Gleaning Your Inner Harvest

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the standing corn as the field of your own consciousness. When you come into it, you may pluck the ears with your hand—this is not theft but a deliberate, intimate act of choosing from what is ripe in your awareness. The ears you pluck symbolize ideas, opportunities, and states of satisfaction that already exist in your inner world. To act with the hand rather than the sickle is to work through belief, not by force or violence against another, for the neighbor's corn is a projection of your I AM, your present sense of self. The prohibition against moving a sickle unto your neighbor’s standing corn guards you from coercion and from disturbing another’s field. In Neville's terms, you are entirely the creator of your reality; you harvest by aligning with the feeling of fullness, revise any lack until it feels real, and thus attract the corresponding outer experiences. The verse invites you to trust the sufficiency of your own consciousness and to operate gently, within your own field, until your inner harvest manifests outwardly.