Jung, C. G. - Psychology of Kundalini Yoga (Princeton, 1996)

26 January 1930. Throughout India gatherings took a pledge that began:

We believe that it is the inalienable right of the Indian people, as of

any other people, to have freedom and to enjoy the fruits of their

toil and have the necessities of life, so that they may have full opportunities

of growth. We believe also that if any government deprives

a people of these rights and oppresses them, the people have the

further right to alter it or to abolish it. The British Government in

India has not only deprived the Indian people of their freedom but

has based itself on the exploitation of the masses, and has ruined

India economically, politically, culturally, and spiritually. We believe

that India must sever the British connection and attain Purna

Swaraj or complete independence.1

Civil disobedience was proclaimed, Gandhi commenced his salt march,

and Nehru was imprisoned.

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Munich, 30 May. At a memorial for his deceased colleague, the sinologist

Richard Wilhelm, Jung echoed these dramatic events:

If we look to the East: an overwhelming destiny is fulfilling itself. . . .

We have conquered the East politically. Do you know what happened,

when Rome subjugated the near East politically? The spirit

of the East entered Rome. Mithras became the Roman military

god. . . . Would it be unthinkable that the same thing happened

today and we would be just as blind as the cultured Romans, who

marvelled at the superstitions of the Christians? . . . I know that

our unconscious is crammed with Eastern symbolism. The spirit

of the East is really ante portas. . . . I consider the fact that Wilhelm

and the Indologist Hauer were invited to lecture on yoga at this

year’s congress of German psychotherapists, as an extremely significant

sign of the times.2