Captive Stillness by the River

Neville's Inner Vision

Like Ezekiel stepping into the exiles' circle, you enter a mental captivity of your own making and sit with it until the mind stops striving. The river and the exile are inner currents; the seven days are a period of deliberate stillness in which awareness watches rather than judges. In Neville's terms, the I AM assumes the scene and, by immersion, permits the old story to soften. You do not change the outward circumstance by force; you shift your consciousness. As you sit with the feeling of captivity, you observe the thoughts and feelings as if they were actors on a stage, knowing you are the steady observer behind them. The 'astonished' moment is not fear but a dawning clarity: the sense of separation is a belief your attention has entertained, not a law of your being. When the seven days complete, a new possibility glows into awareness—an inner version of freedom that precedes outward change. Your task is to become the watchful I AM, letting impressions be, revising them with the certainty that your imagination is the instrument of reality.