the
future. Both are probably to be attained with a certain measure of
probability, the former as a postulate, the latter as a historical
prognosis. In so far as to-morrow is contained in to-day, and all the warp
of the future already laid, a deepened knowledge of the present could make
possible a more or less wide-reaching and sure prognosis of the future. If
we transfer this reasoning, as Kant has already done, to the psychologic,
the following things must result; just as memory traces, which have
demonstrably become subliminal, are still accessible to the unconscious,
so also are certain very fine subliminal combinations showing a forward
tendency, which are of the greatest possible significance for future
occurrences in so far as the latter are conditioned by our psychology. But
just as the science of history troubles itself little about the future
combinations which are rather the object of politics, just so little are
the psychological combinations the object of the analysis, but would be
rather the object of an infinitely refined psychological synthesis, which
should know how to follow the natural currents of the libido. We cannot do
this, but probably the unconscious can, for the process takes place there,
and it appears as if from time to time in certain cases significant
fragments of this work, at least in dreams, come to light, whence came the
prophetic interpretation of dreams long claimed by superstition. The
aversion of the exact [sciences] of to-day against that sort of
thought-process which is hardly to be called phantastic is only an
overcompensation of the thousands of years old but all too great
inclination of man to believe in soothsaying."

Note G (317). The umbilical region plays no small part as a localization
point for the first inner sensations in mystic introversion practices. The
accounts of the Hindu Yoga doctrine harmonize with the experiences of the
omphalopsychites. Staudenmaier thinks that he has, in his investigations
into magic, which partly terminated in the calling up of extremely
significant hallucinations, observed that realistic heavenly or religious
hallucinations take place only if the "specific" nerve complexes [of the
vegetative system] are stimulated as far down as the peripheral tracts in
the region of the small intestine. (Magie als exp. Naturw., p. 123.) Many
visionary authors know how to relate marvels of power to the region of the
stomach and of the solar plexus. In an es