Greetings All –
Step 102 - There is much
I must unlearn. (MP3)
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| "There is much I must unlearn." Step-102 |
YOUR
LIFE IS FULL OF YOUR OWN NECESSITIES AND IDEAS, full of your own requirements
and ambitions, full of your own fears and full of your own complications. Thus,
your vehicle for giving is burdened and cluttered, and your energy is largely
misappropriated. That is why it is God’s first step to unburden you. Until this
happens you will simply attempt to resolve your situation without knowing what
to do, without understanding your predicament and without accepting the
assistance that you will surely need in time. Therefore, accept your
unlearning, for it will unburden you and give you reassurance that a greater
life is possible and inevitable for you who have come here to give.
UPON
THE HOUR REPEAT THIS STATEMENT and consider it. View its reality in terms of
your perception of the world. In your two longer practice periods, once again
practice mental stillness in silence, where nothing is attempted and where
nothing is avoided. You are only engaging your mind to be still so that it may
learn to respond upon its own to that which calls to it. With each step you
make in your unlearning, Knowledge will fill in that which had replaced it.
This is instantaneous, for you are only moving yourself into a position to
receive so that your giving may be generous, genuine and fulfilling to you.
PRACTICE
102: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Hourly practice.
This may be a challenge for any educated person, that is, to consider
that something nominally known/learned, has to be unlearned. That some of what
one may have been taught needs to be removed, thrown out, put in the trash,
flushed down the toilet – unlearned, may be shocking and thus hard to
recognize. I was 53 at the time of this Step and had learned much and had some
success, but still – something about my life wasn’t working. What might that
have to do with my challenges and feelings, many of which you have witnessed in
the entries and I’m re-living as a read these ancient texts – all of 14 years,
but still, a long time ago, and yet, yesterday. My mind might have been tied up
in knots, but since I owned the knots, they weren’t visible. Unlearning is
untying mental knots which have held things together, but not in a satisfying
way. Stick with the Steps. This stairway to heaven actually enables movement in
that direction. When one might arrive, well that is a question for the beyond.
From
the journal: Step
101 - The world needs me, but I will wait.
8:42 A.M. Wednesday, October 27, 1999
Questions:
“There is much that I must unlearn.” – S2K – That
was part of ACIM. I
remain open to my strange life, or is it my life within the strange?
10:51 p.m. – Where am I? Sarah is out of the
Detention Center. I spoke
to her at noon. …
Not much written this day. In the book, some green ink.
For me, I've interpreted the work I'd done for 25 years at this point
with my work in the world. Is that the case? It will be an exploration for me,
relative to my life, and for any other Steps student. Whether or not one does
Steps, this is an existential question that perhaps a majority of people at one
time or another in their lives ask about their own lives. To have the question
arise within oneself is perhaps the stirring of Knowledge in the soul.
NNC
Journal
second time x2 Step 101. 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.
