Fleeing Cities Within

Neville's Inner Vision

From the interior vantage, the outward flight signals an inner turning. The 'men of Israel' are not merely people; they are states of consciousness scattered by fear. The valley and the Jordan represent thresholds within you where attention is split. When you witness the dream of lack—your sense of self dissolved—the mind calls it reality in the external world. But God—the I AM—your innermost awareness—remains unshaken. The fleeing, the death of Saul and his sons, and the 'cities' left bare describe a mental scene you have believed as true. The Philistines symbolize hostile thoughts and memories occupying space once held by your inner order. The remedy is not to fight the invader but to revise the scene in imagination, to assume a different state of knowing. Place yourself within you: the city becomes a belief of wholeness, not loss. Feel the return of power, the restoration of your inner kingdom, and let the Philistines retreat as you declare, 'I am still here, I am sovereign.'