in the hinterland between mind & body

The sami being Máderáhttje acts as a spiritual ancestor, a negotiator and cultural voice, in itself a timeless cross-section of the contents of our collective consciousness, but has nothing to do per se with our conceptions of our own fathers. We have expectations that our fathers should also fulfill our relationship to what Máderáhttje is to us within us. Regardless of the fact that he is a psychic relation. A connection between the psychic content he conveys in a cultural sense and the ego. As its positive force, he transfers that content to us to make it observable based on our self-inspection and our personal conditions. If he exerts a negative influence, he is not separate from its content, or from its significant influence on us in its own right, and he is expressed in a narcissistic way in his relation to the collective consciousness. As if that content was something of his own makings or created by the ego in its identification with him in our undeveloped relationship to which we are conditioned from an early age and where we confuse him with a real person. Madderahkka’s meaning to us here as his spouse is to embody what he represents. She creates vessels for him everywhere. In her negative aspect, the vessels she creates for parts of the collective consciousness becomes a way for her to control others, what she can allow or not of this content that he negotiates. When her influence on us is positive, we ourselves are safe vessels for his cultural background knowledge in an observing, participating and self-inspecting relationship with its content. Naturally, this is gender neutral as they also coexist in both sexes at the same time. But in an undeveloped relationship with them tensions arise within us, and with those whom we appoint to carry them for us as we are not yet mature enough to face them, and to the original whole that encloses, unites, and guides us, all of which can become negative in their interaction with us. The underlying whole is transformed into all-encompassing emotional thoughts and notions of a lost or future idyllic time and place that must not be questioned because they are what justify our actions. When conscious, the primordial wholeness is the sense of oneness we have with nature from within, and with all psychic life in a coherent personal sense that we share with everyone else. Unable to bear the tension it creates because we have not yet experienced their influence on us as real, we transfer them onto others and let that tension stage our relationship with them in our outer relationships. To put it more clearly. When our male inner parent (Máderáhttje) is negative, the relationship to the content of our collective consciousness becomes narcissistic and egocentric. Often authoritarian. When this is the case, it is also not to difficult to see how little we tolerate the opinions of others. When positive, it forms a psychic relationship with our own time from within that causes us to transcend it, and psychologically go beyond it. If our inner mother Máttaráhkká is positive, her nature creates vessels for Máderáhttje wherever he appears. Together they form our inner parents and unite our sense impressions in such a way that they form an inner congenital context in our conscious life. When Máttaráhkká is negative, she creates vessels above all to be able to control the relationships to the conscious content of her surroundings. Our cultural conditioning and the relationship to how it should be maintained precedes the psychic sources from which our sensations originate. To an infantile and still psychically inexperienced mind this is of course nonsense. There is still no “absolute” or psychic reality. It has not yet experienced themselves and gone through the trials and psychological hardships that Máttaráhkká’s daughters present to us. Our inner person does not exist in any real sense to us. He is still in a dormant or catatonic state. Unknown to us, we are tossed between our inner parental figures in a restless stream of consciousness. Seemingly without end because they are not known to us in relation to our inner person. Only as a constant flow of sensations that the ego does not know what they are, where they originally come from and what psychic content their energy provides us with. They will only fill us with anxiety and restlessness that results in us oscillating between constant desires and a feeling of reluctance or disgust at the psychic life we ​​are about to discover through our inner family not only within ourselves but all around us. In a mature and psychically developed relationship with him, he forms the link between our inner person and his mediation of the union of opposites and underlying singularity that magnifies exactly the experiences we are mature enough to encounter in our self-observation of the psychic energy that this evokes. In old Sami tradition, this omnipresent source behind everything in life was referred to as Rádienáhttje.