Weeping Into Inner Refuge

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah’s cry is not a demand for escape from people, but a revelation of a mind overcharged with grief and the sense of separateness. In Neville’s psychology, the crowd and the adulterers are inner states—patterns of fear, judgment, and false worship that distract the I AM from its true unity. The head like waters and eyes a fountain of tears signify a mind overwhelmed by emotion, a signal to shift inward to the fountain of awareness that never runs dry. The wilderness lodging is a symbolic retreat into the stillness where you are not identified with a failing story but with the witness that remains when forms dissolve. To reinterpret this passage is to claim that the slain is the dying of old identifications and that compassion can rule without becoming bondage. The I AM within remembers its own omnipresent righteousness and justice, dissolving condemnation and restoring harmony. When you claim that you are the I AM experiencing this wave of feeling, you are free to imagine a new relationship with every other, and with the inner temple you build by choice.