in our conflicts we see our opposites played out through others

It is as if, against the background of the preconscious inner whole, we identify with and invest all our psychic energy, our inspiration and our inner person, in the psychic sensations we connect with something in the general consciousness that we then allow ourselves to become, which makes us do almost anything to others when we submit to it in order to gain access to the community and sense of belonging it creates. Which then limits what we call our personality to its cultural conditions and temporal boundaries. To what we want others to recognize as who we are as we will oppose or question everything else. We come to see ourselves and others only in terms of this selected content of collective life, filtered through the morality that follows from it, whose boundaries are something we impose on others, and not in consideration to our shared original preconscious whole within us. From the perspective of this wholeness our social and political life is then completely consumed by this constricted and narrowed down comprehension of other people and their individual conditions and needs. Our own psychic needs become egoistic and limited to our own sensations in the external context in which they best serve our own narcissistic ideals. In war for example, we murder our own population in the guise of not putting up with what we don’t like with ourselves through others. What they have or possess that we cannot reconcile with in ourselves and others allow themselves, accept, or are inspired by. Some even call it patriotism when someone want others to submit to this kind of restriction of their personality and its constrained view of our psychic life. All our inability to accept others follows from this reduction of ourselves in the preconscious whole which we ignore within ourselves and against the background it constitutes for our sensations which makes them observable and enables us to face them in self reflection and in meditative participation, which we also share with everyone else in ourselves. Our conflicts are always personal, whether we bear them ourselves or let others do it for us.