Turning Toward Truth Within

Neville's Inner Vision

John in the text is not a man but the active right-naming of truth within your consciousness. The publicans and harlots who believed him symbolize states of awareness that yield to righteousness when it appears; they do not resist the new form but allow it to rewrite their inner atmosphere. The leaders who did not repent represent those parts of self clinging to a former self-image, refusing the inner revision that makes truth tangible. In Neville's psychology, events are the movements of inner states; the outer scene simply reveals what your inner life has already decided. When you insist on seeing the world as separate from your consciousness, you deny the very belief that would birth it. Yet when you align your I AM with the truth—when you feel the conviction that righteousness is already yours—the belief becomes real and the outward conditions follow. Repentance, then, is not groaning over past mistakes but a turning of your entire state of consciousness toward the truth you already know in your deepest self. The day you choose to believe in that inner voice, you walk in the kingdom here and now.