Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee,

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee,

and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst,

and Cape Cod.

Thank you. This week on the podcast, we're going to talk about mandalay's.

Now, mandalas have permeated the popular culture to a certain extent.

I think I have perhaps more than one mandala coloring book. But they were important to

young, and of course they are very, very ancient. This came up for me recently when I was at the

British Museum and saw some incredible artwork of some mandala's, some ancient mandala's that were

created that are there in the museum.

So it inspired me to have us talk about this kind of important idea that Jung spent a lot of time

thinking and writing about.

So like a lot of Sanskrit words, they're very plain speak.

Chakra, for instance, that many people know, means quiel.

Bandala means circle.

Very descriptive, very direct.

So as part of the ancient spiritual tradition,

and our first evidence of this seems to be from the Vedas,

that there are descriptions of these kind of symbols that are

used to help people develop. Mandela, just in terms of observation, is a circle often with

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