Tower of Mind, Tower of Unity

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 11:2-4 reveals not materials, but the inner movement of a people who would persuade heaven by bricks. They are a state of consciousness that marches eastward away from wholeness, seeking permanence by city walls and a tall image. The tower is not a structure in the ground but an image in the mind—a fiction of control that says, 'We can reach the heights by our own effort.' In Neville's terms, they build to insist on a name, to define themselves apart from the Whole, and so the unity of the earth becomes a scattered chorus of separated selves. Yet the moment of their folly is only the moment every mind encounters when it attempts to fix reality as something it can own by external signs. The remedy is the inward revision: awaken to the I AM that already spans every brick, every mason, every plan, and every fear. When one privately asserts, 'I am one with the Whole,' the image of a tower dissolves into a radiant sense of unity, and the city becomes a cooperative harmony rather than a striving ego.