Arrival at Shalem: The Tent Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Jacob’s arrival at Shalem is not a geographical move but a psychic stance. Shalem represents a settled peace of consciousness; the city is a locus within your mind where you affirm your oneness with God. Padanaram is the mental restlessness that travels, plots, and measures outcomes. By pitching his tent before the city, Jacob makes a definitive inner alignment: he chooses to dwell in the awareness that God is Present and Loyally with him. In Neville's terms, the land of Canaan is your inner promised land, a state you enter by agreement with your I AM. The covenant loyalty is your unwavering assumption that you are already where you seek to be. The practical effect is a feeling of safety, steadiness, and trust that imagination creates reality. When you live from this inner throne, outer appearances adjust to the inner conclusion. The event is not happening to you; you are the one imagining it into being. Remember: present awareness is God; the "city" is your chosen state, and the tent is your temporary but real dwelling in that state.