Exile of the Mind, Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s reading, Israel is a state of consciousness, not a geographic fate. The LORD is the I AM within you. Jeroboam’s groves and false worship represent clinging to outward forms while ignoring the living principle within. The Lord’s “smite” and uprooting are the shaking of your old beliefs, the reed in water that cannot stand the flood of a higher truth. The scattering beyond the river signifies dislodging false roots that fed ego rather than soul. These events invite you to examine your inner worship and to relinquish images of separation from God. The remedy is to awaken to the I AM here and now, restoring the “good land”—your present, unshakable awareness—as your native home. When you imagine and feel that divine order already stands within you, the outer exile dissolves and you return to a life governed by inner truth, not by fear or ritualistic form.