Hunger Dream of Nations

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner theater, hunger and thirst are not of the stomach but of consciousness. When Isaiah speaks of a man dreaming of eating or drinking, he points to the mind’s habit of solving lack by chasing appearances—political power, conquest, or external nourishment. In my terms, the hungry man who wakes to emptiness is you and me when we mistake sensation for reality. The dream seems to feed the soul as long as we identify with the body of desire; the moment I awaken to the I AM within, I see that the nourishment I sought was only a projection of belief. The real Zion is not a city under siege but a state of awareness wherein God, the I AM, provides. Prophecy then becomes an invitation to examine inner movements: where am I fighting an imagined enemy, and what belief must I revise to taste fullness here and now? If I insist that fullness comes from victory, I prolong hunger; if I revise the assumption and dwell in the presence of Spirit, the dream dissolves, and the soul notices it has always eaten and drunk from a timeless feast.