mandalaofsoul

Unpacking KadmonArchetypal psychology is often pursued abstractly. This isan indirect approach which requires us to infer meaningand relationships. In the Mandala Process, we open thechannels of our perception and engage the archetypalreality directly, consciously. Our physical body is a portal toour greater self.The archetypal realm organizes using the same relationships as thephysical realm. We exist in the center and the realm in which we are aware exists as a context in whichwe have life. There is always a center and a circumference when we experience existence on any level.To understand this, we continually explore the relationship of the microcosm and macrocosm of life; asabove so below.As we unpack the Kadmon archetype, we begin with the now-familiar center and circumference.We are all discovering the meaning of self and life based on ourselves, so universal themes will alwaysbe understood and acted on idiosyncratically, in terms of the unique spin we each give to the universal.As our macrocosmic self, we are the archetypal person. Our self as physical typal, microcosmic, personflows from the archetypal construction. From center, Rudolf Steiner said, “Our soul approaches us fromthe horizon.” Our soul is also the deepest essence. Each episodic resolution adds substance to the primalimpulse to journey out of the void; to live, love, experience, and fulfill the best of our natures. The voidis not empty. It is the source from which all form unfolds. It is the implicate order that David Bohm saidis the constructor of local, physical reality. In his quantum reality, our only limitation is the movement ofthe whole. All form implies a deeper, causal reality. With the vertical line, we stand between earth andsky, heaven and earth. On the horizontal line, we reach out; our arms grasp life, give life, and reorganizelife into objects and creations. So, here we have the basic archetype of human kind.The Kadmon archetype begins with the symbol of the circle and cross, with the dot in the centerof the cross. This is the universal geography of all mandalas and the structure of perception. Throughouthistory, humanity used this configuration, with varying culturally-evolved symbology, to bridge into theinner reality and to engage and collaborate with transcendent forms and states. They did so out of asense of kinship and unity. In this we have an archetype for the universal pattern of humanconsciousness in its macrocosmic and microcosmic expression. The Kadmon was the first person, bothmale and female, and is the archetype upon which we function and elaborate our understanding of life.Creation myths illustrate their version of Kadmon in their various cultural scenarios for the primal,cosmic person. Adam and Eve lived in a garden—powerful archetype. The story that continues unfolds asequence of events that transferred their consciousness for an archetypal existence into the physicalworld: they name, curiosity leads them to self-consciousness and then they realize they have a body.This sounds somewhat like our own developmental journey in the first seven years of our lives. So, wehave ontology as a race and as an individual that unfolds from the movement of the whole.38