The Inner Siege

Neville's Inner Vision

The narrative of Samaria stands as a vivid portrait of your inner landscape. Ben-Hadad’s siege represents the accumulation of fear thoughts pressing upon the mind, reorganizing its attention away from life and possibility. The great famine is not simply hunger in a city; it is a symbolic drought in the imagination, a belief that the inner kingdom has nothing to nourish its higher desires. The ass’s head and the dove’s dung symbolize crude, repulsive outputs born when one’s attention dwells on appearances, lack, and survival rather than the unseen fullness of being. This is not a punishment but a signal: your inner state has become identified with lack. The remedy is immediate and simple in Neville’s terms—assume the end. Let the I AM within you declare abundance and dwell there with the feeling of sufficiency. Persist in that revised state, and the external scene will shift to reflect the inner reality, for imagination creates reality and your inner world governs every outward circumstance. The siege dissolves when consciousness shifts from lack to wholeness.