Inner Desert, Inner City
Jeremiah 51:43 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 51 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jeremiah 51:43 describes cities left desolate, a dry land and wilderness where no person dwells.
Neville's Inner Vision
The verse presents not a geographic ruin but a state of consciousness. The cities are the layered thoughts and identifications you have built within; desolation, dryness, and wilderness indicate a withdrawal of feeling and imagination from the I AM, the living awareness that you truly are. When you perceive the land as barren, you are witnessing the drought of imagination, a moment when your attention ceases to poetically conceive and to believe in a reality beyond current appearances. This exile is not somewhere outside you but a moment of consciousness where you forget your divine capacity to imagine and thereby to create. To heal, you must return to the I AM—assume that you are the source of all you behold and begin to inhabit the inner city with life. By persistently imagining and feeling the wish fulfilled as already real, you irrigate the dry ground, rebuild the inner city, and let the outer scene reflect this revived consciousness. Reality follows the state of inner awareness; change the state, and the world follows.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes. Assume I AM—the living awareness within you—and revise the desolate scene by envisioning a thriving inner city and feeling it as already real.
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