Betrayal as Inner Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Judas and the crowd are not out there but the echo of a belief within. In Neville's terms, the betrayer is a texture of fear you entertain about your own power; the kiss is the sign you give to a mistaken identity, the 'thief' you think you must pursue. The arrest, the strike, and the disciples' retreat reveal inner movements you have accepted as real. When Jesus asks, 'Are ye come out... to take me?' he invites you to perceive that the drama is a projection of consciousness. The line 'the scriptures must be fulfilled' is the inner law of your state: what you imagine yourself to be becomes the world you live. Rather than resist, you revise by adopting a new assumption: I am the I AM, fearless, sovereign, and present here and now. As you hold that state, outward scenes loosen their grip, the 'betrayal' dissolves into a renewal of trust, and runaway fantasies fall away in the light of awareness.