Neville Goddard on Jonah 2:2-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jonah 2 in context

Scripture Focus

2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

Jonah 2:2-3

Biblical Context

Jonah prays to the LORD from his affliction. He declares that God heard him from the belly of hell as the deep and waves encircled him.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jonah's cry is not a petition to an external deity so much as a pointed exposure of your own inner state. The belly and the sea are symbolic rooms of consciousness: when you feel surrounded by circumstance, you are perceiving the effects of a belief you have accepted. The 'I AM'—the true you—hears that cry because it is itself the one hearing. The verse states that God heard Jonah; in Neville's terms, awareness answers when attention is turned toward the I AM. The storms, the deep, the billows, are inner movements of thought and feeling—doubt pressing in, fear flooding the mind, the sense of separation pulling you into the dark. Yet the narrative also says that the voice is heard and the response comes by way of inner certainty. The healing occurs as you refuse to identify with the turmoil and begin to feel the truth of your oneness with God here and now. Your prayers, in this light, are simply revising your self-image until the inner weather matches your desire.