From Slippery Ground to Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

These verses invite us to see that the 'slippery places' are not external hazards but movements of consciousness. The security we chase in the world is only a belief we have not yet awakened from. When I identify with those beliefs—fear, grievance, or the sense of lacking—I slide along a mental slope that ends in desolation and terror. Yet the moment I awaken to I AM, the whole landscape shifts: the objects and others I feared lose their authority because I no longer empower them with my attention. The command to awaken is a practical instruction: assume I am already awake to my true nature, and revise the scene from that ground. As I persist in feeling the I AM as my immediate experience, the dream-image of danger fades, and the image of life rises in its stead. The verse ends with despising the image, a reminder that what I reject loses its power to rule me. By living from consciousness, I prove that appearances are reflections of inner state, not fixed facts.