Inner Chains of Pride

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the 'they' in this psalm as a record of my own state of consciousness. Pride wraps me like a chain; violent insistence appears as clothing I wear in my mind; abundance—eyes fat with more than I need—arises as a vivid image in consciousness, not as external fact. My speech, when caught in oppression, becomes loftier than truth, and my tongue moves as if it walks the Earth, setting itself against the heavens. In Neville's terms, this is not a power outside me but a movement within my awareness, demanding to rule. The cure is to revise the scene by acknowledging I am the I AM, the living awareness that makes all appearances. I choose to inhabit a state in which justice, mercy, and truth characterize my inner atmosphere. I feel it real that I stand within the heavens, not opposed to them, and that my words are the expression of a higher order. As I persist in this assumption, the chain dissolves, the garment fades, and my perception becomes a flawless reflection of divine order.