Carl Gustav Jung is credited with introducing the Eastern concept of the mandala to Western thought and believed this symbol represented the total personality —aka the self. Jung noted that when ...

Jung was particularly fascinated by mandalas, the intricate, geometric representations of a universe. Several floors above the Jung exhibit is a show dedicated to Buddhist mandalas, which are used ...

“Liber Novus” is the name Carl Gustav Jung gave his autobiographical magnum opus -- an illuminated manuscript filled with images of hissing snakes, dazzling mandalas, bloody battles, radiating ...

In more modern times, the mandala was introduced to the mainstream by psychologist Carl Jung, who saw the mandala as a reflection of the inner mind, or the Self.

Jung defines a mandala as “representing the dreamer’s search for completeness and self-unity”. It is a Tibetan word and means “that which encircles a centre”.

According to Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, mandalas are a map to the subconscious. Jung drew them with his clients and is credited with introducing mandalas to the western world.

Its exhibition, "The Red Book of C.G. Jung, Creation of a New Cosmology," is open from Oct. 7 to Jan. 25, 2010. Jung's book is the centerpiece of the exhibit.

The Red Book, an intricate 16-year record of Carl Jung's journey into his unconscious that has never been seen publicly, is going on display in an exhibit at a New York museum that coincides with ...