Deep Pit, Inner Light

Neville's Inner Vision

Psychologically, the pit is not a place to flee, but a state of consciousness where attention has leaned into fear. The I AM—your awareness—is always the perceiver and the power that animates the scene. When you read 'laid me in the lowest pit,' hear the invitation to revise: you are not abandoned by God, you are invited to awaken within the darkness to witness it transform into light. Darkness is the contrast that sanctifies desire; by assuming the feeling of the I AM here and now, you reverse the order. Begin with 'I am,' and permit the mind to feel the Light rising in you. As you dwell in that assumed mood, the pit loses its grip; you reinterpret the deep as a preparation for a greater return, a homecoming to your own inner Providence and guidance. The psalmist's exile becomes a state of preparation for return—an inner journey from fear to trust, from separation to union with the inner source that rules all.