The images which you shall find on our website  – elements similar to the one you can observe pulsating to the left of this column – are constructed in the form of mandalas. A vast number of definitions of what constitutes a mandala exist, and they are all good definitions from a variety of perspectives, as emanations of a range of states of awareness and understanding. Thus, it is accepted knowledge that a mandala is a geometric composition symbolizing spiritual, cosmic or psychic order. In the Sanskrit, mandala signifies a circle, disk, sphere, orbit, cycle, ring, circumference, ball, encircling band, circular formation of troops, domain, territory, country, state, multitude, group, gathering, assembly, a passage from the Rigveda, a species of plant life, sacrifice. The idea itself has such a multitude of meanings because the mandala as a concept represents the simplest possible form within which it is possible to enclose and order the all-encompassing, universally applicable principle of a closed wave space. This principle itself constitutes the foundation and point of departure for the process of the morphogenesis of all that springs into being by Chance. 

The mandala is believed to be an invention of the Buddhists. Carl Gustav Jung first called the attention of Western cultural scholars to this phenomenon, having come across its presence in the subconscious of his patients. “When I discovered what mandala means, I arrived at the ultimate knowledge,” was Jung’s admission. So what was it, then, that the most influential psychologist of the 20th century had discovered about the mandala? He recognized that its symbolism arises spontaneously in each individual, even within a person lacking specific cultural or historical, training – that it emerges in any person, in fact, who is engaged in the process of spiritual maturation. The fact that the form of the mandala continues to exert its influence even over a Western person, one who has not previously become acquainted with its essential purpose, led Jung to conclude that the origins of the mandala are “innate,” rather than some culturally or historically conditioned phenomenon. Thus, as a form governing the organization of objects within this world, the mandala has existed eternally, and this knowledge of the Wheel of Life has been embedded in the primeval depths of human memory.