Inner Flight and Timely Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the 'woe' is not a prophecy imposed upon you from outside, but a state you have accepted within. The pregnant and nursing imagery symbolize the soul’s most vulnerable identifications—those beliefs that you must suffer until a certain season or condition changes. The warning about flight not coming in winter becomes a psychological instruction: do not wait for external weather to become favorable; change the weather inside. In Neville’s language, the winter is a stagnant consciousness; the winter is any delay in the imagination. Your true safety and timing are not contingent on external circumstances but on your present assumption of the end you seek. If you imagine you have already passed through the trial and are in possession of liberty, your inner state invites corresponding outer conditions to align. The moment you pray is the decision to dwell in a state of consciousness where the problem is already solved; the flight occurs as the shift in awareness, not as a journey through cold streets. Practice until the feeling is real.