From Fear to Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

I read this text as a map of your inner states. The chased roe and the sheep that no man takes up are not distant people; they are you when you forget who you are. The mass fear you read about in the world is the mind running from the realization that there is only I AM present. When it says they turn to their own people and flee into their land, that is your urge to cling to familiar identities rather than stand still in the light of your own consciousness. The sentence about those found being thrust through and those joined to them falling by the sword is the temporary breaking of old agreements of thought; the inner 'thrust' is your belief that separation can touch the I AM. Their children dashed, houses spoiled, wives ravished—these are symbolic destructions of former beliefs and stories you have believed about yourself. Yet the message is hopeful: exile and return are within you. Return to your inner kingdom where fear dissolves as you assume the state of awareness that cannot be moved by appearances.