The Free School of the New Message
The Journey to a New Life
~ The Power of Knowledge - Spiritual Practice ~
May - June 2021
Through your discovery of The New Message from God, you are now standing at the threshold of a journey to a new life of purpose, relationship and freedom in the world.
Whether you consider yourself to be religious, spiritual, atheist or simply undecided about the nature and reality of God, there is nonetheless a Divine presence and power deep within you. The New Message calls this Knowledge.
It is discovering this Knowledge and building a bridge to it that creates the foundation for a new and better life for you and others. If you feel a deeper need and calling to prepare your life and mind for the great change underway in the world and new realities emerging in the future, then this session of The Journey to a New Life, Part 2: The Power of Knowledge – Spiritual Practice can hold great value and meaning for you.
Over these two months, we will be studying two revelations focused on the experience of this deeper intelligence called Knowledge and the determination that it brings to you and what it takes to follow this determination. We will also be considering the experience of being at turning points in our lives. These turning points will occur at important junctures in our journey to our place of contribution and service in life.
In this two-month session, you will have the opportunity to read and/or listen to the revelation for each month identifying a passage, a practice, a teaching or a special project that you feel is most important and timely in your life.
Together with the practice in Steps to Knowledge, we have the opportunity now to engage in the real inner and outer work that are necessary in our lives, which will slowly, day by day, bring our lives and affairs into greater order and build a new foundation for a life of purpose, relationship and contribution in the future.
We invite you to bring the results of your study and practice to the weekly Free School Campfire Chat, where you will have a chance to engage with other students around the world, sharing the insights, opportunities and challenges that arise in taking the steps to build the foundation for a new and greater life in the world. The Messenger, Marshall Vian Summers, is often present in these weekly Chats to provide clarity, guidance and inspiration when needed. The Chat takes place on Saturdays at 9:00 AM US Mountain Time. The Chat transcripts are available at the end of the Chat for further reading and studying.
THE VIGIL
The 2021
Steps to Knowledge Vigil
The Steps Vigil commemorates the seven days in 1989 when Steps to Knowledge was received by Marshall Vian Summers. Consider joining the Messenger, The Society and the Worldwide Community online as we come together for these important gatherings.
Click the links below to see the calendar event for each day.
*To learn more, please visit https://www.newmessage.org/the-steps-vigil or email vigil@newmessage.org
PERSONAL STUDY GUIDE
MAY | What is Knowledge?
Knowledge is within you now, but you cannot lay hold to it. It is not there for you to acquire and to use. Rather, you have an opportunity to come back into relationship with Knowledge. Here your personal mind, the mind that is conditioned by your world, and your Impersonal Mind, the Mind that you have brought with you from beyond the world, reunite in a meaningful relationship based upon a purpose in the world, and upon relationship with the world, and with people who support that purpose."
STUDY and RETREAT
In the first month of this session, we will be studying the revelation What is Knowledge? received by Marshall Vian Summers on September 21, 1993. Explore this revelation and see what wisdom it has for you.
Deep Reading /Deep Listening
Read this revelation What is Knowledge? working with your Study Journal as you go and highlighting the most important and salient passages for you, noting any specific practices, directives and questions that you would like to focus on during this month.
Consider Mapping the revelation based upon what it says you ‘must do’ or ‘must not do’ and use this to build more clarity in how to proceed.
It is very important to give Knowledge a practical definition in the world, for Knowledge must lead to action. As an idea or an ideal, its value is very limited. As a motivating force that leads you, guides you, and even at times impels you to do certain things that transcend your personal interests, Knowledge has a meaningful definition. This is the experience of Knowledge."
PRACTICE and PARTICIPATION
Steps to Knowledge Practice
Together with your Steps to Knowledge Practice, engaging in your studenthood in a focused way constitutes the core work of moving in the direction towards a New Life. Think of what you can do in these two months to support your consistent practice in Steps to Knowledge.
If you have not yet begun Steps to Knowledge, learn more about how you begin this life-changing journey.
Consider participating in the Free School Study Group on the Worldwide Community Site.
Please also consider attending the online 2021 Steps Vigil.
To begin to understand the reality of Knowledge, we must look at the evidence of Knowledge. This evidence can be found in your experience. It is the experience of being moved to do something or moved not to do something. It is the experience of irrational restraint. It is the experience of foreseeing something and knowing something and then having it happen. It is the experience of being moved to go somewhere, to do something, to associate with someone, or to disassociate from someone."
Optional Practice:
Take a Spiritual Retreat
- We encourage you to take extra time to build your spiritual practice at this difficult time in the world. Consider taking a half-day or full-day weekend retreat to engage in your Steps Practice and to explore what this study plan is asking of you. Read and listen to the New Message revelation Spiritual Retreat to help you get started in building your retreat environment over this two-month period.
Further Study: Spiritual Retreat
° Received by Marshall Vian Summers September 9, 2009
Free School Study Group Online
Share your experience of practice and study in the Free School Study Group on the New Message Worldwide Community Site.
Even without knowing what Knowledge is or where it lives or how it functions or what it knows, whenever you do something that goes against the direction of Knowledge, you will feel this discomfort, this disassociation from yourself. You will feel ill at ease. You will feel this not because Knowledge is punishing you in any way, but because you are going against something that is known within you. This produces a very profound and permeating discomfort. No amount of therapy, pleasure, escape or preoccupation can free you from this discomfort."
GATHER
The May 2021 Campfire Chats – Knowledge and Spiritual Practice
Find your local time here.
May 1, 2021, Week 1: Relationship and Experience of Knowledge
What struck you in reading the revelation What is Knowledge? and why was this important to you?
May 8, 2021, Week 2: The Force of Knowledge
Looking back, in what ways or circumstances has Knowledge compelled you or restrained you at specific times in your life?
May 15, 2021, Week 3: The Evidence of Knowledge
What experiences have demonstrated the evidence of Knowledge in your life? What actions have you taken as a result?
May 22, 2021, Week 4: Going against the experience of Knowledge?
What has been your experience of going against what you felt was the guidance of Knowledge, and what was the result?
May 29, 2021, Week 5: Choosing Anew
What thresholds have you experienced where you had to choose again to align yourself with Knowledge?
To value Knowledge and to accept its reality and to move towards it, you must reach a certain threshold in life. Here the world must disappoint you enough so that you will question whether it can satisfy you at all. Here you reach a threshold in your own life and in your own way where you come to know that there is something greater in your life that is waiting for you, that is calling for you, that is given to you and that abides with you."
JUNE | The Turning Point
STUDY
In this second month of the New Life session, we will be studying the revelation The Turning Point, which was received on January 24, 2013. Explore the revelation and see what wisdom The Turning Point has for you.
Deep Reading/Deep Listening
Read and/or listen to this revelation, working with your Study Journal as you go and highlighting the most important and salient passages for you noting any specific practices, directives and questions that you would like to focus on during this month.
Consider Mapping the revelation based upon what it says you ‘must do’ or ‘must not do’ and use this to build more clarity in how to proceed.
Once you begin to become really honest with yourself about your life and affairs, no matter how painful this recognition might be in the moment, it marks a turning point in your life—a turning point where you begin to see things more clearly and be more willing to see things more clearly, to be more honest with yourself about your engagements with people and about your plans and goals."
PRACTICE
During this month, again identify a specific aspect of your life, Pillars or studenthood that you feel is important for you now to make progress based upon:
- A statement, passage or practice from the revelation The Turning Point that stood out for you.
- A review of the key turning points of your life and the most important realizations you experienced and the actions you took during those times?
Here you must ask yourself, 'Am I living the life I was meant to live?' You must ask this continuously, you see, because it will remind you that you are undergoing a great and profound change,"
Steps to Knowledge Practice
Engaging in your studenthood in a focused way, constitutes the core work of moving in the direction towards a New Life. What can you do in these two months to support consistency and to enhance your approach to your daily Steps practice?
If you have not yet begun Steps to Knowledge, consider beginning the Steps practice, as well as what it will take to make space in your life for this journey.
Free School Study Group Online
Share your experience of practice and study in The Free School Study Group on the New Message Worldwide Community Site.
Please also consider attending the online 2021 Steps Vigil.
You will have to make decisions now, very simple decisions, one by one. You cannot remake your life, for that is not the purpose of this at this moment. It is to free yourself. It is to undo the knots that tie and have held you down."
GATHER
The June 2021 Free School Campfire Chats will be focused on The Turning Point.
Find your local time here.
June 5, 2021, Week One: Are you Living the Life You Are Meant to Live?
The revelation The Turning Point poses the central question, “Are you living the life you know you must live?” What do you experience when you ask yourself this question?
June 12th, Week Two: Your Experience of The Turning Point
What has your experience of The Turning Point (as it is described in the revelation) prompted you to do? What actions have you taken? What have you done?
June 19th, Week Three: Restraint
The revelation says restraint from giving yourself away as you did before will be necessary and will protect you. Has this been your experience?
June 26th, Week Four: Time
The Turning Point says our journeys must be accelerated because we don’t have a lot of time. Have you felt this time pressure in your life, and what has this experience compelled you to do?
Here your studenthood must be determined and not merely casual."
Table of Contents
STUDY GROUP
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EVENTS
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Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Join the weekly stillness meditation practice on Tuesdays at 7:00 PM Mountain on the New Message Events YouTube channel. Times are listed for Boulder, Colorado, USA, Mountain…
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A teaching from the New Message will be shared live: Grace
A teaching from the New Message will be shared live: Grace
On the first Saturday of the month, at 9:00 AM Mountain Time, a teaching from the New Message will be shared live: Grace. We invite…
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Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Join the weekly stillness meditation practice on Tuesdays at 7:00 PM Mountain on the New Message Events YouTube channel. Times are listed for Boulder, Colorado, USA, Mountain…
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Studenthood Chat in The Way of Knowledge
Studenthood Chat in The Way of Knowledge
Participate in the Studenthood Chat at 9:00 AM on Discord every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month. Join the chat on the Discord server: Follow this tutorial to…
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Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Join the weekly stillness meditation practice on Tuesdays at 7:00 PM Mountain on the New Message Events YouTube channel. Times are listed for Boulder, Colorado, USA, Mountain…
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The Convergence Summit | Respond to the Calling to Find Your Purpose in a Changing World | ONLINE March 14, 2025, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
The Convergence Summit | Respond to the Calling to Find Your Purpose in a Changing World | ONLINE March 14, 2025, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
The world is shifting in profound ways. Humanity stands at a critical threshold—one of immense challenge and transformation. As global upheaval accelerates, we are also…
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The Convergence Summit | Respond to the Calling to Find Your Purpose in a Changing World | ONLINE March 15, 2025, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
The Convergence Summit | Respond to the Calling to Find Your Purpose in a Changing World | ONLINE March 15, 2025, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
The world is shifting in profound ways. Humanity stands at a critical threshold—one of immense challenge and transformation. As global upheaval accelerates, we are also…
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Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Join the weekly stillness meditation practice on Tuesdays at 7:00 PM Mountain on the New Message Events YouTube channel. Times are listed for Boulder, Colorado, USA, Mountain…
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Studenthood Chat in The Way of Knowledge
Studenthood Chat in The Way of Knowledge
Participate in the Studenthood Chat at 9:00 AM on Discord every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month. Join the chat on the Discord server: Follow this tutorial to…
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Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Join the weekly stillness meditation practice on Tuesdays at 7:00 PM Mountain on the New Message Events YouTube channel. Times are listed for Boulder, Colorado, USA, Mountain…
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Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Tuesday World Meditation | Weekly at 7:00 PM Mountain Time (Med)
Join the weekly stillness meditation practice on Tuesdays at 7:00 PM Mountain on the New Message Events YouTube channel. Times are listed for Boulder, Colorado, USA, Mountain…
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A teaching from the New Message will be shared live: The Mystery
A teaching from the New Message will be shared live: The Mystery
On the first Saturday of the month, at 9:00 AM Mountain Time, a teaching from the New Message will be shared live: The Mystery. We…
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