the real person within

In Sami, there is the psychic concept of albma-olmmos, or the real person, who in that sense throughout my upbringing was more or less consciously present in all contexts. Most often as the one who decided a kind of community between people who were otherwise strangers to each other. He was either there or he wasn’t. If not, there was no real interrelation and you were still strangers. I perceive it as nowadays the real person has almost completely disappeared, which means that everyone then continues to be just strangers to each other. The real person is also described in other ways. Like the greater man within man, purusha in India or anthropos in Gnosticism. In its broader sense, that person within us is also deeply connected to nature as something alive, and there is an interpersonal psychic space where this inner person relates us both to people, places and other things around us that are not human, which are also part of the social dialogue we have with them and each other all the time in the environment we share with all that which we encounter there. They therefore interact with us in everything we do, and to exclude them as part of our inner context with the person we have there, makes us sick and depressed and stuck in a kind of logic of material loneliness. I think this is because we must participate through him with everything in our environment, and with those in the relationship that arises in the mutual context that constantly arises between us and everything in it, on which we also depend for our psychic balance and health. Otherwise we isolate the inner person and exclude him from the participation of this greater human interaction to which he relates us, and we do not participate in the psychic environment in which he and his inner, or our saivo family involve us. I also think that’s why we talk about personal time. Getting to spend time alone, with ourselves. Why relationships sometimes fall apart. We all need time to evolve, and release the directions involved that unite opposites and learn to associate them more closely with our relationship with this inner person, who then shows us the relationships it has with the source and energy of the greater psychically experienced whole. Something that can’t be done without also sharing his cultural aspect. Nowadays, we have other names for them, as they are somewhat acknowledged as part of our psyche, if we even notice them and recognise how much they interfere in our relationships. But as psyche or saivo, or whatever name that we are accustomed to use culturally to give expression to our interpersonal psychic life, our need to interact with them are never the less the same.