Greetings All –
Step 132 - Let me learn
to be free so that I may join. (MP3)
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Let me learn to be free so that I may join. Step 132
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YOUR INDEPENDENCE FROM THE PAST—your past judgments,
past associations, past pains, past wounds and past difficulties—gives you
independence in the present. This is not to solidify your separation or to make
it more complete, but instead to enable you to join meaningfully in
relationship. Let this be a tacit understanding: You can do nothing in the
world without relationship. You can accomplish nothing; you can advance in no
direction; you can realize no truth; you can contribute nothing of value
without relationship. So as your independence from the past grows, thus does your
promise for inclusion in the present and the future grow as well. For freedom
is meant to empower you to join.
REMEMBER THIS IDEA UPON THE HOUR and give it
consideration in light of all of your experiences today. In your two meditation
practices, allow the attraction of Knowledge to pull you deeper within
yourself. Allow yourself to have this experience of freedom.
PRACTICE 132: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Picture: Siegessäule
monument in Berlin, Germany, as seen from a tour bus. The statue on top is the Roman
goddess of victory – Victoria. It represents past Prussian victories of 1864
and 1873.
From
the journal:
8:30
a.m. Thursday, November 25, 1999 [Thanksgiving Day- U.S.A.]
I
am on the path home to God - exploring creation on the way, engaged with a
family of souls. Greater community must exist and its protocols must be
advanced for the physical manifestation. I am a piece - a soul within the whole
- but I envision this necessity above, since it is so below.
8:37
a.m. To express my Knowledge, to develop it and give it in the world - I need
more time.
→
Regions
as an organizing principle - a way of chunking territory.
8:52
a.m. As a young student, my goal was to save the world. I went into
communications/film to preach – don’t smoke, whatever. When I saw city slims in
Milwaukee and Chicago – the problems of oppressed minorities which I couldn’t
help one on one – I thought of engineering. After experiencing San Juan,
Lisbon, London, Naples, Athens, Malta and returning to Norfolk – VA Beach – I
started to look at community design. With the reading of “Future Shock” I
learned of planning and through the MUA [Master of Urban Affairs] program,
began learning about planning. Planning, it turned out, is not new – and
regional planning is where I ended up, learning here the real issue is
coordination.
We
all use all the planet all the time – but are unaware of how it supports us.
The first whole view of the planet did not appear until the 1970’s (?) when the
first stationary orbit satellite took a picture.
So
– my vision – my mission – perhaps my KNOWLEDGE – is this “facilitation of
localities” regionally in order to knit together the human community fabric
with the social tools to be one planet – a greater community for participation
in the greater community. GCW-I, p. 148 – says that the search for greater
purpose comes from personal failure – often. My unrealistic greater purpose as
a child – saving the world, waiting for my Christ mission at age 32. What came
instead was parenthood – and at age 34 – separation and single parenthood. This
failure led to a deeper search for God and my born again moment which showed me
I could accept Spirit and need not abandon intellect – which I thought I’d been
clinging to, (seeking a rational path to peace). All success – turned south to
failure – even the PDC –
I
now see people as pursuing their KNOWLEDGE in whatever they do.
I
did not want personal power and responsibility- I only wanted people to see
what I saw and cooperate. The world does not work the way my mind does – in
fact, I am a stranger here. My vision is a beautiful planet of dynamic peace
which does not condemn or avoid conflict, but uses it to advance. A
Greater Wisdom is needed – one I don’t feel I can attain. I envision it as
being a group wisdom – process based. So, the task is to facilitate evolution.
This requires energy, investment, risk and pain. All manifestation is risk
management. It is all temporary. We can discern relative quality –
Music
– sound – vibration – is a tool to save. Clusters of diversity – Phoenician
souls in travel. It would help if I was better at language. Immersion … my way
– and intuition – processing with a greater mind.
Six
billion people – how many spiritual families – 300 per? - 20 million – on
earth.
Earth
packing itself with souls so it can’t be dominated by and alien planet? Greater
community strategy?
This
may be the big screen picture. My heart energy goes to Sarah today. I send her
self-love and strength.
-
I’ll
run out of ink shortly. I sit… – having meditated on S2K “ Today I will seek
the experience of true purpose in life.”
11:17
a.m. Spontaneous communion – Bread and wine – in the kitchen of my light house.
607 Midland
In
the meditation which began about 10:30 a.m. I centered my chakras with my primary
white crystal. It was noisy. I hear traffic and Cindy about downstairs, then in
the bathroom beginning to shower. I stayed focused and proceeded, quickly to
stillness. I did not have the distractions of earlier meditations. I went/was
led to the center by the Christ consciousness, to LOVE and found myself in the
Holy Instant – remembering the other times I've been there –
Su-ne; Patience, the back porch – now – inside a house, and I did not want
to come back – in fact I felt I could leave earth and go home, but for my
purpose which is Love in the manifest – expressed as cooperation – the Christ
consciousness – “where two or more are gathered in my name, there am I also.”
The spirit of cooperation. The first yes of creation leading to my place in the
now, and my purpose.
I
did not leave for the children – I sent self love and strength to Sarah Marie
Christoffel and Lloyd R... – for in my earthly family – that is the point of
greatest need.
Here
in the slow world, as it looks – I will participate and do my small part as
this manifestation unfolds.
Amen
& Amen
T-om
Su-ne
Thomas
Joseph Christoffel
9:15
p.m. High in the a.m. Drifting down all day. Called Floyd R... to talk about
Sarah. Called David – his stomach is upset – I’ll send him some things.
11:15
p.m. Reading about Love in GCW-I whether or
not “regions work” is my contribution, I want it to be part – since it is a
vision of seeing the world in a way I’ve not found in others. P. 153 “God wills
for you to join with your spiritual family so that you may learn the law and
the reality of joining because this is the foundation for true love.” (I wish
to know more about law and the reality of joining)
→If
all of creation is/were organized – then there would be no need to worry about
events caused from elsewhere, nor, if one traveled, that there be any danger.
“God’s
will is a force of attraction that organizes.”
You
might feel you are learning way too much about me, my life, its problems and
“my journey.” It is “a journey,” one with which you may find some similarities
or parallels. The New Message and Steps tell us that failure is a path to
learning. So skip over what doesn't seem useful to you. It is certainly not an heroic
tale. Stick with your Steps and use your journal to clear out your mind.
NNC
Journal second time x2
Step 131. 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.
