Greetings
All –
This is
Steps to Knowledge. Posting a Step a day for the
calendar year began in 2012. This may be the year you begin or do it a second time, in
preparation for Continuation Training. If this is new to you, more information and
links follow after the Step text.
I am without Knowledge now. Step 1 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive – Step PDF also. Also included a short introduction by Brian McGee, the student speaker of these Steps.]
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| I am without Knowledge now. Step 1 |
THREE TIMES TODAY SPEND 10 MINUTES
thinking about what Knowledge is, not merely applying your own ideas, not
merely applying your past understanding, but thinking about what Knowledge
really is.
PRACTICE 1: Three 10-minute
practice periods.
Picture: Dickey Ridge Trail,
Shenandoah National Park, December 18, 2010 by TomC.
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I am
without Knowledge now. Step 1 x2 (second time) – Beginning Steps the second time with a little more
clarity.
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Picture: Dickey Ridge Trail,
Shenandoah National Park, September 16, 2013 by TomC.
Steps to Knowledge is based on the book: "Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing" This is a 365 step spiritual practice. It was 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 "Wisdom Book - I" and "Wisdom Book - II”. Hard copies are available from the New Knowledge Library Store.
The Society 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.
A series of posts present the 365 Steps in 13 page links, four weeks per page: http://bit.ly/Begin-Steps-to-Knowledge
A series of posts present the 365 Steps in 13 page links, four weeks per page: http://bit.ly/Begin-Steps-to-Knowledge
To end this post I 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. There are options as well
through the Free School of the New Message.
A following day Journal entry link from Steps first time will be here. A Journal entry link from Steps x2 time will be here.
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.
