CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist
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APPENDIX 3<br />
HAUER’S ENGLISH LECTURE<br />
8October 1932<br />
Professor Hauer: Would you like to ask any questions about yesterday’s<br />
discussion?<br />
Dr. Shaw: May I say that it seems to me that if we can only awaken the<br />
Kundalini when we get to the beginning of the sixth stage on the road<br />
through the cakras, 1 where we are not able to see her, that we would be<br />
as far out of reality as the East. We should have something simpler, a<br />
mixture of earth.<br />
Professor Hauer: As I told you, my conception rests upon the classical<br />
text of the ûa°-cakra-nirÖpaõa and on a number of the Upanishads, where<br />
it is quite clear to me that the full awakening can take place only after<br />
the yogin has gotten to the end of viçuddha—he must be purified,<br />
cleansed—and to the beginning of vjñv, the stage where the great intuitions<br />
appear.<br />
I said yesterday that it was a hypothesis. You must work on it not with<br />
the help of Avalon or the modern Indian writers but from the original<br />
texts which give us the historical development of perhaps a thousand<br />
years. Most of our writings now are of a very late date, and the original<br />
meaning is concealed. In the course of the historical evolution all sorts<br />
of things have accrued and been superimposed on the original. My<br />
intention is to get at the original always because I am sure that is nearer<br />
to us than the yoga evolved in India as it fares now, or a hundred years<br />
ago.<br />
It is the same with the classical yoga. I have to take it out of the yoga<br />
1 Hauer had stated: “As to the question when it [Kundalini] is to be awakened, I think the<br />
texts have been misunderstood by the commentators not only in the West but also in the<br />
East. They all speak as if she could be awakened at any time from the beginning onward.<br />
But that is not so. Kundalini can be awakened only after the yogin has mastered all the<br />
limbs of yoga up to samvdhi, the eight limb or step of yoga. Only after he has finished the<br />
whole course, and has achieved all the changes within that are to be worked by yoga, only<br />
then can he awaken Kundalini” (HS, 96).<br />
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