Garments of the Inner Eye

Neville's Inner Vision

Put yourself inside the cry of Psalm 22:16-18 as a description of your own consciousness when it forgets its oneness. The 'dogs' and the 'assembly of the wicked' are the inner voices of fear and habit that circle around your attention, convincing you that you are defined by limitation. To say 'they pierced my hands and my feet' is to name the moment when your sense of action and mobility feels bound by a scene you have accepted as real. 'They look and stare upon me' marks the conviction that others’ judgments determine your fate. 'They part my garments' and 'cast lots' reveal the ego's urge to fix a future by outer conditions. But all of this is a projection of your current state of consciousness, not an objective verdict. The rescue is to assume a different state now—feel the reality of your original I AM, the inner king or queen who clothes you in sovereignty. Revise the scene by imagining the crowd dispersing, the bindings dissolving, and your garment restored as a sign of wholeness. Stay with the feeling until it becomes your immediate experience; the outer world will follow.