Inner Fear, Strength Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Job’s verses describe a man pressed by terrors on every side, his strength eaten away as if hunger, with destruction lurking nearby. Yet in the Neville lens, this frightened figure is not a victim of external fate but a state of consciousness the psalmist alleges. The terrors are merely thoughts that arise when I forget that I AM, the awareness that endures beyond every sensation. When I identify with the belief that fear shapes my world, the body and the outer signs respond in kind: weakness, hunger for assurance, and looming danger. The remedy is radical but simple: assume the state you desire until it becomes your felt reality. Remind yourself, I AM the I AM—the uncondemned, unchanging presence that cannot be assaulted by appearances. As I persist in the feeling of the wish fulfilled—strength, abundance, safety—the imagined storm subsides and the outer scene reconstitutes itself to match the inner decision. Destruction at one’s side dissolves when consciousness claims its eternal wholeness; the mind’s fevers are cured not by fighting them but by agreeing with the truth of being.