Damsel Not Dead, But Sleep

Neville's Inner Vision

To the reader, the scene is not a miracle performed on another time, but a map of your own inner life. The house of the ruler stands for the mind where fear and grief gather as a crowd. The damsel who sleeps is a state of consciousness that seems dead to the senses, yet is only dormant, waiting for the touch of recognition. The laughing crowd reveals your stubborn beliefs about finality and lack. When Jesus asks, Why make ye this ado? he is the voice of your higher awareness challenging the noise. He dismisses the noise and steps into the chamber with the father and mother of the damsel—the two highest aspects of yourself ready to witness a birth. In that holy space, the life that appeared to be dead awakens; healing is the restoration of your inner state, not the alteration of external events. The magic is simple: affirm the reality of life here and now, and believe in the waking power of I AM presence. Faith, in this sense, is not belief about something outside, but the decisive shift of consciousness that makes restoration real.