Greetings All –
Let me learn to be free so that I may join. Step 132
(MP3)
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| Let me learn to be free so that I may join. Step 132 |
YOUR
INDEPENDENCE FROM THE PAST—your past judgments, past associations, past pains,
past wounds and past difficulties—gives you independence in the present. This
is not to solidify your separation or to make it more complete, but instead to
enable you to join meaningfully in relationship. Let this be a tacit
understanding: You can do nothing in the world without relationship. You can
accomplish nothing; you can advance in no direction; you can realize no truth;
you can contribute nothing of value without relationship. So as your
independence from the past grows, thus does your promise for inclusion in the
present and the future grow as well. For freedom is meant to empower you to
join.
REMEMBER
THIS IDEA UPON THE HOUR and give it consideration in light of all of your
experiences today. In your two meditation practices, allow the attraction of
Knowledge to pull you deeper within yourself. Allow yourself to have this
experience of freedom.
PRACTICE
132: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Picture: Siegessäule monument in
Berlin, Germany, as seen from a tour bus. The statue on top is the Roman
goddess of victory – Victoria. It represents past Prussian victories of 1864
and 1873.
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.
