From Ruin to Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Isaiah speaks in the language of ruin, but the ruin is not the end; it is the mind's way of saying, 'you have forgotten your inner provision.' The fields, teats, and fruitful vines are your capacities to nourish sensation, intention, and action; when you believe external possession is the source of joy, the inner fields lie fallow and thorns overgrow. The land of my people becoming briars is the awakening of limiting thoughts that choke imagination; the houses of joy in the joyous city become empty, not because life has vanished, but because your awareness has wandered from its center. The palaces forsaken, forts and towers left to wild asses, signify a mind that has misplaced its sovereignty, turning defense into a pasture for animals. Yet the prophecy quietly points to a return: by turning from fear to I AM, by assuming the feeling of the fulfilled condition, you shepherd the inner city back to life. In this reading, exile ends whenever you acknowledge that the joyous city exists now within.