Inner Hearing for the Afflicted

Neville's Inner Vision

To hear this is to awaken to the truth that the 'afflicted' state is a moment of inner conviction, not a permanent decree. The word 'drunken' here is a symbol of one who has tipped over in mind by fear, sorrow, or habit—not by wine but by the imagination that repeats lack. In Neville fashion, I remind you that God is the I AM within you, the ever-present witness of consciousness that can revise any scene. Your present suffering is a cue to turn attention from the outer world to the inner impression you are clinging to about yourself. Do not resist the felt heaviness; instead, declare that you are no longer identified with it. Assume a new state: you are whole, you are guided, you are beloved, and you stand in the mercy and future promised by the inner voice that speaks, 'Hear now this.' When you entertain that imagined feeling as if it were already true, the disturbing movements of the old state quiet, and a new possibility takes root. Compliance with the inner decree makes the outer scene bend toward mercy and a future that feels present.