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| Today I will use conflict to deepen my experience of Knowledge. CT Step 23 |
Use conflict today to remind yourself that there is
only Knowledge and the need for Knowledge. Using this approach gives you a way
to see beyond the complexities that confuse people at the outset. This will
enable you to see into the deeper nature of the human predicament and your own
predicament.
Because the world is emerging into the Greater
Community, you need these greater capabilities. This is not merely for those
who are gifted and wise. It is not an option. It is essential for the
continuance of humanity and for the freedom of humanity. Developing these
greater capabilities then becomes essential rather than optional. They are
primary to life. With this understanding, you will be able to see that they are
at the forefront of your own personal priorities rather than something that you
easily forget or that you have to be reminded of as you go along.
You are sent to serve the world. To do this, you
must recognize conflict But you must approach it in a certain way or you cannot
be a force for resolution. For conflict will draw you in and will overwhelm
you, and you will not be able to understand it. You will give your power away
to it. You will give your awareness away to it. It will overwhelm you and you
will be lost to it. See this around you. The evidence is everywhere. See how
even today you are captivated by things that upset or disturb you to the point
where you cannot see, you cannot know and you cannot retrieve yourself back to
a position of discernment.
In your practice in stillness today, you can see
this. Learning how to clear the mind and to quiet the mind can sometimes seem
to be a great effort because the captivation has already occurred. Somehow you
got swept downstream, and now you have to go downstream and find yourself and
pull yourself out of the water because you got washed away! And though the
current may be strong, you must pull yourself ashore. Practice this in your
hourly practices. Consider this today.
Practice 23: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Manor House at Belle Grove Plantation –
Middletown, Virginia ~ Dedication of Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National
Historical Park Cedar Creek - January 31, 2003. Memorializing the conflict that
occurred here during the Civil War was part of my work. Preservation of the
landscape and buildings for their historic value also benefited water quality
and habitat in the Shenandoah Valley. Knowledge worked here to unite many
disparate goals, as the preservation of fields were can be beneficial from many
perspectives, the heritage-minded and environmentally-minded.
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 22 - I must understand the greater movement of the world.
12:42
a.m. Sunday, September 16, 2001 – "I must understand the greater movement
of the world". In Boulder, three years ago (?) Looking/listing to a CD –
Whirling Dervishes – I did not buy it… the message was the old ways will not
work. [In reviewing my
journals to begin this project, I found that this even happened in 1997, the
evening of the day I met Marshall and would, if I kept with it, get the New
Message].
8:15
a.m. Stillness becomes contemplation. Evolution is pushing human cultures this
moment. Spirituality is a new way to understand the world, one that integrates
science – culture – reality. Nothing can be left out. There is a network of
Knowing –
–
NSVRC – should be NSVC
NSV
& Regional are redundant.
Regional
Place name + Council, Commission
Northern
Shenandoah Valley Community Commission/RC – regional commission/council/
10:10
a.m. – New rule for humanity – you may not attack yourself, you may not attack
another.
The
greater movement of the world is certainly a challenging topic. I read a lot of
science fiction up through my junior year in high school, leaving that to concentrate
on a list of 100 novels for the college bound about 1963. No science fiction
there, but it did include Aldous Huxley’s Brave
New World and George Orwell’s 1984
and Animal Farm. Reading was how I
learned about the movement of the world. This was the era of the Civil Rights movement
and Vietnam War protests. The world was in motion. It still is and the scale is
greater. 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.
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