Rivers of Remembering: Exile Reimagined

Neville's Inner Vision

By the rivers of Babylon you sat and wept not because you are lost in a foreign land, but because you have identified with a state of lack in your own consciousness. The river is the ceaseless flow of thoughts that say, 'I am separated from my good.' Zion, in this reading, is the awareness of your true home—the fulfilled life your I AM already knows. Exile, then, is a psychological condition, not a place. The remedy is not outward action but inward revision: assume the feeling of Zion as your present reality and feel it real now. State boldly within, 'I am home in Zion; I am the one who sees and accepts this as done.' Your awareness does the work; your imagination is the instrument through which the inner state is made visible. Weeping dissolves as the memory of lack yields to the memory of fulfillment. The return is an inward return to a state you never left, a knowing that the kingdom is within.