To truly understand through our own experience that all the states that arise as content in consciousness are independent of it and lack the causal connections we attribute to them because they are mental events that we confuse with impressions from our external senses and transform into embodied experiences. Their origin is rather something we perceive in the underlying psychic flow from which consciousness gets its content as something independent of it and in constant change. By observing this content with the right attention as it appears in the contact surface that is conveyed via our external senses, we take part in the information that arises there and we discover that we have no fixed place in this suprapersonal flow, but it arises in the active self-reflection that we use when we take part in it and meditatively allow ourselves to be navigated in it during our self-observation, when we are in a concentrated way in its ceaseless arisings and disappearances. I conclude from this that in an older and still undeveloped form this was what was called praying. But as I understand it, mental participation reveals the authenticity we find beyond any certain fixed place in our stream of consciousness. In the nothingness that makes us aware of it. From this inner perspective, passive participation is naive or superficial and is more about a submission that has conditioned authoritarian origins on a personalistic level of consciousness, rather than us having an active participation in beyond that under focused meditative self-observation.