CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

2 NOVEMBER 1932
are there in all respects. Being identified with the conscious, we do not
see that there exists something outside it and that this something is not
above but below.
But by means of psychology or tantric philosophy we can achieve a
standpoint from which we can observe that suprapersonal events do take
place within our own psyche. To look at things from a suprapersonal
standpoint is to arrive at the sÖküma aspect. We can attain this standpoint
because inasmuch as we create culture, we create suprapersonal values,
and when we do this, we begin to see the sÖküma aspect. Through culture
we get an intuition of the other than personal psychological possibilities
because the suprapersonal appears in it. The cakra system manifests itself
in culture, and culture can therefore be divided into various levels
such as that of the belly, heart, and head centers. Therefore we can experience
and demonstrate the various centers as they appear in the life of
the individual, or in the evolution of humanity. We begin in the head; we
identify with our eyes and our consciousness: quite detached and objective,
we survey the world. That is vjñv. But we cannot linger forever in the
pure spheres of detached observation, we must bring our thoughts into
reality. We voice them and so trust them to the air. When we clothe our
knowledge in words, we are in the region of viçuddha, or the throat center.
But as soon as we say something that is especially difficult, or that
causes us positive or negative feelings, we have a throbbing of the heart,
andthentheanvhata center begins to be activated. And still another step
further, when for example a dispute with someone starts up, when we
have become irritable and angry and get beside ourselves, then we are in
maõipÖra.
If we go lower still, the situation becomes impossible, because then the
body begins to speak. For this reason, in England, everything below the
diaphragm is taboo. Germans always go a little below it and hence easily
become emotional. Russians live altogether below the diaphragm—they
consist of emotions. French and Italians behave as if they were below it but
they know perfectly well, and so does everyone else, that they are not.
It is a rather delicate and painful matter to speak of what happens in
svvdhiü°hvna. When for example, an emotion reaches a point of great
intensity, it no longer expresses itself in words, but in a physiological way.
It does not leave the body by way of the mouth, but in other ways—as, for
instance, the bladder. Svvdhiü°hvna represents the level where psychic
life may be said to begin. Only when this level became activated did mankind
awaken from the sleep of mÖlvdhvra and learn the first rules of bodily
decency. The beginning of moral education consisted in attending to
our needs in the places suitable for them, just as still happens in the
education of a small child. Dogs too have learned this; they are already
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