When we lose our real parents because we have become adults or they have passed away, the tendency is that at the same time we also lose the connection to our inner parents. This becomes evident to us as we through our inner mother we are constantly looking for safe vessels for our impressions, our inspiration and inner enlightenment which our inner father supplies us with everywhere, without any real connection with them within us. We instead experience an inner dissatisfaction, anxiety and restlessness where our sensations are everywhere and nowhere. We are too busy to let ourselves find our way back to the original stillness and the balance and peace of mind it conveys, where instead our inner parents act as containers that give us access to a greater whole whose converging center produces insight, inspires, unites opposites and guides us as we allow ourselves the objectivity our self-inspection needs for our inner health. It is almost impossible to estimate enough the importance of our inner family, in older Sami tradition our Sáivu family, and the relationship between Máderáhttje, Rádienáhttje. Máttaráhkká and Rádienáhkká in their relation to Raediengiedte and Radienniejdda in their functional roles for our psychic self-observation. Without them, our inner wholeness is lost and our psychic life becomes restless and flutters aimlessly about everywhere without any real personal connection to ourselves and our own person. We no longer see how we stage them in our lives and let others be part of the conflicts that arise when they interact with us and act in the background that guides our mental actions, and we try to control or suppress them through others. It is like constantly taking part in life processes experientially that have their own inner functionality, independent of us. Which makes our minds act on us with sensations that are not our own, and not created by the ego. It is with a deep sense of relief that our sensations calm down in their constant search for the underlying whole from which they arise and can rediscover their original psychic states within us, their experiential content and the timeless human background they bring with them.
* The title of this post is a quote from Jung I found appropriate in this context. It may have a different meaning in its original context.