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Chapter 9: Fusion as a Bridge
Jung asked him how he felt about white people, Ochwia Biano
(Mountain Lake) said to him, that to his people, they looked quite
cruel in their appearance. “You always have an inflexible expression
on your face. You always seem to be wanting something. You
are always restless and agitated. We don’t know what you want.
You all seem to be quite crazy.” Jung then asked him why he thought
them to be crazy. He replied, “They say they think with their head”.
Jung, surprised, asked him: “Of course, but tell me, where do you
think” He replied, “We think here.“ And he pointed to his heart.
Jung tells how he sank into deep reflection and he remarks, “For
the first time in my life, it seemed to me, somebody had shown me
the image of how we really are.... This Indian had touched our weak
spot and pointed to something to which we are really blind.” Jung
viewed the encounter with the Indian as an opportunity, which
opened to him a new gate to a primordial and nearly entirely forgotten
dimension and form of consciousness which could be revived.
Fig. 9.7 Smile into the Heart.
In another passage in his autobiography, Jung narrates a dream
which he had during a visit to an Islamic country in North Africa,
which deeply touched him. In this dream he had to fight for his
survival with a young Arab aristocrat who descended from his horse
and wanted to drown him. Jung interpreted the dream as a struggle
between his own repressed unconscious (his shadow), which
sought to be recognized and accepted and his own consciousness,
represented by his rational mind which felt threatened by the
unsuspected attack by the young man. He then observes: “In my
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