The Flower Mandalas blog has a dual purpose:
- To explore the use of art as a means to healing and transformation.
- To ask for your help in completing The Flower Mandalas Project.
Purpose #1: My intent is to use my own Flower Mandalas and related ideas and thoughts as a springboard for a broader exploration of the topic of art, healing, and transformation. I invite you to contribute your own experiences with art, healing, and transformation to the Art, Healing, and Transformation group on Beliefnet.com. I hope that a lively discussion will ensue there. I will moderate this group and, with your permission, post a selection of your contributions on the Flower Mandalas blog. You may also contact me directly at phototransformations@davidbookbinder.com.
Purpose #2: I’d like to ask for your responses to the Flower Mandala images posted here, either briefly as comments to the blog posts or in detail on the Behance Network Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas page. My plan is to create a book of 52 Flower Mandala images, each one paired with an inspirational quotation and original essay which in some way complement the image. My hope is for each image-and-quote-and-essay triad to resonate with a fundamental aspect of human experience.
Thanks for listening and sharing.
- David
David J. Bookbinder, LMHC
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posted February 28, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Hello, I came across this while I was just looking around a new site. Instantly, when I saw the beach rose mandala, I was flooded with a feeling of: home, comfort, and safety; floating inside and becoming enveloped in protection. It was just an instantanious thing.
As for the others, which certainly did not come through as strongly but still had very real effects: blue pansy was inspired psychic connection; dying amaryllis was movement; white rose was spirit; and yellow lily was childlike playfulness.
I don’t know if this helps but I really needed to share the experience I felt with the beach rose!
Thank you for your time, Rayne
posted February 29, 2008 at 11:00 am
Thank You for a beautiful experience of viewing and learning about the flower mandalas. And as like attracts like I am sure our days will find many mandalas inviting us to see reality as SELF.
I recently posted a thread in Christianity Discussion / Debate titled, “Haloes, Crowns, and and Indian Head Dresses”. We also went into the meanings of mandalas and mandoras. Not much response, but it was uplifting to think and feel along these lines of universal messages coming our way.
Thanks again for great inspiration.
Kindly, John aka zenman1
posted March 4, 2008 at 8:14 am
i just saw you picture i felt my mom was here she loved flowers and had a beautiful garden i felt very peacful and happy thank you
posted March 26, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Dear David,
Congratulations on your wonderful flower images as they assist in awakening so many on the planet. I am a florist/spiritual teacher
and I have long known the power and magnificence of working both
with flowers and merging them with mandallas.
Thank you for encouraging all who feel drawn to the images to go within to find their own unique messages. How wonderful that the veil of consciousness can be lifted as the images draw loved ones near from the other side. And our souls closer to ourselves and we receognize we are safe in merging with the oneness of Creator’s finest treasures.
The profound in simplity.
Namaste
posted May 12, 2008 at 3:11 pm
hello
I am not speak english but this page (I think) is beautiful
Im spanish!
bye
posted July 12, 2008 at 9:54 am
Hi David, my name is Javiera. I recently experienced the death of the love of my life, my boyfriend, and it has been very hard to move on. I have been wanting to make a tattoo so I can live the pain and his memory printed in my skin, and I wanted it to be a flower with a special meaning. So I started exploring on google for some flowers and I saw your 15 mandalas, and then came into your blog. Did you paint them? I feel so much emotions staring at some of them….
posted June 17, 2010 at 10:28 am
David,
While my mother was very ill before her death last March I spent a full summer with her and my sisters . I like to paint wood , I have had not training in any art subject but I like painting . I painted a few wooden boxes for my sisters . During that time I was very attracted to the Dandelion , inspires me freedom like spirits or stars that float. Any way I painted a box in light corn colour cover with golden Dandelions and red butterflies . I gave it to the sister that looked after my mother during her transition . I know nothing about flowers and I am dreadful in gardening but my mother and this particular sister are in love with flowers! . They loved the box and my other sisters want me to paint a similar box for them . Anyway could not explain why I chose a dandelion as it was not in my mind the most of the beautiful flowers , but what inspired me was very strong . The ones I painted looked beautiful in gold and expressed what I felt , very difficult thing as I am not good at that . Since then I have been having this nagging feeling that this flower means and meant deeper things than what I felt . Today I had a very sad day for no apparent reason and I started after all this time looking for meanings that have been associated with the dandelion . I have found very interesting things that represent many aspects of my sister , my mother and my family such as
“The flower symbolism associated with the dandelion is love me, affection returned, desire, sympathy, faithfulness, happiness and love’s oracle! . Even rebirths and departure have been associated with it !. However looking at your Dandelion head I felt very touched as I felt an impulse on counting the stems and it has 12 , we are 12 members in my family i.e my dad , my mum and their 10 children . We have sadly lost both of my parents , and I think that my sadness comes from a feeling of longing and missing my roots . Do you think that my painted box was expressing the departure of my mother ? .
Thank you