Inner Approval and Peter's Path

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner story, Herod is a state of consciousness that prizes public approval. When I notice, 'it pleased the Jews,' I am shown how the mind uses applause to justify taking away what it deems threatening. Peter represents a truth or freedom resident in me, and to seize him is to imprison my own awareness. The days of unleavened bread mark a season of stripping away the leaven—the ego’s pretensions—that would counterfeit wild desire for safety in crowds. The remedy is not resistance but revision: I disappear into the I AM and declare that I am unassailable by appearances. Imagination is the tool through which I affirm a higher order that governs all action; therefore, what seems to happen in the outer becomes only the outward form of an inner decision. I assume the feeling of unconditioned safety, and the inner Peter walks free, because consciousness is the one actor and the one audience. My job is to hold this state and watch the scene align with it.