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The
'circle with a center' pattern is the basic structure of creation
that is reflected from the micro to the macro in the world as we
know it.
It is a pattern found in nature and is seen in biology, geology,
chemistry, physics and astronomy. On our planet, living things are
made of cells and each cell has a nucleus all display circles with
centers. The crystals that form ice, rocks, and mountains are made
of atoms.
Each atom is a mandala. Within the Milky Way galaxy is our solar
system and within our solar system, is Earth.
Each is a mandala that is part of a larger mandala. Flowers, the
rings found in tree trunks and the spiraling outward and inward
of a snail's
shell all reflect the primal mandala pattern. Wherever a center
isfound radiating outward and inward, there is wholeness a mandala.
"I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of
the ego. I saw that everything, all paths I had been following,
all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point namely,
to the mid-point.
It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the centre.
It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the centre, to
individuation.
I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self
I had attained what was for me the ultimate" C.G. Jung
"The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal
motifs which form the basic patterns
of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact
that it is one of the most important
of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even
be called the archetype of wholeness" C.G. Jung
"The music and the image sometimes
receive their serene beauty when observed from another perspective.
Every image is like a journey for me, a wonderful dream-like escape
into a world of infinite patterns and colours. |