Vindication Through I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

Your enemies in this psalm are not distant attackers but the marching thoughts of condemnation marching through your day. The reproach is the inner verdict you have accepted, the mad voices that declare you unworthy, unfit, or unalterable. In Neville's language, these are states of consciousness you have consented to as real. The cry Mine enemies reproach me all the day is the cry of a mind convinced that opposition is outside and that the I AM within is under siege. Yet the I AM is never besieged; awareness is simply aware of its own restless thoughts. The call here is to shift from being identified with the reproach to identifying with the witness who remains unchanged while changing the content of the dream. When you refuse to renew the story of attack and insist, 'I AM,' you do not fight the enemies; you dissolve them by changing the inner posture. The moment you assume the feeling of one undivided I AM, the day’s chorus of reproach softens, and what seemed sworn against you dissolves into silence and release.