Inner Birth of Ishmael

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 16:16 invites us to read the scene as a states-of-consciousness drama. Abram stands as the fixed awareness you identify with; eighty-six marks a mature, settled certainty. Hagar represents the outer image you used to produce a result, and Ishmael is the birth that follows from that image. In Neville’s psychology, the outer event is the echo of an inner assumption. If you believe a thing is born through time and people, you are still operating in the old consciousness; but if you awaken that the I AM is the source of birth, you cease seeking the 'when' and begin living from the feeling of the wish already fulfilled. The birth of Ishmael is your cue to revise: you do not need to depend on external agents; you depend on your inner state alone. By choosing a new assumption—'I am the I AM, and the new reality is formed now'—you align your images with the truth that consciousness births form. Then the world will adjust to reflect that certainty, without you striving against it.