Inner Exile of Samaria

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Samaria as the center of your being—the seat of your chosen self—taken by an outside power. The king of Assyria represents a thought-system that believes in separation and lack, sweeping Israel away from its homeland of awareness. The places named—Halah, Habor by the river of Gozan, the Medes—are not mere geography; they are inner landscapes where your attention is moved from the I AM to transient identities. In this telling, exile is not punishment for history but a metaphor of consciousness misidentifying itself as finite. Yet the I AM remains, the one constant beneath every scene. The fall of the kingdom reveals the law: events in the outer story mirror inner movements. When you embrace this, you see that the actual territory is the mind you inhabit; you can repent, but more truly you awaken to the realization that you have never truly left your true country. The ninth year speaks of persistence: the inner watch over thoughts endures until the inner Jerusalem is remembered and the scattered aspects are gathered home.