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3punts Barcelona

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Right in the heart of Eixample in Barcelona, the 3punts gallery dedicates itself to promote emerging and established artists.

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Carmen Merchán in Madrid: Mandalas

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The psychoanalyst Carl G. Jung defined the Mandalas as a code of communication with the archetypes of collective unconscious. In Sanskrit, they mean ´center´ and ´totality´. Carmen Merchán, author of the book ´Mandalas of light´, will talk about this in Madrid on the 17th of February in her conference ´The healing symbolism of the Mandalas´. Carmen is a shamaness who studied this with masters in India and Egypt and from villages from the ancient and wrongly-called ´New World´: Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru, soaking in knowledge that has been transmitted for thousands of years by word of mouth and the engravings on rocks, textiles and ceramics. Today she is one of the professionals who works for the Institute of Integral Therapies and Energetic Learning (ITIEE). Holy healing, astrology and tarot are among her skills. In the work ´Psychology and Alchemy´ by Jung, published in 1943, you can find a chapter called ´Symbolism of the Mandala´. Jung worked on a selection of 400 dreams ´of mandala´, word that designates “the ritual or magical circle that, especially in Lamaism and also in tantric yoga, is used as Yantra as an instrument of contemplation”. It says that in 1938, in a monastery, a lama told him that mandala is a “mental image (…) that can only be constructed by the imagination of an enlightened lama”. He was also told that the true mandala is that who constructs himself internally with imagination. It would be long to insist to directly show how Jung used mandala with therapeutic aims, but this Friday 17th of February in Madrid, at 6.30pm, there´ll be a free conference... read more