CT Step 45 - There are greater relationships awaiting me. I must prepare. – Journal – CT Step 44

Today:  CT Step 45 - There are greater relationships awaiting me. I must prepare. (MP3)

There are greater relationships awaiting me. I must prepare. CT Step 45

There are greater relationships awaiting you. And you must prepare. Part of the preparation is freeing yourself from those engagements that may be inappropriate for you now, even if they were appropriate for you at an earlier time. How can you find these great relationships if you are not free to participate? You will be ambivalent regarding them if you think that their arrival in your life will upset your other commitments to people. Even the arrival of the Greater Community Teaching will arouse considerable anxiety if you think it will upset or disrupt the delicate balance that you have in your life at this moment. The Creator’s first purpose is to unburden you. This requires change and readjustment. If this change is not welcome, if the need for it is not understood and supported, then the answer to your great need must wait and your prayers must be left unanswered until a later time.

There are greater relationships awaiting you. You must be available to them. Do not fill up your emptiness or your loneliness with people. Do not become socially engaged unless it serves a greater and immediate purpose. Let Knowledge be your guide. Follow your natural inclinations. Resist your social conditioning if it obstructs this. This is choosing within yourself. It is a shift in your internal allegiance. It is saying "no" to your own bondage and "yes" to your freedom. Knowledge will commit you totally to the right people, but it will remain silent with everyone else.

Think of this throughout the day, and when you practice stillness, be close to Knowledge. Dedicate yourself at the beginning of this practice. And upon the hour, remember to look and to listen to see where you are, how you feel and what is going on around you.

Practice 45:   One 30-minute stillness practice.

                         Contemplation practice.

                         Hourly practice.

 

Picture:  Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This futuristic building has provided many pictures. An ideal setting for these “greater relationships”. The reality is likely to be mundane, but as of now, we don’t really know.

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 44 - If I understand my relationships, I will understand my priorities.

12:20 a.m. Monday, October 8, 2001 – I have vitality and order is being found. The foundation is being built. Fortunately I am young. There is much to do. So much –

Alignment to create… – so glad to be unburdened of PDC.

12:53 a.m. – Love the wine…and being up, alone in the silence – quiet of the night. Time to record an idea from Saturday/remembered again Sunday – The region as a constellation of towns. Winchester – regional center – the North Star perhaps

– this is a case where the regional stars can make themselves shine

Some regions will stand out – others will be a fog of' space dust – no energy at the nodes of the network/constellation –

7:50 a.m. – a regional constellation of communities – When you look into space, you see hundreds of thousands of stars. Which one stand out? Those that are aligned with some proximity, brightness, and the story.

Big & Little Dippers, Orion's Belt

Defined (Aligned) Named – Storied

→ I am a student of Knowledge – not a book of facts or thoughts, but a living, thinking, discerning student of this A living spirit. Knowledge is my teacher, the Holy Spirit – which is my heart and no more fully awakened and present

 [Age and year table in seven year increments. There is a theory that we advance in seven year cycles. As of this day October 8, 2001, my next cycle ends in 2002.]

– Turtles all the way down 

 

The earth rests on the back of a turtle, which rests on the back of a turtle, which rests on the back of a turtle all the way down →

turtle = teachers – that is the chant learning back to the Creator – and Holy Spirit/Knowledge is the teacher and we are/I am the student/teacher

8:35 a.m. 2002 was my time to leave the Commission because that was when Census data would be in. Age 56 – the next year – can be very productive and perhaps kept me where I need to be.

11:03 p.m. All day getting to order. A.m. Organized CDs, started garage order. It went well. Talked to Sarah. She's doing well. David has a new market, police lights. Okay – thanks teachers.

Contemplation. Appropriate? What degree?

Doing the Step; trying to make sense in the world; using drawings - sketches to visualize seven year increments of my life, looking for getting a longer term view; turtles all the way down - turtles being teachers; some sense of progress, so 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.