Wilderness Lodging of the Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah's longing is not a geographical wish but a demand of the self to awaken from dream attachments. The wilderness is your inner state—an empty, unconditioned space where you can retreat from the counterfeit assembly of images that claim you. When you say, I would go from them, you are naming the moment when your consciousness chooses to disidentify with the thoughts and desires that bind you to the old pattern. The adulterers and treacherous crowd symbolize the inner scripts that betray your true Self, the I AM within who cannot be held by fear, desire, or social image. To recover the lost party is to awaken to your own divinity and revise the felt reality by imagining the fulfilled state. If you dwell in the I AM long enough—feeling that you are already in the lodging place, that you have left the crowd behind—the external world will rearrange to match that inner posture. Your sense of separateness dissolves as you realize you are not leaving a people but leaving an old mental jury that condemned you.