CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

19 OCTOBER 1932
of view as to the meaning of the world. To them, we are just ridiculous;
we are living in a sort of illusion about our world. So this standpoint of
the yoga philosophy is thus far a part of the general tendency of the
philosophic and religious world. It is very general to look at the
mÖlvdhvra as a transitory phenomenon.
For our purpose we can leave aside this particular philosophic comment.
It is quite interesting, yet it should not disturb us. For we have to
take for granted that this is the world where the real things happen, that
it is the only world, and perhaps there is nothing beyond—at least, we
have no experiences that would prove it to us. We have to be concerned
with the immediate reality, and we must say, as it is shown in the
mÖlvdhvra symbol, that the gods which would stand for that other eternal
order of things are asleep. They are inefficient, they mean nothing. Yet
we are allowed to admit that in the very center of this field of consciousness
are germs of something that point to a different kind of consciousness,
though for the time being they are inactive. So, to put it on a psychological
level, it seems evident that even in our consciousness, of
which we believe that it is “nothing but,” and perfectly clear and selfevident
and banal—even in that field there is the spark of something
that points to another conception of life.
This is merely a statement about a generally prevailing condition,
namely, through the consensus gentium, the harmony of opinion in the
whole world, among men, it is understood that somewhere in the interior
of our normal consciousness, there is such a thing. There are sleeping
gods, or a germ, that might enable us, as it has enabled people at all
times, to look at the mÖlvdhvra world from an entirely different point of
view, that allows them even to put mÖlvdhvra right down into the bottom
of the trunk where things start—meaning that in the great body of the
cosmic world, this world holds the lowest place, the place of the beginning.
So what we take to be the culmination of a long history and a long
evolution would be really a nursery, and the great, important things are
high above it and are still to come—exactly as the unconscious contents
which we feel down below in our abdomen are slowly rising to the surface
and becoming conscious, so that we begin to have the conviction:
this is definite, this is clear, this is really what we are after. As long as it was
down below in the abdomen it simply disturbed our functions; it was a
small germ. But now it is an embryo, or as it reaches the conscious, it is
slowly seen as a full-grown tree.
If you look at the symbol of the mÖlvdhvra in such a way, you understand
the purpose of the yoga in the awakening of Kundalini. It means to
separate the gods from the world so that they become active, and with
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