Inner Tribes of Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us read the 'sons of Seir' as seven facets within your own consciousness. Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezar, and Dishan stand not as distant tribes but as inner dispositions you entertain in the citadel of your mind. Each is a ruler of a department: motive, work, desire, memory, decision, loyalty, impulse. They rule the inner family until you, the I AM, remind them that there is a higher authority. The 'Presence of God' in this view is not a place but the witnessing awareness that you are. When you acknowledge these parts as legitimate members of your inner tribe, you begin to seek unity and harmony rather than dominance. The chapter's simple enumeration becomes a map: unity comes not by erasing differences but by aligning every facet under the self's crown. The inner community can reflect a gracious order when you live from the I AM, letting the voices bow to the one reality that you are. Then outward circumstances begin to answer the inward alignment; your days resonate with the quiet power of a mind that has gathered its tribes into service of a single, creative will.