Greetings All –
I am loved, surrounded
and supported by the Teachers of God. Step 23 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your
Drive – Download folder or play from Drive – Step PDF also.]
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| I am loved, surrounded and supported by the Teachers of God. Step 23 |
THE TRUTH OF THIS WILL BECOME SELF-EVIDENT as you
prepare, but for now it may require great faith. This idea may challenge
existing ideas or beliefs, but it is true nonetheless. God’s Plan is invisible
and recognized by very few because very few have the openness of mind and the
quality of attention that will allow them to see what is obviously occurring
around them, which at this point is not obvious to them at all. Your Teachers
love you, surround you and support you, for you are emerging into Knowledge.
This calls them to your side. You are one of the few who has the promise and
the opportunity to emerge from the sleep of your own imagination into the grace
of Reality.
THEREFORE, IN YOUR TWO PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, feel
this love, support and direction. It is a feeling. It is not ideas. It is a
feeling. It is something you must feel. Love is something you must feel to
know. You are indeed loved, surrounded and supported by your Teachers, and you
are very worthy of their great gift to you.
PRACTICE 23: Two 15-minute practice periods.
Picture: Dickey
Ridge Trail, Shenandoah National Park - May 5, 2014 This is spring, so the
leaves are young – light green. For me, being in nature is where I most
experience the presence of the Teachers of God.
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link to
the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge - Working file
If this is your first time seeing one of the “Steps to Knowledge”,
then welcome. There are 365 Steps, daily spiritual practices if one seeks to
complete them in a year, but that is not necessary. They can be used by people
of any religious tradition or no religious tradition. They will help one to
become mindful in the world.
The Step today is from the book: Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing. The practices were
brought to the world through Marshall Vian Summers, The Messenger for The New
Message From God. Important background for the Steps is in: “Greater Community Spirituality” and the “Wisdom Books - I and II”.
Hard copies are available from the New Knowledge Library Store. The
Society for the New Message from God also has a Free Book Project. If you need
the books now, PDF files can be found here: http://goo.gl/RJuuGP
Keeping a journal is recommended. If you have a Steps book,
write your reactions and comments, highlight or underline points that strike
you, and date the note. In this way, your Steps book can be a partial journal.
Using the PDF, you can print out pages as you need them, or use
the software to maintain a digital copy where you can enter notes and highlight
text that stands out.
Other modern methods of keeping a journal include having a
document on your PC or phone to keep notes. You could send yourself an email or
use the voice recorder function. It is important to capture insights and
reactions because it is by this means that you can understand change. Sometimes
it may just be a word or short phrase, an image or a scene.
To end this post I again offer the blessing: "May the
presence of the Teachers be with you." In the invocative language of
Knowledge this blessing is: "Nasi Novare Coram" (pronounced NAH-see
no-VAHR-ay co-RAHM)
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
NNC
P.S. 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 linked below 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.
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 anyone 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.
