Sacred Geomtry Mandala Art: Opening the Window To the Soul

Mandalas bring the intuition and logic, the right and left-brain hemispheres, into balance. By focusing on the center point of the mandala below, you shut the analytical/logic side of the brain up for a minute and give the right-brain a chance to dominate. When the right brain dominates, your creativity flows, and you act more off your intuition.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
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uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
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RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
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uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

Staring at Mandalas will:

-center your attention
-quiet your thoughts
-distract the left-hemisphere, which cannot deal with spatial relationships
-allows the right hemisphere to dominate for an extended period of time
-reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and relaxes you.

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In general the left and right hemispheres of your brain process information in different ways. We tend to process information using our dominant side. The left brain processes in a linear, sequential, logical manner. When you process on the left side, you use information piece by piece to solve a math problem or work out a science experiment.

When you read and listen, you look for the pieces so that you can draw logical conclusions. If you process primarily on the right side of the brain, you use intuition. The right brain however, processes from whole to parts, holistically. It starts with the answer. It sees the big picture first, not the details.

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Using your intuition is the BEST way for getting women by the way too ;)

Look at this picture. Concentrate on the center of it for at least 2 or 3 minutes. You will see it rotate...but it's important to not analyze it or think. Just concentrate and watch the image rotate. Don't be analytical..just breathe and observe. This picture uses sacred geometry and is a VISUAL meditation.

I can GUARANTEE you continually doing this everyday will improve your life in MANY different ways.

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6...neofishtar.jpg

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Originally Posted by HaRd_WiReD

Mandalas bring the intuition and logic, the right and left-brain hemispheres, into balance. By focusing on the center point of the mandala below, you shut the analytical/logic side of the brain up for a minute and give the right-brain a chance to dominate.

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Shutting off half of your brain is your idea of balance?

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Originally Posted by Mark75

Shutting off half of your brain is your idea of balance?

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I loled hard at that!

But actually this thread has potential relevance to the Chaos Magic thread, which so far had been about creating sigils. These two threads definitely have a potential synergy. I'd appreciate it if we could keep the topic separate from the one in extended discussion, which is fundamentally about how people interpret the word "Sacred".

Using sacred geometry to induce a right brain modality is something that had never occurred to me. Duh! I keep track of what side I sleep on in my DJ because of the Left brain/Right brain influence, and my avatar is the platonic solids. It's embarrassing that I missed the most practical application of sacred geometry.:oops:

Incidentally, I randomly (synchronicity bitches!) heard on the radio today that singing forces you to operate in Right Brain mode. Makes sense.

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Originally Posted by Mark75

Shutting off half of your brain is your idea of balance?

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I think he means NOT shutting off your right side of the brain and NOT ignoring your intuition. I think he means that sacred geometry utilizes both left and right hemispheres.

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Originally Posted by The Cusp

I loled hard at that!

Incidentally, I randomly (synchronicity bitches!) heard on the radio today that singing forces you to operate in Right Brain mode. Makes sense.

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Music is a great example of using both hemispheres in balance. If you don't know music theory and haven't developed technique, you won't be a good musician. On the other hand, if you know all the technique and theory but dont use your right hemisphere your music will have no 'soul'. The voice is the most intuitive of all the instruments so it makes sense logically (left hemisphere) that it uses the right hemisphere the most!

Cusp, seeing as to how your truest, deepest, most peaceful self recognizes the pattern of sacred geometry, it does make sense to me now that sigils would work faster and more efficient if they were constructed using sacred geometry. But I'm not sure HOW to create a drawing using sacred geometry. I think it has something to do with radial symmetry?

I'm not talking about literally using half of your brain..I'm talking about quelling the logical side of the brain so that the creative side of the brain can augment. Once the right brain augments, when you stop the meditation your using your normal left-brain function..as well as increased right-brain function.

When I first started staring at the mandala, my ability to create original, more creative music increased significantly, as well as my ability to socialize with other people, get women...and basically just be happy in many different ways.

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Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

I think he means NOT shutting off your right side of the brain and NOT ignoring your intuition. I think he means that sacred geometry utilizes both left and right hemispheres.

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That makes more sense. Sacred geometry has a solid physical structure that satisfies the Left brain, yet it also possesses an artistic Right brained quality, especially when applied to something like a mandala.

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Originally Posted by HaRd_WiReD

I'm not sure HOW to create a drawing using sacred geometry. I think it has something to do with radial symmetry?

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Me neither. I've read a lot on the subject, most of it crap, but there's still a lot of stuff rattling around in my brain. Just can't put it together in a practical manner yet.

You could base it on one of the platonic solids, which each have their own properties associations. But I don't know how much of that would have to do with the actual geometric structures, or your personal understanding of how those structures are supposed to work. If it's entirely based on your personal archetypes, then the geometries themselves would be completely useless (aside from the right/left brain balancing).

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Originally Posted by The Cusp

If it's entirely based on your personal archetypes, then the geometries themselves would be completely useless (aside from the right/left brain balancing).

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yea that makes sense.

Maybe you could start the sigil off with one of the platonic solids, and layer your archetype over it. I'm sure the subconscious would recognize the platonic solid and in turn your archetype. You just simply encompass your archetype inside of a cube or triangle.

For example:

http://www.carolinadean.com/pentagram1.jpg

and put the archetype inside there some way.

And get something like this:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sEVm4vYn3g...Separation.jpg

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Originally Posted by HaRd_WiReD

Maybe you could start the sigil off with one of the platonic solids, and layer your archetype over it. I'm sure the subconscious would recognize the platonic solid and in turn your archetype. You just simply encompass your archetype inside of a cube or triangle.

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But the big question is, do the different shapes have particular properties? What if you accidentally use a shape that is antithetical to your goals?

There have got to be clues as to their properties if there is indeed anything to them. Like say... In the periodic table of elements. I don't know why, but I keep going back to this picture. Don't really understand it, but for some reason it has the allure of a treasure map.

http://www.tphta.ws/OC012.JPG

The only thing I can think of is that the platonic solids are perfect in symmetry. Right?

Check this out
http://hale.nrsd.net/images/mayan_edit.jpg

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Originally Posted by ChaybaChayba

Check this out

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Neat.



What is it?

No idea, but it looks cool.

Amazing how all the elements fit neatly into a circle like that. Almost like they were designed that way.

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Originally Posted by HaRd_WiReD

The only thing I can think of is that the platonic solids are perfect in symmetry. Right?

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Yes, they're just the easiest form for matter to take. Like water droplets and planets and suns always forming into spereoids.

Funny theory I heard on a nutjob website is that the sun is actually a cube and only appears to be a sphere because it spins so fast.:D (You gotta have a sense of humor with this stuff)

Another potential clue is that every major religion seems to have a platonic solid as their symbol.

The Star of David could be based on a 2D rendering of a cube.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l2...vitruvian3.jpg

Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, so is it just a coincidence that the catholic cross is nothing but the surface of a cube unfolded and flattened?

http://www.cassiopaea.org/images/hinton.GIF

The pyramids are obvious octahedrons, and you often hear that only the top half showing implies something hidden below, the missing half to complete the platonic solid. As above, so below. I think that phrase explains how ancient cultures were able to have advanced astronomical knowledge. They were able to determine the astronomical on a macro scale by studying the same patterns on a micro scale.

And then there is Islam with the Dodecahedron. This one isn't as obvious because there is some variation to how the moon and star are placed. But generally the star fits onto the surface of one face of the Dodecahedron, and the moon implies the rest of the shape.

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen...FLAG-large.jpg

Hell, some scientists thing the entire universe is shaped like a dodecahedron!

http://www.librarising.com/space/dodecahedron.html

I was browsing in half price books the other day, and picked up a deck of sacred geometry cards. They were dirt cheap and I thought they were pretty

The artist claims he was inspired by the arcturians. Could be just a sales gimmic but I don't care. I thought this was interesting

"The entire universe is shaped according to set, geometric proportions; from the alignment of the stars and the leafs on trees to architectural structures and the human body. Because our cells are geometrically structured too, focussing on geometric shapes has a profound effect."

This just got me thinking.....every cellular activity *which makes us human!* is a response to a stimuli. The stimuli are these signals, and every signal the cell responds to has a geometry to it. So geometry is the most basic language to biological life. that means us.

Then you have our subconscious. It mediates our desires and tells the body what to do. If our subcon. is the one telling our body how to behave........does it communicate with geometry? And could we use sacred geometry as a way to communicate with our subcon.?

just a passing thought :D

Janosh has a lot of modern mandalas to meditate over
http://www.the-arcturians.com/eng/codes/index.htm

But I have a really stupid noob question when it comes to open eye meditation................Are you supposed to let your vision get relaxed/blurry? Or are you supposed to no matter what focus on the center?

If sacred geometry mandala art makes an impression on the subconscious ( which it does, subconscious is simply the right brain )

then we must meditate ( focus on center point ) on a sacred geometry mandala, whilst visualizing a desire.

Try this with the mandala I posted above, try to desire something small to verify results.

When you meditate on it, keep your eyes relaxed but stay focused on the center point, you can rest your eyes if it gets blurry, while you close your eyes to rest them, you can actually visualize the mandala

I really like this thread. pretty cool mandala.

have any of you guys heard of this? I have one:

http://www.metaforms.net/ependant.htm

its a balancing tool for heaven and earth. and it works for me. People have told me my personalities are different when I am wearing the different sides of the pendant. The earth side grounds me, with the heaven side makes me more spontaneous.

Watch this documentary:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...8277666323857#

cannot locate the website,but here is the pic,

Nice pic.. Pretty cool isn't it how the chemical elements can be logically arranged into a mathematical spiral of octaves... check this out http://www.superliminal.com/pfractal.htm

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Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

Music is a great example of using both hemispheres in balance. If you don't know music theory and haven't developed technique, you won't be a good musician. On the other hand, if you know all the technique and theory but dont use your right hemisphere your music will have no 'soul'. The voice is the most intuitive of all the instruments so it makes sense logically (left hemisphere) that it uses the right hemisphere the most!

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While you are right, I think music is best played with ONLY the right-hemisphere of the brain. Playing straight from the "soul".

I know a bit about music theory, but i don't know how to play sheet music, nor read it. If you play by ear, you will continually get better to the point you will be able to listen to any piece of music and be able to replicate it without sheet music. It's the natural way to play music.

Concentrating on the mandala I posted above, has seriously increased my music ability. My music is way more creative. It's to the point where it sounds like I read sheet music to play it.

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Originally Posted by HaRd_WiReD

While you are right, I think music is best played with ONLY the right-hemisphere of the brain. Playing straight from the "soul".

If you play by ear, you will continually get better to the point you will be able to listen to any piece of music and be able to replicate it without sheet music.

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I beg to differ. I believe you need the knowledge of how and why it works, It is like the difference between drawing a circle freehand and using a compass. But you need the right brain as well. Also, the theory helps you know how to express what you are feeling intuitively and therefore helps you develop deeper insights into music and producing deeper shades of emotional resonance. And by music theory I don't mean being able to read sheet music. I can't read sheet music that well but it is by understanding scales and intervals and how they interact harmonically. For example, different cultures may use different scales to get different sounds, or they may use the same scales but use them in different contexts and harmonic variations. I was listening to some North Indian Classical Music that was a raga in a minor pentatonic scale but it sounded Indian, not like the blues.

Also, two or more people can only play music together when they understand music theory. It is a language.

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The pyramids are obvious octahedrons

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No, the pyramids have triangular sides are not equilateral. But one would think...
But different shapes do have different properties. In sacred geometry and the ude of talismans or amulets or sigils, you would probably want to use a squars for material benefit and prosperity. A triangle you would use for manifesting. A pentagon would be for high magick for spiritual communion. It has to do with numerology. With the platonic solids I would look at the number of sides the solid has AND the shapes the sides are made of. But each platonic solid represents one of the five elements. That would be a clue in how to use them in magick.

WOW. Thank you for that post. I focused on that image while listening to the Rain Song by Led Zeppelin. It was almost like how I was experiencing my third eye while on psilocybin, just with less control and intensity. During certain moments of the song, the light surrounding the image would get dim, while other moments would produce a bright hue around it. Thanks for that experience.

Very interesting thread.

I took a test at uni this year and the results said that I am 25 points left-brain and only 7 points right-brain, so I am very keen to improve my creative abilities and spatial awareness. I will definitely experiment with the Mandala and see what happens. Cheers!