The City That Cannot Burn

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakened, the army and the city are states of consciousness. The Chaldeans are not a distant army but reverberations of fear, doubt, and judgment in your mind. The city is your inner life, the sanctuary of I AM awareness. When the text says you had defeated them, yet they could rise in their tents and burn the city, it speaks to the stubborn habit of certain thoughts to return and consume your inner atmosphere, even after you seem to have triumphed outwardly. The 'wounded men' are still lingering memories and self-doubts; their tents are the rehearsals of old stories, and if you feed them with attention, they rise and burn. Neville's method is to reverse the scene by assuming a state of consciousness where the city cannot burn. Plant the feeling 'I AM' as the sovereign observer; imagine that even if the external situation changes, your inner state remains intact and unassailable. In this present moment, dwell in the conviction that the inner city is secure, and allow the imagined new state to displace the old narrative. Imagination creates reality; begin with the assumption, not the forecast.