Carmel Prayer and Inner Vision

Neville's Inner Vision

Elijah’s ascent is a turning of the mind, not a journey across a landscape. The top of Carmel marks the height of awareness where the I AM stands steady and the ego quiets. When he casts himself down and hides his face between his knees, it is a perfect symbol of surrender to the living presence within. This is not a gesture of defeat but a deliberate shift of attention from outward concerns to the inner act of imagining. Ahab’s feast represents the belief that life is sustained by appetite, by circumstances, by what seems real to the senses. The real motion, however, is inward: the petition is heard by the inner God, and the future is already formed in the imagination. If you accept that you are the consciousness in which such events occur, you can replicate Elijah’s posture in your own way—stillness, breathing, and an unwavering sense of I AM. The scene invites you to practice intercession by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, in the fullness of present tense awareness. The apparent delays dissolve as your inner posture aligns with that timeless now.