Inner Kings of the Mind

Neville's Inner Vision

Interpret Joshua 12:20-21 as a map of inner dominion. The four kings are not strangers in a distant land; they are four states of consciousness within the mind—Shimronmeron, Achshaph, Taanach, Megiddo—habits and fears that have held the land of awareness in check. In Neville fashion, I see that God is the I AM within, the steady witness whose presence dissolves these claimants as I acknowledge sovereign rule over my inner country. The page becomes a practice terrain: by assuming a higher state, I revise the picture of myself and my world. I do not fight these kings; I acknowledge them as movements of thought and then let the sense of kingdom take precedence. When I claim the kingdom of God as my present awareness, those pretenders yield, and the land redefines itself under one crown—the I AM. The congruence between imagination and reality is the law: imagine the four kings bowing to your true ruler, feel the victory as already accomplished, and watch the inner geography shift accordingly.