Greetings All –
Step 186 - I am born of
an Ancient Heritage. (MP3)
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| “I am born of an Ancient Heritage.” Step 186 |
YOU ARE BORN OF AN ANCIENT HERITAGE. This will arise
in your mind naturally, though it is beyond words and beyond description. In
essence it is a pure experience of life and inclusion. What is remembered in
this experience are those relationships that you have cultivated thus far in
your evolution up until this time. Only the reclamation of relationships can be
carried forward beyond your life in this world. The individuals that you have reclaimed
unto yourself as your Spiritual Family now exist as your Spiritual Family. They
form the growing body of Knowledge and inclusion in life which you are now
capable of experiencing.
YOU ARE HERE TO SERVE YOUR SPIRITUAL FAMILY, your
small learning group that have been working together through many ages and
circumstances in order to cultivate and advance their members so that your
group may join with other groups, and so forth. Like streams joining together
into greater and greater bodies of moving water, you follow your inevitable
course to the source of your life. This is the natural way, the genuine way,
the way that exists beyond all speculation and philosophy, beyond all the fears
and ambitions of humanity. This is the way of things—forever mysterious, beyond
your comprehension and yet fully available to serve you in the immediate
circumstances of your life. Such is the greatness of the mystery of your life,
and such is its application in even the smallest detail of your life. Thus,
your life here is complete.
YOU ARE BORN OF A GREAT HERITAGE. Thus, greatness
is with you because of your relationships. Receive this Heritage in stillness
in your two deep meditation practices today and acknowledge it upon the hour.
Allow this day to demonstrate both the reality and the denial of this great
truth, for as you see the world in its denial attempting to act out the
substitutes for Knowledge, you will learn to value Knowledge and to realize
that Knowledge is here already.
PRACTICE 186: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
There is quite a bit of information in this Step.
Depending upon your spiritual journey to this point, you may or may not have
entertained the idea of Spiritual Families. Now you will.
As for the picture, what is “Ancient”? This picture
is from 2004 where I was at the dedication of a school that had been converted
to a county office building. What struck me about this cornerstone was the date:
A.L. 5934. The A.D. dates commemorated the school’s building dates; 1934 the
original and 1958 rebuilding. My initial thought was that the A.L. date had
something to do with the computed date for the beginning of creation based on the
history in the Old Testament. That turned out to be true. AL is the abbreviation
of the Latin words anno Lucis, meaning "in the year of light." The
link gives rest of the story. What is ancient? For teenagers it applies to
anyone over age 30.
From the Journal:
6:15
a.m. Tuesday, January 18, 2001 – onward and upward. Complex religions gloss
over/hideth reality of contract
8:15
a.m. How does humanity focus on the greater survival scenario of holding its
place in space?
How
do I get my foundation balanced?
8:30
a.m. I have come to the world for a reason – a purpose. I’m OK with that. The
GCWK ideas of spiritual development make sense, but the bigger threat of alien
domination is an idea too big for me. There are those in this area already…it
is a global problem. I was in stillness nearly an extra hour. Earth is no vacation
for sure if this be true, and signs point to yes.
Today
we are continuing to do ecological damage and destruction, plus adding genetic
experimentation. Doesn’t seem too wise. A unity model is needed.
12:35
p.m. At lunch - … I need lots of help to get caught up. I need to be better at
helping myself.
Not much in the journal today, other than dealing
with the intervention, which I note: “is an idea too big for me.” In the Steps
book, a few underlines and, on the second page, an attempt to map the
relationships.
It is blue ink, second time through. This is simply
an encouragement for you to draw or otherwise try to illustrate relationships
for yourself.
NNC
Journal second time x2 Step 185. 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.
