Today: CT Step 24 - The Unseen Ones are with me. (MP3)
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| The Unseen Ones are with me. CT Step 24 |
The Unseen Ones are with you. They are watching
you. And they are assisting you by strengthening Knowledge and your awareness
and desire for Knowledge. They need not speak to you today, for that is not
your work at this time. But their Presence can give reassurance and provide an
important reminder that you are in the world is for a greater purpose and not
merely for survival and gratification. They then serve as a reminder of your
Ancient Home, of your Spiritual Family and of your greater purpose in being
here.
Today, consider that the Unseen Ones are with you
and watching over you as they watch over others as well. And be grateful that
you are in their care. Yet understand that even though their responsibilities
here are great, they cannot do your work for you.
Today once again practice stillness in one long
practice period, and practice discernment and awareness upon the hour. You are
doing the work in the world. This is your contribution to the Unseen Ones. And this
is your gift to everyone.
Practice 24: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Angels in costume, a visualization of the
Unseen Ones, at the Parliament of World Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah – October
15, 2015
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
11:15
p.m. Monday, September 17, 2001 –
–
Today I will use conflict to deepen my experience of Knowledge.
This
is the contemplation practice. How much "need for Knowledge" have I
experienced today? A half hour rant from Cindy – still not over… Thank God
there was a beer left.
Cindy
is attacking me about the kids. I try to maintain my discernment and not accept
the easy judgments. The same with Diane.
These
conflicts are not, I hope, overwhelming me. I see attack – I experience attack
– I fight with Cindy…she does not get my points. She needs to rant – I let her
and am not angry. It waste time, but the feelings must come out. Sometimes she
says something I can use. I'm in control of my emotions – mostly.
On a
greater scale, conflict is all around…not just in my personal life – though it
abounds there today. I become more like Patience
the rock – seemingly immovable, but crumbling at the edges – as the
elements attack – moss grows, soil forms from leaves, water penetrates into
crevices & is frozen in the winter. Yet I stand – look the same – and do
not flinch in these conflicts. [What I did in the PD transition. Stuck to the
work.]
–
Only Knowledge and the Need for Knowledge. The human predicament seeing into
it…trying to do too much, too little.
What
is the human predicament? The world never lives up to our imagination. If we
get something that does, we then imagine something greater until we exceed the
possible in our own lifetime. We have more – but it's never enough. We may
retreat, see class, but we’re lying.
So
this days "living in conflict" comes to an end though those higher in
the conflict might know the ploy.
Living
in conflict. Not hard to recognize. The reason for the spiritual search that
lead to Greater Community Spirituality and taking Steps to Knowledge and the
Continuation Training. 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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