We carry all the different states of the great mother within us, who simultaneously appear on several different levels. On a fundamental level, we see no difference between her and our needs for closeness and security as a vessel for our inner person, with those she represents herself to with us. She also acts as the unpleasant dark background that we can sense in our early relationships. Or when they have stagnated and become practical compromises that suffocate our inner person, either in our professional or private life, or in both. At a higher level of psychic reflection, we see her as something separate from others that surrounds us and embodies the entire inner reality we experience with our inner person at its center as the mediator of our interpersonal connections. Here she also appears in the form of a carrier of our cultural relations in the sense of the psychic space that make sure to safely and considerately pay attention to the inner person also in others. But she also affects us at her highest psychic level where she conveys the insight that causes us to transcend the limitations of pure reason. When we enter her realm, we experience it as pure nature. She appears to us as nature itself, whose psychic space is experienced with our inner person in that which all potential forms of life consist of, and of which we are a part in a multi-leveled, embodied and constantly recurring sense as our mind’s own built-in learning process. In its constant rebirths, in all the different abstract living forms of life which undergo the underlying transformation that timelessly repeats itself to our reality. There is a wonderful description of her in Sami tradition when she ends up in urban environments. Outside of them, in their outskirts, her presence is perceived as a wise helping figure when we are having a hard time in relation to our inner person. But in populated areas she is seen as an intrusive and disturbing gossipmonger and blabbermouth!
But before we get to her, we must endure the trials that confront us as we find ourselves in the center of her cultural personality. We have to face some of the traits separated from her that have been passed on to her daughters, and experience the dichotomy it means to sense the moods of that psychic space that surrounds us is something that also emerges from within ourselves, and respect the expressions we are confronted with in it as if it too exist independently of us. And finally meet the feminine character that forces us to unconditionally face that irrationality we dare not express of them in ourselves. If we don’t, she will make our vulnerability vindictive and defensive, and even make us turn against ourselves and destroy us. If we just wave it all away and their presence is not consciously confirmed by us, they act as seducers and psychic tormentors corresponding to what the meaning of the Latin term succubus refers to as a composite experience. Its invisible influence and the intense anguish that results from it. Which all men in their adolescence have experienced. But few have realized as a psychic reality.