This amazing garden mandala grows at the Perelandra Center for Nature Research in Virginia, founded by Machaelle Wright, a nature researcher, teacher, and flower essence researcher.
I love the use of concentric circles as the means for laying out the garden “rows.” Standard practice usually dictates linear rows that form squares or rectangles.
In working with nature intelligences she learned of a process called “coning” which sets up a conference call with these intelligences as a way to bring ideas to form. And in using this process, along with determining its best location, it also determined its best form of layout: the circle.
I first learned about conings in 2000 in watching a dvd by Machaelle talking about how you can use conings for more than just gardens. She so inspired me, that I began using it to create (or rather co-create) my mandala art. Doing a coning allows me to operate beyond just my 5 physical senses; I now operate in a fuller capacity.
In my “Falcon” post from my Mandala of the Week site, if you scroll down to the 3 different versions of the Falcon #1 mandala, you can see a dramatic difference between the first 2 versions (without coning) and the final version (with coning).
Writing a few words to capture what Machaelle, coning, and Perelandra does seems impossible to capture here; I can hardly do it justice. I highly recommend checking out their web site for more information and insights into their work.
And for a very fascinating read, I highly recommended her books about her extraordinary life and her work with nature intelligences:
- Behaving As If the God in All Life Mattered
- Dancing in the Shadows of the Moon
- The Mount Shasta Mission
Happy Coloring!
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