CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

LECTURE 2
cause we are so imbued with the fact that our unconscious is our own—
my unconscious, his unconscious, her unconscious—and our prejudice
is so strong that we have the greatest trouble disidentifying. Even if we
must recognize that there is a non-ego experience, it is a long way until
we realize what it might be. That is the reason why these experiences are
secret; they are called mystical because the ordinary world cannot understand
them, and what they cannot understand they call mystical—that
covers everything. But the point is that what they call mystical is simply
not the obvious. Therefore the yoga way or the yoga philosophy has always
been a secret, but not because people have kept it secret. For as soon
as you keep a secret it is already an open secret; you know about it and
other people know about it, and then it is no longer a secret. The real
secrets are secrets because nobody understands them. One cannot
even talk about them, and of such a kind are the experiences of the
Kundalini yoga. That tendency to keep things secret is merely a natural
consequence when the experience is of such a peculiar kind that you
had better not talk about it, for you expose yourself to the greatest misunderstanding
and misinterpretation. Even if it is a matter of dogmatized
experience of things that already have a certain form, you still feel,
as long as the original fresh impression of such an experience is alive,
that you had better continue to cover it up. You feel that these things will
not fit in, that they may have an almost destructive influence upon the
convictions of the mÖlvdhvra world.
For the convictions of the mÖlvdhvra world are very necessary. It is exceedingly
important that you are rational, that you believe in the definiteness
of our world, that this world is the culmination of history, the
most desirable thing. Such a conviction is absolutely vital. Otherwise you
remain detached from the mÖlvdhvra—you never get there, you are
never born, even. There are plenty of people who are not yet born. They
seem to be all here, they walk about—but as a matter of fact, they are not
yet born, because they are behind a glass wall, they are in the womb.
They are in the world only on parole and are soon to be returned to the
pleroma where they started originally. They have not formed a connection
with this world; they are suspended in the air; they are neurotic,
living the provisional life. They say: “I am now living on such-and-such a
condition. If my parents behave according to my wishes, I stay. But if it
should happen that they do something I don’t like, I pop off.” You see,
that is the provisional life, a conditioned life, the life of somebody who
is still connected by an umbilical cord as thick as a ship’s rope to the
pleroma, the archetypal world of splendor. Now, it is most important
that you should be born; you ought to come into this world—otherwise
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