x2 Step 187 - I am a citizen of the Greater Community of Worlds. – Journal – Step 186

Today: Step 187 - I am a citizen of the Greater Community of Worlds. (MP3)

 

“I am a citizen of the Greater Community of Worlds.” Step 187

YOU ARE NOT MERELY A HUMAN BEING in this one world. You are a citizen of the Greater Community of Worlds. This is the physical universe that you recognize through your senses. It is far greater than you can now comprehend. The extent of its relationships are far greater than you can even imagine, for reality is always greater than imagination.

YOU ARE A CITIZEN OF A GREATER PHYSICAL UNIVERSE. This acknowledges not only your Lineage and your Heritage but also your purpose in life at this time, for the world of humanity is growing into the life of the Greater Community of Worlds. This is known to you, though your beliefs may not yet account for it.

TODAY, UPON THE HOUR, affirm your citizenship in the Greater Community of Worlds, for this affirms a greater life that you are now beginning to discover. In your two meditation practices, once again enter stillness and quietude. This growing experience of stillness will enable you to understand all things, for your mind was created to assimilate Knowledge, and this is how understanding comes about. The accumulation of ideas and the accumulation of theories do not constitute either Knowledge or understanding, for understanding is born of true affinity and experience. In this, it has no parallel in the world and can thus serve the world that you perceive.

PRACTICE 187: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

As citizens of the Greater Community we should be able to travel about in the sky in some craft that isn’t as boring as a conventional airplane or noisy helicopter. We might then observe the world below somewhat like today’s picture shows. It was taken from within a capsule on the London Eye in 2009. 

From the journal: Step 186 - I am born of an Ancient Heritage. 

Wednesday, February 21, 2001 – no journal entry, but the Steps page has notes.

 

In blue, second time – paragraph one: “What is remembered in this experience are those relationships that you have cultivated thus far in your evolution up until this time. Only the reclamation of relationships can be carried forward beyond your life in this world. The individuals that you have reclaimed unto yourself as your Spiritual Family now exist as your Spiritual Family. They form the growing body of Knowledge and inclusion in life which you are now capable of experiencing,” gets: “Ha!? Relationships are auditions for Spiritual Family membership.” True? Probably more a joke than a truth, but to make sense of the Steps and their application to your life, constructive thought is encouraged.

The second paragraph:

“YOU ARE HERE TO SERVE YOUR SPIRITUAL FAMILY, your small learning group that have been working together through many ages and circumstances in order to cultivate and advance their members so that your group may join with other groups, and so forth. Like streams joining together into greater and greater bodies of moving water, you follow your inevitable course to the source of your life. This is the natural way, the genuine way, the way that exists beyond all speculation and philosophy, beyond all the fears and ambitions of humanity. This is the way of things—forever mysterious, beyond your comprehension and yet fully available to serve you in the immediate circumstances of your life. Such is the greatness of the mystery of your life, and such is its application in even the smallest detail of your life.” It ends: “Thus, your life here is complete.”

In blue I note: “Present tense!” This says that in our present physical life there can be completion. That is a good reason to continue, so let us do so.

NNC

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