Morton 26: "Esoteric mandala theory" (the emphasis is his) -- different from the vision of mandalas as "concentric circles" (a "reification," he notes, a "right-wing mandala")
"mandalas lack a center or an edge"
"Esoteric theory proclaims that it's not the essentialism of the right-wing mandala that's the problem, it's the metaphysics of presence, which defines essences as explosively holistic."