Inner Tyranny of Joel 3:3

Neville's Inner Vision

Joel's oracle reveals not a judgment against strangers, but a description of my own inner economy when I fear hunger and seek control. When it says they cast lots for my people, I hear the random flickers of belief in a separated mind, and the 'boy for a harlot' and 'girl for wine' denote the exchanges I would make with any impulse that would degrade another. The scene is a parable of inner barter: I exchange genuine worth for cheap adrenaline, I sell a portion of my awareness for a moment of relief. But the I AM, the conscious you that I am, does not judge externals; it rewrites the script by changing the state I hold. If I refuse to identify with scarcity or fear, and instead assume the feeling of universal justice—seeing all beings as part of my one mind—then the external coercion loses its power. The so-called oppression dissolves into a single realization: I am the witnessing I AM, and through that awareness I restore the true order where no one is bought or sold in my perception.