This modern classic was the first book to deal comprehensively with the mandala, as a universal princi ple, a vision, a way of growth, a ritual technique, and an essential life process. Deceptively simple yet capable of the most sophisticated refinements, "the principle of the center is a basic aesthetic form and philosophical device employed by almost all traditional world cul-thres to express the powerful expe riener of unity and interrelated ness. By the very manner in which the authors have presented and illustrated the book-including numerous pieces of their own art work-the healing power of the mandala is evoked.
JOSE ARGÜELLES was born in Rochester, Minnesota, and spent his early childhood in Mexico. He received a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Princeton University, University of California-Davis, University of Colorado-Denver, and Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash ington. He is a painter and the author of Earth Ascending and The Mayan Factor.
MIRIAM ARGÜELLES was born in Chicago and received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Michigan. She has had experience in film and communications media, as well as development and public rela tions. Her work as an artist includes collabo ration with poet Stephen Levine on Lourbeast, as well as exhibitions, mural projects, and workshops.
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