Greetings All –
The
world is emerging into the Greater Community of Worlds and that is why I have
come. Step 190 (MP3)
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The
world is emerging into the Greater Community of Worlds and that is why I have
come. Step 190
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YOU
HAVE COME INTO THE WORLD at a great turning point, a turning point only part of
which you will see in your own lifetime. It is a turning point where your world
gains contact with the worlds in its vicinity. This is the natural evolution of
humanity, as it is the natural evolution of all intelligent life in all worlds.
Your world is seeking a Greater Community. This will require that your world’s
own internal community become unified. This is also a part of the evolution of
all intelligent life in all worlds. You have come here to serve this. There are
many levels of service and many things that need to be contributed—on a
personal, on a community and on a world level. You are part of this great
movement of life, for you are not here for your own purposes alone. You are
here to serve the world, and thus be served in return.
TODAY
IN YOUR TWO LONGER PRACTICE PERIODS, investigate the idea for the day. Give it
serious thought, observing those ideas that are in harmony with it and those
ideas that disagree with it. Examine your feelings both for and against this
idea. Examine your preferences, your prejudices, your beliefs, your hopes, your
fears, and so forth. This constitutes the first half of each practice period.
In the second half, enter stillness and silence, using the word RAHN if you
find it to be helpful. Remember that both of these mental activities are
necessary and complementary, as you shall learn in the future. Upon the hour
repeat the idea for today. Allow it to provide that which you need to see the
world in a new way.
PRACTICE
190: Two 30-minute
Picture: A
futuristic city environment now in Milan, Italy.
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.
