Greetings All –
I need only follow the steps as they are given. Step
138 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive –
Download folder or play from Drive – Step PDF also.]
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| I need only follow the steps as they are given. Step 138 |
THE
TRUTH OF THIS IS SO VERY OBVIOUS, if you will think of the many things that you
have learned by simply following the steps in preparation. To not participate
and to attempt to understand is utterly fruitless, utterly frustrating and
without a happy or satisfying result of any kind. We are preparing you to
participate in life, not to judge it, for life will hold a greater promise than
your judgments could ever reveal. Your understanding is born of participation
and is the result of participation. Thus, learn to participate and then to
understand, for this is the true sequence of things.
THIS
DAY REMEMBER YOUR HOURLY PRACTICES and allow your two meditations in stillness
to become deeper. Allow no thoughts of fear, anxiety or self-doubt to dissuade
you from your greater activity. Your ability to practice regardless of your
emotional state demonstrates that the presence of Knowledge is within you, for
Knowledge is beyond all emotional states and is unfettered by them. If you wish
to see the stars, you must look beyond the clouds. What are your fears but
clouds that pass through your mind? They only change the character of the
surface of your mind, but the depth of your mind remains unchanged forever.
PRACTICE
138: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Like the aircraft in the
picture, we follow the steps as given, to learn, ultimately, how to operate
around power.
Picture: The powered parachute/paraplane above the
Front Royal power plant and related electric distribution wires and towers -
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Like the aircraft, we
follow the steps as given, to learn, ultimately, how to operate around power.
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.
