CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

LECTURE 2
And now comes the paradox of the East: it is also the fullness of jewels.
But what is passion, what are emotions? There is the source of fire, there
is the fullness of energy. A man who is not on fire is nothing: he is ridiculous,
he is two-dimensional. He must be on fire even if he does make a
fool of himself. A flame must burn somewhere, otherwise no light shines;
there is no warmth, nothing. It is terribly awkward, sure enough; it is
painful, full of conflict, apparently a mere waste of time—at all events, it
is against reason. But that accursed Kundalini says, “It is the fullness of
jewels; there is the source of energy.” As Heraclitus aptly said: war is the
father of all things.
Now this third center, the center of emotions, is localized in the plexus
solaris, or the center of the abdomen. I have told you that my first discovery
about the Kundalini yoga was that these cakras really are concerned
with what are called psychical localizations. This center then would be
the first psychical localization that is within our conscious psychical experience.
I must refer again to the story of my friend, the Pueblo chief, who
thought that all Americans were crazy because they were convinced that
they thought in the head. He said: “But we think in the heart.” That is
anvhata. 8 Then there are primitive tribes who have their psychical localization
in the abdomen. And that is true of us as well; there is a certain
category of psychical events that take place in the stomach. Therefore
one says, “Something weighs on my stomach.” And if one is very angry,
one gets jaundice; if one is afraid, one has diarrhea; or if in a particularly
obstinate mood, one is constipated. You see, that shows what psychical
localization means.
Thinking in the abdomen means that there was once a time when consciousness
was so dim that people noticed only the things that disturbed
their intestinal functions, and everything else simply passed by the
board; it did not exist because it had no effect upon them. There are still
traces of that among the central Australian aborigines, who have the funniest
ceremonies in order to make them realize a thing. I told you about
the ceremony of making a man angry; and one sees other forms of the
same thing in all primitive tribes. Before they can make up their minds
to go hunting, for instance, there must be a whole ceremonial by which
they are put into the mood of hunting; otherwise they don’t do it. They
must be excited by something. It has to do not only with the intestines,
then, but with the whole body.
Therefore that primitive method of the schoolmasters fifty years ago,
8 Hauer described the anvhata cakra as “the heart lotus, which means the one that has
not or cannot be hurt” (HS, 69).
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