There is a knowledge that we cannot discuss until we have opened ourselves to it because it arises out of our relationship to the person within us. To its relationship to others and to life itself. And we learn about it by being initiated into it in a terrifying and overwhelming way. Because it basically restores our original cognitive ability. At some point in our lives we are suddenly faced with this and the journey begins. When that happens, all of our different personas, or masks that we have used for the inner characters we once identified with, now become significant in how they have been used in the past and in their overall purpose of making us trust the inner psychic self-regulation center that we experience in a sense of a spontaneous guidance. Which helps us navigate between all the contradictions that arise between us and ourselves in the relationship we have between our inner person and our immediate personal surroundings. In this way we share our origins with people of all ages in their acquisition of a structure in our inner psychic life. We become as “primitive” as them, even if it happens based on different conditions related to time. The characters behind the masks balance us as we are forced to act as their proxies, and on their behalf behind the masks we identify with, and confuse our inner person with their characteristics. In that way they educate us and force us into a renewed relationship with that inner source that exists within us and which at the same time also unites all opposites when it acts as our inner person’s guide. The union it constitutes is the underlying unifying principle which also creates the psychic atmosphere which our relationship to it also characterizes as the spirit of our time. Because even if it is suppressed, it always remains as the inner personal spark which is the light of our consciousness in its relation to the self-preservation principle which permeates our entire existence, simultaneously also in our relationship to the earth in an ordering physical and psychological sense. It is ever-present in the sense of the psychic wholeness we feel in our personal experience as part of the greater totality we are in in its relation to the world as soul. This experience of an inner and outer greater wholeness arises from the encounter we have in the self-observant trials we encounter in a number of different challenging female sub-characters on our way to becoming receptive psychic vessels that can embody our individual psyche also in an outer worldly sense, and then through these trials come to terms with the underlying energy which their various masks force us to face within ourselves. But they also act on us as psychic properties we interact with in the world we experience as from within this wholeness, or its soul, through which we can experience the underlying psychic patterns it creates in us as smaller individual parts of a significantly larger interpersonal whole. The world’s self-regulating ecosystem is in turn the center of the soul of the world we perceive ourselves in as parts of the natural world. And any interaction between the species in it has a direct effect on this soul of the species themselves and everything in it. Here the wind, the sun, the oceans, lakes and streams, the moon and the stars in the night sky, have their own characters, and masked behavior, as purposes and living opposites to the inner order of this whole. Therefore, our cosmos may also bear an reflection of its creational forces in our minds. The psychic forces behind our masks direct the same orbital pull around our inner core as the planets do in their orbits around the sun. And as such is something both our outer senses and their relationship to our inner source interact with as we alternately view our inner psychic energies in relation to our solar system, into which we have transferred ourselves over several millennia. Which in turn brings a deep sense of being part of nature and all its characters in an embodied way. I imagine that all the masks we use are our masked needs for inner knowledge and psychic balance, what we evolve from by our connection to this source in a psychic sense. Something the human within us has had access to in various forms since time immemorial. The masks are its psychic teachers and guides, whose significance has been lost in the rational materialism of today. But they have never disappeared. Their characters constantly continue to animate our relationships between us and the world without us realizing their real underlying purpose and meaning anymore. They remain within us as symptoms, and as masks for qualities we use but whose real meaning as figures for inner knowledge has fallen into oblivion. Which then confuses the relationship we have to our within with the relationship we have to that which also is its without.