Today: CT Step 29 - I wish to know my own strength. (MP3)
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| I wish to know my own strength. CT Step 29 |
You have great untapped strength waiting within
you, a greater ability that the Creator has bestowed upon you and upon each
individual. If this cannot be found, discovered and applied in life, it is a
great misfortune, both for you and for those who would benefit from it.
Therefore, we bring you back to your great
strength—-the strength of Knowledge within you. It is not your personal
strength. It is a greater strength that has been given to you. Prepare yourself
to receive it. Learn how to carry it and how to apply it in the world, and you
shall be a light in the world. You shall bring great hope into the world and
promise for the future.
Utilize this strength today in your one long
practice in silence. Do not let your mind wander. Dedicate yourself to being
present in your practice. In your hourly practice of awareness and discernment
when you are out in the world, exercise your own authority and bring this
practice to bear. Utilize this practice to gain a greater strength and wisdom,
which you need even at this moment.
Practice 29: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Para-glider - Boulder, Colorado - October 7, 2014
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
Yesterday: CT
Step 28 – REVIEW
First, points from note
cards:
22 –
I
must understand the greater movement of the world. … If you think about it, you
will see that there are so many things that people cannot respond to
emotionally or intellectually. … You are preparing for the future in a way that
will enable you to be in the future with a greater strength and efficacy.
23 –
Today I will use conflict to deepen my experience of Knowledge. … 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. … You
need to be able to: retrieve yourself
back to a position of discernment.
24 –
The Unseen Ones are with me. … They … serve as a reminder of your Ancient
Home, of your Spiritual Family and of your greater purpose in being here. (not
merely for survival and gratification) (they cannot do your work for you)
25 –
Hope in the world is rekindled by those who become strong with Knowledge. Hope
can fade away and then can be reignited…. Hope rests with you … Become the hope
and all self-hatred will disappear from your mind.
26 –
Through the study in Greater Community Spirituality, you have been given a new
perspective and a vantage point from which to see. Gain this vantage point.
Utilize this perspective. And you will see what could not be seen otherwise. The
GC is the bigger picture of your life. … Your future is in the GC. Your work is
in the GC. Your preparation is for the GC. … this is the time when people must
learn to prepare and to become educated about life, reality and spirituality
within the larger context of their lives. … Seek to know more. Ask to know
more. Try to penetrate the veil that keeps you from understanding life at a
higher level.
27 –
I must learn to be discreet today. … Do not talk about your important insights.
Let them grow. See if they are valid. Do not talk about them immediately. Let
the pressure build. Develop that depth. … allow questions to be unanswered.
28 –
Review - Come back to your Pillars with as little fear and preference as
possible because you want to practice seeing and knowing. Do not try to protect
anything. … Which Pillars – weak, requires attention? Where am I @ risk? Where
is my life jeopardized? Where can I be undermined?"
From the journal: 9:30 a.m. Saturday, September 22, 2001.
On
waking – printing out U.S. Senate on letterhead – Homeland Security – both a
resource and a methodology – 60s – Intergovernmental review – 21st century
intergovernmental security. Networking those whose job it is to be alert.
Cell
phone critical – yet the GIS map base in rural America is not in place. It is
too heavy a burden for the local tax base to carry.
Security
without mass conformity.
The
transportation network, which supports our just-in-time must be protected.
If
flow is interrupted – we are challenged.
9:50
a.m. … It is Saturday. I have the review to do. We are going to Hagerstown. I
am motivated to push regional community recognition: make more visible the → Infrastructure of regions
–
Those whose constituents are spread over a greater area naturally need to group
geographically those they need to contact. When House districts change, the
Regional Councils are resources to get Congressman & women oriented to
their new geography – to get a quick overview – and to work on the development
of long-term capacity – Battlefields, Transportation, Tourism – – and to be an
intermediary between Federal, State and local.
Virginia's
PD approach has been more successful – due to its community building approach.
Localism
can be scaled up to the region – by making it a regional community –
Virginia
has made the regional table valuable with the Regional Partnership. The EDA and
ARC programs do the same. MPO – fragments the region – by only investing in
urban areas. Virginia resolved that problem with its rural transportation
planning program in 1995 –
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Begin with the map – outside – Where are we?
How
do we look from heaven? God watches over us. As a young boy – How does he do
that?
–
Emergency response has historically been organized as local governments centered
– with the Chief Elected Officials in charge. State and Federal levels provide
backup and assistance.
–
Changes in the US settlement patterns since the 1950s have led to the need for
regional responses, not only in the city centered metropolitan areas, but in
rural America.
– In
the current focus on Homeland Security I would like to bring to higher
visibility the Regional Counsel network in Virginia and those in other states
as a resource and methodology. The key aspect of regional councils is the
involvement of local elected officials.
Note
complete this letter dictation later:
11:26
p.m. Long Practice – Review of Pillars – 4 pillars – all answers. No.
The
relationship with Cindy appears hopeless. This is not new. I've no answers
there except further isolation.
Oh
dear, progress, but no progress. 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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