{"id":5624,"date":"2012-09-27T22:41:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T02:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2012-09-27T22:41:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T02:41:28","slug":"ties-that-bind-more-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/ties-that-bind-more-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Ties That Bind &#8211; More In Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ties_prog.jpg\" alt=\"ties_prog\" title=\"ties_prog\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ties_prog.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ties_prog-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ties_prog-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Conjoined mandalas.. I had a dream involving a mandala the other night. It was made of concrete and it was floating in the sky in place of the sun. Mandalas mean different things in different cultures. When I started doing these circular geometric shapes, they were representative of something microscopic &#8212; something that you&#8217;d have to look deeply at to see. The more I made, the more I enjoy making them. There&#8217;s certainly a meditational aspect of it for me. I also love the fact that they are infinite &#8211; I could continually add layers if I had the paper.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m referencing information I got off of Wikipedia here: <i>According to the psychologist David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one &#8220;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.&#8221; The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala as &#8220;a representation of the unconscious self,&#8221; and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>According to Google, mandalas are:<br \/><i>1. A geometric figure representing the universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism.<br \/>\n2. Such a symbol in a dream, representing the dreamer&#8217;s search for completeness.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conjoined mandalas.. I had a dream involving a mandala the other night. It was made of concrete and it was floating in the sky in place of the sun. Mandalas mean different things in different cultures. When I started doing these circular geometric shapes, they were representative of something microscopic &#8212; something that you&#8217;d have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cut-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5626,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/5626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}