest gift.
IN YOUR LONGER REVIEW TODAY, allow yourself to
undertake your practice with great depth and sincerity. Allow this day to
affirm your studenthood. Allow this day to affirm that you have been saved.
PRACTICE 252: One long practice period.
Note the last line: “Allow this day to affirm that you have been saved.”
From the journal: Step
251 - If I abide with Knowledge, there will be no confusion in my
relationships.
The longer you’ve been on this planet, the more
relationships you’re likely to need to review. Ugh.
Friday,
April 27, 2001
8:20
a.m. … on leave today. I've been unburdened of the administrative/CEO
responsibilities. Relationships – Errors/failures/disconnects –were the
problems. The rug pulling fall hurt my ego – but Spirit helped me keep up
appearances.
Tomorrow
it's Texas. I'm looking forward to travel. It always stimulates my mind. I'll
do the long review on the plane.
I'm
very grateful.
8:51
a.m. Yesterday – on the road to Winchester. The Virginia land-use system. …
Also
– yesterday – with Cindy, thinking of her – in my need for a partner in RI. – I
need to ask – what will it take to get her participation as an equal partner. I
have great transcription needs – in order to move to publishing.
Making
the region visible. Put the term in places it hasn’t been – "To form a
more perfect region (not union)…
Problem
– too many regions – too hard to get data – need region builder software.
…
9:27
a.m. I feel overwhelmed with urgency on many fronts – the need to link and
pursue opportunities. It is so I can't be still. Last night – even home @ 10
p.m. and somewhat tired – after – 5 – 7 minutes of stillness I was restless and
had to get up, eat – though not very hungry, and watch some so-so – TV.
9:38
a.m. Step 251 – Practice #1 – "If I abide with Knowledge, there will be no
confusion in my relationships".
Text
says – If K is not confused, how can you be confused who abide in K? The basic
premise is – K – HS – is truth – God's truth – the Creator’s truth – upon which
the separation of physicality/the manifest universe resides – as nested
relationships in a universal network/web that is both expanding and returning
to God/Creator/heaven – Physicality is real – is life – yet layered upon it are
belief systems/illusions of cultures, beings, intelligences which, from the
inside out, may have crafted a view/belief system for management of themselves
within their space time context. Choose life – seek to Know and understand your
place in the web, that you come to consciousness in physicality as one in a
spiritual family – moving as student/teacher in life's evolution.
Where
did I come from? Why did my soul decide to test the experience of separation – along
with billions of others?
An
older thought (last 12 months?) – We are all prodigal sons and daughters.
Yet
here I am. In the web of life at this point in humanity's evolution on earth –
with partners known and unknown. Each soul, here on earth, regardless of
awareness of K – has chosen physical –, while others work from other
dimensions.
This
is my current experience as best I can put it in words. The creative force – as
expressed through K/HS – Knows the meaning, purpose and direction of
life. It is never confused. Like the heartbeat – the rhythm of
life – a drumbeat –
2:21
p.m. At Su-ne – SNP on the trail. A beautiful spring day. At Rotary – Annie
B... brought in a cheetah from Cincinnati and talked about "Cheetah
Outreach" – a great lesson in both boundaries and learning. The hard
boundaries of the African Preserves – led to domination by the big species,
lions, leopards, elephant – and were not good habitat for the cheetah. Her
education approach also was used to bring together black-&-white children
in South Africa. I told her about Regional Intelligence – she seemed to get it.
…
Today
– I've not met a person who did not Know (or didn't say they didn't know) of
the Bar Scene in Star Wars. That is step one to see Earth as "local".
So –
still getting to Practice #1 –
2:36
p.m. Actively look at sign every single primary relationship.
–
Not that many of my primary relationships have ended. Even with M.E. The
relationship goes on.
My
continuing relationships have had the frustration, confusion etc. – and they
have beginnings, middles & ends – but, they still continue.
– My
parents are near their ends – 20 to 30 years. I'm understanding/Knowing why I
picked them.
–
With girlfriends, it was trying to find relationships. After I got my glasses
and stayed a shrimp – it was tough.
… friends
in childhood – [long list of names through college, U.S. Navy,
current time]
More self-analysis of relationships ahead. This is
work. Recording it in the journal helps manage this type of exercise, even
though there are things you don’t want to write down. Make up a code to yourself.
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.
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