Inner Covenant, Outer Consequences

Neville's Inner Vision

All that matters is your state of consciousness. The land is the current set of beliefs you hold about lack, danger, and exile. The prohibition on taking a wife or having children in this place marks the necessity to stop sowing new hopes within a fear-based atmosphere. The births here - new life, plans, or outcomes - die grievously because the soil is not prepared by faith but by fear; they are not lamented or buried to indicate you are to pretend nothing happened, but to indicate that the old seeds must be discarded. The sword and famine symbolize the cutting away of old identification; the carcasses feed the beasts, meaning leftovers of old thought nourish the opening of a new state. The inner command remains: awaken to the I AM and revise the entire scene. Once you claim I AM, you replant in a different soil, and the land becomes receptive to a life that is not subject to the external pattern. By imagining from the end already having what you seek you displace the former place with a world formed by your consciousness.