Inner Exile of Wealth and Identity

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville Goddard vein, the text speaks not of geographic places but states of consciousness. The “mountain in the field” and the spoil become images of your inner possessions and cherished ideas that have grown without true alignment with the I AM. When you enthrone fear, attachment, or idolatrous images, you live as the one who has cut themselves from their spiritual heritage, compelled to serve “enemies” in unfamiliar terrains—the reactions and conditions of mind you did not intend. The anger described is the persistent fire of imagining separation, a furnace that burns until you awaken to the truth that you are not a victim of circumstance but the I AM aware of itself. By withdrawing your attention from the imagined entities that drive your loss and turning toward the presence that you are, you disallow the continuation of exile and begin to rebuild your inner kingdom from the within-out.