CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist
CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist
CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist
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LECTURE 3<br />
LECTURE 3<br />
26 October 1932<br />
Dr. Jung: I will continue our discussion of the cakras. You remember,<br />
we were speaking chiefly of the transformation from maõipÖra to<br />
anvhata. Inanvhata something is attained which was begun in mulvdhvra,<br />
through a series of four stages. How might these four stages also<br />
be designated?<br />
Dr. Reichstein: They are the four elements.<br />
Dr. Jung: Exactly. Each of the four lower centers has an element belonging<br />
to it—mÖlvdhvra, the earth, svvdhiü°hvna, the water, then comes<br />
fire in maõipÖra, and finally air in anvhata. So one can see the whole<br />
thing as a sort of transformation of elements, with the increase of volatility—of<br />
volatile substance. And the next form we reach is viçuddha, 1<br />
which is the ether center. Now, what is ether? Do you know anything<br />
about it from the physical point of view?<br />
Remark: It penetrates everything.<br />
Mrs. Sawyer: You cannot catch it.<br />
Dr. Jung: Why not? Since it penetrates everywhere, why can it not be<br />
found everywhere?<br />
Mr. Dell: It cannot be measured; it is a thought.<br />
Dr. Jung: Yes, one finds it only within one’s brain, nowhere else; it is a<br />
concept of substance that has none of the qualities that matter should<br />
have. It is matter that is not matter, and such a thing must necessarily be<br />
a concept. Now, in the viçuddha center—beyond the four elements—one<br />
reaches what stage?<br />
Mrs. Crowley: A more conscious state, abstract thought perhaps?<br />
Dr. Jung: Yes, one reaches a sphere of abstraction. There one steps<br />
beyond the empirical world, as it were, and lands in a world of concepts.<br />
And what are concepts? What do we call the substance of concepts?<br />
Mrs. Crowley: Psychology?<br />
Dr. Jung: Or say psychical psychology; that would express the science<br />
1 Hauer described the viçuddha cakra as “the cleansed one, or cleansing” (HS, 69).<br />
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