Weep Not For The Departed
Jeremiah 22:10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 22 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage says not to weep for the dead, but to lament the one who leaves and will not return to the old homeland of thought. The real sorrow is the loss of a fixed self, not a body.
Neville's Inner Vision
Plainly, the dead are not bodies but former states of consciousness; the one who goes away is the old you clinging to a failed identity; the native country is your habitual mental climate. Do not grieve the exit; welcome the exile as a birth for the inner traveler away from the worn-out country. This exile is not punishment but a gift; it releases the I AM to reorganize itself around a fresh possibility. Your awareness is the ultimate authority; the old country dies in your imagination when you no longer feed it. The return you seek is the return to a living homeland of consciousness, not to the old street you once walked. By assumption and feeling it real, you plant the seed that the new self is already present; the outer world follows. If you catch yourself mourning, revise that moment into an inner prayer: 'I am now in the state of X.' Stay with that feeling until it becomes memory.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and assume the new state as if it already exists; declare 'I am in the state of wholeness now' and feel that truth until it is real.
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