Riverside Prayer Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that Acts shows the disciples stepping out of the ordinary scene into a riverside space—not to host a debate about doctrine, but to align their mind with prayer. In Neville's terms, the sabbath is a resting-state of consciousness—the awareness that God, the I AM, is present—and prayer becomes the act of aligning with the feeling of the wish fulfilled. The riverside is a stream of life flowing through your consciousness, a symbol for dynamic awareness; the women gathered there are the receptive facets of mind ready to hear truth when the listener has quieted his or her own demands. By seating themselves and speaking, they demonstrate that outward encounter arises from inward state: once one trusts in the inner dialogue and acts from a completed state, the outward scene follows—voices, opportunities, and partnerships appear as signs of a mind at rest in its own truth. The mission is domestic rather than external, a witnessing of a new inner state becoming visible in daily life.