CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

LECTURE 2
Mr. Baumann: I think there is a Greek myth, where you hear voices
before the sun has risen.
Dr. Jung: That is the figure of Memnon in Egypt, which was said to
produce a peculiar sound when the sun rises, because according to the
Greek legend Memnon is the son of Aurora, the dawn, so when dawn
appears he greets his mother. But that is not exactly the wind and the
sun. You see, the symbolism tells us what happens in anvhata. But that is
not psychological; we are really in mythology so far, and we ought to
know what it means psychologically. How do you get lifted up above the
maõipÖra center, above the world of your mere emotions?
Miss Hannah: You get an inflation, and you identify with the god.
Dr. Jung: That might be, it is very inflating, but we are speaking here of
the normal case. We are supposing that sequence of the Kundalini is a
normal sequence, because it is the condensation of the experiences of
perhaps thousands of years.
Mr. Baumann: When you are very emotional you try to express yourself,
for instance, by music or poetry.
Dr. Jung: You mean it produces a certain utterance. But emotions always
produce utterances. You can manifest all sorts of things when you
are still caught in your emotions. It must be something above the emotions.
Mrs. Mehlich: Is it that one begins to think?
Dr. Jung: Exactly.
Dr. Reichstein: It is said that here the puruüa 11 is born, so it would be
here that the first idea of the self is seen more completely.
Dr. Jung: Yes, but how would that show in psychology? We must try now
to bring the thing down to psychological facts.
Dr. Reichstein: That we become conscious of something which is not
personal at this point.
Dr. Jung: Yes, you begin to reason, to think, to reflect about things, and
so it is the beginning of a sort of contraction or withdrawal from the
mere emotional function. Instead of following your impulses wildly, you
and hence provided evidence for the collective unconscious. The editors noted that Jung
subsequently learned that the 1910 edition was the second edition, and that the original
had actually been published in 1903. They added that the patient had been committed
prior to 1903. CW, vol. 8, §§319–21.
11 Woodroffe defined puruüa as “a center of limited consciousness—limited by the associated
Prakùti and its products of Mind and Matter. Popularly by Puruüa . . . is meant sentient
being with body and senses—that is, organic life.” Arthur Avalon (pseud. Sir John
Woodroffe), The Serpent Power (London, 1919), 49. Surendranath Dasgupta defined
puruüa as spirit (Yoga as Philosophy and Religion [London, 1924], 3) and as “consciousness
itself” (ibid., 173).
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