Abiding Presence Within Psalm 88

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville's lens, these verses reveal a mind bent by the illusion of separation. The 'LORD' who seems to cast off the soul is not a distant deity but the I AM that the speaker believes itself to be when fear takes charge. The terrors and wrath are inner movements of belief, not external assaults; they arise from a state of consciousness that has forgotten its own immaculate relation to God. Therefore the psalmist's cry is a revision opportunity: you may feel cast off only as long as you identify with the thought that you are alone. By choosing a different inner state—by assuming, now, that you are always in the presence of the I AM—the sense of distance dissolves. Imagination is not escaping reality but remaking it. When the mind refuses the story of abandonment and instead dwells in the truth of its divine image, the 'darkness' and 'terror' lose their grip, and light returns as awareness. Your true self is the brightness of God; the experience of pain fades as you hold this reality in feeling and faith.