From Banquet to Inner Release

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the words as a mirror of your inner state. The 'captivity' is a captivity of consciousness; the first to go captive are the parts of you that stretch themselves in pride and external display—the banquet you feed with self-exaltation. When you identify with that self-created banquet, you are bound by belief; the reversal begins when you recognize that the true I AM is the awareness that witnesses both feast and famine. God, or the I AM within, is not in the banquet nor in its removal but in the awareness that observes both. By imagining yourself as the one who experiences, you can revise the scene: you are not the captive of circumstance but the creator of your inner weather. The removal of the banquet is not punishment but a correction—an inner alignment that dissolves the belief in separation. Once you accept that your life is a dream of the I AM, you can feel the shift from scarcity to abundance, from ego-centered feast to serene freedom.