Preparation
Directives
This is not a time for confusion, ambivalence or complacency. This is a time to meet a greater challenge. This is a time to prepare yourself for things you cannot even comprehend. This is a time to follow Knowledge and to regain your true power and direction, which are yours to reclaim and which are needed now for you to begin the preparation.
- GCS, chap. 11, p. 129
Short Quotes
Perhaps your life has been changing internally and externally as if in preparation for something great that you would have to serve and be a part of. If this is your experience, then you can be certain that you are preparing for the new world, however unconsciously.
- The Shock of the Future (April 30, 2011)
The Greater Community Way of Knowledge is a very great preparation. It is great because it meets a great need in the world.
What you are preparing for is greater than what your parents or your grandparents had to face.
You are preparing for a world that must establish a world community. You are preparing as a race to encounter intelligent life from beyond the world and to become engaged and involved, inadvertently, in a larger scheme of affairs, conflicts and interactions that are occurring in this part of the Greater Community.
- GCS, chap. 11, pp. 127, 128-29
Long Quotes
The shock of the future will be a shock because you are unprepared. You have not been paying attention. You have been obsessed with other things of little or no significance. You have been caught up in the affairs of the day and in your own feelings, memories and regrets, not mindful of the world around you.
With preparation, there is no shock. There is only confirmation. Even that which is shocking will not overwhelm you. It will surprise and dismay you perhaps in the moment, but you will not be overtaken by it. You will not be paralyzed by it, frozen in fear, without any idea of what to do. When the ship begins to list and takes on water, you will be ready. You will not be frozen. You will not go down with the ship.
- The Shock of the Future (April 30, 2011)
Further Study
Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 10: How Do You Prepare?
Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 11: What Is Your Preparation For?