Light Rising in Darkness

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 4:16 tells of a people seated in darkness who suddenly see a great light, and even in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. This is not a geographic change but a shift of inner weather—an altered state of consciousness. Darkness dwells in your attention when fear, doubt, or absence reign; light appears when you align with the I AM that you are, the steadfast awareness that never leaves you. In this posture, the world is not corrected by changing outer events; you revise your sense of self from within. The 'great light' is your renewed relationship to life, a revision in consciousness that makes what you call reality respond to your inner state. When you persist in feeling yourself as that light, your surroundings unfold as dawn in proportion to your inner certainty. The simple work is not to beg for light but to assume it, to revise your moment-by-moment sense of self, and to feel the truth of your being here and now.