Here Is What You Can Do to Help

HERE IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO to bring Heaven to Earth

2 hours a day of the following activities. You can break it down into 15 minute sessions. After you have begun doing this, report to me for further instructions, at erik230@hotmail.com . In the "subject" field put "I am reporting to you".

Reading:

• Grimm's Fairy Tales. Earlier translations.
• Urantia Book
• Book of Mormon
• Books or web articles about hatha yoga
• The Holy Bible
• The Mahabharata
• The Ramayana
• Shakespeare's Plays
• Pearls of Wisdom
• The Earth Changes Survival Handbook
• Autobiography of a Yogi
• A Course in Miracles
• Books by Djwahl Kuhl

Listen to audio of Prem Rawat -- this is the most preferred activity.

If you are an initiate, practice the techniques you were taught in your initiation.

Hatha yoga.

IMAGE LINKS ADDED TO MANDALA ART MOVEMENT PAGE

Hi everybody. I just added an image of Kim Wilcox's stained glass mandala

and am adding 3 of my old collage experiments to the Mandala Art Movement page. Scroll down to the end of my (Erik the Vermilion) section.

People have been waiting to see these a long time.

SHOULD I TELL PEOPLE ABOUT PREM RAWAT?
Somebody emailed me and said I shouldn't put Maharaji's (Prem Rawat's) info beside the prophecies of calamities. I responded by asking what is the matter with including the solution along with the problem?

ART SHOW WITH LIVE MUSIC, LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC, AND GOSPEL SHOWThe second Sound and Symbol Symposium will be in Frostburg, MD, USA October 22, 23 2004. Here is a lincque: http://erikthevermilion.com/mandala.htm#shows

NEW ARTIST HAS JOINED MANDALA MOVEMENT
Monica Saul, born in Argentina, lives in Miami. See her art and read her quotations: http://erikthevermilion.com/mandala.htm#monicasaul

NEW TEXT ADDED TO "MANDALA ART MOVEMENT" PAGE

STRUCTURE OF THE JUNGIAN MANDALA OR MEDICINE WHEEL
Jung observed patterns in the structure of mandalas that turned up in interviews of his patients. These patterns also repeated in old alchemical writings and in the art of many cultures.

The mandalas of patients were sometimes from dreams, and at other times were free creations of fantasy, during chaotic states of disorientation or panic.

Patients declare that such pictures benefit and soothe them.

As psychic (psychological) phenomena, they appear spontaneously in:
dreams
certain states of conflict
schizophrenia and disorientation.
Considering only individual (personal) mandalas done by patients, the overwhelming majority have in the middle one of the following:

A rotundum (see glossary)
A fourfold emanation (or a "nothing" expressed by a surrounding quaternity)
"Squaring of the circle" (see glossary)
More rarely, the individual as universal human -- the anthropos (see glossary)
FORMAL ELEMENTS OF MANDALA SYMBOLISM (any of the following)
Circular, spherical, or egg-shapen formation
The circle is elaborated into a flower (rose, lotus) or a wheel
A center expressed by a Sun, star, or cross, usually with four, eight, or twelve rays (multiples of four)
The circles, spheres, and cruciforme figures are often in rotation (clockwise when healthy)
The circle is represented by a snake coiled about a center (Uroboros -- see glossary) or spiral (Orphic egg -- see glossary)
"Squaring the circle" (see glossary) taking the form of a circle in a square, or vice versa
Castle, city, and courtyard (temenos -- see glossary) motives, quadratic or circular
Eye -- pupil and iris
More rarely, in "disturbed" totality pictures, besides multiples of four, occur triadic and pentadic themes.

MANDALA ART SHOWS

2004

August 20, 21, City Place, Water & Mechanic Streets, Frostburg MD.  The Sound and Symbol Symposium will display all kinds of art, with live music and lectures about mandalas and about shape note singing.  4-12 pm Friday and 12-12 pm Saturday, Erik's art will be on display among the art of a host of other people.  There will be a potluck supper Saturday 7-9 pm.  Erik will sing Friday 9-10 pm and Saturday 5-6 pm.  Many attractions will be there.  See you there.
Here is what will be in the show:


Drawings, paintings, stained glass, collages, and/or other two dimensional static art.

Sculptures.

Many kinds of music.

Potluck supper Saturday evening.

Shape note singing.  Email to me if you want to sing with us erik230@hotmail.com .

Card game of "spades".

Animation on computers.

Introductory talk about mandalas.

Talk - "Horoscopes as Mandalas".

Talk - "The Magic Circle of Osiris as a Medicine Wheel Mandala".

If you wish to participate in the show in any way, or to help to plan it, please email to me erik230@hotmail.com. 

ERIK THE VERMILION'S 47th LAW
 
For every top
 
There is a countertop.

GOD

Worshiping of God is now permitted every place on Earth.