Today: Step 307 - Knowledge is
living within me now. (MP3)
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| Knowledge is living within me now. Step 307 |
KNOWLEDGE IS LIVING WITHIN YOU, and you are learning
to live with Knowledge. Thus, all darkness and illusion are dispelled from your
mind as you come to realize what your life has always been and will always be.
As you realize the changelessness of your true existence, you will realize how
it wishes to express itself in the world of change. Your Knowledge is greater
than your mind, greater than your body and greater than your definitions of
yourself. It is changeless yet ever changing in its expression. Beyond fear,
doubt and destruction it abides within you, and as you learn to abide with it, all
of its qualities will become your own.
THERE IS NOTHING THAT THE WORLD CAN PROVIDE that
can in any way compare to this, for all the world’s gifts are momentary and transitory.
As you honor them, your fear of losing them will increase. As you hold them to
yourself, your anxiety about death and destruction will be enhanced, and you
will re-enter confusion and frustration. But with Knowledge, you may possess
things in the world without identifying with them. You may receive them and
release them according to the necessity of doing so. Then, the great anxiety of
the world will not affect you, but the power of Knowledge that you carry will
affect the world. In this way, you will affect the world more than it affects
you. In this way, you will be a contributor to the world. In this way, the
world will be blessed.
REJUVENATE YOURSELF IN KNOWLEDGE in your deeper practice
periods in stillness and remind yourself upon the hour of the power of Knowledge
that you carry this day. Let not any doubt or uncertainty dissuade you, for
here doubt and uncertainty are completely unnatural. You are learning to become
natural because what could be more natural than being yourself? And what could
be more yourself than Knowledge itself?
PRACTICE 307: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
From the journal: Step
306 - I will rest in Knowledge today.
7:40
a.m. Thursday, June 21, 2001 – 1st day of summer. It is cold and wet. The Step
is I rest in Knowledge. My meditations have been noisy. Lots of thinking about
work problems – things to do.
The intervention
tape says humanity has all that it needs to be successful. The only thing
it lacks is the perspective that it is one race, this one planet. [my emerging
K is about "perspective".]
9:24
p.m. – Long day – a few points scored @ PDC – interim stationery – fund
allocation for River Rec./whole allocation process. Completed the household
projections for transportation.
Home
– walk with Cindy – always rough conversation. "Error", keeps coming
to mind. There is no painless way to correct error – I can work to minimize,
ignore, or end.
I
don't want to leave this house…though I might need to if a CRC opportunity
opens.
Step
306 – "I will rest in Knowledge today".
11:10
p.m. Practice #2 –
LTW of K – p. 129 – "When you come to that
threshold where you want to give yourself to others and give yourself to life
(got there years ago), when you realize that you cannot fulfill yourself alone
and that there is no fulfillment in a self-determined life, (here for a while?
here now?) then you will hear your Spiritual Family and the Unseen ones will come
close to you, for you are waking from a long and troubled dream. (family has
been here for a while) Then the power of the universe will respond to you, for
you are responding to it. (Yes – I am responding). [6/23/01 – I have faith that
the universe/K/HS is responding]
The
Steps give us a different perspective. In this period I’m listening to an audio
tape about the interventions that I probably bought in Boulder at the workshop.
While books about spirituality have always been around, audio and video tapes
emerged in the 1980’s and 1990’s, but due to cost, were not widely available.
Here
in 2001 as I was doing Steps, there was the internet, but YouTube would not
have its first video uploaded until April 23, 2005. These days there is much ET
and spirituality related material on the web, but is it true information? We
will need discernment for this. 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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