Return of the Inner Shepherd

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this passage, the crisis is not a historical event but a shift in your consciousness. 'All ye shall be offended' is the moment your old self clings to control and texture; the 'shepherd smitten' is the death of the separate sense of 'I' that thinks it lacks support. The flock scattering abroad mirrors the dispersal of familiar thoughts, habits, and identities when faced with the truth that cannot be owned by the ego alone. Yet the promise 'after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee' is the inner guarantee that your awareness, the I AM, does not abandon you; it moves you to your inner Galilee—the quiet, fruitful ground where you imagined and created before and can do so again in a higher sense. The 'resurrection' is not a miracle happening outside you, but the transformation of your sense of self from a mere personality to the aware presence that chooses and asserts reality. When you align with that I AM, the scattered pieces are drawn back, not by force but by the natural authority of consciousness.