Baka experiences its inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by its involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generates.

Baka is a social being oriented toward other people, whose personal interests often mingle with those of their associates or those of the group to which they belong. Baka is motivated by a need to work in common with other people and to share life’s pleasures and pain. Baka’s commitments to other people are of paramount importance to his personal development. This dependence may present difficulties with individual self-assertion and make it hard for Baka to make decisions alone. If Baka wants to achieve inner equilibrium, he must behave in such a way that his actions yield benefits to others as well as himself.

While Baka is attracted to interpersonal activities, their significant need for inner security may stand in the way of their overtures to others. Since Baka is highly receptive to other people’s inner natures, they seek tight bonds with others. Baka unconsciously need their psychological support in their quest for themselves. Were Baka to evaluate their psychological development, they would place more value upon human warmth, intimacy, and the need to share than on intellectual understanding or personal freedom of expression.

A Baka lives in a world in constant contact with their dreams and subconscious. They cannot live without love, and, like water which flows into and takes on the shape of the vessel which contains it, they are always ready to submerge themselves in another person. Stirred by forces they do not control, they may be aroused by passions which are impervious to the restraints of reason and logic. They are an emotive creature in harmony with the flow of their feelings, impulses, and urges.

Baka struggles to get into natural harmony with the physical world and the limitations and restraints it places upon him. Idealistic, he tends to be somewhat disconnected from practical considerations, and barely pays any attention to material things like food, money, his surroundings, and so on. He tends to be footloose and fancy-free, oblivious to the necessities of survival in the physical world, until his lack of material resources – an issue to which he usually grants no importance – becomes an emergency. This feeling of being out of touch with material things and the physical dimension of reality may sometimes lead him to see himself as unfit for this world. He may think he cannot attach himself to anything that would sustain his efforts at self-expression. However, his impractical nature offers many positive aspects. He sees life’s possibilities as limitless. He is apt to develop his imagination or pursue a spiritual quest in order to transcend the material world.