Inner Cleanliness and I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, Leviticus 11:29–31 points to an inner map, not a civil ritual. The 'unclean' among the creeping things are the subtle states of mind—nagging worries, small judgments, habits that slink through awareness. To touch them 'when they be dead' means to engage with them from the old self—the belief in separation—so you feel unclean until the evening of renewed insight. The cleansing comes when you return to the I AM, the awareness that you are not the thoughts you think but the witness who thinks them. Do not battle the creatures; revise your sense of self by claiming, here and now, that you are the pure, intact consciousness. Let the specter of uncleanness fade as your inner standard rises, and watch the outer world reflect your new assumption. In this light, the 'creeping things' lose their power; your life becomes a field where the I AM stands as law, and cleanliness is simply the natural state of being.