When we confuse our inner person with our ego, and make common cause of them, we also make the psychic life of others and their inner sources of inspiration, into a relationship within ourselves. Which is an impossibility and something that is not up to our ego to do. It’s about observing and taking care of our own inner life and thereby not affecting the mental health of others with our own. When we do that, we try to replace someone else’s psychic sources and the experiental content they get from them with the perception our ego has of its own importance outside the psychic boundaries of our own person. The imbalance that it creates in someone else causes them to either lose the relationship to these sources in themselves and feel rejected and ostracized from their own relationship to the original whole. Or inadequate and incapable when their own ability to meet them in themselves is distorted by an uncomprehending and psychologically immature and undeveloped environment. When we listen inwardly, and to the psychic realm, we experience different states of concentrated psychic energy and emotional density, as characteristics of the moods that arise with their own origins both within ourselves and in others, they are something that has a shared psychic filiation but whose experience is personal and perceived by the individual independently of others. Doing so not only realizes the relationship to our own inner person and its reality, but it also does so for others independently of how our relationship to these psychic sources looks like within ourselves. But all sorts of problems and delusions arise if we do not. An almost incomprehensible mess and confusion follows from this. Perhaps above all for the ego’s way of idealizing with ideas and concepts to come to terms with the confusion that this imbalance creates and the compensations that are constantly created by the dualism that occurs between them. Something that forces a solution that lies in an acceptance that it exists and has its origin beyond the ego, and the conditioning it exposes us to. Without, however, belittling or ignoring its true significance in relation to our collective consciousness, and the content it is provided with from sources that we naively and immaturely confuse with the ego. If we succeed in fully implementing this relationship not only to ourselves but also to others in our everyday lives, our reality will take on proportions that no ego can encompass or assume as its own, wherever we are on this journey. An arduous inner work that started with the first spark of consciousness. Which leads to the first experience we have of the dualism and journey of psychic maturity our consciousness gives rise to in its relationship to the original whole. Where the ego’s relativization in relation to both our own and to others’ psychological self-observation is of crucial importance.