Inner Cities Restored

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's psychology, the valley is a state of consciousness and the cities are inner dispositions. The fall of Saul and his sons marks the end of a ruling identity—an old sense of 'I' that governed your mental geography. When that king dies, the natural impulse is to abandon the towns; fear sees only ruin and exits. Yet the inner truth remains: you are the I AM, the awareness that never left the field of vision. The Philistine invasion is not an enemy outside you but uncancelled thoughts and habits that have moved in when you consent to limitation. By claiming a new state—feeling as if the city is yours again, imagining it inhabited by light—you reoccupy the territory. The Christians would call it a renewal; Neville would call it a revision of your consciousness. The return to sovereign living is quiet, specific: you choose the state now and dwell there, letting the old ruin serve as reminder rather than ruler. You never truly fled; you simply forgot who you are within.