Inner Light in Times of Trial

Neville's Inner Vision

This psalm voices a night of the soul, as if the I AM were dimmed and an unseen power boasted over a listening mind. In Neville’s psychology, the counsel in my soul is a belief-state, not a circumstance. When the psalmist cries, Consider and hear me, he is really inviting his awareness to awaken—an inner light that sees beyond the supposed enemy. Lighten mine eyes is a demand that consciousness shift from fear to clarity, from separation to oneness. The fear that the enemy has prevailed is the old story of a mind clinging to lack; to reinterpret it, one must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled: you are already heard, illuminated, and in the presence of the I AM. Sleep then dies as the belief in death dissolves in the realization of life within you. As you dwell in that state, the sense of opposition loses its grip and your outward circumstances reflect your inner triumph. This is salvation and redemption as inner conquest, a hope-filled coming future arising from the miracle of awakened consciousness.