Greetings All –
Freedom is mine today. Step 239 (MP3)
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| Freedom is mine today. Step 239 |
FREEDOM
IS YOURS WHO LIVE WITH KNOWLEDGE. Freedom is yours who need not burden yourself
with the undue strain of unnecessary thinking and speculation. Freedom is yours
who can dedicate yourself to your one purpose and to your specific tasks that
emanate from this purpose. What greater freedom is there than the freedom to
utilize your Knowledge and to fulfill its destiny in the world? Nothing else
can be called freedom, for anything else is merely the freedom to be in chaos
and to degenerate into misery.
YOU
ARE FREE THIS DAY TO ALLOW KNOWLEDGE to abide with you. This day in your hourly
practice and in your two deeper meditations, remember that you are free. When
you have the freedom to be with Knowledge in your two meditation periods, allow
yourself to enter stillness and let not any feeling, idea or thought dissuade
you from experiencing the great freedom that you have to escape from the world
into Knowledge.
THESE
PRACTICE TIMES ARE SO IMPORTANT for your overall well being. The result of this
involvement will give you greater access to Knowledge in all of your outward
endeavors as you learn to abide in peace with Knowledge and as you learn to
follow Knowledge as it exercises its
Wisdom in the world. You are free this day to be with Knowledge, for
this day you are free.
PRACTICE
239: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Picture: Foothills
Trail, Boulder, Colorado.
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.
