Vessel Of Inner Exile

Neville's Inner Vision

Israel, in this reading, is your present sense of self—the I am that believes itself divided from the Source. To be swallowed up among the Gentiles is to be carried away by outward roles, opinions, or distractions until the living joy is forgotten. The vessel wherein is no pleasure is a mind loaded with dispute, scarcity, and effort, a hollow container that no longer contains the real delight of life. Yet this is not a verdict against you, but a call to revision. In Neville's practice, you return to the I AM and declare a new state as true. Assume you are already within the inner kingdom where pleasure is your natural state; feel it as if the exilic condition never happened. Imagine the Gentiles as activities of mind that you now command, not commands you. By feeling it real that you are the one who contains pleasure, you dissolve the sense of separation and invite the return; the exile ends as your consciousness embraces fullness and joy. Your judgment becomes accountability to the revised inner state, not to outward circumstance.