Because our inner ‘center’, the function of our spirit and inspiration, the psychic energy emanating from it, is not commonly perceived as the true source of the personality, it seeks its outlet and recognition in transferred form elsewhere, restlessly and everywhere in our collective consciousness. In this cognitive misunderstanding of it, it is united with the inner cultural father figure and with objective substitutes which gives rise to an inner imbalance and confusion because everything that arises within us is in constant change. Impressions arise all the time and disappear without us being able to control it. We can suppress it, but not put it under the control of the ego. The ego can convey the content that arises in its encounter with the collective consciousness but is not what creates it. The ego is not its original source. In sami this experience is traditionally conceptualized in the connection between Rádienáhttje and Máderáhttje where our inner person Radiengiedde is the one who conveys the content of our sensations and psychic impressions to our consciousness, and to the ego as its recipient there. In this way, both Rádienáhttje, and our psychic reflection is connected to breathing, to our psychic state of inner balance, to nature, to Rádienáhkká, the greater whole and its point of convergence to which our breath and spirit lead us through self inspection. Breathing provides us with the meditative stillness we need to receive our senses and interact with them without identifying with them. Whether our focus is academic or self reflective, it is in that state that we open ourselves to the inner voices that provide our consciousness with its content as we interact with it. As the icing on the cake I recently was made aware of this talk(link) and its information about breath and its connection to the experience of this function as the god of the hebrew. In old Finnish traditions there was our “nature”, luonto, and that which made up our person, our self, which was always deeply united with breathing and communicated to us both as life and as inspiration, as its spirit. As an individual experience of the source of life, I find it difficult to see it in the limiting religious word matrices of the collective consciousness. In a personal sense, it has always served as the unknown impulse that produces insight, unites opposites, inspires, guides and teaches us. In me it unites mental actions with bodily life where focusing on breath makes all the difference.