Group consciousness as I understand it is a kind of undeveloped relationship to the individual content of the interpersonal within, conceptualized in Sami as Saivu. Whose individual structure can be seen on the old Sami drums, the Goavddis, as they reflect each drummer’s individual relationship to Saivu in the differences between them. Most often today this is disconnected from us in various kinds of contemporary substitutes for its scope, and the experience we make of its intense influence on us so that our personal boundaries are not completely blurred. The group consciousness we confine ourselves to, can still keep it intact in parts so that we can maintain a kind of sense of psychic integrity there, and still maintain a connection to our sense of wholeness. Which makes it extremely important as we grow up, but increasingly less significant as adults in relation to the individual, and its relationship to our interior person, the human being from within in its greater whole. Group consciousness itself in its non-transferred form is what connects us to a process of psychological maturation and to our individual development of the content of the primordial whole of which we are a part, and from which psychic essence our inner person originates. In the most extreme end of our lost boundaries, we assume that we can be another person from within that other person himself. Or in relation to a group, from within all the individuals in them, in every single member of it at the same time. The integrity of that person is of course completely lost as long as it is maintained and supported by those who form part of the group consciousness as it becomes separated from the individual’s unique relationship to the original whole, and the content with which each one of us interacts with there. But most of the time, without us noticing it, we are constantly and alternately transforming it into an external context so that we can interact with it, albeit in a distorted way. And as long as we do not pay attention to what we transmit to others of this interpersonal space, this will not be subject to the ancient knowledge and psychic maturity it contains. It is truly confusing just trying to keep up with the constant transformations that occur in the relationships we encounter in the biographical baggage of others and the relationship we have with the reality that integrates us into our interpersonal background, or saivo. Because it is so displaced from who we want to be in relation to the original whole we have transferred in distorted form to our group affiliation. It really is a painful thing to grow up with. Having a direct relationship with the primordial whole with few noticing its influence on us, who instead use a group consciousness to disown parts of it as opposed to others, and in that frame of mind oppose the use of other words for the same experiences, regardless of how we as individuals like to use them to reference our interpersonal life.