Wakeful Deliverance, Proverbs 6:4-5

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, these verses are not commands to escape a hunter outside you, but a reminder that you are always awake in a state you have chosen. Sleep is surrender to fear, and slumber is agreeing with limitation. The hunter and the fowler are only projections of a mind that has forgotten its sovereign power. Deliver thyself means awaken to the consciousness that you are not the hunted, but the aware, choosing the conditions of your life. When you imagine as if your wish fulfilled, you shift the entire space of your experience. The roe and the bird become symbols of your freedom, not victims of external hands. By assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you place your attention in the state that produces the circumstance. Providence guides your steps as you remain steadfast in the inner certainty that you are safe, free, and unthreatened by any outer hand. Your body follows the inner movement, and life rearranges itself to reflect your inner assumption.