Friday, March 4, 2016

CT Step 64 - The world is emerging into the Greater Community. I can know this. – Journal – CT Step 63



Today:  CT Step 64 - The world is emerging into the Greater Community. I can know this. (MP3)

The world is emerging into the Greater Community. I can know this. CT Step 64

Sometimes you can be surprised at what you can know about matters that seem beyond your normal concerns. That is because Knowledge is not limited by your awareness. Only your access to Knowledge is limited by your awareness.

Consider the Greater Community today on several occasions and ask yourself, "Can I know about the Greater Community?" Just ask the question. There is no right answer. There is asking the question. There is listening. That is what this is all about. Getting answers is worthless if they are not the right answers, if they are not the answers that come from Knowledge. Those are the right answers. Any other answer, no matter how edifying it might appear, is without merit and can be deceiving. Therefore, do not be eager for answers, but be committed to asking the question and being open to know. This requires humility and patience, two very valuable virtues.

Practice stillness during your meditation time and become aware of where you are upon the hour and how you are feeling. On several occasions, ask about the Greater Community to see if there is something you can know.

Practice 64:   One 30-minute stillness practice.
                          Contemplation practice.
                          Hourly practice.

Picture:  Somewhere in the air over the Midwestern United States. This what I saw and photographed from an airliner; a greater community person would see human settlements the same way?


From the journal:  CT Step 63 - REVIEW

8:10 a.m. Saturday, October 27, 2001 –

For community, people need commonality in some areas – [shared values – 9/29/02]
– well – for one, were all human. That's not enough for many, even though DNA now shows there's no biological basis for race. External appearance is a result of climate& cultural variations over thousands of years. If someone was looking @ people in the world to include in their community they might want people like me O+ blood type, who are universal blood donors.

Conflict is okay, it's just war – physically & psychologically that we need to avoid.

8:23 a.m. Step 63 – Review

Reread the previous six steps and consider (1) what they are asking of you; (2) What they are giving you; (3) how you may further use them in the future.

57 – Let me be attentive.
1. The lesson asks me to listen for the signs of K in the conversation of others.
2. The lesson gives me reason to be attentive, alert – just like the brain new aerobics recommended by Larry Katz, co-author of "Keeping your Brain Alive” on today's People's Pharmacy radio show.
3. I will continue to use this to be alert to K – as I've done for "regional" and "community". I need this emergence.

2:27 p.m.> My review has been very distracted – almost the norm for the past few weeks. What do I tell myself – not really what I've been thinking. The world and the way people relate/communicate within it is so strange. It is unlike my "beautiful planet" vision.

58 - Today I will be attentive to what I tell myself.

1. The lesson asks me to be attentive to what I tell myself – my self-talk – for it says "All self-deception begins with what you tell yourself".

2. This Step reminds me of the perspective I should have – because I do do negative self talk – even in this moment where the contacts folder is gone from Office 2000 – I tried a repair. The day has been catch up by the computer again. I lost time in the past few weeks. It has become worse than the TV in terms of sucking in time. While I have to do this review and prepare for UU tomorrow, I've always gotten speeches together all my life – no doubt I'll do okay tomorrow – I'm a pro – it is this self distraction that weakens me – gets negative thought going. Is it multi-tasking, my inane diversion on some subliminal purpose?

3. Being attentive to what I tell myself as been and remain something I must use.

3:52 p.m. Back again after another distraction on the PC. Go Back saved my contacts in address book. Certainly am learning the way that technology creates new problems.

The diversions point remains. Self-distraction means I'm less prepared than I might be. What is the true nature of this? Is it indolence, disability or a lack of discipline? I certainly am less efficient than I might be, yet productive still. It is strange. It is for this reason I feel driven both by mystery and unsanity (un-not-in-)

59 Today I will be attentive to others.
1. The Step asked that I listen for K in others. That I've done for a long time. It also says to listen with my "whole body" – "whole being".
2. This gives an approach to people that is broader than what I've used in the past. It is the stillness exercise applied to people.
3. I shall use this or I won't be able to be an intermediary for Knowledge.

60. Today I will listen to the world.
1. This exercise asks me to listen to the world. The technique is advanced beyond my own listening as trying to be a planner, futurist, problem – solver and designer. Listening is to be a constant exercise. I have listened for many years, I’ve heard problems; Problems I took responsibility for, but could not solve.

2. In this exercise, where I was directed to touch the earth with my feet – I did that in the SNP and got a different, more positive message than I had in the past. This helped significantly, as the whole GCS approach has benefited me.

3. This I need to continue to do. It balances the overwhelm I've always gotten.

61 – Today I will be discreet.
1. The Step asked me to not talk to others about GCS as a matter of discretion. This has not been a problem, since no one has noticed any impact or asked about my "cards".
2. The reminder to be discreet is useful. I may not have been discrete in the past. The notion of the need for timing in giving ideas to others is not new, but Knowing when – that is the issue/DISCRETION/

3. – I need to use discretion. What have I been using? It asks rhetorically about saving things "…for the right person, the right moment and the right time. Who has such patience?" It is the issue of body serving mind and mind serving spirit. Unless I keep my body weak, I'd be carried away when it connects with spirit. If my body fully served my spirit, it couldn't sit still. It would be over-committed in a second. It would be hard to keep me in the house. I tear up the world, but that would probably not be productive because it would not be discreet.

In addressing UU – I will need to be discreet & focused. Spirit/RHG has to help me dumb down these proposals or make them more economical.

4:45 p.m. I'm so confused, but must press on.

62 – "The Greater Community is in the world. I must be attentive".
1. This asks, for the first time, to consider the presence of the GC. I did with surprising results.
2. This gave me a new perspective.
3. This is the perspective I must continue to use. My mind and body as receptive instruments.

63 – Review. 4 pillars
Relationships – Y – Cindy – Yes –
Career & Providership –Y – Authority (you Know)
Health –Y – Tai Chi /energy is manageable
Spirituality – Y – "All-at-once" feeling cannot/need not be communicated. Look to build a path – consider your own.

This week’s review I went in detail for the journal. There is more to process it seems. There are no more note cards for CT training. Writing out your introspection takes time, but it allows you to go deeper and return to those thoughts. Continuation training can be cycled through as many times as needed. You might want to consider more entries in your journal or however you are recording your process. 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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