Go Up With Inner Counsel

Neville's Inner Vision

What you read in Judges 20:21–23 is not a history lesson but a drama of consciousness. Benjamin’s sudden onslaught mirrors a stubborn habit or fear arising from the subconscious, draining energy and fracturing unity. The heavy loss—twenty-two thousand—reads as the price paid when one acts from a scattered, counterproductive mindset rather than from inner alignment. The Israelites’ attempt to re-stack their forces, their encouragement of themselves, reflects the mind’s habit of relying on external methods and strategy. Their weeping before the LORD and asking for counsel marks a pivot—an inward petition to the I AM rather than a mere outward plan. The LORD’s reply, Go up against him, is not a directive to wage war on others but an invitation to move in fidelity to inner truth. The true battle is the shift from egoic striving to trust in the inner principle that already dissolves the impression of separation. Each repetition of the scene invites you to revise it in imagination until the end is seen as already accomplished in consciousness.