Symbol Watcher

Today, I’ll start right off the bat with an excerpt from Jung’s work, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Vol. 9): “The Sanskrit word mandala means ’circle.’ It is the Indian term for the circles drawn in religious rituals.  . . . The best and most significant mandalas are found in the sphere of Tibetan Buddhism.  . [...]

Posted on May 22nd, 2009 under Jungian Psychology. Tags: circle symbolism, individuation definition, mandala symbolism, Self Jungian definition. Comments: None