Today: CT Step 48 - In the Greater Community, you will not be free. (MP3)
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| In the Greater Community, you will not be free. CT Step 48 |
We present this practice today to counteract many
prevailing notions that people have that if they can escape the limitations of
the world and enter into a Greater Community of intelligent life then they will
naturally be liberated and freed. This set of assumptions exists because people
have associated the Greater Community with their heavenly state. They look at
the stars and they say, "That is the heavenly abode. I will be free there.
In the world I am not free. But there I will be free". And this assumption
has been reinforced throughout the centuries, so people naturally think that
visitors from the Greater Community will be Angelic and will be enlightened and
will be coming here for the sole purpose of edifying humanity, uplifting
humanity and enlightening humanity.
It is incredible how well established these
assumptions are and how people will not question them, believing in them so
fervently and placing so much hope and expectation upon them. But it is our
responsibility to teach you about life in the Greater Community and to prepare
you for life in the Greater Community so that you will be able to distinguish
your allies from your potential adversaries and able to understand how to
engage with other forces of intelligent life with wisdom and discernment.
Neglecting to do this would be to deny humanity its freedom and self-determination
in the future.
Therefore, we cannot neglect this primary
responsibility. In the Greater Community, you will not be free unless you can
establish your freedom and maintain it. In the Greater Community, you will be
persuaded unless you can gain Knowledge and establish a foundation for it
within your life. You may ask then, "Is the Greater Community an evil
place or a place without grace?" Certainly not. It is simply like your
world, only far bigger and far more complicated. Therefore, it requires a
greater power and a greater presence of mind. This is redeeming for you, for you
need this. And the very circumstances that will require it now exist within the
world.
Look at the Greater Community in a sober manner.
You have great friends there. You have allies. There are cultures that have
achieved high levels of Knowledge, but they are not the ones traveling all over
the universe interfering with other races. You have much to learn about the
Greater Community, and today we take another step in that direction.
Beyond your practice in stillness and your hourly
remembrances of awareness and discernment, consider this idea today—-not with
fear, not with hope, but with the power of Knowledge.
Practice 48: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: This statue of a person, apparently in dire straits,
is on the grounds of the Pécs Cathedral, in Pécs, Hungary. It demonstrates to
me, “not being free”. I could find no information on the web, so I sent a
request to the Cathedral via their Facebook page. Here is what I learned:
The statue is called “Archeology” by Tamás
Vígh from 1992. Since the first excavations in 1780, archeology has been a
serious tradition in Pécs, which was built over a Roman age town. The symbolic
figure of a woman pries open a flagstone so that the unknown world of the past
can reveal itself.
For our purposes in this Step, the
future’s past may have been a time when humanity was free.
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 47 - My power is needed in the world.
12:18
a.m. October 11, 2001
Step
47 "My power is needed in the world".
6:11
a.m. The need for inter-parcel connectors, for traffic circulation – (regional
movement) – for people, entities – inter-parcel connectors – cooperation – regional.
– two or more.
8:41
p.m. Still October 11. At "Old Fields" overlook SNP – first time in several
years. Had to buy a pass. This is the contemplation. I'm wondering what
"my power" in the world might be. Cindy came home bitchy, David is
ready to leave Jamie, Sarah changed her mind about open adoption and accused me
of making her decisions. I drive to the SNP – my pacification program for David
and Sarah. So all four of us – me, Mary Ellen, David and Sarah – the
"Never Was" family and 2nd go round for me – Cindy – the expanded
“Never Was” family.
At 4
p.m. I set the goal of getting to the park – hike if possible, get to that
stream bank… – for contemplation. The conflicts just reinforced the need.
Earth
changes move rapidly now – the Islamic Jihad of bin Laden is real…more divisive
for humanity – playing into continued separation.
The
water authority is moving forward. It is not my power moving it, but my work –
observance of the regional community has contributed. It is my power which has
kept me here because the work is too important.
Work
is going well…lots of opportunity to network. John C… talked about publishing an article with he and
Clayton about the water authority process.
I've
never wanted power because of the responsibility for error. No thanks, you
decide, not me.
10:05
p.m. On return home – M.E. on the phone…she's going to do it her way…OK…
11:19
p.m. Time to sleep. I have my work to understand and promote cooperation –
cooperation
in sharing power; people work hard to get power/identity and they don't want to
share…even though any power is a product of a chain of cooperation.
Power
had always been a difficult concept for me. As noted, I did not want power.
That was a reason I chose to be enlisted, rather than try to become an officer
in the U.S. military. Still struggling with personal power, work power or lack
of, and now the Steps say “power is needed”. Yes I understand, but still am
confused. Perhaps you are doing better on this aspect. 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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