Neville Goddard on Acts 20:9-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Acts 20 in context

Scripture Focus

9And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.

10And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

11When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

12And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

Acts 20:9-12

Biblical Context

During Paul's long preaching, Eutychus falls asleep, falls from a window, and is thought dead. Paul revives him, they bring him up, and all are greatly comforted.

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine Acts 20:9-12 as a drama in your own mind. Eutychus on the window seat stands for a sleepy, locked-in mind; the long preaching is your ongoing stream of thoughts and fears. He falls, seemingly dead to life. Paul is your higher self, the I AM, bending over with a calm claim: life is in you. This is not a rescue from without, but the inner awakening that says, 'Trouble not yourselves; for your life is in you.' As awareness identifies with the living I AM, the third loft of belief collapses and you rise into a fresh vitality. The bread and the long talk symbolize nourishment and communion with your inner life. The moment of awakening returns color, breath, and comfort to those around you, because you have remembered your own strength. Your body follows, not as an isolated miracle, but as the natural expression of consciousness waking to itself.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, close your eyes, and assume you are already alive and well; feel the I AM breathing through you and repeat, 'My life is in me' until it is felt as real.