In this mandala my rib cage was bare and open, and my heart was taken away by an entity. I went to live different lives; the lives that I thought were possible without a heart. I was a soldier killing people. I was a navigator going to war, I was a prostitute in Suleiman the Magnificent’s court. I was a crying mother with a dead child on her lap. Only when I understood what it was like to live all those lives was my heart given back to me. The entity gave me a clear message: “Now that you understand humanity’s pain and misery, I can return your heart to you.”
