Return to Inner Jerusalem

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville's lens, these returning exiles are states of consciousness awakening to the I AM that now dwells within. The captivity is not a distant history but a limiting belief, a night of fear, doubt, and memory running the show. The ones who go up out of that captivity symbolize an inner movement: a decision of attention to re-enter Jerusalem and Judah—the city of your own awareness—where every person comes to his own inner city. The province stands for a field of mind, and its children are the faculties and experiences you once scattered in doubt. When they come back, you enact the truth that you are not waiting for a future city but revealing one by revising your inner landscape. The act of returning is an act of imagination, the quiet assumption that 'I am' here, and that this very present awareness forms the walls, streets, and gates of the life you inhabit. Thus exile becomes the prelude to renewal; the future is created now by dwelling in your inner Jerusalem, one renewing step at a time.