Inner Race to the Tomb

Neville's Inner Vision

Two versions of you sprint toward what you imagine as the tomb: the old self clinging to past definitions, and the higher self quick to recognize the truth of being. The other disciple outrunning Peter is the inner fact that awareness moves faster than belief; it enters the tomb—the formed pattern of lack—and finds it empty, because life is not imprisoned by a tomb of form. In Neville's terms, the tomb is your former self-concept, the grave of 'I am not enough.' The moment you realize that the I AM is always present, you discover the implied resurrection: life is the continuance of consciousness, not the rescue of a historical body. Thus, faith is not about hoping for change someday, but about assuming a new state of consciousness here and now. When you 'go to the tomb' in imagination and feel the truth that the old self has no power, you become the resurrected you, living from the awareness that you are the I AM, and that the future you seek is the present realization of your being.