Inner Sleep to Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the verse is not a timetable but a map of consciousness. The man who lies down and does not rise represents a mind convinced that life ends with appearances, that the changing heavens of the world determine waking. In Neville’s terms, God is the I AM, the constant awareness within which every moment unfolds. If you take the heavens to be outer circumstances, you discover they are but mental weather. The true waking comes when you identify not with the body or the time-bound world, but with the I AM that cannot die. The sleep is a false sense of separation from Life; the resurrection is a present transformation of self into the reality that you are always awake in. Your imagination is the redeeming power, and you need not await an outer event to awaken; you are the awakeness that makes the outer world shift. The eternal horizon lies within, where you already live as the I AM, inseparable from all Life.