Greetings All –
I am surrounded by the Teachers of God. Step 22 (MP3)
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| I am surrounded by the Teachers of God. Step 22 |
YOU ARE INDEED SURROUNDED BY THE TEACHERS OF GOD,
who have undertaken a training in many ways similar to the one you are doing
now. Though given in many different forms, in different eras, in different
worlds, a very similar kind of training was given to them that was geared
wisely to their former state of mind and circumstances in life.
TODAY, IN TWO 15-MINUTE PRACTICE PERIODS, feel the
presence of the Teachers of God. You cannot yet see them with your eyes, and
you cannot yet hear them with your ears because these faculties of sense have
not been refined sufficiently yet, but you can feel their presence, for their
presence surrounds and protects you. In your practice, let not other thoughts interfere.
Do not give in to doubt or confusion, for you must prepare to have the reward
that you seek, and you must know that you are not alone in the world to have
the strength, the confidence and the resource of Wisdom necessary to achieve
that which you were sent here to achieve.
YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY THE TEACHERS OF GOD. They are
here to love, support and direct you.
PRACTICE 22: Two 15-minute practice periods.
Picture: American
Planning Association Conference hotel - Hilton Minneapolis lobby - April 26,
2009. Teachers of God are often represented by light. Of the two people seen in
the picture, one has a walker, indicating some health issue. These two
individuals could have a very large contingent of Teachers of God. We should be
so fortunate.
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.
