Forma e arquetico : um estudo sobre a Mandala / Form and archetype : a study about the Mandala

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2006

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This essay resulted from the contemplation of the meaning of Mandala, by associative considerations about other reciprocally related subject-matters. The word ?Mandala? originates from the Sanskrit and means circle. In spite of the thoughts we might have about Mandala, it is certain that it is linked to the artistic events of our kind ever since the times we lived in caves. Due to the nature of its essence, it is said that Mandala are archetypes that symbolize the totality of existence in the universe, inner or outer. From this eventual relationship between material manifestations deriving from non-material causes, arises the conception that some determined forms and dispositions may have a meaning, independently from its temporal-spatial context, that established connections and coherences between the several knowledge areas and life plans. The mathematic and symbolic senses of Geometry are approached as the theory that brings to balance criteria, models, laws and harmony within the qualities of the maxims of transformation dynamics, which is also related to the Mandala concept. In here there is the interest of recognizing that nowadays we experience the collapse of the way of perceiving the world and life. Dichotomizing reality in knowledge areas represents a paradigm to be trespassed by a systemic vision which offers synthesis instead of analysis, associations and union of principles and ideas in the place of scission and fragmentation. Mandalas are found engraved in our ancestral?s caves, in the religious art, in architecture, in cities? delineations, in modern and contemporaneous arts, in children?s and schizophrenic persons? drawings, in design, in the structure of many philosophic knowledge systems, in our relationship with sacred things and in the forms created by reasoning power and by nature. Mandalas are the evidences of the existence of mystery magnitude. This essay is illustrated so as to reinforce these ideas

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mandala mandala sacred the art o sagrado geometry philosophy archetype (psychology) geometria filosofia arte arquetipo (psicologia)

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