Greetings All –
Step 168 - Review (MP3)
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REVIEW THE WEEK
THAT HAS PASSED. Review each lesson as it was given and each practice that you
experienced. Review the entire week so that you may fortify the learning that
you are now undertaking. Remember that you are learning to learn. Remember that
you are a beginning student of Knowledge. Remember that your evaluation, if it
is not born of Knowledge, will not be helpful. Without this evaluation, it will
be apparent how to strengthen your involvement, how to strengthen your
preparation and how to make adjustments in your outer life to support you in
your endeavor. This can be done without self-condemnation. It can be done
because it is necessary, and you are able to respond to that which is necessary
without punishing yourself or the world. This preparation is necessary, for it
represents your will.
IN
YOUR LONG PRACTICE PERIOD TODAY, review the week with sincerity and depth. Give
this your full attention so that you may receive the gifts that you are now
preparing to receive.
PRACTICE
168: One long practice period.
From
the journal:
6:22 a.m. Friday, December 31, 1999 – the edge is
near. We shall move over this demarcation line – a relative point that allows
humanity to reflect on its recent history. Great movement is taking place –
even an interest in less habitat destruction. I withdraw and reflect. The eve
will be spent with those at the Chapel.
What does your soul require? A focus in the work
environment – on building regional relationships – relationships.
Step 167 “With Knowledge I am free in the world.”
- “As for me – I will serve Knowledge.”
6 p.m. Taking time for myself – Y2K is of little consequence at this moment. All
celebrations in major capitals at the time zones passages are doing fine. Fear
of Y2K has united the world on this day and people are showing they are better
than technology.
People with a long term perspective are prone to
fear/doom/negative scenarios. The prophecy is avoided by action. Every true
prophet wants to be wrong.
I’m updating my to-do lists.
6:47 p.m. Great change lies ahead, building the
relationships to navigate them. Instead of the rapids of change – it has become a tidal wave – a wave that never
breaks, it only gains momentum – Alvin Toffler –
wave king.
This is the famously expected New Year’s Eve at the end of 1999. We all
made it through. To be free in the world, that is a great life vision. In 1987,
I read Robert Theobald's "Rapids of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in
Turbulent Times," for which a review link is provided. It was an
influential book, raising concerns which, have yet to be solved. Also linked is
the reference to Alvin Toffler, whose 1970 book Future Shock, got me
interested in planning.
NNC
Journal second time x2 Step 167. 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 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.
