Inner Waters Rising

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard vantage, the Philistines and Gaza become names for states of consciousness resisting change. The warning 'waters rise up out of the north' is not a weather report but a perception report: thoughts, fears, and old identities rushing in from the unseen north to overwhelm the known land of your life. The city and its people symbolize your sensory world and the roles you play, and the howl is the cry of the old self clinging to what was. When you accept that you are the I AM, you realize these waters are not defeating you but inviting you to shift your inner weather. The floods reveal where attention has become watery—where imagination has forgotten it creates. The remedy is to revise: choose a state that corresponds to the life you desire, feel it real in your heart, and refuse to identify with the flood. In that stillness, the north wind loses its force, and the I AM remains the steady shore, unaffected by outward appearances and ultimately shaping the land again.