Inner Welfare of the I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

In this scene you are Joseph, the conscious I AM, speaking to the inner elders about the welfare of the old man—the fixed self-concept you call father. The old man stands for your established identity, a lineage of belief about who you are. Their answer—'your father is in good health, he is yet alive'—is not about a person in a room; it is the affirmed vitality of your inner state that animates all you know. The bowing of their heads is your surrender to that living consciousness, a reverent alignment of every faculty to the truth that the I AM within you is alive, well, and in control. When you accept this, you stop seeking elsewhere and begin living from the steady light of inner health. If disturbance arises, revise your assumption: 'The old man in me is well,' and feel that vitality coursing through you now. Your outward life will reflect that inward alignment, for God is the awareness that notices and sustains you.