Inner Goat, Releasing Iniquities

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard perspective, the goat is not an animal apart from you but a projection of a state of consciousness you carry. The hands on the head symbolize taking responsibility in awareness, the confession is a deliberate revision of the thought-feelings you have about yourself and your people, and the sending away represents surrendering that old self-image to the vast unknown. In this scene, the sins do not disappear as facts; they are displaced into a symbolic vessel and carried to a deserted land where they have no power to shape your present experience. The land not inhabited is the emptied mind, a space where old identities can no longer inhabit you. The fit man who leads the goat out is your disciplined attention, the I AM witness who does not cling to guilt but releases it, allowing you to awaken to a fresh sense of being. If you adopt this inner ritual in imagination, you are rehearsing the fundamental truth: your life is a state of consciousness and your freedom is the shift of that state.