Arkaim a cu

Mandala
The obvious complexity of the social order of a peo-ple who built such a structural and artistic miracle several

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millennia ago is not all that an expert’s eye would notice in observing the contours of this ancient proto-city. The geom-etry of the construction conceals in itself some riddles: Why is it a circle? Was it linked to symbolism relevant to the spiritual philosophy of the ancients? If yes, then what do these symbols express and to whom? What kind of mes-sage are they meant to relay? Following are some sugges-tions made by the first researchers of Arkaim, G.B. Zdanovich and I.M. Batanina. They realized that its lay-out, the ground-plan of Arkaim, is related to the Mandala princi-ple, a square inside a circle - one of the basic sacred sym-bols of Buddhist philosophy. The word Mandala is translated as “a circle”, “a disk”, “circular”. In the ancient Rig-Veda writings, where it has been first described, the word has a set of values: “a wheel”, “a ring”, “the country”, “space”, “society”, “gathering”.
The symbolic meaning of a Mandala is understood all over the world as a model of the Universe, even of the en-tire cosmos, where the two most important principles pres-ent in our Universe are represented in the form of a circle and a square. Arkaim, with its dwellings, having adjoining rooms, might possibly represent the "wheel of time", where every aspect is defined by the previous one and in turn, de-fines the next one. Did these ancient sages, perfectly famil-iar with the structure of the Universe, see how harmoniously and naturally it is arranged and therefore, constructed their city as a mini-Universe? And the engi-neering genius of these ancient builders, which we already explored, is equally admirable.
And now, further into these explorations, come more far-reaching conclusions which can be taken as a key to the most important riddle of Arkaim: In the “Land of Cities”, its most amazing distinction is not any richness of arte-facts, but its surprisingly high level of spiritual culture. It represents a special world that in many aspects is perme-ated with spirituality, from settlement and funeral architec-tural forms to sculptured images chiselled into stone.
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Note: Please find below our recognition of and great gratitude to only a few of the scientists who have brought this information to public attention.
Tiny Spaces of Love and Paradise

Many of you have shared with us how inspiring you find the ideas we share in SoL, and how whole-some, because they support such a beautiful way of living in the world. But some of you also feel a little hopeless about how to make it all work for yourself, especially when you are alone and can't seem to find a way to connect with like-minded people and ulti-mately, to acquire land together.
Several things came to our mind immediately: The letter from Jasna Tara in Slovenia (see elsewhere) and her Foundation which helps people acquire land, even marginal land, for very little or no money. Al-though she lives in a different country, we too are here to help each other with all this, aren't we? Also, we know the California Shasta Community, Shambala, was working on types of exchanges which accommo-date people with other resources to enhance commu-nity life, not only "cold cash”, and so are many other communities gathering together.
But also, there are many other models, notably Anna Edey's Solviva (at www.solviva.com) and Sepp Holzer's (at www.Krameterhof.at) which consider