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| I must learn to use my body as a vehicle for Knowledge. CT Step 50 |
If the mind serves the Spirit and the body serves
the mind, then everything serves the Spirit. Your physical body then becomes
your key link with the world. Its promise here is to become an instrument of
communication and contribution. For this to happen, the body requires a
developed degree of health and ability. If you do not have a healthy
relationship with your body, then it cannot fulfill this greater function. That
is why it is important for all students of Knowledge to maintain an exercise
program and to eat very well in order to elevate their health and physical
ability. You do not want your body failing you after you have done so much work
preparing the way for Knowledge.
We are saddened that people do not value their
physical body after so much work has been done to bring them into the world.
But we understand this neglect because if you do not know your purpose or your
greater reality, then you will think of your body as a prison and you will
exercise your self-abuse by misusing your body. It will then become an image of
your self-neglect or self- abuse. We seek to correct this destructive attitude
by reminding you that the body is an instrument for communication and
contribution. It must be maintained with a high degree of health and vitality
for this purpose.
Think today of how you may elevate your level of
physical health. Do not think spiritual development is only working at the
level of your mind or emotions because your body needs certain things, and
these are already apparent to you. If your body is to serve you, then you must
take very good care of it.
Today practice stillness and upon the hour exercise
awareness and discernment. Throughout the day think of your body as a great
instrument and recognize what you can do to support it and maintain it for this
purpose.
Practice 50: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Hiking for fitness - Arches National Park,
Moab, Utah.
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link
to the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps CT Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training - Working file
Yesterday: CT Step 49 - REVIEW
Points from note cards
43 –
My responsibility is to Knowledge.
44 –
If I understand my relationships, I will understand my priorities.
45 –
There are greater relationships awaiting me. I must prepare. … The Creator’s
first purpose is to unburden you. This requires change and readjustment. If
this change is not welcome, if the need for it is not understood and supported,
then the answer to your great need must wait and your prayers must be left
unanswered until a later time. There are greater relationships awaiting you. You
must be available to them. … Knowledge will commit you totally to the right
people, but it will remain silent with everyone else.
46 –
I must have courage to choose my freedom. … you must choose your partners very
carefully. You cannot be reckless in relationships and have any hope of
fulfilling your greater purpose here.
47 –
My power is needed in the world. … The Way of Knowledge - … We teach you to
follow your inner authority and only give yourself to a person or other
authority if Knowledge indicates that this is necessary. … In the GC, you will
need your power, individually and collectively, to remain free and to survive. So
the loss of power and the lack of power are critical problems. … real loving
and real kindness come from a deeper power within you. … Where can this power
be found? In stillness today, come close to this power. And upon the hour,
practice this power as you break free of the domination of your circumstances
and as you exercise awareness and discernment. Recognize that you need far
greater power than you have today if you are to find K and be able to express K
in the world. Power is important. You need more of it. You need real power. You
need to become an authority in your own life. Then you can give yourself to
others who are more powerful, without losing anything. But to give yourself in
relationship, you must have your own authority intact.
48 –
contact
with the GC requires … greater power and a greater presence of mind
49 –
Review - … come to your practices with an open mind and an open heart. You are
here to learn—- not to demand, not to defend, not to protect, not to negotiate,
but to receive and to learn so that you
may be able to give.
From the journal:
CT
Step 49 - REVIEW
12:35
a.m. Saturday, October 13, 2001 –
To
bed now, review this day. A disappointing week. Too much vision, too little
action – life could just stop for me. Then what of the world? Am I supposed to
be doing something? Really?
8:35
a.m. Reading complexity theory – "too much variation" – that's the
regional problem – too many regional alignment variations for the localities to
deal with.
→ The value of
Mecca – to Islam and the world – bringing people together to share and
re-disperse.
7:34
p.m. A long review. Reading Step 47 "My power is needed in the
world", leads me to think there is more here to physicality than meets
the myth or the mind. If my power is needed – and I'm one of thousands of
students in this relationship – where power is needed – it must make a
difference to how the creation goes. I've often felt it makes no difference
whether I'm here or not. In my suicidal teen years or other times when the
mental gun "blows my brains out" when stymied – this suggests/says it
makes a difference.
I
don't have a personal biological stake – since my genetics live on in no one –
partially and Diane and Penny's kids – but none in David & Sarah. Roman
soldiers fought for their sons and daughters to have freedom – but that is not
my fight, unless it is my own future reincarnation I seek to improve.
Step
47 suggest it is far more serious, the need to cultivate power both to find and
express Knowledge. What is distraction then, and what is essential?
Step
48 – "In the GC, you will not be free".
8:10
p.m. 4 pillars Review – slow to get there…but…
1.
Relationships – Y – Build
2.
Career & Providership – Y – publish, maintain order forwards – focus
3.
Health – exercise –
4.
Spiritual advancement – N
8:37
p.m. My review is complete. I feel exhausted and would like to sleep. Perhaps I
can do something useful for my life – understanding complexity theory as it
applies to RI-RC.
Quite
a mix of thoughts. The Pillars review is becoming regular – not overwhelming.
There is a lot here. We’ve been doing Steps for at least two years and seven
weeks. So, we continue. Nothing else comes close.
NNC
Note: If you’ve some interest, but this is the
first time you’ve seen 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. Begin at
the beginning.
If you do know about Steps, but have not done Steps
twice completely, read the related materials, and have a sense of the direction
of this study, you won’t get the experience. The Introduction begins:
“This is the Steps
to Knowledge Continuation Training. It is designed to build upon the Steps
that were learned in Steps to Knowledge to
enable you to experience the grace, the power and the direction of Knowledge in
your life and to become an expression of Knowledge in everything that you do.
If you have completed the book, Steps to
Knowledge, twice through and have followed the instructions as they were
given without altering the curriculum in any way, then you are now ready to
begin this more advanced study”.
If you are an independent student, that is
certainly an option. 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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