Inner Separation Numbers 16:26-27

Neville's Inner Vision

Behold, the call to depart from the tents of these wicked men is a call to withdraw your attention from the inner atmosphere of wrongdoing. In Neville's language, you are not dealing with outward people, but with states of consciousness you entertain or resist. The 'wicked' are inner impulses—fear, blame, gossip, self-righteousness—that threaten your wholeness. To touch nothing of theirs is to refuse to invest your psychic energy in their drama; it is a decision to not identify with the sin, to hold to the I AM that is neither guilty nor condemned. When the people step away from the tabernacle, they are stepping out of the collective hypnosis that says 'this is real in me' and they are choosing a different inner posture—one of separation, purity, clarity. The consequence, 'lest ye be consumed in all their sins,' teaches that consciousness feeds what it dwells upon. By choosing a state that is not defined by another's fault, you unhook the imagined cause from the effect, and you become the creator who imagines a different end. Remember: God is I AM—awareness that can revise its world by a single assumption.