Inner Water, Outer Barriers
John 4:9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read John 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Two people speak across a historic barrier; the Samaritan woman questions why a Jew drinks from her, highlighting the division between Jews and Samaritans. The scene exposes how outer boundaries imply inner judgments.
Neville's Inner Vision
Two persons in the account stand as two moods of my own mind, the Jew and the Samaritan, not separate beings but overlapping states of consciousness. The woman’s question unmasks a fixed belief that life can be shared only across manufactured borders. When I hear the request for drink, I sense a symbolic crossing of my own boundary, not a geographical fact. The water Jesus speaks of is the living water of I AM awareness—the same life flowing through all beings, unbound by appearance. To drink from that water is to acknowledge unity, to see the other as a reflection of myself, and to release the illusion that parts of me cannot share in life. The barrier dissolves as I revise that belief, and the external scene becomes a projection of inner agreement with unity. I am invited to drink and to know that separation is only a thought I choose to release, enabling the entire field of my life to harmonize.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and revise the belief: I and the other share the same living water. Feel this unity in my chest as if it were already real.
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