Inner Crown at Shechem

Neville's Inner Vision

Rehoboam's journey to Shechem is the inner call to crown the self. In Neville's psychology, the people of Israel are the many faculties of desire, memory, perception, and faith leaning into a single will. The throne of king is the alignment of all these faculties with the I AM, the God within, the living awareness that you are. The city Shechem becomes your still point—the center where you claim sovereignty, not by domination but by recognition. When you affirm, I AM king of my inner realm, all Israel—your thoughts and feelings—gather to testify to that truth. The outer events you see then unfold as the response of your committed consciousness to its own order. Your belief in separation dissolves as unity takes the throne. The kingdom within is not earned; it is remembered. The day you imagine yourself crowned in your inner hall, you are reconstituting your life according to covenant loyalty: fidelity to the I AM.