Beyond
my mind is Knowledge. Step 16 (MP3)
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| Beyond my mind is Knowledge. Step 16 |
BEYOND
YOUR MIND IS KNOWLEDGE, the true core of your being, your True Self, not the
self that you have constructed to negotiate the world, but your True Self. From
this True Self come thoughts and impressions, inclinations and direction. Most
of what your True Self communicates to you - you cannot yet hear, but in time
you will learn to hear as your mind becomes still and as you develop the
necessary refinement of listening and discernment.
TODAY
PRACTICE IN THREE PERIODS OF 15 MINUTES EACH. Listen more carefully than the
day before. Listen for deeper inclinations. Again you must listen without
judgment. You must not edit anything. You must listen deeply so that you may
learn to hear.
PRACTICE
16: Three 15-minute practice periods.
Picture: Skyline
Drive, Shenandoah National Park – March 23, 2015
Forty-five minutes is a long
time to listen, if you've not done it before. There is important direction in
this Step: "You are listening for something deeper than the mind, but you
must go through the mind to get there." We who undertake this practice are
all headed in this direction.
From the Journal:
No notes on this exercise, but it was done at the A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This is where Edgar Cayce did his work and "...founded the non-profit Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) in 1931, to explore spirituality, holistic health, intuition, dream interpretation, psychic development, reincarnation, and ancient mysteries—all subjects that frequently came up in the more than 14,000 documented psychic readings given by Cayce."
From the Journal:
No notes on this exercise, but it was done at the A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This is where Edgar Cayce did his work and "...founded the non-profit Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) in 1931, to explore spirituality, holistic health, intuition, dream interpretation, psychic development, reincarnation, and ancient mysteries—all subjects that frequently came up in the more than 14,000 documented psychic readings given by Cayce."
Main A.R.E. building and
library.
View from the meditation room.
Labyrinth walk in courtyard of
original building.
Always an interesting place. They should consider Steps to Knowledge.
At “From The Mystery” I am blogging the second time
through Steps. Yesterday I shared a technique I'd used to help me in
remembering the Step of the day in the world of work as follows:
I may not
have mentioned this before, but I am a fan of using 3 x 5 inch index cards as
study aids and to capture ideas. This journey through Steps I began two sets,
one for Steps review, which was the topic yesterday:
The
second set is something that was done each day – writing on a card the Step of
the day. When doing hourlies, I’d just take the card out of my shirt pocket –
and have the sentence.
I used
both sides of the card. It is a bit old-fashioned in the age of smart phones,
but it would still work in many cases. A few extra blank cards can be carried
for those flashes of insight that you’ll want to have captured and later put in your journal.
Let us
continue.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 15.
This is for those who have completed
Steps once. Doing Steps with only the texts, messages and your life experience,
including what you may have studied and practiced is your journey. I’m showing
my first year Step comments after the Step, so as not to influence you in
advance. It is a wilderness trek to be left to your own wits, but then you can
also listen more closely for guides, angels and teachers, always first saying:
“I surround and protect myself with the Love and the Grace of God.” Thankfully,
I was taught this practice in 1989.
P.S. If you’ve some interest due to this or other
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. You can
use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps. They will remain in
order in the archives - one post per Step.
Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps
once. For this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference
how fast you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. 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.
