If it were not for the difficulties of processing it, it would be almost inconceivable that people have yet, in a collective sense, understood its influence and impact, and realized how much our distorted inner father figure plays into how it conditions and actively shape our lives. How it makes us exclude ourselves from the absolute ground level of our being and feel rejected, inadequate and without the context that it brings to us. To live in a constant struggle with the compromises that must be made in the dualism it creates in relation to the different faces we show outwardly in our attempts to re-experience the unconditional and genuine belonging our inner person have to the psychic environment of which it is a part. We believe that by being critical, authoritarian, condescending, belittling others, and in various ways being idealists, we are freeing ourselves from a mentally troublesome and deformed father figure within us. But in reality, it only scream out our confusion between our inner person, and its relationship to the cultural expression he is as something that is connected to the various faces we have available for a certain context. We can compensate for our identification with them endlessly and with all kinds of ideas and concepts. But it is the experiences at the root level of our being that we have here and now in relation to ourselves, and its expression in relation to our psychic environment that brings us to our senses, and the bitter truth is that we believe we are dealing with this distorted perspective by taking it out on those who do not relate to our ideals of what we believe is authentic and real, and on the surrounding societies for which our father figure becomes a substitute in an external sense. When one is not self observant and unaware, one looks outward for the cause of an impulse or feeling that may have arisen. We do not realize that it is in doing this that we ourselves create the disorder and uncertainty that will constitute the relationship we have with our psychic life. IF we really want to come to terms with it, we have to do what is authentic by expressing the functionality of a balanced mind to others. Because we generate in others what we express and convey of ourselves, and others generate in us what they convey of it in them. But if we have no contact at all with our inner person, and its relation to either our inner father figure or our true voice, if it is dormant in an undeveloped psychic state, then we will confuse these states with those of others and even imagine that their state is the same as our own. We do not yet have an individual inner identity in the sense that it can be distinct and independent from others with its own mental states that differ from theirs. This is not gender-specific either. Rather, it is an immature expression of a child’s mind, identical to the moods that arise in the surrounding psychic space. It has no life of its own but is dependent on others for its relationship to itself. Nothing really comes from the awareness of its own communication with the origins of interpersonal sources, but everything refers to something else and is conditioned almost exclusively by the content of the collective mind. Where it finds protection for the weakness it constantly preys on in others. Imagine if this were the guiding principle among those who are set to lead others. What would become of it? From this perspective, it seems that this is exactly what is happening to us now, from within each and every one of us.