No person can be the background that includes everything that is in its potentiality. Or that inaudible inner voice that conveys it individually. Which is giving its instructions in and around everything that is. A cosmic background whose patterns of energy shape all life in itself that we are related to within us. An experience we have of it as embodied parts when we are close to some form of it in the energy fields surrounding them as we enter into their immediate vicinity. But we need someone or something that can lead us towards it. A center of gravity where we can learn how to interact with it from within ourselves in the sense of being part of its wholeness in our lives. A siejdde is such a place of connection where people can experience a direct interaction with its force field in nature. And it is in that relationship that we speak of prayers. Instead of the kind of confession we use most of our relationships for. We ask questions within ourselves, and talk to it in the relationship we have between us and ourselves as we dwell in it, and get answers. Which in turn shows us a way for us to perceive that voice and what it has to say to us. This is where Máderáhttje, our cultural father in his psychic shape comes in. The psychic figure that we so often claim in men and in our fathers. Not the actual person in flesh and blood in front of it, or any distortion of our voice he is committed to in the sense of what he wants to see in others reflected back of himself. Of what he wants to be between others and them themselves to avoid the psychic pain that constantly arises in his hostility to his own inner voice and thereby to others. Which means that others around him are forced to suppress what they have within them, and what their own personal inner voice announces to them in their relationship to it. But regardless of what any man or cultural father figure as a psychic envelope for Máderáhttje wants from others to get us to follow them, the thoughts and ideas that he conveys in his relationship to his world and transmits to others are not the psychic reality that someone else’s inner voice conveys to that the person individually, as from their own personal psychological background. We cannot turn a physical person into a psychic entity without the consequence that it will distort both that person and ourselves in a negative way within us.
There is nothing more important to us than to have a sense of a safe embracing environment in the form of our cultural interpersonal father in an expressed and lived psychic relationship to him, between us and ourselves in our psychic consciousness. While we also have a living and secure relationship with our culture in its capacity to embody such a confirmation of it as a psychic envelope and its connection to the source within us that shows us the way in our individual lives, while at the same time it is also a shared relationship between others and themselves, within in us. This is the voice of Rádienáhttje in sami. His absence within us is our feeling of being misled, that we cannot recognise ourselves in others around us. That we cannot trust our surroundings. We perceive public officials as selfish or that they are minding someone else’s business. And that it somehow always make us feel as if we cannot have an active participation in the world and culture that surrounds us. Because it does not listen. There is no connection, and certainly no recognized relation to our transmitted psychic cultural father or mother however tangible they may be to our inner person in our social relations to one another in the society in which we find ourselves. There is no real psychic life.