Inner Poison and Deaf Ears

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 58:4 speaks in the language of your inner weather. The 'poison' and the 'deaf adder' symbolize states of mind you harbor about yourself and others. When you encounter sharp speech or stubborn judgments, listen not to the other’s tone alone, but to what belief in you it rides on. You are the I AM, the awareness that chooses what reality to experience; the terms 'poison' and 'ear-stopping' are just images formed by your current consciousness. If you insist on them as real—if you identify with them and feed them with attention—you provide the venom power and the deafness. But you can revise: assume that this scene is only a thought-form you have the power to dissolve. Feel it as real that you are immune to their poison, and see them not as enemies but as aspects of your own mind awakening. In the act of imagining, bless the speaker and listen for truth within, not without. As you persist, the inner ear opens; the outer world mirrors your new state with temperance, honesty, and faithful revelation.