Inner Child on the Holy Mountain

Neville's Inner Vision

Inside Isaiah's vision, the sucking child and the weaned child are not physical ages but states of consciousness—innocence and fearless trust in the inner order. When the text says they shall not hurt nor destroy, Neville would read it as the transformation of your inner mountain into a sanctuary of awareness, where alarms, judgments, and separations dissolve into one pervasive knowing of the LORD. The earth becoming full of this knowledge means your entire experience becomes saturated with the I AM you are, the awareness that never wavers. Fear is replaced by playful curiosity, danger by harmlessness, and every creature—like the asp or cockatrice—becomes symbolic of thoughts you once believed to threaten you. Yet on this holy mountain, your attention is drawn back to the present moment, where the obvious truth is that you are the awareness in which all events unfold. As you dwell there, the world shifts to reflect that inner unity, and peace ripples outward as your life is rearranged by imagination.