Inner Nineveh Fasts

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's language, the king and nobles symbolize the higher states of consciousness ruling over the city of Nineveh—the totality of your inner life. The decree to starve man and beast of food is not a historical ordinance but a symbolic act: you suspend the old feedings of fear, doubt, and impulse, and you suspend the story that your sense-world must stay the same. When you dwell on this verse, you imagine that the I AM, the inner ruler, proclaims a fasting across all levels of your experience—mind, body, and will. The beasts represent your ungoverned instincts; by commanding them not to feed, you demonstrate to yourself that you can refuse to nourish inferiority or external conditions with your attention. Repentance becomes a turning of attention, a shift from external cause to the inner state that causes results. The “decree of the king and nobles” is your revised assumption, a memorable moment when you decide, 'From this moment, I will feed imagination and possibility, not limitation.' The city Nineveh becomes your transformed life; the response is mercy when you align with the end you want, not with fear.