Inner Zion by Babylon's River

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville's ear, these verses reveal a mind in exile from its own awareness. The rivers of Babylon symbolize the currents of thought that carry one away from the I AM, the eternal present. Zion represents the living home of consciousness, the wholeness that already resides within every heartbeat. Weeping and lament arise when one forgets this inner birthright; hanging harps on willows marks a decision to suspend the very faculty that creates, to yield to sorrow rather than to imagination. Yet the drama is self-imposed and reversible. The invitation is to rise in awareness and declare, here and now, that you are the I AM, and Zion is your natural state. By assuming the memory of return, you revise the scene of exile into a scene of embodiment; feel the truth that you are not distant from Zion but are waking to it again through imagination. As you persist in this inward assumption, the current of the river eases, the harps come down, and your inner music sounds forth as power in your world.