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Mandala means
"circle" in Sanskrit and it`s a typical symbol of the Hindu and Buddhist
tantrism. Very often are united circles and concentric squares in a diagram form, representing symbols like the Universe or the origin of the cosmic world, as well as the connections between the cosmic energies and the
metaphysics.
However - the symbol "circle" belongs to the dawn of the human
history, a fact proved by prehistoric rock paintings, which are surely
misterious, but which express fondamental elements like the sun and the moon.
C. G. Jung was the first person who used the Sanskrit word "mandala" for his own and his patients drawings in the
psychotherapy.
Jung associated with the "mandala" the "id", or better the actor of the personality, and he supposed that it was the expression of the natural need with which everyone expresses his own potential and the entirety of his own personality - a need which is always moving in our unconscious and which reappears in our
dreams, in our imagination and in our drawings.
Jung“s mandala elevates the signification of MONADE and corresponds to the microscopical nature of our
soul. In the mandala, motifs of the whole humanity“s common history express themselves and go together in symbols of individual
experiences. The mandala recalls misteries which may seem esotic, sometimes bewildering and
incomprehensible; but in reality it“s easy like a game for 3 until 4 years old children who are scribbling with their pencils forms that mostly are circles and that trace out in an incredible way those of the prehistoric man.
So we can deduce that the drawing of mandalas is part of an natural
scheme, deeply rooted in the psychology of man, through which we get to know our
"id".
The mandala appeals to the "id" in the order and in the totality hidden in us and in the vital plot that supports
us.
The mandala gets a little bit like a sacred space, a protected place, a center in which we can concentrate our
energies.
Thinking back over our inner conflicts, we can bring them outside in the symbolic form of the mandala; it“s a psychotherapic process that leads us to our inner
balance.
The artist Luvit wants to propose in his Mandala paintings, besides the decorative
effect, an instrument which helps to initiate an art - therapy that everybody will be able to use stage by stage in order to find relax of the daily stress and the concentration on our inner world.
The colours and the forms that Luvit prefers for those works of art are those that in various symbolic contexts are based on the common experience of
generations. The associations of colours have the only purpose to stimolate Your personal
associations: the possible meanings are innumerables and everybody will be able to interprete them according to the own unconscious thirst of serenity and
balance.
When You enter in a mandala, the unconscious symbology, expressed by forms and colours is caught by
You, Your conscious "ego";
this spontaneous analysis passes informations from the unconscious to the conscious levels of personality. The consequence is a process aimed to expand conscience in the direction of the
individuation, irreplaceable nourishment for the psyche.
Luvit proposes a painting that favours the introspection, a painting where spirituality and psycology form a
weaving; we, in the western countries are not used to this phenomenon, but it is so old that the appearence of it precedes the dawn of
history.
It“s a painting that can be used to research our inner reality and to harmonize our
energies, besides the decoration of ouromThe rźverie helps us to live the world, to understand the unhappiness of the
real, to understand the man in his intimate always more tormented and restless.
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