Greetings All –
Step 105 - Review ~ Allow confusion and uncertainty to exist, for this
is necessary in this stage of investigation. (MP3)
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IN YOUR REVIEW, FOLLOW THE PAST EXAMPLES and review
the week of instructions and the week of practices. Give special consideration
today to the ideas that we have presented. Understand that these ideas must be entertained
and experienced through many stages of development. Their meaning is too deep
and too great to be entirely obvious to you now, yet they will serve as a
reminder that Knowledge is with you and that you have come to give Knowledge in
the world.
OUR TEACHING WILL THUS SIMPLIFY ALL THINGS, which
will resolve the conflicts that you carry now and which will make conflict in
the future unnecessary. For to the extent that you are with Knowledge, conflict
does not exist. An unconflicted life is the greatest contribution that can be
given into the world, for this is a life that will spark the beginning of Knowledge in all, a spark
that can carry itself into the future far beyond your individual life. It is
this great spark that you are intended to give into the world, for then your
giving will have no end and will serve your current generation and the generations
to come.
THE BLESSINGS THAT YOU ARE NOW EXPERIENCING TODAY
in your world are the result of these reverberations which are passed from generation
to generation as Knowledge is kept alive in the world. The opportunity for you
to have Knowledge is born of the giving of those who have lived before, as your
giving will provide the opportunity for freedom for those who will follow. This
is your greater purpose in life: to keep Knowledge alive in the world. But
first you must learn of Knowledge—learn how to recognize it, learn how to
accept it, learn how to discern it from the other impulses in your mind and
learn the many stages of development that will be required in following Knowledge
towards its great fulfillment. That is why you are a beginning student of
Knowledge.
IN YOUR ONE LONG PRACTICE, undertake your Review in
as much detail as possible. Allow confusion and uncertainty to exist, for this
is necessary in this stage of investigation. Be happy, then, for all the things
that can be truly recognized and know that Knowledge is with you, so you are
free to be uncertain.
PRACTICE 105: One long practice period.
From
the journal:
October
29, 1999
9:50
A.M. As we zoom into cyberspace, lets not forget the dirt/earth/physical
community where stuff happens.
10:08
A.M. Institutional Knowledge – the true patters which support sustainable life.
5:45
p.m. The way to save Knowledge over the generations is to put it in the genes.
My goal is to have the peace I have in the forest in my minute to minute life.
* I
operate from a priority soup. There are lots of things in there. Something
comes to the surface – I deal with it – then on to something else.
Almost nothing relating to the Step of this day,
but my dealings with the notion of Knowledge, limited as it is. The Steps book
comes through with green ink.
Let us continue.
NNC
Journal
second time x2 Step 104. 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.
