{"id":136912,"date":"2023-09-02T20:37:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136912"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:44:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:44:43","slug":"mandalas-hour-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mandalas-hour-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandalas – Hour 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some say mandalas are the footprints left by ancient astronauts flying Vimanas.<\/p>\n

To see the base of a Vimana overhead it appears to be a flying saucer,<\/p>\n

yet from the side it is like a flying pyramid.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve learned in recent years that sand sprinkled on Chladni plates<\/p>\n

creates beautiful geometric patterns, more complex as the tonal frequency rises.<\/p>\n

Another type of mandala, equally mysterious.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tibetan Buddhists labor for weeks with brightly colored sand or rice grains<\/p>\n

to help draw certain energies into the earth realm as they pray,<\/p>\n

only to sweep it all away in minutes.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

South Asian rulers commission extravagant works of art for mandalic jewelry<\/p>\n

to be used on turbans and cloaks. Arab jewelers use complex geometric patterns<\/p>\n

from nature to enhance their homes and mosques.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There\u2019s something hypnotic about a pendulum swinging over a sand tray,<\/p>\n

back and forth, circling round. Gravity or magnetism they say is the force,<\/p>\n

but it looks a lot like magic.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Regardless of culture or purpose, a thing of beauty brings joy forever.<\/p>\n

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Some say mandalas are the footprints left by ancient astronauts flying Vimanas. To see the base of a Vimana overhead it appears to be a flying saucer, yet from the side it is like a flying pyramid.   We\u2019ve learned in recent years that sand…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[6146,6144,6145,5789],"class_list":["post-136912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-circles","tag-mandala","tag-vimana","tag-viviak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136912"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136979,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136912\/revisions\/136979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}