the struggling to articulate a relational way of knowing

Through our psychic awareness and paying attention to the psychic background we share with everyone else culturally in our own personal way, we also experience that we are evicted from it by those who do not want or cannot perceive it directly. It may even mean that we are prevented from developing our common human values in relation to others and to life itself because we are too young to defend ourselves from that kind of influence. It’s a kind of safety, so that the attitude we share with others is not questioned. We are denied access to the background we share in different ways. Sometimes through a disguised normality that diminishes its influence over us, but often also brutally. Through hideous psychological and physical abuse of what we do not want to see as a natural relationship to something in ourselves. Something that means that what arises in the individual is propagated and carried out collectively. We are individually responsible for what the collective does. Blaming others is our way of shifting that individual guilt onto someone else. It’s always about not allowing others what we deny within ourselves. We blame various types of authorities around us without seeing and recognizing ourselves as part of the collective that follows them, and that we always become the real perpetrators. We believe that our deeds will not be seen if we hide behind others. But our outside world shows us the unvarnished truth, how it is. How we treat ourselves and create our living conditions, our tomorrows. We are what it is every day. No words will change that. It is there right in front of us as what we do not want to know about ourselves. Our psychic consciousness. That which is the within in the without. In Sami there is a word that crates a reference to what this is. Meahcci. In which there is no division between our nature, the Nature, and culture. But more like we live in self organizing psychic patterns weaving through us as contextual beings that morally live and interact with the world in versions of psychic consciousness related to specific places of space and time. There is always a place in time we interact with every day in its own way. Its a relational way of knowing. When we get confused about this, some people take matters into their own hands in a distorted way in relation to their developing psychic consciousness. They become perpetrators and believe that by harming other people in an impersonal and collective way, they change themselves. Do something about their psychological sufferings and confusion. As if to punish a common normalized behavior which in themselves suppresses their own need for a more profound understanding of their emotional relation to psychic life can change the influence it has on them. Something that of course does not happen by damaging or degrading either their own or others’ basic personal and human needs or experience of emotional values.