Drawn From Deep Waters

Neville's Inner Vision

In this psalm the storms are not elsewhere; they are the currents of your own mind. The 'channels of waters' and the 'foundations of the world' are inner topography—the beliefs and self-concepts that shape your experience. When the 'rebuke' of the LORD sounds, it is the decisive correction of I AM awareness, dissolving old stories and exposing what lies beneath consciousness. The 'blast of the breath of thy nostrils' is not a wind from without but the vivid breath of awareness entering and renewing you, clearing away fear and confusion. He 'sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters' translates to a moment when your higher self—the I AM within—moves you from chaos into steadiness. You are not saved by luck but drawn by the power of your own awakening. Practice the revision: assume you are already out of the flood; feel the lifting as real, and let the new sense of self take root in imagination as the foundation you live from.