Inner City of Dan

Neville's Inner Vision

The story is a map of consciousness. Dan’s renaming mirrors a mindset that clings to form while the true Presence is forgotten. The graven image represents a fixed belief or idolized idea you defend as authority within the inner temple. The priests are the habitual thoughts that act as ministers to that idol, keeping your attention fixated on a substitute for God. The 'house of God' in Shiloh stands for the living Presence within—your I AM awareness that is ever-present. When you align with Micah’s image, you substitute a remembered likeness for the now-waking Presence, and your inner city becomes a theater of appearances rather than a temple of divine being. Neville’s practice invites you to reverse this: recognize the image as a movement of imagination, dissolve it by identifying with the I AM, and re-imagine the inner city as a sanctuary where the Presence alone reigns. The captivity of the land dissolves as you return to the aware state in which God is the sole ruler of mind.