Greetings All –
I wish to see a world I have never seen before. Step
31 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive –
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| I wish to see a world I have never seen before. Step 31 |
THIS
REPRESENTS YOUR DESIRE FOR KNOWLEDGE. It represents your desire for peace. It
is all the same desire. This desire emanates from your Knowledge. It may
compete with other desires. It may threaten other things, though it need not
necessarily do so. Therefore, the affirmation for today reflects your true will
in life. As this is affirmed, it becomes more apparent to you, and you are able
to experience it more and more in time.
TODAY
UPON EACH HOUR, FEEL YOUR DESIRE to see a different world. Look at the world
without judgment and say to yourself, “I wish to see a different world.” Do
this every hour. Try not to miss any practice sessions. Practice no matter how
you feel, no matter what is occurring. You are greater than your emotional
states and so you need not deny them, though they will need to be controlled in
time. You are greater than the images you see around you, for they mostly
represent your judgment upon the world. Practice this day looking without
judgment and feeling as you look.
PRACTICE
31: Hourly practice.
Doing
the hourly can be difficult, even with watch or phone chimes, timers and other
reminders. Do your best.
Picture: Experience Music Project and Science
Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Seattle, Washington – April 17, 2011.
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.
