From the Belly to Belief

Neville's Inner Vision

The text tells us that a man, pressed by affliction, calls upon God and is heard. In Neville's psychology, the belly of hell is the state of consciousness where you feel cut off, where the mind is in distress. Your cry is not to a distant deity, but to the I AM within. When you imagine yourself as listening to your own call, the response of God is the shift of state: your awareness expands, the seafaring of fear calms, and mercy flows as your own revised sense of self. The Lord that hears is your own I AM, the living awareness that there is no separation. The cry is an act of the will to identify with a higher state; the recovery is not external rescue but the alignment of your inner being with the truth of your unity with God. The mercy and compassion you seek are already inside; your repeated listening and voice becomes the channel through which you are delivered. As you hold to the feeling of being heard, you experience deliverance as a felt conversion of sensation into awareness.