Inner Psalm: Presence Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Neville lens, Psalm 88:14-18 reads as a moment of consciousness rather than a historical event. The line "LORD, why castest thou off my soul?" is the I AM asking of itself what it believes about its own awareness. The 'face' that hides is not God withdrawing, but my inner picture that I am unseen. The terrors flooding me are mental waves produced by imagination—fear, loneliness, the sense of wrath—that seem real because I have allowed them to color my experience. Being encircled by water and darkness is the felt climate of a belief system, not a fixed outer fate. Yet the I AM—my true self—is always present, never cast off. The healing movement is to revise the scene by assuming the opposite: that I am held, known, and eternally included in the divine presence. When I dwell in that conviction and imagine the I AM surrounding me, the perceived isolation softens and the 'darkness' yields to inner light. This is the law: imagination can turn inner states into lived reality, and I am the sovereign creator of my world within.