Greetings All –
Step 224 - Review ~ Today
practice objectivity … (MP3)
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TODAY PRACTICE OBJECTIVITY BY REVIEWING the last two
weeks of practice. Once again, read each lesson for the day and recall your
practice for that day. Begin with the first practice of the two-week period,
and then follow each day step by step. Strengthen your ability to observe your
progress objectively. See what happens on days when you are strong with
practice and on days when you are weak. Imagine for a moment as you do this
that you are looking through the eyes of your Teachers who are watching your
life from far above. They are without condemnation. They are merely taking note
of your strengths and weaknesses, strengthening the former and minimizing the
effects of the latter. As you learn to view your life objectively, you will
learn to see your life through the eyes of your Teachers. This is looking with
Knowledge. This is looking without judgment. Given this, the mind becomes a
vehicle for Knowledge, and Knowledge will bestow upon you all the ideas and the
activities that are truly beneficial for you.
ALLOW YOUR REVIEW PRACTICE PERIOD TODAY to be
engaged on your own behalf. Utilize your mind purposefully and do not allow it to
wander. Break the habit of thinking mindlessly. Break the habit of preoccupying
yourself with foolish and meaningless things. Allow your Review today to
demonstrate to you that you are a true student of Knowledge.
PRACTICE 224: One long practice period.
This was a busy day – the Steps page reflects this
as does the journal entries. Here’s the Steps page graphic – green ink first
time S2K; blue ink second time.
The Step says: “Give
yourself to receiving Knowledge.” A u-shaped receptacle, maybe an open mind, receives Knowledge as an
arrow. Year two of Steps, “World of fear, money, conflicts, survival, power”
added with a semi-circle for the world. “Blesses,” is what Knowledge does.
Here’s the full page.
From the Journal – a few deep and bumpy parts:
12:34
a.m. Thursday, February 24, 2000 – Up late again – eating, eating, eating.
Wednesday went well. Sarah called to say she would be going home today.
-It
was a great synchronicity that put me at home just when she called. Not the
first incidence by any means.
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12:55
a.m. Step 223 "I will receive knowledge this day."
I
wondered Wednesday morning if S2K was a mind control program? An alien/spirit
group which may or may not serve the Creator. At Step 223 there has been
benefit and focus for me. Others in the world seem to get it more easily – I
hear knowledge and see it in action, so it seems to be self-proving – though I
shall always look for verification. I don't understand the world, myself and
I'm open to true teachers.
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PDC – engage in strategic coordination
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Counties count – Census
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Commuting turns counties inside out – making them partial bedrooms in all cases
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This creation – physicality – the ultimate “What if?”
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The thought of what if there was a physicality and in that phys - there was
consciousness
8:15
a.m. I will receive Knowledge this day. I've been in touch every day of this life
– to some degree, though not aware. The promise in S2K is that this connection
will guide one to his/her work – the doing which is meant to be done. It is
grace, but not fulfillment.
→ I see lots and
lots of connections in the region among issues and programs.
10:20
p.m. Practice #2 “I will receive Knowledge this day.” 10 minutes left on
practice #2. During the 1st part my third eye area felt contact. The day has
certainly been devoted to the necessary things
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Is S2K a mind control program? It didn’t hurt to
ask obviously, since I’ve stayed with the Steps 15 years as of today. That was
followed by: “I hear knowledge and see it in action, so it seems
to be self-proving – though I shall always look for verification. I don't
understand the world, myself and I'm open to true teachers.” It is the
experience which confirms/proves the relationships that Steps teaches. That is
Knowing. Questions are okay, but answers can be a long time coming. Let us
continue.
NNC
Journal second time x2
Step 223. 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.
