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Followin are some explanations of what is a mandala, quoted accordin to the Fair Use Law:
From Encyclopedia Britannica -- Mandala (Sanskrit for “circle”) in Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, a symbolic diagram used in the performance of sacred rites and as an instrument of meditation. The mandala is basically a representation f the universe, a consecrated area which serves as a receptacle for the gods and as a collection point for universal forces.
Man (the microcosm), by mentally “enterin” the mandala and “proceedin toward its center, is by analogy guided through the cosmic processes of disintegration and reintegration.
From Mandalas, C. G. Jung. trans. from Du ( Zurich , 1955)
The "squarin 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.
From the "Psychiatists/Psychologists/Therapists/Counselors of Houston" Web Page -- The Mandala is a sacred circle that merges art with science, eastern and western thought, ancient wisdom, quantum physics, spiritual philosophy, psychology, and the healin of mind, body and soul. This also includes native american medicine wheels and any kind of art done in a circle usin symbols, meditation, or geometrical designs.
From The Moderator of The Light Weavers, Peter De Jong -- Members in our group share a common belief, that a Mandala is a form of divine light energy. That when we create mandalas we are actually weavin light energies all around us. Since the light is divine, it has the capability to heal by transformin ourselves into better people.
For You Mick makes: FEN SHUI MANDALA MEDICINE WHEELS
Look for them here in January 2006
Come back and check
Mandala Title: Great Balls of Fire [81 kb]
Buy Clothin, Cards, and Bags With Images of Version #2
Artist: Mick Snutz
Medium: day glow spray paint, rustoleum, poster paint, magic marker, and cutout poster board, on poster board, oil paint.
Mandala Title: My Sun Logo Mandala [49 kb]
Buy Clothin, Mugs, Buttons, Stickers, Bags, and More with this Logo
Artist: Mick Snutz
Medium: Felt marker and Adobe Photo Shop
Done: Frostburg, MD September 2004.
Note: I designed this logo for myself when I was in Western Junior High School (middle school), if I remember aright. Later I learned that the Hopi Prophecies state that one of the helpers of the True White Brother will use the Sun as a logo.
Photo Mandala Series Title: Joe's Fan
Artist: Mick Snutz
Title: Joe's Fan 1 [216 kb] This is the beginnin stage of the work, an untouched photograph. As you can see, it is not quite radially symmetrical. I want to edit it so that the quatripartite element will be radially symmetrical. And the center is dark. No no no.
Title: Joe's Fan 2 [259 kb] Here my friend, Frank V., began colorin the mandala, but he gave up.
Spontaneous Art Mandala Title: Four Storks [333 kb]
Artist: Mick Snutz
Medium: Ball point pen.
Done: USA. Note: This picture was scanned in two parts. The original does not have the vertical joint line that the computer image has.
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Spontaneous Art Mandala Title: Handala (Work in Progress) [280 kb]
Artist: Mick Snutz
Medium: Ball point pen.
Note: I want to deepen some of the lines in this one, and to generally improven the quality.
Done: USA.
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Spontaneous Art Mandala Title: Sphere [971 kb]
Artist: Mick Snutz
Medium: Ball point pen on place mat.
Note: This picture was scanned in two parts. The original does not have the vertical joint line that the computer image has. Prints will not have this joint, either.
Done: USA.
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Spontaneous Art Mandala Title: Transmission [289 kb]
Artist: Mick Snutz
Medium: Ball point pen on dinner napkin.
Done: USA.
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Spontaneous Art Mandala Title: Aspirants [342 kb]
Artist: Mick Snutz
Medium: Ball point pen.
Done: USA 2001.
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Collage Mandala Title: Collage Mandala 1 [310 kb]
Artist: Mick Snutz
Medium: Cutouts, rubber cement and/or scottish tape on poster paper.
Done: USA, Frostburg, MD, and/or Fort Ashby WV. Late '90's or early 2000's .
Collage Mandala Title: Collage Mandala 2 [388 kb]
Artist: Mick Snutz
Medium: Cutouts, rubber cement and/or scottish tape on poster paper.
Note: The girl and the dog in the upper left should have been lookin to the right and slightly upward, to keep the clockwise centripetal motion rule that I follow. After I had done a lot in their quarter of the collage, I noticed that their eyne were directed more downward. I tried to correct this impression by puttin jewels into their eyes. It didn't work as well as I wanted it to do.
Done: USA, Frostburg, MD, and/or Fort Ashby WV. Late '90's or early 2000's .
Collage Mandala Title: Collage Mandala 3 [365 kb]
Artist: Mick Snutz
Medium: Cutouts, rubber cement and/or scottish tape on poster paper.
Note: There is a tradition that spiders should be risin. The ones in this collage are supposed to be fallin. That may be bad. It may even be bad to have spiders in it at all. I have seen sources claimin both extremes of good and bad for spider symbolism. I think it depends too much on the context and the internal context possessed by the viewer themselves, and, so, the meanin would be to variable from person to person, and therefore they, maybe, should be excluded from mandalas intended to be beneficial. But still I don't know yet.
There is a few other thins I don't like about this mandala. The green caterpillar is in the lower right corner because it is a toy. However, it is also a bug, and that's bad. I used to put in anythin that was a toy. Since I started, the toys have become more and more hideous with the passage of time.
So I put in only toys made in the images of thins which themselves have positive symbolism.
The hands drawin each other give the impression of anti-clockwise movement, which is unhealthy. The models used to represent a mother and daughter appear posed, as if they didn't know each other before the shootin session, and have no feelin for each other.
The dog in the upper left does not give the feelin of movin to the right because of facin toward the camera, and his upper body is toward the camera. The bed in the lower left seems to be movin down and right instead of up and left, as I intended it to seem. The little dog in the lower right is facin the wron way, although his head gives movement in the correct direction.
This is one of the mandalas I tried to produce in a batch, tryin to cut down production time, with the intention of sellin them, and keepin the hourly income up. Eventually my inner voice (as it were) said not to bother sellin them. I gave a few good ones away. One I traded for a paintin of a cat, done by an FSU grad from Bosnia. Maybe I'll remember her name and put it into here.
One I gave away had several elements from a girl's childhood, such as the indentical breed of dog from her childhood, the same kind of fence around a house (?) and totallin about 5 specific elements. Somethin had guided me to make this one "just for her" although I didn't do it intentionally, and I knew nothin about her childhood.
This one was given to Shannon Ottaviani. I gave a very simple one to Rob and Kim Marker, formerly of Frostburg MD. This one was the first in the series. The second one, which was also very simple, was destroyed by the glass and frame breakin while it was bein moved by an employee of a restaurant, where it was on display.
I have quite a few more, but haven't taken snapshots of them as with these 3. Unfortunately, most of these were from the batch I tried hurriedly to do.
On the whole, though, I think this is still a beneficial mandala. My inner voice says, in effect, "very much so". I don't think the unconscious recognizes the lack of warmth between the mother and daughter. Generally the movement is clockwise, the smaller elements that are out of synch get swept alon by the larger mass.
Done: USA, Frostburg, MD, and/or Fort Ashby WV. Late '90's or early 2000's .
Jacob volunteered to draw some mandalas. He attempted one, but it was not acceptable from the standards of Jung's research. It expressed more the moral dilemma and indecision that Jacob was facin, rather than a perfectly balanced personality.
Jacob is presently workin on a mandala that is designed accordin to Jung standards. Look for it in the future!
Mandala Title: Quintopus [1225 kb]
Artist: Jacob Elmslie
Medium: Pen on drawin paper.
Done: Frostburg MD, USA..
Note: This is an example of a mandala that does not symbolize a balanced personality. Obviously the artist is very talented. He has a style of his own -- I have seen the tattoos that he designed for him self in the same style as this mandala. The problem is that he feels uncomfortable expressin an ideal, he would rather express, in his art, the way that he feels.
I interviewed him, and found that the drawin symbolizes well his inclination to revert emotionally to a more comfortable period in his life's time, while desirin to go forward and confront the present. This can be seen by the varyin direction of the motions in the drawin, some elements comin in "head to head" contact with each other, blockin each other's way. The central figure has limbs goin in opposite directions too. I am very grateful to Jacob for makin this attempt, and if you buy the drawin, I'll give the money to him, minus a fee for my time.
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Mandala Provisional Title: Yin Yang Spiral [200 kb] -- I was holdin the wron side of the mandala toward the camera. I wanted the spiral to uncoil in a clockwise direction, that is the "healthy" direction. So I flipped the image in the editor. Also I had to touch up a white spot that was presumably caused by glare.
Kim is a beautiful angel lady who makes stained glass.
Mandala Title: Knight of Runes
Artist: Monica Saul
History:
"I paint mandalas and love them
"I saw my mandalas without knowin what they were, and started paintin them. I see them sometimes, sometimes I convey on them what I feel good or bad. But I love them, I express my feelins through them. The mandalas are from the soul.
"Whenever I create MY ART, I use an intuitive, meditative process to brin
messages and symbols of healin power.
These messages and symbols hold the energies of my intention through color,
forms and harmony to myself.
The word "Mandala" means a sacred circle that symbolizes healin and
wholeness. Mandala art refers to symbols that are drawn, sketched, or painted
in a circular frame.
"One of the most important thins about the mandalas is that they have
neither a beginnin nor an end.
Personally, the realm of the mandala has opened my eyes and what is most important
is that it made me discover my mission in life. It has helped me re-connect
with my soul. I think that when we are born, we are connected to our soul,
but society is responsible for dissolvin that invisible and powerful connection-the
link that keeps our spirit, mind and soul together.
"My name is Monica Saul, I was born in Argentina and I moved to Miami
12 years ago. I have been paintin for 15 years now. Art for me has always been
a very personal spiritual journey.
"Whenever I create my mandalas and connect with myself, I face my drives
and desires, fears and hopes. The mandala allows me to get in touch with my
own center, where the pieces of the puzzle start to fit into place
"It helps me focus my attention away from external worries and concerns, and toward my center and my essence. This process is usually quite relaxin, refreshin and energizin." -- Monica Saul.
Message to Monica from Erik:
Many of your pictures have female symbols, and have bilateral (2-part) symmetry, so I think you are expressin a lot about relationships. #2 and bilateral symmetry has to do with relationships between two people, or between a person and one other thin or one other idea.
If you do any more mandalas with light colored centers and four parts, or multiples of four, please let me know right away. Or if there is a gem, happy baby, Jesus, flower, star, planet, Sun, or circle in the center, with four parts.
Zsrb [57.4 kb]
Mandala Title: SS Hypnodisk 33 [10.3 kb]
Hypnodisk 33 Black and White [6.28 kb]
Labyrinth Swastika [5.95 kb]
Mandala Structure: Recurrin Patterns Found in Research
Mandalas, Images (see also Mandalas by Mandala Movement Artists )
by Mick Snutz
A Jung mandala/medicine wheel is a visual image that instructs your subconscious mind to make you to be complete, balanced, happy, and successful. Medicine wheels are also called "mandalas". Jung mandalas may be the most benefical form of art. The Navajo use them for healin the sick. They serve to produce an inner order; express the idea of a safe refuge of inner reconciliation and wholeness.
We, of the Mandala Art Movement, wish to be of great benefit to the creatures of this world, and therefore we promote Jung mandalas.
"Mandala" means "circle" in Sanskrit.
Famous researcher Carl Jung discovered that everybody has medicine wheels in their subconscious mind. These wheels come into dreams and visions whenever the person's personality becomes balanced; whenever we become psychologically healthy. There is benefit to be had when we gaze at the beautiful Mandala Medicine wheels.
Jung discovered that mandalas represent the four elements of the human personality, balanced and harmonized by "the selph". Other words for the selph are "soul", "God within", "inner child", "inner guide", "still small voice", and so on. Jung interviewed thousands of patients, and researched into ancient writins and all of the world's cultures.
Mandalas are universal. They are found in all cultures and in everybody's unconscious. The circle symbolizes spirit and the element four represents the material world. Whe the four elements rotate, they make a circle, thus unifyin spirit and matter. The four elements of personality are intellect, intuition, sensation, and feelin.
They can be designed to be suitable for Fen Shui Remedies. They are called Medicine Wheels They are Jung subliminal personality-balancin Mandalas Let us notify you when the art will be ready for you to buy it.
Each of ERIK's mandalas is color-chosen and shape-chosen to fulfill the remedial needs of balancin the five elements in Fen Shui.
[NOTE: The MANDALA ART MOVEMENT contributes heavily to the INSIDER ART FASHION INVASION led by KEESEY DESIGNS]
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 cruciform 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)
"Squarin the circle" (see glossary) takin 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.
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Note: There are some references in the above material to glossary entries that haven't been added yet. Wait a few days, I'll ad them soon (04 Sep 1)
4 (number four) -- A well-known symbol of the Supreme Deity, indistinguishable from the selph (dialectic variant of the word, "soul").
Other meanings of number 4:
Total concentration
[more to be added].
achurayim -- plural. From the dirty stinkin kabala. It refers to the 4 elements of the elemental world.
animals -- Animals represent the instinctive forces of the unconscious.
cortices -- same as shards, which come from outside the wholeness.death -- could mean stillness, or could mean unconsciousness.
disintegration -- division of wholeness into separate parts.
elements, 4 -- These are 4 characteristics of the lower darkness of the "elemental world".
four -- Please see the numeral "4" at the beginning of this glossary.integrity -- same as wholeness. The opposite is disintegration.
klippoth -- From the dirty stinkin kabala. Same as shards, which come from outside the wholeness. In Hebrew, this word means peels, shells, or matter.
plurality - what is not whole is plural or else is death or dead.
putamina -- (singular -- putamen) same as shards, which come from outside the wholeness. Literally, "pruned", or the material that falls off in prunin.
quaternity -- This word has the same symbolism as the numeral "4", which please see at the beginnin of this glossary.
rotundum -- This is an alchemical term. Literally it means "round thing". The soul or selph is considered to be round. Other symbols, which may not be round, are said to symbolize things that are round, in the world that is hidden from the 5 material senses. Thus Mercurius, the Philosopher's Stone, the Inner Man, the High Self, are all called "rotunda", because they can be used to symbolize the inner selph.shards -- Refers to the 4 elements and the 7 fallen kins, which abide outside of wholeness. They are also called scoriae, slag, putamina, klippoth, and cortices. These are attributes of plurality and death.
unity -- same as wholeness.
wholeness - what is all united as 1 is whole. Also called unity and integrity. The opposites are plurality or death.
world, elemental -- it is the lower darkness of the 4 elements. It is whatever is outside of wholeness.
