Chakras and Dreams

Jung even says about the mandalas of the Chakras that… “the symbolism of Kundalini yoga suggested that the bizarre symptomatology that patients at times presented actually resulted from the awakening of the Kundalini….otherwise be seen as the meaningless by-products of a disease process to be understood as meaningful symbolic processes.” (The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga pg.xxvi).

I value the study of dreams. I just wonder how they fit into the psychosomatic factor, or if Jung’s “psychic factor” is something entirely different. I am actually currently working on this issue at the moment with my own research. It seems to me that the Chakras, which relate the sukshma, or subtle aspect of reality are an intermediate between body and spirit. Can we say the same about dreams? I’m not sure yet, because we can’t localize a figure of a dream let’s say in the abdomen, with consistency or accuracy, the way that Hindus claim the existence of an imaginal figure or figures, that are “bija” deities or deities in sound form, present in the “solar plexus” chakra. Dreams are definitely subtle, but where are they? I guess is also what the scientist asks and discards the theory, whereas I am discarding but still searching.

Or can we?

I guess we will find out! Maybe…Because when you realize that most people haven’t even opened the first chakra, then how will we know?

Lastly, Einstein said something like, that you can’t solve a problem with the same energy that is was made with, there needs to be something greater, and in this case, it seems like accepting the cure is the thing that is greater than the problem, because well, it’s the solution!

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