Inner Lineage of the Self

Neville's Inner Vision

In the quiet of your awareness, those names are not relics of ancient tribes but the tiny states that compose your inner world. Shuppim, Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim—the sons of Aher—are the very impressions that arise as you attend to your thoughts, feelings, and memories. Each line of genealogy your mind produces is a signal of belonging: a recognition that no part of you is foreign, no feeling abandoned. In Neville’s sense, your I AM is not a distant deity but the consciousness in which these names awaken. When you consider them, you are seeing that your inner life is a community—minor clans, diverse traits, all faithful members of one living self. The dignity of these names reveals that every facet of consciousness seeks its place in your unity. If you feel separate, remind yourself that separation is only a shift in attention; you remain one I AM, the center from which all thoughts spring. The quiet listing of these names invites you to revise any sense of exclusion by affirming: I belong to all that arises in me, I am the house that holds every child of my mind.