Moses ... Freud ... Jung and Chakra

Seems to me there may be a 'common denominator' in the work of Moses, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and the ancient Hindu Chakras.

In the book of numbers (Jewish Torah and Christian Bible) we are told the story of how at one time while the Israelites were wandering around the Sinai desert they were being bitten by snakes ... and dying!

Moses asked God what to do about this and God instructed him to fashion a serpent out of bronze and place it on a stick. Instruct the people who are subsequently bitten by these snakes to stare upon the bronze snake and they would be healed.

Perhaps this story foreshadowed modern psychology and or psychiatry ... of which Freud and Jung are considered the 'fathers'.

In these ‘sciences’ the therapy often involves coaching the ‘injured’ individual into placing the details of the trauma in front of his/her face ... stare at it and talk about it etc ... and in the end ... hopefully be healed

If there is any ‘truth’ in my interpretation of this particular biblical story ... the symbolism is first rate ... fantastic! ... Jung spent most of his life attempting to understand recorded and 'dreamed' symbols and symbolism accross a very long time span and numerous cultures.

Here is my interpretation of the symbolism in the Sionai experience. The venomous snake bites symbolize the hurtful experiences of our lives ... sometimes traumatic experiences

These experiences poison our ‘inner being’ ... sometimes fatally! We become desensitized ... unable to ‘feel’ etc ... etc Our bodies are still intact and we wander through life zombie like ... never completely 'whole' again(Jung's journey to Self represented a becoming 'whole' again)

Sometimes the injury is so deep and so ‘poisonous’ that are psyche creates a new person/personality ... the mutiple personality syndrome. We all do this everyday ... it's only a question of degree ... we metamorphose ourselves according to the need ... some call it charm, charisma, diplomacy etc etc)

Interesting that today ... 3,300 years after the experience of the Israelites in the Sinai desert ... we still use the symbol of a serpent on a stick ... medical institutions mostly ... seems to always be associated with healing of sorts .... Hmmmm

Freud's life work centred around the 'Root Chakra' ... sexuality and instinct. The fact that Freud's discovery was monumental in itself may explain why Freud was never able to move beyond the 'Root Chakra'.

Moses lead the exodus around 1300 BC ... the escape from slavery, the journey to freedom ... accross the sinai desert.

One might say that Freud lead the exodus around 1925 AD ... the escape from slavery ... being 'slaves' to our unconscious without knowing it ... the journey to freedom ... reconciliation of our 'unconscious' with our conscious mind ... accross the sinai desert ... after a long and sometimes difficult and painful therapeutic journey.

Jung learned from Freud and collaborated with him for more than 12 years ... Jung broke off his collaboration with Freud because he (Jung) seemed compelled by his experiences and those of some of his patients, to move away from the 'genitals' ... 'travel up the spine' ... to the 'heart' of our central nervous system ... the 'Crown Chakra'(the human mind) and Freud was 'stuck' on the 'Root Chakra'(sexuality).

Nonetheless Jung consistently acknowledged Freud's pioneer work and always acknowledged that Freud 'opened the door' to this new knowledge or understanding ... Freud was the 'moses'.

I am reading the autobiography of George Sand and she(not a typo ... George Sand is a 19th century French woman) wrote something to the effect ... "often it is the tiny insignificant details of a persons' life that is most revealing"

Seems ironic that Freud would refer to his colleague and friend(Jung before their separation) as his 'Crown Prince" and Jung would move on to work on what is known as the "Crown" chakra in Hinduism ... maybe Freud experienced one of his own 'Freudian slips' ... a prophetic one!!

The 'Crown' chakra' is known in Hundi as 'understanding' ... presumably ultimate understanding ... perhaps the same as 'Nirvana' in Buddism.

Seems to me Jung labelled this 'state' the 'collective unconscious' ... a dimension of reality where all human history(past present and future) thought etc resides ... a reality that cannot be described with human words or concepts ... at best only understood through the use of symbols.

Jung spent much of his adult life attempting to provide empirical evidence that this 'collective unconscious' communicates to us mere mortals in our dreams ... seems to suggest the same phenomenon known to mankind for eons and often called 'visions' ... we read of this in ancient Judaism ... the prophets often experienced visions ... the Book of Revelations is a well known example. North American Indians encouraged the pursuit of 'visions' as well as sharing them ... the well known mystic 'Black Elk' is an example ... he started to feel better after he shared his personal 'vision' and the tribe acted out the 'vision' in a tribal ceremony which was continued until the 'white man' wiped out the tribe.

The activity referred to as 'communication' has a friendly connotation ... suggesting the communication from the 'collective unconscious' has friendly motives ... intended to help mankind understand his existence, purpose etc

Also inferred in the activity 'communication' is the capability of whatever this 'collective unconscious' is to break through our built in radar and security system. Perhaps this is why it so often happens in the sleeping state ... awake we would not allow it to 'break through'

This is not to suggest whatever 'power' embedded in this 'collective unconscious' is inferior to our mere mortal capabilities ... not at all. Seems we have countless examples of where this 'collective unconscious' breaks through so to speak ... in our awaken state ... in some cases we call it 'psychic capability' ... telepathy ... intuition ... etc etc . In some of the more serious cases the recipients are compelled to live in places like the Homewood in Guelph ... or are drugged into a 'vegetative state'.

This would suggest that not all 'communication' from this 'collective unconscious' is friendly ... hmmm

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