Waves of Fear, Inner Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard vantage, the waves are not out there; they are the surging thoughts of a mind remembering itself as separate from the I AM. The psalmist's fear corresponds to a state of consciousness wherein the sense of self is caught in danger. Yet you are not the fear you feel; you are the awareness that perceives the fear. When the imagery says death and floods surround, imagine you are the I AM, the steady, unmovable light that witnesses the storm. The fear arises as a belief that the entire scene is real, but you can revise it by insisting, 'I am the presence that perceives this,' and by imagining a calm, bright center within. As you dwell in that inner I AM, the external appearance of waves dissolves into motion of awareness. Your imagination can alter the scene by shifting the role from spectator to creator. Do not seek to escape; instead, identify with the constancy that remains while the storm passes. The verse becomes a classroom in which fear reveals itself as a transient state you can change by a deliberate act of imagining.