Sighs of the Prisoner

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this psalm lies the drama of your own consciousness. The prisoner is the part of you held by limitation; the sighing is attention fixed on lack. The 'greatness of thy power' is not distant power but the I AM that you are aware of. To 'preserve thou those that are appointed to die' is to keep alive the old self you have believed cannot endure; yet the instruction is to let those identities die and to awaken to a living, ever-new Self. The line about neighbors' reproach becomes a mirror: you turn their judgments back into your inner wealth, sevenfold, by not resisting but by understanding they arise from your own unhealed beliefs. By invoking the I AM, you protect and sustain life within you, not by force but by alignment. As you dwell in that awareness, outer conditions rearrange to reflect the new state. The psalm is a manual for shifting your inner dispositions until you experience liberation as a change of state, not merely an event outside you.