Craving and Inner Consequences

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Numbers passage, the external event is only the last chapter of a longer drama: it reveals a state of consciousness in which the mind clings to appetite as its guide. The 'flesh between their teeth' is the immediate purchase of sensation, a brief moment of imagined satisfaction before it is chewed and swallowed by the ego. The 'wrath of the LORD' is not a punitive personage but the shutting down of life is a correction of thinking—when a lower state asserts itself against the higher I AM. The people are inner dispositions; the lusting is an attachment to gratification; Kibrothhattaavah is the inner cemetery where such attachments are buried when their consequences are faced. The plague is the friction between built-up desire and the truth of your being as awareness. This is the discipline of obedience and faithfulness: to recognize that the I AM can govern appetite, and that naming the place marks the end of that inner state and its replacement by a higher vibration. The remedy is not withdrawal alone, but a conversion of hunger into trust that your inner governor supplies nourishment without having to consume through illusion.