The network that constitutes the "Mandala": from C.G.Jung to G. Bateson

For Jung the "Mandalas are one of the best examples of the universal operation of an archetype" And he continues: "The Mandala represents an ordering scheme that to some extent overcomes the psychic chaos, so that the whole that is composed is kept together through the circle that helps and protects ". He adds: "Every morning I sketched in a notebook a small circular design, a Mandala, that seemed to correspond to my intimate condition at that time"

For Gregory Bateson (A Sacred Unity, Adelphi, p.399) all the various things that happen in our head and in our behavior, when we are dealing with other people and when we go walking up and down the mountains and for the cities, and when we get sick and then we are well again, they interconnect and form a network that, in some places, is called "Mandala", as well as in the language of Jungian psychology.

At the root of the "Mandala" there is the notion that ideas are independent, they interact, live and die. Ideas that die, die because they do not harmonize with others. It is a kind of complicated intrigue, alive, struggling and collaborating, similar to what is found in natural areas, mountain, composed of trees, various plants and animals that live there. An ecology indeed.