x2 Step 129 – Journal Step 128 - My Teachers are with me. I need not fear.

Today: Step 129 - My Teachers are with me. I will be with them. (MP3)

My Teachers are with me. I will be with them. Step 129

YOUR TEACHERS ARE WITH YOU. They are not speaking to you except on very rare occasions, and then only if you are capable of hearing. From time to time they will send their thoughts into your mind, and you will experience this as your own spark of inspiration. You are as yet unaware of how your mind is joined with all other minds, but in time you will begin to experience this in the context of your own world. The demonstration of this will become so obvious that you will wonder how you could ever have doubted it.

YOUR TEACHERS ARE WITH YOU and today in your two longer practice periods, practice being with them. You do not need to create an image of them in order to have this experience. You do not need to hear a voice or see a face, for their presence is enough to give you a complete experience that you are in fact together. If you will be still, breathe deeply and not weave fantasies—neither happy fantasies nor fearful fantasies—you will begin to experience what is actually there. Your Teachers are actually there. And today you can practice being with them.

PRACTICE 129: Two 30-minute practice periods. 

More perspective on how one is “not alone.”

Picture:  To be receptive to one’s Teachers; an environment for stillness is required. For me, hiking on the Dickey Ridge Trail was my thinking/listening time and space. To have a place of meditation, it was necessary to go off the trail. The picture is a selfie from 2003. There is a three legged stool purchased for this purpose and a bottle of water is nearby, plus the fanny pack that carries the journal. Meditating there, behind the rock I named Little Bear, I was out of sight of hikers on the trail above. I’d often go late in the day, when there’d be fewer hikers. Being with my Teachers is now an alertness to my thoughts, recording that which seems worthy.

From the journal Step 128 - My Teachers are with me. I need not fear.

December 25, 2000

8:05 a.m. Christmas – quiet morning. Along with the cats and Cindy. …

… Spend my mental time aligning my life with Knowledge. All has become very simple. From here I hope to write.

On NPR the last night – a fantastic story … Then @ the Market Street Methodist Church for the Christmas service – great music, talent in the people.

Another day here for me to organize my study and work toward my contribution.

In the service, when we lit candles, I had an image of coming home and seeing flames out of the house. It is a recurring image. It makes me want to move my journals – the things of most value to me. I should take a video of the house and a CD-ROM of my work and put it in the safe deposit box.

8:37 a.m. There is public corporate data. It needs to be regionally compilable in order to be of benefit. My heaven, my region is where I am. I need to be able to know – to have a sense what is near and far in order to have relationships that strengthen community.

I am constantly receiving new insights from my teachers In order to receive, process and move it out…Hawk – eagle – raptor – sitting on a mental mountain – surveying the landscape –

8:45 a.m. Time to review my personal plan. It will be simplified and focused.

→I want to introduce the perspective of regions. At the PDC – work on data/databases/mapping/networking/

→each year – my plan gets simpler, more focused. I suppose I could have made Plan – Do into a business – a service. It was uncomfortable for me to have so many people wake up – change their lives and move on. It became therapy – and that's not where I wanted to spend my time. Getting to RI is more satisfying internally.

6:18 p.m. Practice #1 – "My Teachers are with me. I need not fear."

This has been a day. I spent until 1 p.m. doing an email to recommend G.C.W. On Amazon and to Nitya. On Christmas day, there was the motivation for sending him a gift. …

6:34 p.m. Sending Larry … copy of "Almost cut my hair." I'm an expert at wasting time. Is this spiritual, is this what Knowledge would have me do? I am unburdened. Is that magical, is that real? I feel like a bird. Flying around. Living in the world. Doing what?

11:03 p.m. Time for practice #2. I took a great risk tonight – emailing my GC invitation to 9 or so people on my list. Ego fear…lack of confidence in the work? The Steps are strong, but some text his fringe. It is a limitation of human communication.

I've never been a zealot. Monomania, as per Captain Ahab always scared me. S2K is open-ended in many respects. Will others see it? If they reject it, will they reject me? I can only try.

This was a busy Christmas Day. The link is to the review of Steps to Knowledge that I posted 15 years ago. The picture for this Step is of fire equipment and in the entry I mention the concern with fire that I’d had for years prior. A few years ago I did put my journals into fire resistant boxes. I hope they are never tested. Let us continue.

NNC

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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.