When we come to this world we already have a relationship with the psychic totality we brought with us. Through our bodies we have also brought with us the physical affinity we have with all life. The body we inhabit is in itself a psychological experience. And our parents then become our first interface to it. Whether they lost it or just choose to not perceive the reality that this is; when we project our inner determinants on to our parents, we will assume their attitude to them when they are reflected back towards us. We will come to believe that if we act like our physical parents towards this experience, then our behavior will be the appropriate one to reflect back to our parents. Our interface with our original psychic ”ancestors” is then replaced by our physical parents projections on us. In the worst case scenario, we will lose contact with our own sense of wholeness and the physical proximity to all nature that we create through our bodies. We will have a hard time experiencing a genuine physical relationship with life and being a close part of it. And if we are limited by too much care, or by a constant intrusion of their fears about the dangers of life, then we will be disturbed in our experience of life also as a psychological relationship. As a dynamic balance between projection and reflection. Between our psychic experience of life and its physical presence. Under these conditions, we will develop a mask against the outside world that will be corresponding in substance to the experience we received in the transfer of those who first came to wear it. Usually it’s our parents. For example, if we constantly try to protect our children by blaming them for their incessant curiosity and appetite for life, then this will fill them with an attitude of blame in the meetings they will then have with the authorities who may carry something from this original transfer. We will, so to speak, create our own physical or mental problems through others, and we will never understand that it is we who created them. It’s always someone else’s fault. An opposite effect of this is if the psychic transfer of the original whole has not been carried by them at all. Then no future authority can hold it for us. It will be perceived with distrust, and as a meaningless restriction on our psychic life. We will not find any external application of it because none of them correspond to the original experience we have. Here we never become aware of how the inner experience is associated with, or can be applied outside of it, because it is overridden or falsified all the time. A tradition that can still deliver dynamic content related to the intensity of this would make a big difference. If, on the other hand, the physical transfer remains unaffected, and experienced in its original sense, then the world as a bodily experience may become both deep and intense. Our own physical being can then become one with both its own nature and the life it is part of, and surrounded by.
In the creative language of traditions we might say that this is the serpent that moves eternally towards the unmoved father and moved Mat(t)er. It is what creates a pillar or an axis that holds up the world.