Greetings All –
Review … you will be investigating the content of
your own experience. Step 14 (MP3)
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ONCE AGAIN REVIEW ALL THE PRIOR LESSONS GIVEN. In
this Review reread the instructions that have been given in each step. Also
review all of your practice sessions to determine the depth of your involvement
in practice and the results that you have experienced. Throughout your study
plan, you will be investigating the content of your own experience. This will
build upon itself and eventually will reveal to you the realization of your own
Knowledge.
SPEND ONE PRACTICE PERIOD TODAY of approximately 45
minutes to review all of the instructions and to review the results and quality
of your practice. Tomorrow we shall begin the next stage of our preparation
together.
PRACTICE 14: One 45-minute practice period.
From
the journal:
7 A.M. July 8, 1999 - VA Beach. VAPDC
Rolled in at 1 A.M. - Sleep at 3 A.M.
Up now because this is when I get up. On the balcony - looking at the calm
Chesapeake Bay - and enjoying the cooler A.M. What shall I experience here?
Companionship with those seeking to promote cooperation.
...
S2K #13 - "I want to be separate
to be unique." This is presented as our true belief, not an affirmation.
Pure ACIM - I am to think about this for two 15 minute periods. I'm already
committed to unity and have experienced the Holy Instant of connectedness and
the PAO pulsation of the connected universe, the heartbeat of creation. Working
the surface reality remains tasking.
I've turned to GC as perhaps a source
of tools to help reveal the oneness to others. That our bodies, our families,
our cultures, our organizations, our states and nations are separate, contrary
and competitive is clearly the way of the world. My small part is quite
challenging - yet invisible- it is by faith that I proceed. The message of GC
is more tempered - realistic - like the guides were too complex in ACIM when it
was first introduced, so they've introduced a lite version. Communicating
earth's own unity to itself may be more challenging than they thought. Then
there are the photon folks - those that are going for DNA re-engineering or
awakening. That begins a major step Aug 11 and runs for 29 days.
I float out in the hinterlands of the Shenandoah
Valley at a mental crossroads and wait for truth to emerge. I am grounded in
the earth - and do my best within the environment I find. I choose life and I
serve Father/ Mother/God - the Christ consciousness in this vast co-creation.
GC provides tools thus far - heart food is what I seek. Amen & Amen T-om
As
one can see, I was full of energy on this day, seeking to integrate what I'd
studied and connect it to the Greater Community material. ACIM is "A
Course in Miracles," which I'm viewing here as too complex, only 13 days
into Steps.
PAO
means the Planetary Activation Organization, which is the work of Sheldan Nidle. He and Virginia Essene
published: "You Are Becoming a Galactic Human" in 1994 which I and
many of my friends had read.
The
mix of physical and spiritual messages was both interesting and confusing, as
the spiritual message was not the same in all cases. Different races had
different creation stories. At one point I read that the Sirians complained
that the problems with humans was that they'd listened to the Pleiadians too
much. This struck me as competition, drive a Ford instead of a Chevy or Toyota.
The
bleed-in of ET messages on spiritual channels caused me to look for older
channelings to see at what time they began to appear. Based on what I could
find in used book stores, ET voices didn't show up until the 1960's.
From
learning about alien abductions on Sightings, the Fox TV show, I got the sense
that humans were being treated as lab rats, but went with the general thought
that like there are good and bad humans, there would be good and bad ETs.
Meeting
Marshall Vian Summers in 1997 and hearing that all ET presence was an
intervention was hard to accept, though I was already suspicious of the
messages.
With
year 2000 rapidly approaching, there was much anxiety about the future - just
as we were hearing about in advance of 2012. The Y2K issue in computers was
real and, because the negative scenario of catastrophic failures caused
governments, companies and people to act - serious problems were avoided.
I've
provided much more history than you might have wanted, but if you were aware of
this New Age material 20-25 years ago, your experience might have been similar.
A
clear goal of Steps is that we develop discernment - a useful skill for all
adults in any situation. Hopefully my journal will demonstrate in retrospect,
some such advancement over the coming year.
NNC
Journal 2nd Time Step 13. 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.
