Greetings All –
Step 37 - There is a Way
to Knowledge. (MP3)
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HOW CAN THERE NOT BE A WAY TO KNOWLEDGE when it is your True
Self? How can there not be a way for Knowledge to express itself when it is the
most natural form of expression? How can there not be a way for Knowledge to
guide you in relationships when Knowledge is the perfect source of all your
relationships? There is a way to Knowledge. It requires skill and desire. Both
will take time to develop.You must learn to value the true and not to value the
false, and it takes time to learn to separate the two and to recognize them. It
takes time to learn that the false does not satisfy you and that the true does
satisfy you. This must be learned through trial and error and through contrast.
As you approach Knowledge, your life becomes more full, more certain and more
direct. As you go away from it, you reenter confusion, frustration and anger.
IN YOUR TWO PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, which will not be
meditation practices, spend at least 15 minutes thinking of all the ways to
gain access to Knowledge. Write down on a piece of paper all the ways to get to
Knowledge. Spend both practice periods doing this and exhaust all the
possibilities that you can think of. Try to be very specific. Use your
imagination, but chart out routes that appear to be quite real and meaningful to
you. In this way, you will know what you think about how to find a way to
Knowledge, and from this you will realize that God knows the way to Knowledge.
PRACTICE 37: Two 15-minute
practice periods.
Time to use the journal.
Yesterday: Step
36 - My life is a mystery to explore.
From
the journal:
August 21, 1999...
Checking today's S2K - the 15 min meditations
focus on contacting the teachers (guides)
In ACIM one is to
access Holy Spirit; in S2K it is guides who have been this way and have
insight. In one of my earliest readings I was told I am with a group of four
who are in cooperative study with me.
To understand the the notion of Mystery in the Steps does
take some time. Be patient.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 36. 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.
