The Empty Tomb Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Two witnesses stand at the tomb of the old self: the watcher who looks yet hesitates to enter, and the inner observer who steps inside and perceives. The linen clothes lie as forms of thought laid bare; the napkin, neatly wrapped apart, signals a reordering of mind when belief arises. When the other disciple enters and believes, it is not belief in a historic event but a birth of consciousness—the inner recognition that the I AM is present, that life is not chained to appearances, and that the end of the old self is a doorway to a higher consciousness. Resurrection, then, is a conversion of sight: you turn from seeking proof in the world to knowing from within that the I AM sustains all. The tomb is empty because the identity you sought dissolves into awareness, and the living presence of God—the I AM—now stands where you once looked for life outside.