CT Step 18 - Today I wish to know. – Journal – CT Step 17

Today:  CT Step 18 - Today I wish to know. (MP3)

Today I wish to know. CT Step 18

 

It is your desire for Knowledge and your capacity for Knowledge that will make it available to you. Today’s lesson is not a demand. It is an affirmation of your intention. You can demand Knowledge to come to you, but it will not come, for it knows whether you are ready or not, and if there is no place for it to enter, it cannot enter. Here there must be no deception in your approach. There must be no manipulation in order to gain a personal advantage. Instead, you affirm your desire for Knowledge.

Affirm your desire for Knowledge in your long practice in stillness today by being completely present and not allowing this to be a fantasy session of any kind. Affirm your desire for Knowledge by remembering upon the hour to stop for a moment, to be with your environment and to be with yourself. Affirm your desire for Knowledge by considering today how important this desire is and how lacking it seems around you. For you will see that even when presented with simple problems in the world, people will avoid or deny them. They will go away from them, as if every problem were some kind of stinging pain for them or reminded them of some inner disability that the cannot tolerate.

You who are learning to face the world and to face yourself need today’s affirmation to give you the strength, the courage and the reassurance that you need.

Practice 18:    One 30-minute stillness practice.

                          Contemplation practice.

                          Hourly practice.

Picture:  A deer along the Dickey Ridge Trail, Shenandoah National Park ~ March 8, 2003

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

From the journal:  CT Step 17 - Today I will not let anything keep me from my practice.

7:55 a.m. Tuesday, September 11, 2001

– My Space Odyssey 2001. Today's Step – 17 "Today I will not let anything keep me from my practice".

The goal in stillness is to experience something greater than the mind. I've often had moments of spiritual connection

The goal is to be present wherever you are and with whatever I'm doing. I'm very present with "regions", (if not obsessed?)

6:16 p.m. Into the contemplation… "The world is so dominating that people acquiesce to it habitually. It takes real determination to maintain a greater focus in life…"

Today was another Pearl Harbor for the US. Four airliners were hijacked – Two went into the World Trade Center towers, ultimately demolishing both, one crashed into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. The terrorist group has not yet made a claim. It may be a Palestinian or Arab group – angry at Israel and the US.

What I see is a need to heal the past for all injured parties, injured cultures on the planet. Cultural wars keep humanity divided and subject to warring among themselves and creating these problems.

My answer to today's attacks would be more healing meetings for humanity. People are being controlled by the past – the one-culture Gods – souls blind to the greater community. (11/11/01 mono-theism in mono-culturalism – need multi-cultural mono-theism)

This was the day of the 9/11 attack. I learned about it speaking to the Front Royal Town Manager on the phone. I had called him about some work and they had the TV on in the office. He said a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers in New York City. As we were speaking, he saw the second plane fly into the other tower. At that moment, everyone knew this was not an accident. When I walked home for lunch, I watched the reports on TV at home. I did my practice that day as the Step required. My own perspective on a way to solve the problem was recorded.

We continue.

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.