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| 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?
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
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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