MULADHARA - C.G. Jung

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muladhara

 

[All the material below is written by C.G. Jung and is quoted from The

Psychology of Kundalini Yoga.]

 

We are all in our roots, we are upon our root support. ( " Root support "

is the literal translation of muladhara.)

 

We are in our roots right in this world -- when you buy your ticket

from the streetcar conductor, for instance, or for the theater, or pay

the waiter -- that is reality as you touch it. And then the self is

asleep, which means that all things concerning the gods are asleep.

 

If we assume that muladhara, being the roots, is the earth upon which

we stand, it necessarily must be our conscious world, because here we

are, standing upon this earth, and here are the four corners of this

earth. We are in the earth mandala. And whatever we say of muladhara

is true of this world. It is a place where mankind is a victim of

impulses, instincts, unconsciousness, or participation mystique, where

we are in a dark and unconscious place.

 

Moreover, when we are in this three-dimensional space, talking sense

and doing apparently meaningful things, we are nonindividual -- we are

just fish in the sea. Only at times have we an inkling of the next chakra.

 

(The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga, pages 14-15. See also pages 24ff,

and the discussion beginning on page 60.)