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The School of Mandala Arts is an extension of the 1984 vision
that inspired artist Aya
to create the collection of StarWheel mandala templates.
"Mandalas" as "Holograms": "Mandala" refers to the traditional understanding of the"Sacred Circle" as a model of the Universe and of Consciousness itself.
A mandala can be a holy site, a ceremonial circle, an atomic/supra-galactic structure, a colored design, a perceptual experience ...the form truly is just a bridge.
The mandala will eventually lead everyone to transcend its form and enter its Center.
There resides the Essence of the mandala: Yourself.
The real event happens within the Heart of any mandala:
a magical understanding of Life, a spiritual / mystical realization of Self.
That wisdom has always been kept alive and transmitted by all Sacred Traditions, the world over.
In the western culture, the contemporary equivalent of a mandala is a "hologram". Both concepts point to the understanding that the Fragment (the human) contains the Whole.
As a new Global Culture is rediscovering the Sacredness of Earth and the Spirit Oneness of all humans, the Mandalic - Holographic paradigm is offering its ancient - present - future medicine ways and teachings.
Goal of the School: Interactive and multi-artistic, the StarWheel School of Mandala Arts will provide a pioneering environment to directly experience the new possibilities of learning, awareness and creativity offered by the Mandalic - Holographic paradigm.
In the context of the School, the Mandalic - Holographic paradigm is defined as both:
- a highly creative environment to explore the interface beetween the potential of multi-media technologies, the traditional wisdom of sacred arts and the personal / group expression through artistic media.
- a heightened mode of consciousness whereby heretofore separated domains of experience or realms of perception are understood as complementary and components of a larger whole.
As a prototype "new earth" educational mandala, the School will emphasize:
- the Implicate over the Explicate. The students are given recognition of their innate Consciousness, i.e. everyone is related to as being the mirror of the Totality.
- the Universal over the Particular. The students are supported in their explorations of new ways for the "Earth Mandala", i e. the "homework" is to facilitate a global civilization of Harmony.
- Unification over Separation. The students are encouraged to create personal and collective holograms, i.e. integrated and radiant selves within group-selves.
Three main colleges (learning families) are envisioned within the School:
Dance / Celebration,
Mandala Creativity / Color
and Sound Healing / Music.
College of Sacred Dance and Celebration:
Purpose: Teaching, sharing and researching new understandings, attitudes. practises and technologies that can bring about an Interactive Dance of Harmony:
- personally: between mind / body / spirit and between people "at home".
- locally: between communities and their eco-systems.
- collectively: between communities and nations.
- globally: between nations, as humankind is becoming a conscious partner of Gaia, Mother Earth.
The College of Sacred Dance and Celebration will offer:
- Teaching and revivifying the Sacred Dance Traditions from around the world.
- Co-creating Interactive Dance Events to celebrate: rites of passage in the life-journey of community members, seasonal rituals, moon & star cycles, global events...
- Resurrecting and adapting the ancient knowledge of Geomancy and Feng Shui as the art of dancing with and within the energy matrix of Earth and nurturing a conscious partnership with the galactic neighborhood.
- Presenting and studying the life work of visionaries and pioneers of Planetics, the global vision of the planetary dance of harmony: Nicolas Tesla, Buckminster Fuller, the Dalai Lama...
- Facilitating the sacred dance of the Human Body through yogic, martial and shamanic arts...
Thus, the College of Sacred Dance and Celebration
will be teaching the gestual / dynamic / acting aspect of synergizing Space-Time. This College will benefit those students called to bridge and interface the many aspects of the One Consciousness as the inspiration to dance, change and exchange...
College of Mandala Creativity and Color:
Purpose: Transmitting. modeling and developing the "Way to the Center", i. e. the art-ability to always cut through the veils and perceive the seed within the fruit, the fruit within the tree, the tree within the forest, and oneself within the seed...
This College will offer hands-on apprenticeships in specific mandala practises and traditions, in order for students to create mandala sacred art and mandala sacred events. Available areas of study will be:
- Presentations of traditional mandala art from around the world.
- History and practise of Color Therapy.
- Explorations in holographic, yogic and depth perception: synaesthesia, cymatics, dermovision, stereograms, trataka and third eye yogas...
- Studies in Sacred Geometry as the language of the Unified Mandala Field of Consciousness.
- Practises to realize mandalas as a state of consciousness. Students are encouraged to dance the mandalas into their own Self.
Thus, the College of Mandala Creativity and Color
will address the visual/seeing /form perception aspects of the awareness of Space.
This college will attracts students inspired to explore and create new cultural tools, mythologies, forms and color schemes as a reminder to
always see the Center in everyone and everything.
College of Sound Healing and Music:
Purpose: To facilitate students in rediscovering the power of sound as the prime mover of the Universe. All major civilizations were seeded by certain sound frequencies and musical chords. This College is offering a creative ground to manifest the musical signatures supporting the global shift of Humanity.
The following areas of interactive study/practise will be available:
- Sacred Chanting from religious, shamanistic and spiritual traditions.
- Toning and modulation.
- A Cymatics Laboratory will teach the forms of music and the music of forms.
- A "music instrument making" shop will re-create ancient instruments and invent new ones.
- Study of vibration fields, harmonics and proportions would lead to research into infra / ultra sonics (the dolphin’s range), birds songs, acoustic levitation...
Thus, the College of Sound Healing and Music
would facilitate access to the Time aspect of the hologram of perception.
"MAY ALL STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL BECOME
WALKING AND DANCING MANDALAS,
INFINITE EXTENSIONS OF THE MANDALA-SOURCE"
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