John 17:16 Meaning They Are Not of the World Even

Something in you was never of this world. Not your name, not your history, not the roles you play, for these belong to the world of form and will pass. Beneath them lives a silent awareness, simply present, watching it all and untouched by it.

To know yourself as that awareness is to feel lightly held above the world even while walking through it. You still live here, you still act and love. But you no longer take yourself to be only a piece of the world, because you have felt the presence that was here before the world began.

The awakened faculties do not belong to the outer field of sense and appetite. Spoken from the single eye, this sets the inner presence and those gathered to it apart from the world, meaning the whole realm of the reasoning senses and their attachments. The I AM here is the pineal center, the point of awareness that never was of the world and cannot be pulled into it. What is gathered to that center shares its nature: raised above the crowd of outward thought, no longer sourced from the field of flesh.

To be not of the world is to have one's origin inside, in the still center of the head, rather than in the noise of the senses. The faculties that have been drawn up to the single eye simply no longer take their life from the outer field.

I am: the single eye, the pineal center of awareness that was never of the outer world.