Inner Exile and Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 6:12 speaks of men being removed far away and a great forsaking in the land, but in Neville’s method the 'land' is the field of your own consciousness and the removals are shifts in attention. When you feel that others are distant, when the world seems stripped of support, that is not punishment but a signal that you have stepped into a new state. The I AM, the living presence, never departs; it only becomes more vivid in the absence of counterfeit idols. The remedy is not to plead with the outer situation but to revise the inner assumption. Assume you are already in the employment of the One Mind; feel the sufficiency of God within, and dwell there until your feeling is that nothing is truly forsaken. As you persist in that inner realization, the sense of desolation dissolves, and the perception of exile disappears. The inner return is the outer return you desire—when your inner state is peace.