Inner Deliverance in Lamentations

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville's lens, the 'enemies' are not a persecuting army but restless states of consciousness that arise when you forget who you are. The dungeon is the belief that you are confined by circumstance; the stone you are cast upon is the weight of judgment you carry about yourself; waters over the head are the surging emotions that threaten your steadiness. The line 'I am cut off' proclaims a momentary verdict of separation from life. But these forms are mere appearances within the I AM, which never leaves you. By assuming a different inner state—feeling and declaring the end of the separation—you reverse the scene. The moment you decide, 'I am delivered; I am one with the all-providing I AM,' you dissolve the imagined pursuer and the dungeon, and the waters recede into stillness. Your imagination creates reality; therefore, imagine from the end, feel the wind of freedom at this moment, and step into the consciousness that is already whole.