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"Enhance
Creativity"
Lonvig logo
"Enhance
Creativity"
This
art
work has
been created by artist Asbjorn
Lonvig based the slogan for this campaign.
On
our
planet, living things are made of cells and each cell has a nucleus -
all display circles with centers. The bulb presents
only part of a circle, but still it is a mandala.
Red,
yellow are widely considered psychological primary colors.
During the 18th century, as theorists became aware of
Isaac Newton's scientific experiments with light and
prisms, red and yellow became 2 of three canonical primary colors -
supposedly the fundamental sensory qualities that are blended in the
perception of all physical colors and equally in the physical mixture
of pigments or dyes. This theory became dogma, despite abundant
evidence that red and yellow primaries cannot mix all other
colors, and has survived in color theory to the present day.
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Mandala
The word "mandala" is from
the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Loosely translated to mean
"circle," a mandala is far more than a simple shape. It represents
wholeness, and can be seen as a model for the organizational structure
of life itself - a cosmic diagram that reminds us of our relation to
the infinite, the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies
and minds.
Describing
both material and non-material realities, the mandala appears in all
aspects of life: the celestial circles we call earth, sun, and moon, as
well as conceptual circles of friends, family, and community.
The
integrated view of the world represented by the mandala, while long
embraced by some Eastern religions, has now begun to emerge in Western
religious and secular cultures. Awareness of the mandala may have the
potential of changing how we see ourselves, our planet, and perhaps
even our own life purpose.
The
"circle with a center" pattern is the basic structure of creation that
is reflected from the micro to the macro in the world as we know it. It
is a pattern found in nature and is seen in biology, geology,
chemistry, physics and astronomy.
On our
planet, living things are made of cells and each cell has a nucleus -
all display circles with centers. The crystals that form ice, rocks,
and mountains are made of atoms. Each atom is a mandala.
Within the
Milky Way galaxy is our solar system and within our solar system, is
Earth. Each is a mandala that is part of a larger mandala. Flowers, the rings
found in tree trunks and the spiraling outward and inward of a snail's
shell all reflect the primal mandala pattern.
Wherever a
center is found radiating outward and inward, there is wholeness a
mandala. Representing the universe itself, a mandala is both the
microcosm and the macrocosm, and we are all part of its intricate
design. The mandala is more than an image seen with our eyes; it is an
actual moment in time. It can be can be used as a vehicle to explore
art, science, religion and life itself. The mandala contains an
encyclopedia of the finite and a road map to infinity.
Carl
Gustav Jung said that a mandala symbolizes "a safe refuge of inner
reconciliation and wholeness." It is "a synthesis of distinctive
elements in a unified scheme representing the basic nature of
existence." Jung used the mandala for his own personal growth and wrote
about his experiences.
It
is said by Tibetan Buddhists that a mandala consists of five
"excellencies"
The
teacher - The message - The audience - The site - The time .
When
you look at the mandala
you
look into the center of
all
that ever existed
or
that will exist
at that exact moment in time
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C. G. Jung
The Burke/Lonvig Model is widely
based on Jung's work, which I admire. What I admire the most, however,
is his openness.
His openness to foreign cultures, other branches of science, art - yes
anything.
However his openness to alchemy and astrology is admirable - but hard
to comprehend.
At some place I read, that alchemy was predecessor to chemystry and
astrology was predecessor to astronomy, which
makes it a little easier to comprehend.
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