Presence Beyond the Body

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Neville lens, the 'home in the body' is the stage of conditioned perception; the 'Lord' is the inner I AM, the awareness that never leaves you. To be 'absent from the body' is not a physical fact but a shifting of attention from the outer to the inner reality. Walking by faith means acting from the inner certainty rather than external evidence; your senses reflect your state, not the other way around. When you accept that the Lord is present as your own awareness, you will experience the union here and now. The habit Paul desires is the habit of living as though you were already where you desire to be: in companionship with God. This is the true confidence; fear dissolves because you know your life is the spiritual, not the fleshly. Your future hope becomes present reality by a simple, repeated act of assumption—feeling the presence of the Lord in you, and thus reinterpreting every event as movement of consciousness toward that truth. The body’s boundaries soften as the sense of separation falls away, replaced by the one reality of I AM.