Greetings All –
My
Higher Self is not an individual. Step 88 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play
from Drive – Step PDF also.]
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| My Higher Self is not an individual. Step 88 |
THERE
IS OFTEN CONFUSION CONCERNING YOUR HIGHER SELF and your Spiritual Teachers.
This is very hard to resolve from the point of view of separation. But when you
think of life as an inclusive network of evolving relationships, you then begin
to experience and recognize that your Higher Self is indeed part of a greater
fabric of relationship. It is the part of you that is not separate but is
meaningfully bonded with others. Therefore, your Higher Self is bonded to the
Higher Self of your Teachers. They are without duality now, for they have no
other self. You have two selves: the Self that has been created and the self
that you have created. To bring the self that you have created into service to
your True Self joins them together into a meaningful marriage of purpose and
service and ends internal conflict forever.
TODAY
UPON THE HOUR REPEAT YOUR AFFIRMATION and feel its impact. In your two longer
practice periods, use your affirmation as an introduction to your practice in
stillness and receptivity.
PRACTICE
88: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Note:
"You have two selves: the Self that has been created and the self that you
have created. To bring the self that you have created into service to your True
Self joins them together into a meaningful marriage of purpose and service and
ends internal conflict forever."
Picture: Looking
backward to the traffic and sun in the side mirror there is a dynamic of relationships.
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.
