CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

HAUER'S ENGLISH LECTURE
then remembered, of course, that it was only in relatively late periods of
civilization that the head was discovered to be the seat of the mind. And
the Pueblo Indians are already civilized—they are really descendants of
our fathers of the Aztec; they have a certain culture. The Greek in Homeric
times located his thinking a bit below the heart, in the diaphragm.
Another word for diaphragm is phren, the Greek word for mind; and the
same root is in the name of the mental disease schizophrenia, which
means a splitting of the mind. So in the Homeric days, the physical localization
of the mind was in the region of the diaphragm. They were conscious
to the extent that they could notice psychological contents inasmuch
as those influenced the breathing. And certain Negroes put the
seat of their emotions and thoughts in the belly. They are conscious insofar
as they notice contents which affect the functions of the abdominal
intestines. When we have disagreeable thoughts or feelings, our stomachs
get upset. We still get jaundice when we repress a violent anger, and
every case of hysteria has trouble in the digestive organs, because originally
the most profound and important thoughts were down there. So
those are three localizations of consciousness that are still to be traced
historically, as it were.
The intervening cakras that are characterized by the absence of the
union of the li´ga and the yoni can be traced, too. I have made some
observations lately concerning viçudhha, for instance. The anvhata cakra,
of course, is the air center, which obviously coincides with the fact that
the lungs are situated there; and as it is situated above the diaphragm, it
means that a higher state of consciousness is reached. The heart is always
associated with feelings or with mind; therefore, as I also have seen by
practical experience, anvhata would be a center of consciousness, of feeling
and thoughts, which can be blown out in the breath. For feelings also
come out in the breath; you can express them—you press, and out
comes the feeling in the form of sound. That was the original method of
calling to the gods. We have a description of it in the Mithraic liturgy,
where it says: “Hold both your sides and press them with all your might
and shout like a steer,” so that the gods may hear you. 24 You see, that is
a kind of conscious feeling and thought expression. Now, this is very
primitive, but most of us are really still about there. We express feelings
and thoughts as if we were just spitting them out, without realizing in the
least what we are doing. You know, many people have not the faintest
idea what they are saying, or what they are doing to other people by thus
exhaling their thoughts and feelings. I see that all the time. So the think-
24 Cf. Albrecht Dietrich, Eine Mithrasliturgie (A Mithras liturgy) (Leipzig, 1903).
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