What helped me deconstruct religion
As many of you know, I was raised Catholic. And for a long time, that made it almost impossible for me to fully integrate Neville’s teachings into my life. My biggest inner battle wasn’t intellectual. It was emotional. It was the guilt. The idea that Jesus “died for me” — and that by embracing the Law of Assumption, by claiming my divinity, I was somehow betraying Him. I felt selfish. Narcissistic. Ungrateful. And that guilt kept me spiritually paralyzed. But then I did something radical. I went back to the Bible — not through the lens of religion, but through the lens Neville teaches: psychologically, symbolically, inwardly. And everything changed. Neville says the Bible is not secular history. It is a drama taking place in the human imagination. Every character represents a state of consciousness. Every story is about YOU. When I stopped reading it as a story about an external God demanding sacrifice and started reading it as the story of awakening to “I AM,” the guilt dissolved. Jesus was not a victim appeasing an angry God. Jesus represents the awakened imagination. The crucifixion is the death of the old self. The resurrection is the realization of your true identity as God in expression. Neville boldly said: God became man so that man may become God — not another God, but God awakening within Himself. Religion taught me separation. Neville taught me identity. Religion said: “You are unworthy. Be saved.” Neville said: “You are the operant power. Assume the state and it will harden into fact.” And when I truly understood that “the Father and I are one” is not blasphemy but revelation, something shifted at my core. I was not turning my back on Jesus. I was finally understanding him. The guilt was never holy. It was conditioning. And the moment I released the idea of a jealous, external God and embraced the God within — the I AM — everything started to make sense. Not rebellion. Remembrance. Not narcissism. Responsibility. Not abandonment. Awakening.