Inner Vineyard, Bitter Wine

Neville's Inner Vision

From a Neville Goddard perspective, these verses are not about geography but your inner state. The 'vine of Sodom' signals a consciousness that has drunk from fear, blame, and separation; its fruit is bitter, its clusters gall, and the wine becomes the poison that flows from a mind identified with lack. When you live as the I AM, you know that God is not out there but the light of awareness within you. Your present experience is not a punishment but a translation of your inner assumptions. The verse invites you to notice when your awareness has leaned toward corruption and to revise it. By assuming a new dream—one in which the vine yields sweet fruit and the wine nourishes—you begin to alter the texture of your world. The key is feeling it real: dwell in the conviction that your true self is whole and that error is merely a mistaken measurement of consciousness. In that shift, the poison dissolves into life.