Hearing Oppression Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Amos 8:4 speaks with a single, merciless sensation: those who swallow up the needy are really starving the inner richness of life. In Neville’s terms, the 'oppression' you see in the world is the outer sign of a inner state—the belief that scarcity governs your world and that others must fail so you can rise. When you hear the command to 'hear this,' you are being invited to listen for the internal movement that judges, taxes, or withholds from the vulnerable. The land represents your life-field, and the poor are the living image of lack within your own consciousness. To change the scene, you do not fight the outer condition, you revise the inner assumption. Assume that the I AM within you already supplies all things; feel the reality of abundance in the chest, the bank account, the friendships, the health, as if the lack never existed. When you choose this inward posture, the so-called oppressors dissolve, and justice manifests as a natural movement of consciousness outward.