Inward Trials and the I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

I watch the outward agitation as a mirror of inner life. The crowd, the elders, the scribes are the voices of habit in my mind, rising to oppose a new conviction I have chosen to entertain. They stir the air of consciousness, and I suddenly feel arrested by the old order, dragged to the council of belief where I must answer for what I intend to become. Yet nothing external truly compels me; it is the inner drama that shapes form. If I identify with the I AM—the aware self that does not fear a verdict—I may see that the so-called trial is only a test of the state I hold. By assuming the very state I desire as already real, I revise the scene; I imagine the council approving, the crowd calming, and my inner self walking free in the light of my own decision. The moment I accept the inner witness as truth, the outward arrest dissolves, and the manifested life bends toward the new image.