Whispers in the Inner Crowd

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the crowd about Jesus is not a distant group but a figure of your own inner state. The two verdicts, 'good' and 'deceiver,' reveal two currents within consciousness: trust and doubt about what you, in God-consciousness, reveal to be true. The fear that no man spoke openly for fear of the Jews is the self-censorship of your I AM when faced with judgment, with social pressure, or with the authority you imagine over you. In truth, the I AM cannot be judged by a crowd, for it stands beyond opinion. When you stop identifying with the crowd’s verdict and assume you are already in right relation to truth, the inner murmur quiets. The opposition you fear is a thought-form; you feed it by attention. Return to the awareness that you are one with the I AM, and reinterpret every outward opinion as a passing thought, not a binding fact. The two voices within—good and deceiver—become a dialogue you choose, until you rest in the certainty that you are free from fear of judgment and aligned with truth.