Inner Mariners Descent

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Ezekiel, the ships and the sea are your restless mind; the land appearing on the shore is the quiet awareness you already possess. The mariners who handle the oar and the pilots of the sea are not distant figures but inner attitudes and impulses you have mistaken for self. When they descend from their ships and stand on the land, a shift occurs—from outward striving to inward perception—your sense of being apart from God recedes. The voices you hear against thee are your self-judgments—voices of doubt, fear, and limitation rising to surface. The dust you cast upon your head and the ashes you wallow in symbolize the shedding of the old image, the ego’s residue dissolving in the light of present awareness. In this light, the word thee points to the I AM inside you, the timeless awareness that remains unmoved by external storms. Judgment then becomes invitation to humility; meekness is not weakness but the power of consciousness to bow to truth. As you claim the land-state as your own, the inner sea calms and unity with God’s awareness arises, a single, indivisible I AM.