The deep inner conviction of the importance of ceremony must not seduce the individual away from their sense of personal reality. Surrendering to empty ritual, simply because it is condoned, leads to loss of identity, and confusion about what is true.

These ceremonies are social constructs designed to express and renew our recognition that there are natural forces, and higher forces. By remembrance of them we receive strength and tune in to the source of life, regenerating the life force within ourselves.

Also they serve to ritualize our loyalties. This establishes group rapport on the level of both head and heart, so binds together those who choose to be associated collectively, by acknowledging fidelity to their roots and tribe.

As older ways and values are challenged for effectiveness and continued relevance by the irresistible forces of evolutionary change, one is buttressed by one’s adherence to principles made clear through these rituals.

Sun worshipping may or may not be the ideal means to capture the individual’s sense of how to bind himself back to the cosmos and awaken the cosmic dimension of their consciousness, yet it will endow assurances that their yearnings are part of a shared dream. And this is empowering.

Notwithstanding the normal concerns about the discrepancies between self and group, such a process does in fact support self-actualization. This is because the group tradition is an aspect of the self and always serves as a template out of which individual variations may easily be constructed.

Thus one’s situation and background, here embodied in the collective ceremony of one's people, are the source from which all potential of self expression may be drawn, fulfilling the individual’s unlimited quest to realize absolutely their inner sense of self.

This is an image of a person who spends very little time and effort in presenting an acceptable face to society. It matters little what society thinks or does in response to such an open challenge to its values, this character is not perturbed.

Perhaps even as a direct consequence of disdaining collective values, the individual’s qualities are intensified and brought into higher relief; outer accomplishment easily follows.

Loved, therefore, for who they are, not how they look, this individual can enjoy a somewhat unusual – even perverse – satisfaction in the neglection of self, thus allowing the antisocial appearance to be a mark of the eccentric rather than the clown.

Taken to the extreme, a complete self-obsession with the uniqueness of one’s character can show itself as a complete disregard for any of society’s rewards or penalties.

This particular interaction between self and society will create a need in the individual to show every one of their physical and psychological attributes to best effect as much in serving society as in demonstrating their values and value.

This sets up a tension and therefore a constant process of self refinement as the individual strives to be a better example of society by rejecting its collective values and affirming those of the unique self. This is how they contribute to the development of the race.

We see a paradox in this – that an apparently selfish motivation leads, in its extreme form, to a wholesome, and entirely necessary, evolutionary contribution to society at its highest level of progress.