ABSTRACT
The purpose of the author's commentary is to build a bridge of psychological understanding between East and West. Western consciousness is by no means the only kind of consciousness there is; it is historically conditioned and geographically limited, and representative of only one part of mankind. The widening of Western consciousness ought not to proceed at the expense of other kinds of consciousness; of those elements of their psyche which are analogous to those of the alien psyche, just as the East cannot do without technology, science, and industry. The European invasion of the East was an act of violence on a grand scale, and it has left us with the duty noblesse oblige of understanding the mind of the East. The author made a choice of ten pictures from among an infinite variety of European mandalas, and they ought, as a whole, to illustrate clearly the parallelism between Eastern philosophy and the unconscious mental processes in the West.
