The Idol Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Idols are not out there apart from you; they are states of consciousness wearing the form of a statue. The mouths that speak through a statue reveal your habit of granting power to external images. The eyes that see but do not discern show how belief can pretend to witness truth while remaining unmoved. The ears that hear but cannot respond indicate a mind that consumes appearances without inward response. Neville would teach that the life and voice you attribute to an idol are your own projection, and therefore you can uncreate them by turning your attention to the I AM, the living awareness within. When you claim, here and now, the consciousness that you are the I AM—complete, unbounded, and alive—you dissolve the lifelessness of the symbols. The idol's nightmarish silence becomes a reminder to seek life in the inner dwelling of God within. True worship, in this sense, is the reorientation of your entire psychology toward divine consciousness, not clinging to matter or form.