Hello, I'm Johnathon Mink, Founder and CEO of Spinning Mandalas. I wanted to jump on here and share some lessons I've learned over the years concerning mandalas, and what Spinning Mandalas represents. These lessons will be shared on our blog every week. Let's begin week 1.
We've all seen mandalas. Sometimes you forget that's what they're called but you know the imagery. You've probably seen mandalas from many different cultures, sometimes not realizing the differences.
Mandalas have been used by man as a representation of our universe since our origins. For thousands of years the imagery has been represented in spirituality and religion, though each culture has their own mythology behind it.
The Mandala grows from its center. The center grows outward, and with adjustment in perspective a larger center is born growing outward, so on and so forth. Every center, is a part of a larger center, and every larger center is made up of smaller centers. For example, the mandala below is made up of rings. There is a definite center, but where do you describe the center to be? At the 3rd ring? The light blue surrounds what looks like the center, but no, there is smaller center. The center of the mandala in question, is described from perspective placed upon it. This is a lesson of the mandala, and can be examined and integrated into one's self with meditation and reflection.
Famed Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung said:
‘I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, … which seemed to correspond to my inner situation at the time. … Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is: … the Self, the wholeness of the personality, which if all goes well is harmonious’
— Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, pp. 195–196.
The mandala not only represents the self, it represents the entirety of what we experience. Visualizing the planets in orbit in a flat image can be seen as a mandala.
In nature we see fractalization: 
"As above, so below," echoes with the mandala. Everything in this universe follows this concept, all in the form of energy and resonance. If we learn to use our senses to not only witness the natural harmonious mandala of life, but examine and integrate it, perhaps we'd discover the depths of our potential.
Welcome to Spinning Mandalas. I'm happy you're here with us. More to come next week in Lessons of the Mandala.
Peace be the Journey,
Johnathon Mink