Today: Step 294- Review~ I am a student of Knowledge in a world where Knowledge seems to be
absent. (MP3)
BEGIN THIS TWO-WEEK REVIEW WITH THIS INVOCATION: “I
AM NOW A STUDENT OF KNOWLEDGE. I will learn of the meaning and the purpose of
Knowledge through my participation. I will follow my participation without
attempting to alter its methods or its lessons in any way because I wish to
learn. I am a student of Knowledge in a world where Knowledge seems to be
absent. For this reason I have been sent here to prepare to give that which
Knowledge will wish to give to the world. I am a student of Knowledge. I am secure
in my responsibility. In this, I will receive all that I truly desire, for I
truly desire to love the world.”
FOLLOWING THIS INVOCATION begin your two-week
Review. Beginning with the first day in this two-week period, read the lesson for
that day and remember your practice. Continue on in this way to cover all the
days in this two-week period, and then attempt to have an overview of your life
during this practice time. Begin to see what has occurred in your life in this
two-week period.
AS YOU GAIN AN OVERVIEW, you will begin to see the
movement of your life. Perhaps this will be subtle at first, but you will soon
begin to realize that your life is progressing rapidly and that your values and
your experience of yourself are changing. You are changing fundamentally. You
are finally becoming yourself. You will realize that war, which still rages in
you from time to time, will diminish and become less frequent. Only with a
conscious and objective overview can this be recognized, and as it is
recognized, it will give you the confidence and the conviction to proceed on,
for you will know that you are following your true course and your true
destiny. You will know that you are a true student of Knowledge and that you have
made the right decision concerning your studenthood.
PRACTICE 294: One long practice period.
From the journal: Step
293 - I do not wish to suffer today.
The
Step was done this day, but nothing directly related recorded in the journal. The first time that the Step was done is here.
6:45
a.m. On waking – regionalism has to be more than cooperation with neighbors.
That's why boundaries are needed to define the communities of cooperation.
Community
is how humanity solves problems. Humanity does not yet recognize the problems
it will have to solve.
Learning
regional cooperation is being local on a greater scale is a useful perspective.
…
Settlement
of the U.S. Led to subdivision of the whole into a succession of smaller and
smaller wholes. …
–
Days trip to courthouse
– counties
are regions – encompassing rural, village, town, city – where in the people
lived & worked – basic economies
→ Economy becomes
regional with auto/roads/finance/integration/cheap energy/communications tech
>
Local governments whole – each with a vote in the legislature – representing
"land"
–
Population growth, urbanization changed that.
>
Cities growing by in-migration face different problems than those growing by
natural increase.
→ Counties were
whole – based on the horse. Boundaries were simple and logical for the time.→
→ They became un-whole
with the auto/trolley/commuter train/subway
→ Boundaries need
to be re-simplified – highlighted at a higher volume of land – be whole – with
coordination of governance.
→ A new and
greater commons.
–
Defense is preparation to solve the problem of attack – invasion
– We
are not prepared for the right problems.
Community
in a new dimension/a greater scale.
8:14
a.m. I think like hypertext – that's why I must do the work of learning HTML –
even if it goes on for months.
10:16
p.m. Home. TV on. Fleetwood Mac on VH-1. Talked to Diane. Dad will get a
pacemaker tomorrow. She is worried. I'm not.
Step
293 – I do not wish to suffer today. –
Following
the world. Tonight – went to the Sherando H. S. Graduation – …
People
choose education – they invest.
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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