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I will listen to my Inner Teachers today. Step 247 (MP3)
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| I will listen to my Inner Teachers today. Step 247 |
TAKE
TIME UPON THE HOUR TO REMIND YOURSELF that your Inner Teachers are with you.
Look forward to those two times in meditation today when you will be free from
external obligations and involvements to spend time with your Inner Teachers.
They will speak to you this day and help you to learn to listen and to discern
their voice from other voices that plague your mind. They represent the one
true voice that will speak unto your soul. They are not the substitutes that
you create to keep yourself stimulated in fear. Therefore, extend your trust to
them as they have extended their trust to you, for they are entrusting you with
Knowledge in the world—a greater form of trust and acknowledgment you cannot
imagine. For you to be the vehicle of Knowledge in the world, you must bear
witness to the greatness of your origin and heritage and the greatness of God’s
estimation of you.
THEREFORE,
IN YOUR TWO DEEPER PRACTICES THIS DAY, in stillness and silence, turn your
listening inward. Listen intently. Allow yourself to become receptive and you
will know your Teachers are standing in the background, observing you, loving
you and supporting you. And they will speak to you this day of things beyond
the world and things within the world. They will remind you of your purpose and
your function as you learn to listen this day.
PRACTICE
247: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Picture: Any
time we are sitting still during the day, such as waiting areas in travel
terminals, we can listen. O’Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois.
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.
