Greetings All –
THE ONLY JUDGMENT THAT YOU CAN MAKE UPON THE WORLD
is that it is confused. This judgment does not require anger, sadness, loss,
resentment, hostility or revenge. It does not call for attack in any form. The
world is confused. Judge it not. How can the world be certain when the world is
without Knowledge? You may look upon your life thus far and realize the extent of your
own confusion. How could it be otherwise when you were without Knowledge? Knowledge
is with you now, as it was then. You are beginning to reclaim Knowledge so its
certainty can express itself through you increasingly. This is the great gift
that you are now learning to receive. It is a gift the world will learn to
receive through you.
EACH HOUR AS YOU LOOK UPON THE WORLD and all of its
activities, judge it not, for it is merely confused. If you are in distress today,
judge yourself not, for you are merely confused. In your deeper practice
periods today, allow yourself to enter stillness. You enter stillness simply by
wanting to enter stillness. It is a gift that you allow for yourself. To do
this, you give yourself to receiving the gift. Here there is no giver and
sender of the gift, for the gift reverberates between you and your Source.
Knowledge and its vehicle merely affirm one another.
THE WORLD IS CONFUSED. It is without Knowledge. But
you are a gift to the world, for you are learning to receive Knowledge this
day.
PRACTICE 222: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Confusion and getting out of confusion. Today’s
journal entry is not that long. A technique used nominally to get to one’s real
feelings is to write with your opposite hand. If right handed, write left
handed or vice versa. The right-brain/left brain idea was that the brain
hemispheres are manifested by the opposite side of the body. To be “right brain”
creative, use the left hand to let that out. “Left brain” functions were
nominally more logical and regimented, expressed in right-handed writing.
Brain science has gotten more sophisticated no doubt and I’ve not got time to get caught up, but in the journal this day is a list of "Solutions" produced in this manner, written with my left hand. The penmanship is very poor, but all the items are valid advice for me at the time. Is the source common sense, spirit or Knowledge? Perhaps some of each.
Brain science has gotten more sophisticated no doubt and I’ve not got time to get caught up, but in the journal this day is a list of "Solutions" produced in this manner, written with my left hand. The penmanship is very poor, but all the items are valid advice for me at the time. Is the source common sense, spirit or Knowledge? Perhaps some of each.
Style wise, journal entries are not in full
sentences; I use dashes and arrows and … often. I put to text what is in the
journal will few corrections – word spelling, spelling out abbreviations
sometimes, so it is very lightly edited. In today’s entry I did have an arrow
between the 8:17 time and the a.m.
From the Journal:
6:34
a.m. February 22, 2000 "I am free to be confused today."
8:17→ a.m. I've been meditating an hour – going past the
buzzer. I'm half here – waiting for Knowledge to come through. If I can clear
up the backlog, I can move on to the real work.
Regions
work – Faith w/o works is nothing. The challenge is making manifestation work.
Solutions
1.
Talk to M---
2.
Talk to Bev
3.
Talk to everyone - communication is the way.
4.
Focus using the system
5.
Be on time
6.
Keep with the Steps
7.
Listen to your heart
8.
More time in exercise
9.
Wait on the market
10.
Go to Wisconsin
11.
Enjoy the present
12.
Trust your intuition as you have.
13.
Reach into the stillness – it is always with you.
14.
Love your life
15. Be
about my work.
Amen & Amen
Do other spiritual practices acknowledge any value in being
confused and living with that confusion? I don’t think so, at least not directly. Students of Knowledge get a view of the world closer to what we experience, without blame or excuses. Step 222
will continue to work this mental territory.
NNC
P.S. At Step 222, we are into Part Two of Steps, so
if you’ve found this and find some appeal in this or other Steps, you should
really go to the beginning blog post. From here you learn about Steps to Knowledge and
can begin it on the day that makes sense and 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 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.