Inner Burial, Return, Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

I tell you, the carcase is not a corpse but a state of consciousness you once called real. The donkey and the lion are your faculties—your mind and your passions—that stand by, yet neither can eat the truth when you acknowledge the I AM as the life within. The man of God lying in the road is not a tragedy but a teaching that a former identity has served its purpose. The old prophet who mourns and buries him represents the ego clinging to endings as if they are reality; through mourning you feel the weight of that attachment. But the act of laying the carcase in a grave is the inner decision to retire an old identification into the ground of your awareness. Now the body is restored to your consciousness—Christ in you—where nothing has died, only shifted. When you accept this, your outward signs begin to align with your inner state; endings become doors, and life is a continual revival of the I AM, here and now.