Golgotha Within: Refusing the Bitter Wine

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the gospel scene, Golgotha is not a distant hill but a symbolic interior state: the moment you permit yourself to suffer, you have walked to the skull-shaped awareness where old identifications end. The vinegar and gall are the world's bitter proposals—cupfuls of blame, fear, or unworthiness—presented to your attention to numb or sour your consciousness. Jesus’ tasting and refusal reveals the decision of the I AM in you: you do not drink the narratives that perpetuate separation or pain. In the inner drama, the cross is not an external punishment but your decisive alignment with the truth of your being: I AM, awareness, the sovereign observer who chooses what flavor to inhabit. When you resist the bitter drink, you release the old self-impressions and permit a new sense of being to emerge, a vitality that need not be compromised by appearances. The scene invites you to practice inner sovereignty, turning suffering into an opportunity to affirm the reality that imagination creates your experience.