ABSTRACT
Meditation on the meaning of sun and water is therefore something like a descent into the fountainhead of the psyche, into the unconscious itself. Meditator is transported to the psychic sphere, where sun and water, divested of their physical objectivity, become symbols of psychic contents, images of the source of life in the individual psyche. The Eastern text skips over a psychic phenomenon that is a source of endless difficulties for the European. The movement inaugurated by Sigmund Freud recognized the importance of the human shadow-side and its influence on consciousness, and then got entangled in the problem. Freudian psychology is concerned with the very thing that psyche text passes over in silence and assumes is already dealt with. Modern psychology knows that the personal unconscious is only the top layer, resting on a foundation of a wholly different nature which psyche call the collective unconscious.
