CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

APPENDIX 1
dren’s drawings. 6 Small children are very old; later on we soon grow
younger. In our middle age we are youngest, precisely at the time when
we have completely or almost completely lost contact with the collective
unconscious, the saôskvras. We grow older again only as with the mounting
years we remember the saôskvras anew.
Within the vajrayvna branch a peculiar form of yoga practice has developed,
the åakti or Kundalini yoga. (Kundala = coiled up; åak = having
power, being able). åakti-Kundalini or Devz-Kundalini is a goddess. She
is the female principle, the self-manifesting power which surrounds the
gem at the center. She is the çabdabrahman, the word of creation. Like a
snake she coils around the center, the gold seed, the jewel, the pearl, the
egg. 7 The Kundalini serpent is, however, also a Devz-Kundalini, a chain
of glittering lights, the “world bewilderer.” 8 By creating confusion she
produces the world of consciousness, the veil of Mvyv. It is the anima, the
Devz-çakti, which has conceived the world. 9 (This is, of course, a view
which corresponds to male psychology. Seen from the woman’s point of
view the animus devises the world.)
åiva emanates åakti. åakti begets Mvyv. Mvyv is desire and thereby
error: she is the fire of error. The desiring consciousness confronts the
purely contemplative consciousness. The visual portrayal of this emanation
can take place horizontally as well as vertically. In the first case the
earlier-mentioned mandalas appear. Mvyv is there depicted as a glowing
circle of fire (honeycomb blaze). In the second case one finds portrayals
in which are indicated the darkness and confusion below and the pure
power and light above. 10 This vertical arrangement of levels of consciousness
in the image of worship corresponds to the teaching of the
different cakras in the human body. 11 In the oldest Upanishads the heart
(four ventricles!) is the seat of the soul or of knowledge, of waking con-
6 [Note to the 1932 edition: Cf. the projection of a child’s drawing from the Rothe circle,
about which Frau Sigg gave a lecture.]
7 [Note to the 1932 edition: Cf. the Orphic mysteries: the world serpent surrounds the
egg.]
8 [In English in the original.] In his copy of Arthur Avalon’s (pseud. Sir John Woodroffe)
The Serpent Power (London, 1919), Jung had marked the phrase “the Devz Kuõìalz ...the
world bewilderer” (37).
9 In his copy of The Serpent Power, Jung had marked the following passage: “Kuõìalzåakti
is Cit, or consciousness, in its creative aspect as Power. As åakti it is through Her activity that
the world and all human beings therein exist” (254).
10 [Note to the 1932 edition: In Egypt (one finds the representation of) a coiled-up serpent
below, with Isis above with a crown of light.]
11 [Note to the 1932 edition: a) According to the Persian sufis, three cakras are distinguished:
1) the mother of the brain, or the spherical heart; 2) the cedar heart; and 3) the
lily heart. b) Cf. the Mexican book of fables, Popol Vuh.]
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