Silencing the Prophetic Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Take Micah 2:6 as a living mirror of the weather inside consciousness. When voices say, Prophesy ye not, they reveal the age-old habit of shielding the self from vision for fear of shame. In the Neville idiom, prophecy is imagination in active form—the inner declaration that something true exists now in consciousness. The outer command to be quiet is but a mirror of doubt, a belief that speaking your vision will injure you or invite blame. Yet the I AM, your essential awareness, cannot be shamed; it simply is. By assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you quiet the chorus of 'they,' and awaken the inner oracle. You do not silence the truth; you awaken it by dwelling in the end result, seeing the scene in your mind's eye as already accomplished, and letting the emotion of it saturate your being. So revise: I am the one who speaks truth to my world; I am unashamed of the vision within me. As you inhabit that conviction, the inner prophecy begins to shape your outer experience.