During the lockdown for the Covid-19 I was contacted by an Italian teacher from a Sicilian high school. She had seen my work, especially the mandalas, and she wanted to involve me in one of her projects.
The study consists in the creation of about twenty mandalas, one for each subject taught in her school.
Each mandala, strictly in black and white, will be submitted to students who, based on their instinct, choose a particular mandala to color.
This choice will then be evaluated by the teachers to understand what predisposition for studies has each individual student.
I think it is a very ambitious and satisfactory project!
Soon in my Etsy store you can download the digital version of the individual designs
Carl Gustav Jung (1,875 – 1,961) was one of those psychoanalysts who greatly helped the fusion of psychoanalysis and spirituality, freeing the study of the human psyche from the cold laboratory of academic science, and warming it with a new, living sense of humanity and deep mystery at the same time. Jung deeply loved mandalas and understood their profound therapeutic value.
According to Jung, when using the mandala as therapy for a patient, the only information that must be given to the patient is that the inner space of the circle represents his “I” and that must be colored starting from the center. From this drawing you can draw interesting conclusions by observing the shape of the circle: if plotted in a sharp or shaky way, and analyzing the colors used to paint the inside.
“The Mandala represents an ordering scheme that to some extent imposes itself over psychic chaos, so that the whole that is being composed is held together by means of the circle that helps and protects … every morning I sketched in a notebook a small circular design a mandala that seemed to correspond to my intimate condition of that period. Only a little at a time I discovered what the Mandala really is: the Self, the personality in its entirety, which is harmonious if everything goes well …” C. G. Jung
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