Greetings and great blessings to you:
I just read your Mandala article in the Reiki News. I am an ICRT Reiki teacher in St. Petersburg, Florida. I am not sure if we have met but I wanted to share some things I learned about mandalas and see if you have any experience of this. One of the other things I teach is how to do astral projection and how to use astral projection with healing and Reiki. This is a little trick of the mind I learned years ago and I have taught it all over the world now. It is very easy to learn and it offers great self discovery, spiritual discovery and healing opportunities.
In my inner ventures I have encountered several times what I call the mandala universe. This is a place in inner space where countless mandalas seem to kind of hover in space; they appear and disappear, change, rearrange themselves, resize themselves, adjust to what ever is affecting them etc (this is difficult to describe but if you have ever seen northern lights it is kind of like that but with colors and mandalas). It is very far 'out there' and takes some time to get to even in the timeless realm of inner space. They are of many and various sizes, shapes, colors and designs. They are more than beautiful, they seem to have many purposes. One, they seem to tune the frequencies of the universe itself or they kind of take the frequencies of the universe and tune it to the world of matter or creation. It seems in some way that the place where they hover kind of surrounds or all encompasses the world of form. I'm not sure how to describe this but it seems that all energy that becomes matter or creation passes through these in some way and creation is somehow fine tuned by doing so.
But that is not the most amazing thing. The most amazing thing is that you can approach these hovering mandalas, in fact, they kind of invite or beckon you to do so. You approach them in your astral or energy body or what ever this 'you' is that travels in this realm. As you approach one of these it kind of puts you or aligns you in the mandala in just the right way for it to do its work. You meld in to the patterns of the mandala with your energy body frequencies and where your energy may have traveled through your astral self in somewhat chaotic patterns, the mandala lines them up in ways that look and feel better. It aligns the energy patterns of your astral or energy body up with the energy patterns of the mandala and this somehow readjusts the flow of your own energy body patterns. This seems very healing and refreshing and restoring. Not only that but it is somewhat thrilling too. You can go from one mandala to another, and the ones that you need seem to invite you or somehow appear for you to meld with and let your energy be adjusted. I remember the first time I discovered this it made me think; "ooooh, that's what these mandala things are for". I had no previous experience with mandalas except that I had seen them and thought they were pretty and interesting looking. It was a great revelation.
I thought that if I were a mandala maker I would go to this inner place and get my designs from there and I wonder if that is not where the designs come from anyway whether the artist knows it or not? Have you ever heard of the mandala universe? I have a CD on how to do this and I also teach it in St. Petersburg, FL if you would like to know more. I have a very unattractive website that I am revamping but there is a bit on there about this CD. It is www.advancedmetaphysicalhealing.com or www.freehealingsession.org. or, for a real thrill, www.chokurei.com. Blessings and Reiki2u. duff
