Greetings All –
My purpose is to reclaim my Knowledge and to allow
it to express itself in the world. Step 136 (MP3)
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| My purpose is to reclaim my Knowledge and to allow it to express itself in the world. Step 136 |
THIS
WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS concerning your purpose. As you follow this purpose,
your calling in life—which is a specific role that you will be asked to
take—will naturally emerge step by step. It will not require your definition.
It will simply emerge, and you will understand it more deeply and more
completely with each step, for each step will fulfill it even more.
YOUR
KNOWLEDGE IS YOUR PURPOSE. Remind yourself of this upon the hour, and be glad
that an answer has been given. But the answer is not merely an idea. It is an
opportunity for preparation, for all true answers to all genuine questions are
some form of preparation. It is the preparation that you require and not
answers alone. Your mind is full of answers already, and what have they done but
add to the burden of your thinking? Follow, then, the preparation given this
day and each day within our program so that you may receive the answer to your
question. Your purpose is to reclaim your Knowledge, and that is what we will
undertake today.
AGAIN,
REMIND YOURSELF OF YOUR AFFIRMATION upon the hour. Give it thought throughout
the day so that it may be the sole focus of your understanding today. In your
two longer meditation practices, continue to repeat the word RAHN, which will
stimulate Ancient Knowledge within you. You do not need to understand the
potency of this practice to receive its full benefit. To receive its full
benefit you need only practice it as it is given.
PRACTICE
136: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Note: “…your calling in life …will
simply emerge ….”
Picture: A powered parachute/paraplane at sunset -
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.
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.
