Inner Counsel Contrast

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the chapter is not about politics but about the inner counsel that governs your life. Absalom asks for Hushai, as the ego asks for a second opinion before moving forward; the outer voice seeks authority, the inner I AM discerns. Hushai speaks from a higher alignment, framing Ahithophel’s advice as not good at this time, a gentle way of saying the conditions have changed and a different seed must be planted. In Neville's psychology, Ahithophel's counsel represents a stale state of mind—old plans born of fear or attachment—while Hushai embodies the living counter-counsel of discernment. The phrase 'at this time' is key: reality is shaped by consciousness, and in this moment you are free to revise. If you accept the inner revision, you construct a new scene in your imagination that aligns with the I AM, and the outer circumstances begin to bend to the new inner fact. The inner king, not the external plan, is the source of truth; when you yield to this inward guidance, your kingdom follows.