Fear, Pit, and the I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

Fear, the pit, and the snare are not random enemies out there; they are the conditions of your inner state. The pit is a belief you have fallen into, a pattern you act from; the snare is the habit that tightens when you define yourself by that fear. To flee the noise of fear is to double the problem, for you carry the siren into deeper confinement. If you rise from the pit, you may still be caught in a snare until you revise the scene with a new assumption. The opening of windows from on high and the shaking of foundations announce a shift in your inner climate: a door of awareness swings open and the old ground trembles to be re-laid by a truer self. In Neville’s method, fear is a dream you can wake from by aligning with the I AM—the awareness that you are not the fear but the watcher of it. Providence comes when you acknowledge your own sovereignty, and guidance appears as felt-sense assurance that you are safe. Exile and return describe leaving the old fearful state and returning to your everlasting I AM.