Mandala Anyone?

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I remember back then when I was in college, we have been tackling about Carl Jung and his imagery of the personality which is composed of the archetypes. Archetypes are generally called ideas which has been passed to us by our ancestors for many generations. For that reason, we may have the same idea of what good and bad is. Most likely, different cultures around the world could have the same idea of motherhood, friendship, and all which is inherently human. It was Carl Jung who proposed that human beings are reliving the past. That is why we have deja vu. Maybe in some past, we are reliving the experience of our ancestors. Now, as i try to unravel the mystery of archetypes, it could not be denied that we will arrive discussing mandalas. Mandalas are some of the ancient Hindu symbols in circular forms which could possibly depicts the life of a person. For some, Mandala is the philosophical expression of people. Mandalas are composed of symbols and imageries which depicts life in intertwined and closely knit. It reflects the whole self and how one sees things in the world. In the west, the famous mandala could be the Vitruvian man. This famous mandala of Da Vinci depicts the ideal sense of man in relation to his environment. While generally conceived to be a model of measurement of men in relation to geometry, it has far exceed its intended symbol and lately it was being adopted as the symbol of humanity. Nowadays, mandalas have been existing in company logos, in company philosophy, academic schemes and some other sort of things. This will only show that our ideas are interconnected with each other and we need mandalas to better communicate them and find their way to the world.