Opening the Inner City Gates

Neville's Inner Vision

What you see in Isaiah is not a ruined city of bricks, but a consciousness abandoned to fear, scarcity, and doubt. The 'city of confusion' is your current state of attention when you identify with lack and separation. The closed houses signify thoughts and beliefs that will not receive inspiration, the doorways shut to new implies. The cries for wine in the streets point to seekings outside yourself, gratification bought in the world, while inner joy has darkened—so the light of true being seems lost. The desolation of the city and the gate struck with destruction announce the collapse of the outward gatekeeping of the self, the limits you have assumed about who you are and what you can experience. Yet this vision points to a transformation: you can revise it by turning the attention inward, claiming the I AM as your permanent occupant. In that superior mood, the walls dissolve, doors open, and the mirth returns as a natural radiance of awareness. When you dwell in the assumption that you are God in action, you re-create the city as a temple, a dwelling place of fullness rather than famine.