Pruning for Inner Harvest

Neville's Inner Vision

In this scripture, the harvest is your inner timing; the bud represents readiness of consciousness. The pruning hooks cut away sprigs—your limiting beliefs, fears, and identifications—so the branches are removed. By pruning, you do not destroy life; you liberate the vitality that would cling to the old form. The fowls of the mountains and the beasts of the earth symbolize habitual thoughts and external conditions that feast on what you neglect to release. In Neville's sense, your awareness remains intact through the process—the I AM that notices—while the outer world takes on the form produced by your inner action. As you perceive the old self diminishing, the outer environment reflects the harvest you have already imagined. The real work is the inner assumption that the old self is pruned and that new growth is already seeded within you, awaiting expression.