Inner Wilderness Restoration

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the text, the 'she' is not a woman but an inner state of consciousness that has forgotten its Source. The uprooting and casting down symbolize beliefs that you are separated from your I AM, that life is governed by external winds. The east wind drying the fruit is the pressure of thought that parches your vitality when you identify with lack. The breaking of the strong rods and the consuming fire reveal old forms and energies that must fall away as you rise to a new awareness. Yet the final line—planted in the wilderness—shows that even misfortune serves your inner discipline when viewed through the right lens. In Neville's teaching, the wilderness is a neutral stage in the mind where you may revise the scene. By assuming your true state—the I AM—and feeling the wish as already real, you plant yourself in fertile ground. Your inner vision becomes the soil; attention becomes water; feeling is the sun. When you persist in the assumed reality, the dry, thirsty ground yields fruit again, and the external world begins to answer not to punishment but to the change you have already embraced within.