Inner Chains, Imagination Frees

Neville's Inner Vision

To the spiritual ear, these lines reveal not an outer jail but a state of consciousness that has hardened into belief. You have built against yourself walls of fear, gall, and travail, and you wander in dark places as if dead to the light. In this inner geography, he is the set of thoughts that say I am trapped, and hedged about is the discipline of attention you have allowed to fix you in one view. Neville teaches that God, the I AM, is not an external ruler but the awareness that creates your world. By shifting your inner assumption—refusing to identify with the prisoner and identifying instead with the I AM—you begin to revise the scene. The walls dissolve as you let imagination play the part of the liberator, you feel the release as real, and you declare I am free, I am whole, I am the Lord of this inner realm. The apparent chains crumble when you inhabit the truth that you are the observer who may revise the seen by changing the unseen.