Damascus Light Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the scene becomes a map of the inner awakening. The great light is the surprise of consciousness turning on within you, a shift in the state you inhabit, not an external event elsewhere. Saul’s fall to the ground marks the surrender of the old self and its stubborn stories; the voice speaking, 'Why persecutest thou me?' is the invitation to examine what you have been resisting as your true identity. When you ask, 'Who art thou, Lord?' the answer arrives as a summons to identify with the I AM—the Jesus within—the awareness that calls you by name. To Paul, the voice announces a new allegiance: 'I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest,' revealing that persecuting is simply resisting the life of awareness you are becoming. The companions’ fear mirrors the herd mentality your old self carries; they see light yet hear not the voice, because the inner hearing requires inner readiness. This passage is salvation as turning—a conversion from fear and separation to the recognition that you are the very presence you seek.