Absalom's Inner Image Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the verse reveals not a biography of a prince but a map of states of consciousness. Israel's praise of Absalom's beauty is the collective mind's advertisement of a self-image rooted in appearance and status. From head to foot, 'no blemish' embodies a mind convinced that life is measured by surface perfection. The annual weighing of hair shows how much life energy the ego allocates to maintaining a story about itself; the heavy hair represents the energy bound up in image. The three sons and Tamar hint at the fruits of a form-centered life, offspring produced by a self-concept built on outward form and social acclaim. The inner movement is a shift toward pride and self-exaltation, which, if unchecked, becomes the ruling consciousness. The invitation is to recognize that the I AM behind all appearances is unblemished and that beauty becomes a sign of inner alignment, not a body claim. revise your sense of self toward the realization that you are already complete in awareness, independent of praise or weighty hair. When you assume that inner reality and feel it real, the outer circumstances reorganize to reflect it.