Today in my watercolor class we painted mandalas. "Mandala is a Sanskrit word that means 'circle' or 'completion.' In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of aspirants and adepts, as a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing a sacred space, and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. According to David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one 'to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises,'" (wikipedia.org).
Here is a picture of my mandalas that I painted. Not quit sure if I experienced any of the above experiences, but it was fun.
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