Linen, Tomb, and Inner Resurrection

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's psychology, the tomb is a state of consciousness; the linen is belief; the stone sealing the door is a boundary of your current identity. When you encounter this text, you are shown how a prior self is buried under habit and certainty. The body laid in the rock-hewn tomb represents your past identifications—desires, fears, and roles you call 'who I am.' The act of wrapping in linen is the gathering of those beliefs into one garment you wear to keep a former self intact. The stone rolled to the door marks the moment you accept a boundary as permanent. Yet to Neville's mind, consciousness is the sole reality; awareness can revise any state. Thus, the tomb can become a symbol of an old mindset you intentionally lay to rest, and the act of rolling away the stone becomes the deliberate feeling that a new possibility is now present. Resurrection, then, is the present experience of choosing a new identity that feels true in the I AM.