In most traditional contexts, people have discovered that if we do not recognise the larger whole of which our interior is a part, meahcci in sami, which is all around us at the same time that it is what we relate to as our absolute center, our essence, it will turn against us. If we do not meet it when it seeks us with the equivalent of what we are, then we will become completely immersed in the game of opposites within us. We get lost in ourselves, and we believe that is the way it should be. We become absorbed by egoism and self-pity which are important feelings for any five year old learning about this influences on him or her. And to adults in their re-initiation to this experience. We tend to believe that the psychic pain this wholeness creates in us is emerging from those around us, not from our attitude towards its appearence. This will be our way of relating to our surroundings. It is determined by how we perceive our relationship to it. Not that everything there is, is also part of a greater experience of a shared totality which also contains all our human qualities. This is why people in traditional cultures confront this, in order to be able to see themselves and what they experience as something both within and outside of them in a much larger context. Its a calling from nature itself. To search for it in our psychic heritage and see how our ancestors encountered these forces. What they are in themselves, as the nature we share with everything around us. It is both a wonderful and an extremely painful experience. It is also where we find true heroism, not heroism by comparison. That is probably why most people stay in a world of opposites all their life, and unknowingly create it for all there is around them. Locked in an affection to psychic life lived through others, or ideals as a substitute for morals. From a numinous point of view, we become cattle. I think this is what is referred to when we we speak of hell. We are all in opposition to our greater sense of life at one time or another, whether we will confront it or not is the question each of us must find an answer to within ourselves.