This is a time of awakening for humanity. For the first time, our species is moving into the heart, and becoming an actual sentient species rather than the largely savage animals we have been up till now. To get there, we need to wake up, to start paying attention, to become aware of ourselves and our world.
Many of the mandala effects are directed at helping people to wake up. They challenge our ideas of the world, they push us to ask questions, they teach us to pay attention to the world around us and stop taking things for granted. "Was it Sally Field, or Sally Fields? Is this memory I have still valid? Maybe I need to re-check and see what's actually there."
More than just encouraging people to greater awareness in the moment, the mandala effects are working back through history and creating a timestream for our world where humanity started to wake up hundreds of years ago.