Silence Before Awakening
Mark 16:8 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Mark 16 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage shows the women leaving the tomb in fear and awe, and choosing silence rather than sharing the experience with others. It frames the moment as a potent encounter with an inner renewal that cannot yet be spoken.
Neville's Inner Vision
Mark 16:8 reveals a sudden inner event registered as fear and astonishment, not as a finished proclamation. In Neville's sense, the tomb is the old story of limitation held in consciousness; the trembling and the dawning wonder are the mind's recognition that a new life has begun within. They ran away because the old you cannot yet hold the truth, and so the mind clutches the familiar until it is ready to function from the new state. The key is to notice that nothing external needs to change for your inner life to awaken; you simply assume the end—the end where you know you are the I AM, the resurrection and the life. When you entertain this end, fear loosens its grip, and silence ceases to be lack of sharing and becomes the quiet of true knowing. The moment you accept that you are already standing in new life, your inner disposition shifts, and the outer world will echo your inner sense of being. Begin from the end you desire: awake, unafraid, and alive in the awareness that you are the I AM.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and revise the scene: you rise from the tomb of old stories, feeling the dawn of a fearless I AM within, and declare, 'I am awakened now.'
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