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attracts from the life those events, information and processes that fulfill or actualize that intention.Throughout the healing adventure of making these two mandalas, we learn many transformative skillsand gain a deep appreciation and understanding of the way archetypes live through our daily lives. Insome ways, reading this book and participating in the exercises will offer the experience of life as anexpression of archetypal curriculum. It is a microcosm of life as curriculum.The mandalas are a revelation of mystery coded within our own nature. We learn to be sensitiveto the way symbols and energy constitute our psyche and promote health or disease. As we develop skillwith symbols and creative energy, we develop a means by which we can explore the unconscious mindand illuminate the seeming darkness, transforming our shadow nature and revealing our luminousnature. By engaging in this process in the group setting, we learn to be sensitive, loving and artistic inour ways of helping others. We begin by discovering the many ways we have symbolically organized ourpower and our expression of love. As we become familiar with our own mystery, we are able totransform the structure of our personality and the matrix of our living into a powerful agent of our soul.When we access the realm of archetypes, we are entering the consciousness from which we“create” our reality. As an ego, creating our reality makes no sense. The ego believes it is self-made andsomewhat superior. We are responsible creators. We are spirit-made: co-creators that discover who weare and learn to be responsible. Making something of ourselves is a variation on Khan’s impression ofthe personality as an art project. It is something to be proud of but we must be cautious not to take ittoo personally. When we identify with the things we make, we lose sight of the creator who made them.Changing the foundation of our lives requires direct experiential participation in our wholeness. As ego,we live in a dualistic realm that is made of contrast and adversity. We must learn to choose based on ourassessments of life. Our traditional approach is to fix or make things happen. In terms of transformation,we are limited by our agendas, whether for ourselves or for feeling better about ourselves throughhelping someone else. In the archetypal, quantum world, cause and effect occur at the same time.Formations in our psyche that are in opposition find resolution in the archetypal realm. In this way,duality serves the purpose of unity, in contrast to the traditional application, which is to fix conflictthrough the manipulation of others and resources. This means that to resolve issues from duality, weshift our consciousness to unity. In this way, we change the reality in which a problem exists, in contrastto trying to solve the problem. Solving the problem reinforces duality. In the Mandala Process, weinitiate protocols that transform the dualistic issue through accessing the unified whole. There is nothingwrong with solving problems; it is a matter of approach.Making art is our vehicle. Creating the character and destiny mandalas provide organization.The organization provided by this activity is more than the logistics of making visual art. Working ingroups serves to amplify the degree and variety of our learning experience. Reflecting together on therevelation of our art is very powerful and healing. Within this context, we grow to understand thearchetypal world that is the foundation of our personality, and the archetypal matrix that is the patternof creation. The intent of making the mandalas organizes the subconscious and unconscious areas ofour inner consciousness by providing specific guidelines and content for the material that is necessaryand needed. The intelligence that permeates the activity, as an emissary of all that is, matches theorganizational request and manages delivery of supportive and specific energies, information andactions. The Mandala Process is a journey that begins in the place-to-which-we-have-become-6