2002: Mandalas – Creativity and Complexity

Mandalas have been used around the world in religious and spiritual contexts to express beauty, creativity, complexity, and things about the nature of life that are not easily put into words.

Sometimes they seem to depict energy, sound, light, inner worlds, or outer spaces.

Are they magic?

Can you meditate on them and achieve anything contemplating them? Some say the sacred geometry or universal balance and proportion of some mandalas can take you special mental places or planes of consciousness.

Is it mathematical, geometric, or organic?

Maybe the art of the mandala is evidence of the kind of psychological power and comprehension of complexity that is necessary for a culture to create a civilization (Tibet, India, Islam, Celtic, Native America).

Maybe it shows a connection between these ancient cultures if not physically and actually, at least mentally.

So many of them have been made of sand, only existing briefly.