Garden of Presence Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the garden not as a place on a map but as a state of consciousness where you withdraw from the noise of externally defined danger into the quiet I AM. In this reading, Judas represents your own habit of betraying the moment by fears of loss—the counterfeit band of men your mind conjures when the present favors another outcome. The soldiers and torches symbolize restless thoughts that march at the gate of your awareness when you forget who you are. But Jesus, who repeatedly resorted thither with his disciples, is your stable I AM, the awareness that does not bow to threat. The sequence is a teaching: the drama of betrayal arises only when you identify with the object of fear rather than the observer of it. By returning to the garden within, you affirm your unity with the Presence that was there before doubt and will remain after it passes. The betrayal becomes a feedback loop telling you to return to the quiet and rewrite the scene from the vantage of I AM.