Friday, September 30, 2016

I must understand the greater movement of the world. Continuation Training Step 22



I must understand the greater movement of the world. (MP3)

I must understand the greater movement of the world. CT Step 22
Here you continue to build your understanding of the greater movement of the world. However, the desire for this must come from within you, and the capacity must be established or you will not be able to see or to know. Understanding the world in this way gives a greater context for your being here. Greater purpose cannot be realized within a narrow context. You must see yourself in a bigger way. You must establish your relationship with the world on a true foundation.

This is part of your foundation building. It is part of the expansion of your understanding and the range and scope of your mental and emotional capabilities. If you think about it, you will see that there are so many things that people cannot respond to emotionally or intellectually. They just cannot entertain these things. They are too big, too challenging or too different, and so they are just rejected out of hand.

But you are learning to be with life as it is and as it will be. You are preparing for the future in a way that will enable you to be in the future with a greater strength and efficacy.

Therefore, turn your eyes to the world again and ask the question, "What do I need to know about the world’s evolution and destiny?" Ask this question without providing your own answers, without emphasizing your preferences, without expressing your fears. These things may come to mind, and you will recognize them. But now you are waiting for a deeper understanding. You are calling for it. You are evoking it. You are asking the Creator to reveal it to you. You are calling upon Knowledge and opening yourself to Knowledge.

Practice today in addition to your one long practice in stillness and your hourly practices in awareness and discernment. Look and ask that you may see.

Practice 22:   One 30-minute stillness practice.
                         Contemplation practice.
                         Hourly practice.

Picture: In Utah, enroute from Salt Lake City to Moab on  U.S. 6 E. Wind farm and coal transport truck on the highway. October 20, 2015


For the continuation of reading material, the next book in Volume 1 of The Message is the not yet published "The New Life”. Thus the gray cover:


 In the list of chapter names, this is first:

We continue.
NNC
 

Note: If you’ve some interest, but this is the first time you’ve seen Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. Begin at the beginning.

If you do know about Steps, but have not done Steps twice completely, read the related materials, and have a sense of the direction of this study, you won’t get the experience. The Introduction begins:

“This is the Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training. It is designed to build upon the Steps that were learned in Steps to Knowledge to enable you to experience the grace, the power and the direction of Knowledge in your life and to become an expression of Knowledge in everything that you do. If you have completed the book, Steps to Knowledge, twice through and have followed the instructions as they were given without altering the curriculum in any way, then you are now ready to begin this more advanced study”.

If you are an independent student, that is certainly an option. Posts here 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. There are options as well through the Free School of the New Message.

Thursday, September 29, 2016

REVIEW …practice your Four Pillars Review …primary exercise today – Continuation Training Step 21


REVIEW …practice your Four Pillars Review …primary exercise today CT Step 21 (MP3)


In your Review today, once again practice your Four Pillars Review exercise. Go back to your former Review and read through the instructions that were given, and engage in this practice. This will constitute your primary exercise today.


In addition, it is important to read the previous six Steps, and if you are keeping a journal, which is recommended, read through what has happened to you on those days so that you see how each Step corresponds to your experience and your activities at that particular time.

In this way, this Review practice will have great efficacy and will serve you well in your journey towards Knowledge. Deepen your awareness of the Four Pillars of your life. Recognize which Pillars are weak and require strengthening and readjustment. Recognize what change must be brought about, what alterations must be made, to give you strength and stability. For without this strength and stability, you cannot learn greater things, and you will constantly be thwarted by your Pillars not being effective in supporting you. For like the four legs of a table, you cannot put anything great upon that table unless it is strong and sturdy.

Therefore, today continue building the foundation for Knowledge and all that makes Knowledge possible in your life.

Practice 21:    Four Pillars Review.
                         Hourly practice.


For the continuation of reading material, the next book in Volume 1 of The Message is the not yet published "The New World". Thus the gray cover:

 In the list of chapter names, this is eighth:
We continue.

NNC

Note: If you’ve some interest, but this is the first time you’ve seen Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. Begin at the beginning.

If you do know about Steps, but have not done Steps twice completely, read the related materials, and have a sense of the direction of this study, you won’t get the experience. The Introduction begins:

“This is the Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training. It is designed to build upon the Steps that were learned in Steps to Knowledge to enable you to experience the grace, the power and the direction of Knowledge in your life and to become an expression of Knowledge in everything that you do. If you have completed the book, Steps to Knowledge, twice through and have followed the instructions as they were given without altering the curriculum in any way, then you are now ready to begin this more advanced study”.

If you are an independent student, that is certainly an option. Posts here 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. There are options as well through the Free School of the New Message.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Today I will not forget that I am here for a greater purpose. Continuation Training Step 20


Today I will not forget that I am here for a greater purpose. CT Step 20 (MP3)

Today I will not forget that I am here for a greater purpose. CT Step 20
You are indeed here for a greater purpose. But do not define that purpose for yourself because at the appointed time, it will become known to you. It will not simply be the result of personal preference or ambition. It will be something that will be felt and deeply known. It will be real, and you will know it to be true. Until that point, you are building the foundation for that recognition. When you build a house, you do not build the upper floors first. You start with the foundation and you build up. You do not begin by laying the wallpaper and putting in the furnishings, for there is nothing to contain them. You begin by building the foundation and the primary structure of the building. You do this in a step-by-step manner. You follow a plan. You develop skills along the way. You exercise skills you already have. And you learn new ones as well.

Therefore, today practice this building exercise in your long practice in stillness and in your hourly practices in awareness and discernment. Build this inner awareness, this position of observing without condemnation in order to know. You need to know. You want to know.

Practice 20:   One 30-minute stillness practice.
                         Contemplation practice.
                         Hourly practice.

Picture:  Leuven, Belgium - April 9, 2009 – The mundane of the train.


For the continuation of reading material, the next book in Volume 1 of The Message is the not yet published "The New World". Thus the gray cover:
  
In the list of chapter names, this is seventh:

We continue.

NNC

Note: If you’ve some interest, but this is the first time you’ve seen Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. Begin at the beginning.

If you do know about Steps, but have not done Steps twice completely, read the related materials, and have a sense of the direction of this study, you won’t get the experience. The Introduction begins:

“This is the Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training. It is designed to build upon the Steps that were learned in Steps to Knowledge to enable you to experience the grace, the power and the direction of Knowledge in your life and to become an expression of Knowledge in everything that you do. If you have completed the book, Steps to Knowledge, twice through and have followed the instructions as they were given without altering the curriculum in any way, then you are now ready to begin this more advanced study”.

If you are an independent student, that is certainly an option. Posts here 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. There are options as well through the Free School of the New Message.