It helps explain how psyche constrains the open-ended functioning of spirit. It helps explain how biases built into psyche prevent human integration and spiritual flowering. Uncovering processes and mechanisms by which psyche is structured into particular individual configurations, Grof's work also suggests how psyche can be restructured. The ultimate goal of this restructuring is unobtrusive services to the transspatial and transtemporal capacities of dynamic human spirit. In humans, psyche functions as it does because, unlike in other animals, it operates under the influence of spirit.
Human psyche is enspirited.
So the images of psyche, for example, can express meaning as well as express states of the physiological organism. And the emotions of psyche can indicate values as well as indicate states of comfort or discomfort within the organism. Determining which is which and otherwise deciphering the inherent ambiguity in psyche's symbolic expression is a major difficulty in negotiating the human psyche. Nonetheless, precisely because psyche in humans is enspirited, people are able to reflect on their experience of psyche. For that reason, from a practical point of view, humans can learn to decipher the images in psyche, to feel and respond appropriately to their emotions, and to recall and reexperience their memories.