Thoughts and ideas are images that illustrate a given context, they are not opinions. Opinions identify us with selected parts of our collective body of knowledge and as such tend to exclude other perspectives and ideas even if they originate from the same primordial psychic experience. If we merely refer to ideas as something that exists in our collective consciousness, we are just confirming that it is there, pointing to its existence. The genuine connection we have to the psychic image is short-circuited and we are thrown out of it. It is cut short. There is simply no interaction between the image we refer to, and its origin as a psychic experience we share with others. Our perception of both our relationship to others and ourselves becomes distorted as our opinions, and their ties to a selection of collective ideals become what determines the conditions for how those relationships should look. Which ultimately also becomes what sets the standard for our behaviors. Not that we interact with an independent but common background experience with our inner person there.