Transforming Pangs Into Awareness

Neville's Inner Vision

Behold the inner theatre: the hands that faint, the heart that melts, the fear that grips the self are not intruders from without but movements of consciousness reacting to a belief in separation. The 'they' are parts of your own mind, startled by a dream called danger, and the 'faces as flames' are the distorted light cast by that fear. When you know that you are the I AM, the knower who remains unchanged while the drama plays out, you can revise it by turning attention from the scene to the one who sees. Picture yourself as the I AM behind every thought and feeling—calm, still, and unafraid. In that posture the pangs lose their grip, the crowd of anxious voices quiet, and the dream dissolves into peace. The verse thus invites you to practice the inner act of resurrection: identify as the presence that never moves, and imagination will transform the apparent upheaval into a manifestation of your eternal calm.