Inner City of Dan Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To read this scene through the I AM, Laish is a quiet, secure state of mind. The raid and the burning are not about a physical city but about a decision of the consciousness to rearrange its symbols and loyalties. Micah's idols and priest stand for the old forms of worship you have used to soothe yourself—habits of mind that pretend to deliver you. When they move into Laish and name the place Dan after an ancestral name, you witness the birth of a new center in the soul—a new state of identification, perhaps crowned by the memory of an ancestor you cherish. There was no deliverer because the deliverer is the I AM within you, not a person or plan outside. The “city” you call Dan may be a true inner kingdom if you align it with the I AM, or a false kingdom if driven by ego's need for security. The inner meaning: Dan becomes the Kingdom of God within only when your awareness governs with truth, imagination, and love.