The Inner City Of Consciousness

Neville's Inner Vision

Listen: The cry of the seafarers is not about a ruin in the physical world; it is the inner cry of a consciousness clinging to a city of appearances. The smoke is the imaginative release, as the I AM withdraws from the old idol and the ruler vanishes as attention shifts. The question that asks what city is like unto this great city is the invitation to identify not with a metropolis of gold but with I AM, the steady watcher. In this moment, judgment arrives as inner tightening dissolves old constraints; the promised Kingdom comes when you no longer worship the idol of wealth, power, or fame. Exile and return are internal movements: you are exiled from the old kingdom of fear when you realize you are always the perceiver, the I AM behind it all. The dream of Babylon burns away as you revise your sense of self, and the Kingdom, not a geography, asserts itself as your new state of consciousness. You and the city are one, yet the fire reveals the truth that consciousness is the only reality and that the Kingdom is within.