RAW was a big fan of jokes, especially filthy Irish limericks.

I'm with Leary's radiant ovum wisdom theory. The Sun being the chief source of Light, Heat and Life in our solar system and the radiant ovum being the chief source of Light, Heat and Life in our human system.

I should have dropped by earlier to update: Whoever was mentioning this (and I'm even less certain it was RAW at this stage) would have been discussing Jung, because everything I remember about the quote is from Jung's "Psychology of the Unconscious":

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Which is exactly what your friend was relating. It's just a shame I've never read any Jung.

"Jung (1971) gave a more convincing example [of an archetype]. He recalled an encounter with a paranoid schizophrenic in the psychiatric hospital in which he worked who told Jung to look at the sun. If he did so, he would see the sun's penis. If Jung were to move his head from side to side, the sun's penis would also move, and that was the origin of the wind.

"Though he had read widely in philosophy, anthropology, archeology, religion, and history, Jung had, [sic] at that time never come across such an idea. However, 4 years later, he was reading about the Mithraic cult, a religion that spread from ancient Persia to Asia Minor and thence to the Roman Empire in the first century AD. One of the visions in the ancient text explained the origin of the wind by proposing that a tube hangs down from the sun from which the wind emerges. Jung immediately recalled the hallucination of the patient in his hospital several years previously. He then thought about this image more extensively and realized that the Holy Ghost, which is described as a "mighty rushing wind," was sometimes depicted in medieval paintings as impregnating the Virgin Mary through a tube from the heavens that reached down under her robe. This theme and image is [sic] sufficiently uncommon that it is much more difficult to account for its occurrence by proposing cultural transmission. Jung assured himself that his psychiatric patient could not have read the volume on the Mithraic cult and was not acquainted with medieval painting."

This is from Theories of Personality by David Lester. "Jung (1971)" refers to The Portable Jung, although the original source is probably Jung’s Psychology of the Unconscious.