CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

LECTURE 2
emotions come up, they begin to weep about things which happened
forty years ago. That simply means that they were prematurely detached
from that stage of life; they have forgotten that there are buried fires still
burning. Then they were unconscious, but when they touch the lower
centers, they get back into that world and become aware that it is still
hot, like a fire that has been left forgotten under the ashes. But take away
the ashes and there are still the glowing embers underneath, as it is said
of pilgrims going to Mecca: they leave their fires buried under the ashes,
and when they return the following year the embers are still glowing.
Now, in maõipÖra you have reached an upper layer where there comes
a definite change. 9 The bodily localization of this cakra under the diaphragm
is the symbol for the peculiar change that now takes place.
Above the diaphragm you come into anvhata, the heart or air center,
because the heart is embedded in the lungs and the whole activity of the
heart is closely associated with the lungs. One must be naive to understand
these things. In primitive experience, it is the same thing. In fact,
it is a physiological truth. We understand more or less what maõipÖra
means psychologically, but now we come to the great leap, anvhata.
What follows psychologically after you have fallen into hell? When you
have come into the whirlpool of passions, of instincts, of desires and so
on, what follows after?
Mrs. Crowley: Usually an enantiodromia; some opposite will now be
constellated. Some vision perhaps, or something more impersonal will
follow.
Dr. Jung: An enantiodromia, which would be the discovery of something
impersonal? In other words, that one no longer identifies with
one’s desires. Now, one must consider the fact that it is hard to talk of
these things, because most people are still identical with maõipÖra. Itis
exceedingly difficult to find out what is beyond. Therefore we must remain
a bit in the symbolism first. The next center, as I told you, has to do
with the air. The diaphragm would correspond to the surface of the
earth, and apparently in getting into anvhata we reach the condition
where we are lifted up from the earth. What has happened? How do we
get there at all? You see in maõipÖra we still don’t know where we are; we
are in mÖlvdhvra just as well, at least our feet are still standing in
mÖlvdhvra: but in anvhata they are lifted up above the surface of the
earth. Now, what could literally lift one above the earth?
Dr. Meier: The wind.
9 In the manuscript “Die Beschreibung der beidem Centrem Shat-chakra Nirupana”
Jung described maõipÖra as “center of corporeal men, carnivores” (2; my translation).
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