Inner Exile, Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

In this view, the Scripture is a map of your own consciousness. Manasseh represents a stubborn, self-willed state within the heart—an inner Jerusalem defended by ego. Because that state has acted, the I AM permits your awareness to be dispersed into many kingdoms of the earth—the different conditions, moods, and experiences that appear in your life—as a vivid sign for you to wake. Exile here is not external punishment but a revealing of your inner landscape: your thoughts and attachments have created a pattern of dispersion, so you can observe, acknowledge, and reframe them. When you realize you are the I AM and that nothing exists outside your consciousness, the scattering loses its grip. The moment you revise Manasseh by affirming the I AM as sovereign of all states, the outward dispersion dissolves and the inner Jerusalem coalesces at your center. Return is then a conscious re-creation within, not a journey outward.