Inner Witness and Turning

Neville's Inner Vision

See Luke 23:48-49 as a map of inner states. The smiting of the breasts is not guilt in time but a turning inward, a sudden recoil from a former belief about yourself. The crowd represents your outer responses, the public self that reacts to appearances. When they return, their action signals that the inward shift has begun, yet some stand afar off—the old acquaintances still clinging to the appearances and stories of who you were. The crucifixion scene then becomes a symbolic death of a former self, not a historical cross but a crossing of consciousness. If you identify with the witness—your higher I AM—you can allow this inner death to occur without resistance. The grace here is that you watch, do not fix, revise, and let the new state be born in your awareness. The event invites you to repent not by seeking forgiveness from God but by waking to a new inner knowing: you are the I AM, and the old self is no longer required to define you.