Inner City Solitude Reimagined

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville's lens, the solitary city is not a place but a state of consciousness that has forgotten its I AM. The verse speaks of a once populous inner capital now desolate, a self that trusted appearances—nations, power, and pride—as if they held permanence. Yet these outer conditions reveal only inner movements of fear, neglect, and judgment. When I claim that I AM is the ruler of this inner city, the desolation dissolves, and the true empire returns: abundance, agency, and harmony. The widow-like isolation is a signal to revise, to shift allegiance from external kingdoms to the living awareness that I am. As I practice, I notice that every outward circumstance responds to the inner feeling I inhabit. If I affirm, 'I am the city; I am its ruler; I am source of all,' the walls soften and the streets fill with the sense of present power. In this light, exile becomes a temporary misunderstanding, and return is the normalization of the I AM as sovereign.