Backsliding Mind, Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner economy of the I AM, backsliding is not a geographical slip but a state of consciousness that believes itself separate from its source. The verse names Jerusalem’s people as sliding back by perpetual backsliding, clinging to deceit and refusing to return. In Neville’s register, the 'they' is your own egoic mind, forgetting its unity with God. Backsliding happens when imagination is used to reinforce a lie—that you are defined by limitation rather than by the I AM. The remedy is not guilt or judgment but the deliberate assumption of the state you desire: imagine yourself already returned, one with the I AM, and let that awareness replace the old sense of separation. The refusal to return reveals fear as the habitual reflex of identifying with a story, not with the living I AM. By choosing again to be consciousness rather than the conditioned mind, you revise the inner weather. The call to return is an invitation to align your inner geography with the truth of unity with God, so perception follows the inner fact of oneness.