in search of that original sense of wholeness

Returning to the absolutely fundamental level of our being and the perspective it implies is a profound psychic event. It means that we revisit the influences on us that once caused us to suppress it by being conditioned to the social norms and rules of a certain culture. Which is embedded in how our first family expressed it in relation to our inner family. If that identification completely suppressed our individual being for the inner observer, we begin to oscillate between the states in which we originally experienced it and our search to locate it within ourselves and stage it in a potential future. Often by confusing the experience of the psychic state of calm and meditative stillness it implies with a material display of it. Which in turn further obscures the natural separation that arises between psyche and body. In the worst case, it results in various attempts to artificially imitate the original experience, and we try to emulate the experience with various forms of purity and asceticism. Politically, culturally or in the form of alcohol and drugs. In our sexuality, or food and sweets. Other attempts are an excessive identification with the suffering or successes of others. All of which in different ways provide us with a carefree feeling of satisfaction and inner peace. But not the absolutely fundamental experience of the original whole or that which provides us with the direct experience of knowledge and insight we need to feel authentic and whole.