Awakening From Wine and Gluttony

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Neville lens, Proverbs 23:20-21 speaks not of others but of states of consciousness. 'Winebibbers' and 'riotous eaters' are inner appetites that seek to escape discomfort, dulling awareness rather than feeding Spirit. The 'drunkard' and the 'glutton' reveal a mind entangled with sensation, shrinking consciousness into poverty—poverty of perception and choice. 'Drowsiness' clothing a man with rags is the ego’s sleep, the slumber that hides the I AM from sight. Yet God, the I AM, remains present, and imagination can reframe the scene. By assuming the feeling of the awakened self—disciplined, alert, and unshakably whole—you revise the urge and restore inner balance. When you stop feeding the old self with external indulgence and dwell in the I AM, you observe cravings without surrender. Your world begins to re-align to this inner order; poverty dissolves as consciousness expands, and the rag-draped figure yields to a luminous, standing I.