John 5:28 Meaning Don’t Marvel at This

The graves are not plots in the ground. They are the deadened states of consciousness a person has fallen into and now lives from, states so fixed they feel like fact. Everyone lies buried in some assumption about himself: the small self, the sick self, the failed self, each one a tomb worn as an identity. Awakening from that spiritual death is what the hour brings, and it comes to all without exception.

The voice that reaches into every grave is your own awareness of being, the I AM in you, calling. When that awareness stops agreeing with the buried state and quietly claims the state it desires, the dead man stirs. Nothing outside performs this. The self that lay down in one condition hears itself name another, and rises into it. That is the resurrection, happening now, inside a person who simply changes what he assumes he is.

The graves are the bodies of sleeping people, the flesh in which awareness lies buried and unconscious of itself, taking the tomb of the senses for its whole world. The hour that comes is the moment of awakening, an appointed turn within when the inner voice, the word of one's own higher self, sounds through the deadened faculties and stirs them. To be in the grave is to be alive on the surface yet dead to the kingdom within; to hear the voice is to feel that buried life summoned back toward wakefulness. This is not a distant day for corpses but the rising of consciousness inside a living person who has been sleeping in the flesh.

Every person walking asleep in the body is a soul in a grave, and the awakening comes when the inner voice reaches that sleep and calls it back to life.

Graves: the bodies of living people in which awareness lies buried and asleep, mistaking the flesh for the whole of existence His voice: the word of the higher self within, the inner call that sounds through the deadened faculties and wakes them