Inner Siege and Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of Samaria as a state of consciousness, not a place on a map. The siege represents the steady pressure of a belief that life is lacking, that you are cut off from your true supply. The deportation to Assyria is the inner relocation of your awareness from one habitual thought-world to another—an exile from the kept-for-you sense of I AM. In Neville's terms, the events are inner movements of consciousness: the oppressor is a thought-identity, the deliverer is imagination. When you refuse to identify with fear or scarcity, you can imagine the city opening from within. The king of Assyria is the automaton of habit, the old stories of limitation, and yet you are invited to reverse the scene by declaring, 'I AM the sovereign I AM, here and now.' By assuming a new state of consciousness—an inward atmosphere where possibility is the reality—you invite the deported pieces of yourself back, not by external means but by the feeling of a present, complete presence. The siege ends where you permit imagination to reorder your inner geography, and the return to Samaria becomes the awakening that you are always free in the I AM.