Jacob's Inner Flight

Neville's Inner Vision

Jacob in the story is not merely running from a man; he is awakening within a shift of consciousness. He rises, and with his household upon camels, he moves toward a promised land that is already within, a state of awareness called the land of Canaan. The cattle and goods are not merchandise alone but the faculties and riches you have gathered in Padanaram - the insights, loyalties, and dreams now mobilized by the I AM that knows itself as all-sufficiency. Laban's pursuit and Rachel's act of stealing images dramatize the residual whispers of idolatry, the old images you still allow to haunt your mind. Yet Jacob's flight is not flight from scarcity but a reorientation of attention: you turn away from the fear of lack and toward the mount Gilead of heightened perception. As you read, feel the shift from external control to inner direction, from alarm to quiet authority, from memory's limits to the limitless presence within.