The seminar C. G. Jung devoted to Kundalini yoga, conducted in October and November 1932 in the Psychology Club of Zurich, originally constitutes a psychological commentary on the lectures delivered earlier in the same scenario for the indologist Wilhelm Hauer. Jung himself had valued the invitation to Hauer as a sign of the extraordinarily revealing times: "Consider what means that the therapist has to deal directly with people who suffer and therefore very sensitive, establish contact with a oriental! "therapy.

Yoga participates in two notions that are common to all Indian philosophy and religion: reincarnation and seeking liberation from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. But although Tantrism, which belongs Kundalini yoga school was a religious and philosophical movement, Jung's interest tantric yoga is eminently psychological, sees it as a natural process of introspection. If Indian philosophy understands that there are certain non-ego-states that influence personal psychology, the goal of human development would produce an approximation and a relationship between the specific nature of non-self and the conscious self. In Jung's words, "the cakras become a valuable guide in this dark field because East, and India especially, have always tried to understand the psyche as a whole."