Sorting the Stones In making an egg out of stone, it helps to sort the stones first. In the myth of Eros and Psyche, Psyche’s first task was to sort the seeds, to learn to be selective and to put things in order. All Psyche had to do was sit down and cry…
Carl Jung, on Drawing his First Mandala It was only towards the end of the First World War that I gradually began to emerge from the darkness. Two events contributed to this. The first was that I broke with the woman who was determined to convince me that my fantasies had artistic value; the…
Jung Describes His Process of Drawing Mandalas I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala, which seemed to correspond to my inner situation at the time. With the help of these drawings I could observe my psychic transformations from day to day. . .. Only gradually did I discover…
“The eye is the prototype for the mandala.” C.G. Jung Mandala Symbolism Bollingen Press 1959