Inner Siege, Nourished Spirit

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah speaks of a famine so brutal that people would turn on one another. In the language of Neville's psychology, this is a state of consciousness: fear, scarcity, and the belief that life is under siege. The flesh eaten is not literal but the vitality we surrender to anxiety, blaming others, or surrendering to the sensation that life is rationed and enemies are closing in. When a mind identifies with lack, every inner moment becomes straitened, and nourishment appears only as threat. Yet the verse also points beyond punishment to a remedy: a shift of identification from the stress of the siege to the I AM within—the eternal, inner food of consciousness. By choosing to imagine from wholeness, we reverse the specter of cannibalism; we no longer consume ourselves with fear but feed on divine life, which is always present as awareness. The imagination, rightly used, rebuilds the inner economy. In practice, dwell in the assumption that you are sustained by the living I AM, and let inner feasting replace famine. The outer world then aligns with this inner climate.