Inner Birds of Consciousness

Neville's Inner Vision

Do not mistake the letter for life. The birds Leviticus names are not creatures to be feared outside you; they are the varieties of thought that hover in your mind. When you accept them as food, you empower a state of consciousness that seems to govern your world. In Neville’s mirror, the “abomination among the fowls” is a reluctant appetite for certain imaginal states—fear, judgment, envy, dull habit—that you feed by dwelling on them. The I AM—the awareness you are—chooses which images you dwell upon. To “eat” these birds is to reinforce limitation; to “not eat” is to refuse identification with them. The Law becomes a discipline of inner appetite: you revise, and you feel it real that you are free from these states. By assuming the posture of the I AM, you can see these birds as fading forms, not facts in your experience. When you persist in the conviction that you are the creator of your life, your imagination reorders your inner climate: purity, integrity, and wholeness become the natural atmosphere. The birds fade as you stand in the reality of your true self.