From High Places to Inner Cosmos

Neville's Inner Vision

From Neville's vantage, the verse demystifies worship by naming outer shrines as inner states of consciousness. The high places, hills, and every green tree are not distant altars but the places your attention goes to when you have given power to a belief apart from the I AM. When you sacrifice and burn incense there, you are not appeasing a god outside you but propping up a state of lack or dependence that your imagination has accepted as real. The remedy is not to flee geography but to withdraw allegiance from the imagined idols and to reallocate worship to the inner altar—the awareness that notices itself. The 'I AM' is not a distant deity but the living witness by which all events are woven; you revise the scene by assuming a new state: you are the one who imagines and thus determines the scene. By this act, every hill becomes a symbol of your inner sovereignty, and the green trees become the flourishing of a life envisioned by the mind that dwells in peace.