If our ego is occupied with our inner observer, we become self-absorbed. If the observer is occupied with the substream of our human consciousness that we share with everyone else in our social and cultural environment, we attach ourselves to every impulse and every psychic impression we encounter in it as if they where our own, even if they arise and are expressed by someone other than ourselves. If our inner parent figures have not yet reached a conscious level but remain below the surface in the underlying psychic flow of mental events, then we experience ourselves as identical with everything that is going on there, anywhere, with anyone in our environment, as if the psychic process someone else encounters between them and themselves in relation to it, were something we ourselves must encounter and relate to by identifying with their relation to the inner observer there also for them. We perceive it as if everything that happens in this underlying psychic substream of psychic life, in our relation to its content, also means that our experience of it is exactly the same as what other have of the mental content we encounter in our own. We imagine that all people, despite being unique individuals with their own characteristics, having their own personal experiences of their relationship to this substream, also have the same relationship to the observer that we ourselves find ourselves dealing with. We perceive ourselves as one with this sub stream in the environment, as one with others from within regardless of the individual role that others’ experiences having in it, and in relation to the content of their relationship to the underlying psychic life that they perceive within them regardless of what our own relationships to it is.