Inner Siege of Nahum 3:2-3

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the city in Nahum as your own mind, and the siege as the old stubborn state you still identify with. The noises—the whip, rattling wheels, prancing horses, and jumping chariots—are not external sounds in a distant land; they are the persistent images and reactions that haunt your day when you believe in separation and lack. The horseman lifting the bright sword and glittering spear is your discursive mind, massaging fearful images and defending a worn story. The multitude of slain and the corpses are the remnants of past states dying when they are no longer fed by attention. They stumble on their own remains because you attempt to live in two states at once. But in the I AM, you can invert this: assume a new state now, feel it as real, and act from it. Imagination creates reality; by dwelling in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you dissolve the siege and let the old patterns fall away, so peace rises where once fear reigned.