Greetings All –
THIS IS A STATEMENT OF TRUTH regarding the evolution
of your world. It gives meaning and direction to your understanding of your
participation and your contribution in the world. It is not meant to frighten
you or to create uncertainty or anxiety because with Knowledge uncertainty and
anxiety are not essential. With Knowledge there is no uncertainty, for the
quietness of Knowledge is your certainty, the voice of Knowledge is your
certainty and the movement of Knowledge is your certainty. All of your mental
and physical abilities and faculties can serve to express this in whatever
avenue you are destined to serve.
THE STATEMENT THAT THE WORLD IS EMERGING into the
Greater Community of Worlds is an affirmation of your purpose because your perception,
your understanding and your appreciation of the world must grow. Your understanding of the world’s difficulties and opportunities must grow. You
cannot hold a small vision of the world and possibly understand the meaning of
your own Knowledge. You must think in a larger context. You must not think only
of yourself—your wants and your fears—because you are part of a greater life which
you have come to serve. The world that you are serving now and will learn to
serve in the future is emerging into the Greater Community of Worlds.
REPEAT THIS IDEA UPON THE HOUR and think of it as
you view the world around you. In your deeper practices, engage your mind
actively in attempting to understand today’s lesson. Today’s practice is not focused
upon stillness but on comprehension. Here the mind is used meaningfully, for
the mind should either be used meaningfully or not at all. Allow yourself to
consider all of your ideas about today’s lesson. Concern yourself with
understanding your objections, your beliefs, your fears and your preferences. When
these have been recognized, you will be in a position to know. Knowledge will
be stimulated by today’s lesson, for today’s lesson is to stimulate Knowledge.
PRACTICE 256: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
This is another Step that can stretch you from
where you are in the world to another perspective. It says: “How can the errors of the world dissuade you when
they should encourage you?”
Visualizing error is not difficult. There are many
pictures to pick from. Here’s one. We don't know how many people were involved in this error. I got the picture in an email years ago, so can't give credit.
Errors of the world, that is, what is wrong now or
could go wrong, risks in the world are set out here for 2014.
Seeing all of this, dissuades many, but: “Correctly seen, they will only prompt you to give
yourself more fully to your preparation now.” For each of these risks, there are thousands of people and organizations
trying to correct them. Most of the help to individual households after the 2005
Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans has been done by volunteers
and it goes on to this day.
The Step says: “Let
the errors of the world prompt you and inspire you towards Knowledge, for this
is part of the gift of the world to you. The other part of the gift of the
world is to be the arena where you allow Knowledge to contribute itself through
you. Here the world is blessed and you are blessed.”
What will be the arena where you allow Knowledge to
contribute itself through you? This something to listen for as you move through
the Steps, though it may not be a career. It may take a very long time, but along the way you’ll have to pay
your bills and for most of us that means having employment. This is dealt with in LTWK.
From the Journal:
5:25
a.m. March 28, 2000
Too successful
– that is the problem?
I've
just not taken care of myself – bottom line.
If
there was a company that I could work for – it would be ESRI. The door is open at
Marsh – head for that too.
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On
what basis are local governments connected? I don't know?
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Regions
Work – What's a region? Everyone uses Virginia's regions – whether they know it
or not. The PD geography is mostly invisible, but highly useful.
This
gives VA a strategic advantage.
The Care
and Feeding of Local Governmental Regions
My
work is more obscure than translating Greek and Latin – other old language texts
– I'm translating future knowledge.
Data
by regions – MSA a system does not give complete coverage of the U.S. Rural
areas are left out of the analytical picture – the state regions can work for
small businesses within those regions.
Regions
are networks – they need to be cultivated from above – and self-cultivated from
below.
I am
hurting, the grass is greening
I am
alone, the birds sing
I am
confused, the wind blows
I am
sad, the sun shines,
I
see the future, the water flows
I
need my friends, where are my friends?
→ Transportation,
all future transactions will be a function of geographic region.
→ I've devoted
enough of my life to this region. I know how it can work. I've tested my
theories, now I need to carry the message to business.
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→ This transition
is not smooth or easy, but I have built up time reserves and friends – perhaps
→ Regional Visionary
9:50
p.m. how goes this day? Am I overly influenced by S2K? Do I even fit on this
planet? I have a high tolerance for ambiguity – and is that good? Things are
very confused. I'm sticking to my mission. "The errors of this world will
not dissuade me," is the Step. The current confusion causes me to more
fully give to the preparation.
This day I’m demonstrating my confusion, but as the
entry concludes, this: “causes me to more fully give to the preparation.” I continued
then; let us continue now.
NNC
P.S. At Step 256, 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.
