Now above you, you will see another step. Go up this step again and notice the changes in the feel of yourself and of your consciousness. You will find another step. Step up this one, noticing again any change in the feel of yourself or in your consciousness. Above this is still another. Now step up here and pause.

Now here, pause for a moment. If you can, imaginatively look behind you to see these other four roads or paths that run adjacently and parallel. Now turn, step back to the previous road or path to A-IV. Step again back to A-III. Step again back to A-II. Now carefully step back to A-I and pause. Feel your own consciousness at this point.

And now imagine a step above A-I. Not adjacent or parallel, but above, and feel yourself step up upon it. And we will call it A-I-a, though the names make little difference. Pause there and imaginatively look down to A-I, but hold your position.

Imaginatively look down. Look at the other levels of consciousness from which you have come. Now very slowly, come back to the previous level, and keep coming down each step slowly until you reach again the original A-I from which you began.

[...] First the defined steps going upward represented fairly (underlined) ordinary steps that had to be taken, that others had taken before you. [...]

Finally you were led to travel to the top where there were no defined steps, but a smooth, steady ascent with no steps as such to follow. [...]

[...] It is only a first step, however. [...] This particular step is not attained by all within your system. [...]

The next step is taken when identity is able to include within itself the intimate knowledge of all incarnations. [...] Each of these steps of consciousness involves identity with the inner recognition of its whole identity with All That Is.

Many actual physical intervening steps are cut out. [...]

[...] Retaining its own consciousness of reality it can now afford to step out of itself momentarily in order to gain further experience.

These steps seem very obvious, and perhaps too easy — but they will bring an immediate sense of ease and a peace of mind while your inner reserves are being released and activated. I have mentioned these steps many times, because they are so vital in clearing the conscious mind, and bringing some sense of relief to the frightened ego.

These steps will allow you breathing time, and actually help minimize the pressure of your situation, whatever it is. Then, quieted, you will be able to consider other suitable steps that may more directly address your particular solution.

[...] There are certain simple steps that can be followed, whenever you find yourself in a difficult situation, whether the condition is one of poor health, a stressful personal involvement with another, a financial dilemma, or whatever.

[...] This fits in automatically with Step 1, of course. [...]

Now it can be used as the first of a series of steps, leading to “deeper” states of consciousness. It can also be used as the first of a series of adjacent steps. Each of the deeper layers of consciousness can also be used as first steps leading to other adjacent levels. [...]

Or it may be used as a step leading to an adjacent level of consciousness; two steps away, therefore, on the same level from normal reality. [...]

[...] But one step away from this is another level of consciousness into which you all slip without knowing. [...]

Now: This state may be used also as a step to the next state of consciousness, leading to a deeper trance condition; still relating however to the reality system that you understand.

[...] Then imagine yourself stepping apart from yourself in whatever way you choose. And then imagine that all about you there is another dimension and you need only take one step at a time ... [...]

[...] taking small steps where you would take giant steps? [...]

Our other friend is playing with his crutches...tossing them in the air a bit...practicing a two-step without them. [...]

[...] You simply take a giant step forward. [...]

[...] Then imagine yourself stepping apart from yourself in whatever way you choose. And then imagine that all about you there is another dimension and you need only take one step at a time—and you will find your answers. [...]

[...] And are you not only now—and even reluctantly—taking small steps where you would take giant steps? [...]

Our other friend (Brad) is playing with his crutches—tossing them in the air a bit—practicing a two-step without them. [...]

[...] You simply take a giant step forward. [...]

Now I tell you, it does not matter which step you take. [...] All your thoughts of “which step shall I take” are unimportant—they are meaningless. The important thing is to take a step, and your appointment is a step, and you must take it. [...]

No matter what you do at this point, you will break the thread of activity by taking any step, and you must take the step. [...]

[...] You must make the first step. [...]

[...] But you must make the first step. [...]

You are trying to cut out many steps for yourself.

([Gene]: “But there aren’t any steps, are there?”)

For you, now, there are steps.

([Gene]: “To do that is to have opened an eye and to see that there is but one short step to take.”)

[...] Such a person is considering an irreversible step — one certainly that should not be taken lightly. [...]

[...] If you are such a person, however, there are also other steps that you can take. [...]

If you are lethargic, resolve to take the first small steps toward action, however small they might be. [...]

[...] So, in your mind, step aside a few more steps, give yourself the suggestion that you will perceive the situation from another perspective. [...]

Now Alpha I simply involves one small step sidewards. [...]

Now in Alpha I, to some extent, you step aside from the physical moments that you know and in so doing you also relieve your physical system of the pressure of the hours. [...]

Now in Alpha I you can step aside from your daily self and let the knowledge of your deeper identity rise up where it can be recognized and accepted and acknowledged and its abilities used. [...]

[...] Ruburt learned however from his experience and has taken steps so that it will now add to his recovery. This represents a considerable step forward.

[...] You cannot afford not to take these steps. [...]

[...] The definite steps you plan will quicken the results so that they become more apparent to you physically. [...]

In a certain fashion you “step into the event” at that level. [...] You make certain adjustments, perhaps altering particular details, but you step into and become part of the inner processes—affecting, say, the shape or size or nature of the event before it becomes a definite physical actuality.

[...] Later, some people more stubborn than others might try to “prove” that some events are definitely precognitively perceived—but the point is that all events are precognitively perceived (intently), and that you actually step into an event, become part of it, reject it, accept the certain version you have “picked up,” or exert yourself to make certain changes that affect the nature of the event itself.

[...] With more than a little wry humor over what I considered to be a failure of belief on my part, I took action: Late in July I had a contractor, who is a friend of ours and well acquainted with Jane’s situation, install a heavy outside door in a bedroom wall, and construct the necessary step to the ground. [...]

When the process is finally over you will be two steps ahead of where you are now, and two steps along this way. You will not directly be connected with the same department, but someway two steps away from it, but you will also be two steps higher. [...]

([Tam:] “Then Adam was one step in that direction as a result of that exercise?”)

[...] Your body is a very handy mechanism and I do not suggest that you step out of it too long. [...]

[...] You can both discover the greater identity that is your own, and step out of your own shadow image. [...]

[...] You must take small practical steps, often when you would prefer to take giant ones — but you must move (underlined) in the direction of your ideals through action. [...]

[...] When you do not take any steps toward an ideal position, then your life does lack excitement. [...]

[...] You must be reckless in pursuit of the ideal — reckless enough to insist that each step you take along the way is worthy of that ideal.

[...] You can do this by seeing to it that each step you personally take is “ideally suited” to the ends you hope to achieve. [...]

[...] As I have stated [several times], if you feel unworthy, or powerless to act, and if you are idealistic, you may begin to feel that the ideal exists so far in the future that it is necessary to take steps you might not otherwise take to achieve it. [...] If you want to be a true practicing idealist, then each step that you take along the way must be worthy of your goal.

[...] So I would like to reinforce the fact that life is indeed a cooperative venture, and that all the steps taken toward the ideal must of themselves be life-promoting.

(“The impression of stairs or steps. [...] There are no steps shown on the object, but the brick walk is in perspective, and rises perhaps at a 20-degree angle from left to right. The separate bricks in the walk, which are not cemented together incidentally, could perhaps have led to the use of stairs or steps.

We are going to take a very simple example here, an imaginary projection, and explain the steps as they will happen, more or less.

[...] I suggest the first step I shall give you in preference to the second.

The first step is this. [...]

I have, to some extent, your histories before me and I see your giant steps and your tiny steps and I see where you trip. [...]

[...] Step lightly. [...]

(The flooring took a series of long shallow steps down, each step being perhaps two or three inches deep. As I strode along, my right heel slipped off the edge of a step, and I landed flatfooted on the next step with a jar. [...]

[...] I saw myself from the right side, striding purposefully along with vigorous step, carrying over my right arm a neatly folded white towel. [...]

HOW TO JOURNEY INTO THE “UNKNOWN” REALITY: TINY STEPS AND GIANT STEPS.

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[...] The next section (5): “How to Journey Into the ‘Unknown’ Reality,” colon: “Tiny Steps and Giant Steps. [...]

[...] You may also utilize it as an initial step that will help you get the feeling of your own inner mobility. [...]