Lions and the Exalted Mind

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us enter the psalm as a record of your inner weather. The lions and the fire are not out there, but states of consciousness you have rehearsed in your mind. Fear arises as thoughts you have identified with; the teeth and arrows are the sharp judgments you fling at yourself. When you cry, Be thou exalted, O God, you are not begging a distant power; you are naming the I AM as the ruler of the scene. Exaltation, in Neville’s sense, is an inward repositioning: you rise to the throne of awareness and observe the drama from above, letting the glory of the divine I AM fill all the earth of your experience. The trap and the net were once your belief about limitation; as you acknowledge that you are that I AM, the net dissolves and the pit becomes light-filled dust. The enemies disappear as the inner feeling of separation dissolves into unity. Selah—pause in the stillness where the mind ceases to feed the fear and your reality responds to your assumed state.