Inner Cities of the Mind

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the eye of I AM, this conquest is not a military report but a map of consciousness. The cities in Argob and Bashan symbolize fixed patterns, fears, and identifications we have treated as undeniable defenses within ourselves. The fact that all these cities were taken means the old conditions that seemed to govern us have been acknowledged and welcomed into the light of awareness. The high walls, gates, and bars are the stubborn habits and beliefs that have fenced us off from vitality; their demolition signals the awakening that imagination creates reality. Og, the king of Bashan, becomes the image of the bulky ego in power, the impression that we must battle rather than revise. When you dwell in I AM—your true state of consciousness—you do not destroy, you reorient. You do not extend effort so much as you extend awareness, and the external geography shifts as the inner world changes. Deliverance is not external; it is the sovereign shift from fear to awareness, from separation to unity. Thus the inner capture is spiritual liberation: you stand within the kingdom, and everything of the old order yields to your realized self.