The depth of the cut, signals the importance of the designated event, and real deep cuts are not erased by intergenerational paasage. They are sustained in a large mirror which conforms to the gross changes, as would in a hall of mirrors at an amusement center. They adapt to gross changes, and modify them to lessen distortion.
The mirror of the soul is not an inert, flat plane, but it is a complex , functional, living one, asepting and reacting, so as, not to totally kick a pre existing plane of reflection out of kilter. This plane, having large markers coming up from who knows where, or what historical period, works hard to simulate the present, existing soul, while at the same time, try to retain some modicum of authenticity.
The main idea of psychic survival depends on the adept capacity to refer to these markers, and further, not to nihilize totally by denial the prior existence of them. Referentiality is the key of overcoming, overcoming by leaps, those parts that have been omitted or, forgotten, by convenience. Referentiality, like a genological key, does overcome the loss of power , by a relaxation of the will to recover the lost elements of the soul.
The parts which are lost, will still have being on some ‘outside’ periphery, of existence, and it is at that vantage point that the tangent will appear as unsubstantial. It is within conscience and without. It is there where the forces will seem to neutralize each other.
That is why, that leaving the soul in that limbo, that bardo, of which the Tibetan Book of the Dead goes into great detail, has to be overcome, pushing it with strong force from the outer to the inner sphere.
It can be done, demonstratively, it works. What follows is a tremendous sense of liberation. But as soon as someone says ‘I found out, Eureka’, they immediately loose it. In order to keep it, it must constantly be used, as a tool, even at the cost of obsession. It only ‘is’, if and only if, it is engaged with it. It can be one or the other, or one masquerading as the other, not necessarily to deceive, but forced into the other sphere by the pure forms of mechanics of
existential content. These are the forms of pure understanding.