Greetings All –
REVIEW…will begin to give you a perspective on your
development in this preparation. Step
28 - (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive –
Download folder or play from Drive – Step PDF also.]
WE SHALL BEGIN OUR FOURTH REVIEW PERIOD with a
special prayer.
ONCE AGAIN WE SHALL REVIEW THE PAST WEEK OF
PRACTICE, rereading all of the instructions and with each step reviewing what
has transpired in your times of practice. Be sure to ask yourself how deeply
you were involved in practice—how much you wanted to search and investigate,
how carefully you examined your own experience and to what extent you felt
motivated to penetrate whatever barriers that might exist.
OUR ONE 45-MINUTE PRACTICE PERIOD OF REVIEW will
begin to give you a perspective on your development in this preparation. This
is beneficial not only for yourself but for those whom you will serve in the
future, for as you are receiving now, you will wish to give in whatever context
and in whatever form is appropriate for you. You must understand how people
learn and how people develop. This must come from your own experience and must
represent the love and compassion that are the natural emanations of your
Knowledge. Again do not let any doubt or confusion dissuade you from your true
application.
PRACTICE 28: One 45-minute practice period.
Yes,
this is the fourth review. Not even a full month. Good that you stuck with it.
There are always urgent, but ultimately less important ways to spend your time.
A goal here really is to save time. How that is the case will be seen in the
Steps ahead.
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link
to the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge - Working file
If this is your first time seeing one of the “Steps to Knowledge”,
then welcome. There are 365 Steps, daily spiritual practices if one seeks to
complete them in a year, but that is not necessary. They can be used by people
of any religious tradition or no religious tradition. They will help one to
become mindful in the world.
The Step today is from the book: Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing. The practices were
brought to the world through Marshall Vian Summers, The Messenger for The New
Message From God. Important background for the Steps is in: “Greater Community Spirituality” and the “Wisdom Books - I and II”.
Hard copies are available from the New Knowledge Library Store. The
Society for the New Message from God also has a Free Book Project. If you need
the books now, PDF files can be found here: http://goo.gl/RJuuGP
Keeping a journal is recommended. If you have a Steps book,
write your reactions and comments, highlight or underline points that strike
you, and date the note. In this way, your Steps book can be a partial journal.
Using the PDF, you can print out pages as you need them, or use
the software to maintain a digital copy where you can enter notes and highlight
text that stands out.
Other modern methods of keeping a journal include having a
document on your PC or phone to keep notes. You could send yourself an email or
use the voice recorder function. It is important to capture insights and
reactions because it is by this means that you can understand change. Sometimes
it may just be a word or short phrase, an image or a scene.
To end this post I again offer the blessing: "May the
presence of the Teachers be with you." In the invocative language of
Knowledge this blessing is: "Nasi Novare Coram" (pronounced NAH-see
no-VAHR-ay co-RAHM)
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
NNC
P.S. 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 linked below 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.
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 anyone 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.
