PREPARATION
Seeing Is Not Enough
Understanding the great change the world is undergoing and the reality of Contact is essential — but it is only the beginning. Without preparation, insight becomes overwhelm. Ultimately, we are each called to respond to this emerging reality and to become a contributor, without getting trapped in fear, denial, or paralysis.
The realities presented through Emerging Worlds demand more than awareness. They call for inner development, strengthening and capacity — the capacity to see clearly, to act wisely, and to follow a deeper spiritual intelligence within you that can navigate what the intellect alone cannot. This is what preparation is for.

THE CORE PRACTICE
Steps to Knowledge
The Book of Inner Knowing
A 365-step program of daily practice for developing your connection to Knowledge — the deeper spiritual intelligence within you that cannot be deceived, manipulated, or controlled. Winner of the Year 2000 Book of the Year award for Spirituality, Steps to Knowledge is the foundation of all preparation in Marshall Vian Summers' body of work, The New Message.
Each step takes only minutes. The practice builds gradually — strengthening your inner authority, your discernment, and your capacity to act with clarity in a changing world.
Steps to Knowledge is made available free to the world as a gift from Marshall Vian Summers.
Preparation is not about retreat from the world. It is about building the strength, clarity, and connection you need to face what is here — and to fulfill the purpose that brought you.