Many years after I went through the initial ordeals of not allowing the opposite of my consciousness, my interpersonal life and that which transcends reason to be confused with someone else, it is still something that happens to me when it wants to. It’s as if this opposite side of me, and the other person within me needs to remind me that they are always there, that they are the one’s that transfers new content to me, and that they are responsible for creating new psychological conditions for me to deal with even if I can’t interact with what it means to me on a conscious level. That there is a constant psychic reciprocity between all life which we have met and spent time with and which were already there even before we ever got there, and it is my ego’s relation to that content that my inner person and his surroundings transfer to my consciousness, even though I may not be consciously present there. I usually notice it in the form of someone or something that suddenly start acting as an intermediate authority, with qualities that does not belong to them. Sometimes when it happens it may struck me that people identify themselves with it and think they can become an inner psychic substitute for this relationship. To me, or to others as a conditioned relation without them even knowing that they are doing it. Anyway, it is the way we use to be able to check that no one else formulates or adds new psychic content to the relationship we have between us and the opposite to our consciousness independently of the personal experience we have of interacting with what it wants from us. It’s about finding our personal boundaries and paying attention to both our own and others’ psychological integrity.
When there is an association between our psychic reflection, this other view of the world, and our everyday reality, it may well happen that it first chooses to appear to us in a traditional context, as well as in a real woman whom we confuse with the qualities that belongs to that reality which transcends pure reason, as in the Sami notion of Uksáhkká and in the sense of a threshold to another view of the world. Founded on the inner sense of personal experience. Which is something other than what we are used to and know as our consciousness. Like a first time visible psychic atmosphere that surrounds us which we can touch with our senses by her presence. We may also meet Sáráhkká in the same way. Who conveys our inner division and make us consciously experience our inner person through a woman, and face her with the true person we have within us. She brings together this psychic content inherent in all there is to be embodied by our cultural woman mother, Máttaráhkkáh. Since all people traditionally were considered to be girls until Juoksáhkká took upon her to discern the psychic quality that was the separating force in us, Juoksáhkká was then responsible for separating Máttaráhkká, the cultural expression of psychic life from physical life, and make it comprehensible to us. In this sense, it is she who makes Máderáhttje, our cultural father, visible to us, and relates him to our inner person. Along with our counter-sexual qualities that her power violently forces us to face and develop. A more contemporary view might be that every encounter with a woman by a man that we identify with her will make the psychological demands that turn boys into men, and for women, her absolute presence, sincerity and directness becomes the force that turns girls into women. In other words, she will challenge us, and force us to create the courage we all need to be able to separate our conscious life from its psychic opposite, and accept our role in both worlds.