Step 90 - Today I will make no assumptions. (MP3) Entry for Step 89 - My emotions cannot dissuade my Knowledge.

Greetings All –

Step 90 - Today I will make no assumptions. (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive – Step PDF also.]

"Today I will make no assumptions." Step 90

MAKE NO ASSUMPTIONS TODAY as you devote one more day to the reclamation of Knowledge. Make no assumptions about your progress in learning. Make no assumptions about your world. Practice this day having an open mind that bears witness to events and that seeks to learn. Enjoy the freedom that comes without assumptions, for mystery will be a source of grace for you rather than a source of fear and anxiety as you learn to receive it.

IN YOUR HOURLY PRACTICE and in your two longer meditation practices today, where you practice stillness and receptivity, you can experience the value and the power of these words. Make no assumptions this day. Remind yourself of this all through the day, for making assumptions is merely a habit and when the habit is released, the mind may exercise its natural function without its former restraints.

PRACTICE 90: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

Yesterday:  Step 89 - My emotions cannot dissuade my Knowledge.

From the journal:

12:30 A.M. Thursday October 14 - Why up so late?
I don't know? I want to get the Knowledge link permanently. It will take movement (time)

Step 89 - My emotions cannot dissuade my Knowledge.

...

11:21 p.m. I want Knowledge. I want my spiritual family.

This had been a rough day, so my need level is high. In the Steps book, the note in green is " - Stillness Good."

Blue ink is the second time though. A difficult time, but thanks to Steps practice I was able to adapt and survive. I hope you aren't in such a position, but if so - it is good that you are doing Steps.

 NNC

 

Journal second time x2 Step 89.  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.

Step 89 - My emotions cannot dissuade my Knowledge. (MP3) Entry for Step 88 - My Higher Self is not an individual.

Greetings All –

Step 89 - My emotions cannot dissuade my Knowledge. (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive – Step PDF also.]

"My emotions cannot dissuade my Knowledge." Step 89

EMOTIONS DRAW YOU LIKE THE STRONG WINDS. They pull you from place to place. Perhaps in time you will be able to understand their mechanism more thoroughly. Our practice today is to emphasize that they do not control Knowledge. Knowledge does not need to destroy your emotions. It only wishes to contribute to them. In time, you will come to understand a great deal more about your emotions, and you will realize that your emotions may serve a greater purpose, as may your mind and your body. All things that have been a source of pain, discomfort and disassociation, when brought into service to one power — which is the One Power — will then become vehicles of expression serving a greater purpose. Even anger serves a greater purpose here, for it shows you that you have violated Knowledge. Though your anger may not be directed towards another, it is simply a sign that something has gone wrong and that correction has to be made. You will understand the source of grief, and you will understand the source of all emotions in time.

PRACTICE UPON THE HOUR and at the beginning of your two longer meditation periods, repeat today’s idea and then enter into stillness. Today learn to value that which is certain and to understand that which is uncertain, to recognize that which is cause and that which obstructs cause but which may in time serve cause itself.

PRACTICE 89: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

Note: "Even anger serves a greater purpose here, for it shows you that you have violated Knowledge. Though your anger may not be directed towards another, it is simply a sign that something has gone wrong and that correction has to be made."

Yesterday: Step 88 - My Higher Self is not an individual.

From the journal:

7:55 A.M. Wednesday, October 13, 1999 - ...

The S2K is what I need _ since I'm "indolent" too lazy to care about my own life.

8:18 A.M. ...

People would benefit by seeing that they are operating in a geography greater than the political boundaries of their "place of residence."

Choose life - choose our region - you are one with life - but in the physical you can only be in one place. That has mostly been perceived as local based on governance/control/boundaries.

8:40 A.M. Step 88 - My higher self is not an individual. It is good to know I'm not totally alone. I remain in body and seek to do my best.

9 p.m. ... Now - 30 min -

→able to do 23 min. - the point - to be still & receptive - 

My work was important to me as was Steps. Both get covered in the journal. You might do the same.

NNC

Journal second time x2 Step 88.  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.

Step 88 - My Higher Self is not an individual. (MP3) Entry for Step 87 - I will not be afraid of what I know.

Greetings All –

Step 88 - My Higher Self is not an individual. (MP3)  [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive – Step PDF also.]

"My Higher Self is not an individual." Step 88

THERE IS OFTEN CONFUSION CONCERNING YOUR HIGHER SELF and your Spiritual Teachers. This is very hard to resolve from the point of view of separation. But when you think of life as an inclusive network of evolving relationships, you then begin to experience and recognize that your Higher Self is indeed part of a greater fabric of relationship. It is the part of you that is not separate but is meaningfully bonded with others. Therefore, your Higher Self is bonded to the Higher Self of your Teachers. They are without duality now, for they have no other self. You have two selves: the Self that has been created and the self that you have created. To bring the self that you have created into service to your True Self joins them together into a meaningful marriage of purpose and service and ends internal conflict forever.

TODAY UPON THE HOUR REPEAT YOUR AFFIRMATION and feel its impact. In your two longer practice periods, use your affirmation as an introduction to your practice in stillness and receptivity.

PRACTICE 88: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

Note: "You have two selves: the Self that has been created and the self that you have created. To bring the self that you have created into service to your True Self joins them together into a meaningful marriage of purpose and service and ends internal conflict forever."

Yesterday: Step 87 - I will not be afraid of what I know.

From the journal:

7:17 AM Tuesday, October 12 - 1999 -

...

S2K 87 I will not be afraid of what I know! I have experienced the stillness and will return to it. I know the trick is to choose life. I Know this existence is temporary and imperfect. I could be a character in a story, but I want to be a whole being who is a contributing soul of a living family.

I do not want conflict on trauma. Things I know when presented to others causes conflict in them because of their world view.

Virginia is a unique place to learn what I'm learning. 

→ Living well - Regionally 

______________________________________

> This is what I Know -

...

10:56 A.M. At work - region is a concept - local is a twin concept, but preferred. - Make every region local.

11:30 A.M. Why have I been so afraid all of my life? It is a mystery to me. It is not a neurosis of abuse - I've kept safe. I've been the Ninja - so - what I know can help actualize the beautiful planet. I'm realistic/fearful (?) about my relations - as set out by my trio of watch dogs - ... I invest in capacity.

By networking we expand intelligence. Vision - manifestation - movement required. If we cooperate in a way that tests and builds strength - then the quality of manifestation will increase.

This I know. How do I communicate that better in actions?

9 p.m. I will not be afraid of what I know. I look at all that is and know it is temporary. Here on the edge that I see easily with my mind's eye. I can walk in the woods and know, yet there is a bigger place - a wider view --- I'm just one - no fear, know knowledge.

A challenging Step. There were many notes in 1999, connecting the idea to my work. Today, quite a bit of writing as well. Please do a journal when you can.

NNC

Journal second time x2 Step 87.  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.

Step 87 - I will not be afraid of what I know. (MP3) Entry for Step 86 - I honor those who have given to me.

Greetings All –

Step 87 - I will not be afraid of what I know. (MP3)  [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive – Step PDF also.]

"I will not be afraid of what I know." Step 87

UPON THE HOUR TODAY PRACTICE REPEATING THIS STATEMENT and consider its meaning. Upon the hour you will learn to release fear from your life, for Knowledge will dispel all fear, and you will dispel fear to give Knowledge its right to express itself. Trust what you know. It is for the greatest good. You may bear great anger and distrust towards yourself, but this is not directed at Knowledge. This is directed at your personal mind, which cannot possibly understand your greater purpose. It cannot possibly answer your greatest questions or provide certainty, purpose, meaning and direction in your life. Forgive what is fallible. Honor what is infallible. And learn to tell the two apart.

IN YOUR TWO LONGER PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, practice letting go of fear so that you may know. Allowing your mind to be still and receptive without making demands will be a demonstration that you are trusting Knowledge. It will give you reprieve from the afflictions and the animosities of this world. With this, you will begin to see a different world.

PRACTICE 87: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

Note: "Forgive what is fallible. Honor what is infallible. And learn to tell the two apart."

Yesterday: Step 86 - I honor those who have given to me.

From the journal:

12:52 A.M. Monday, October 11, 1999 -

- Why am I in this flow of information? Why don't other see what I see so clearly? Why is my sight, thought, feeling being enhanced by every small and large encounter?

I spent 4 hours with ... a VA Tech economist - explaining regions in VA - regions work. I have no idea how much he got. We'll see. As S2K points out - the anger is at the failure of so much of creation to meet their potential. People are wasted constantly. In spite of that we have incredible wealth. ...

8:03 A.M. I honor those who have given to me. It is a long list. This is the first 30 minute session. In this life of the of the known, I honor first Helen Josephine Johnson and Everette Thomas Christoffel, my parents. They have given since before my birth and continue to give. We were a trio from the start. (I go on for a few pages naming 41 people - family members, teachers, friends from Two Rivers, Wisconsin)

The world was not created for me, but it gave - and I was protected - but not without pain. There were generations of wisdom doing their best.

That is where I come from - and I honor that. Thirty two years later I'm in Front Royal - trying to grow and apply - remember what I learned there.
...
11 p.m. I honor those that have given to me - session II. In a.m. - only made it through H.S. I've 35 more years to go –

I had done other gratitude exercises in the past, having resolved many personal issues, it was easy to reel off names. The Step does not say to write out what you think in this lesson, but, because I had journaled, this just made sense. For the second session, no list.

There is no wrong way to begin this Step. You can always add people later when you think of them. No problem. It is your list. There can be pain and anger in this, of which we are warned, so don't be surprised or angry at yourself for true emotions. Keep at it. More fun ahead.

NNC

Journal 2^nd time x2 Step 86.  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.