Inner Desolation, Inner I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

Isaiah 18:6 speaks not of a map of lands but a map of mind: desolation arises where I have ceded the inner throne to fear and doubt. The left to the fowls of the mountains and the beasts of the earth is my perception that I am apart from the one life, that outer conditions rule my being. In Neville's frame, such desolation is a state of consciousness that seeks to express itself as experience. The fowls and beasts are the restless thoughts and anxious feelings that circle attention and threaten my sense of safety. When I forget the I AM within, I cast my life to these wilds; when I remember that God is the I AM here and now, the entire scene rearranges. I revise the picture by affirming that my inner kingdom remains intact, that awareness supersedes appearances, and that imagination is the creator. By dwelling in the I AM, I feel the desolation dissolve, and a new order of healing and possibility takes its place in the height of consciousness.