Fleeing Toward Mount Gilead

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this text, the outer chase is a map of inner motion. I am the I AM who, weary of the old self, gathers all I am and rises beyond the river into the mount Gilead—the high ground of vision and healing. The river marks the boundary between belief in limitation and the certainty of freedom; when I set my face toward Gilead, I am choosing a state that no external pursuer can overturn. Laban and his company symbolize lingering thought-forms that resist the new state; their seven days of pursuit are the stubborn habits that try to reclaim me. Yet the third-day report signals an inner awakening: I have already fled the old condition in consciousness; I am already free in the inner sense, and the outer scene must conform to the revised state. I hold fast to the vision while my feeling confirms it: I am on the mountain of clear sight, where attachments fall away and faith becomes fact. The narrative invites me to dwell there until life reflects the change.