The Living Know, The Dead Forget

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, the verses reveal that death is not a literal end but a shift of states in consciousness. You are the living now as long as you identify with present awareness; the 'dead' are past patterns of mind—habits of love, hatred, and envy—that you have forgotten in the light of the I AM. When you cling to the memory of others or a former self, you trap yourself in an older story under the sun. Neville teaches that imagination is the creative force that redefines what dies. By assuming a new state—one where you are the timeless awareness behind all change—you release those old aims from ruling your day. The dead’s ignorance becomes a sign that you can know from a higher vantage, where all experiences arise anew in consciousness. Thus the verse invites renewal: you are not bound by past death but called into a fresh creation that remains alive through the I AM’s continual presence.