Colour

[Alisa]

Colour has such a huge influence on me. I am passionate about and attracted to red. I am wondering what others think about colour and what significance this has in the realm of magick, etc.

[m1thr0s]

Sure...color is a pretty big deal. color is all about prisms really and how energy splinters off into different vibrational categories, all constituting slightly different natures and so on. Color is such a big deal with Hermetic Alchemy that the Tree of Life comprises 4 completely different color scales just for starters. But it's not just Qabbalists...color plays a huge role in the Body of Light itself, so that just about anybody that has ever addressed that on any level has also come up with certain color scales to interpret things through.

plus it's just a lot of fun thinking in colors...

m1thr0s

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colors might represent the elemental forces of the universe. in TCM theory, red is the color of the fire element, and represents a large number of things
It is also associated with the lowest chakra, and it's related properties.

There are meditation techniques that employ heavily the use of visualized color, to do things like balance the elemental energies within onesself.

red is probably my favorite color, also.

[Alisa]

I really enjoyed and gained much from your comments m1thr0s and ... :) What is your favourite colour, m1thr0s?

[Ðanisty]

All colors are my favorite. It's kind of hard to get around that as an artist. Every color has place.

[fr.novumorganum]

The color of my environment often affects my ability to work in it, magick and mundane.

[Radiant Star]

I love colours but I prefer to live in the yellow base rather than the blue base.

Favourite colours are dark and strong reds, blues and greens to live in. If we are talking magickally, then if I use colours, they also need to be strong and vibrant.

[m1thr0s]

I like green, in case anybody was uncertain...lol I have always been partial to green, but I agree with Danisty that all colors are cool (in a warm sort of way)...they all have their special place. It would really be impossible to pick just one. I like red but a red ocean would pretty much creep me out...

m1thr0s

[Seipiriz]

I have a weird connection with colours too...

When in dreamside dominions I appreciate green and usually link feelings with colours ...

Has anybody seen the colour of energy when trying astral projection??? I used to think it as phosphorous green but it is not it an unknown colour to me and call it Octarina (from the Discworld)

[Kain]

Has anybody seen the colour of energy when trying astral projection??? I used to think it as phosphorous green but it is not it an unknown colour to me and call it Octarina (from the Discworld)I think energy can assume pretty much all colors and in my experience, it often does...simultaneously too...!

Green, Orange and Blue predominate in my visual feedback though. It certainly is a matter of vibratory frequency too (which, among other things, actually defines the premise of color), as my contact with different energy densities has brought me before exceptionally different visual results. However, I think it is immensely important not to expect contact only with a limited color spectrum, as I later on realized that I have often severely limited myself perceptually in this way. Be open to a full spectrum of visual input when in such endeavors, as not predetermining the attributes of our surroundings is a clause that needs to be followed here too.

That said, come to think of it, I have not really thought about a favorite color(!)...I guess I have always been naturally attracted to the interplay of Black, dark Red and Orange...

Kain

[fr.novumorganum]

green
blue
black

are favorites

although I look damn good in brown:)

[MythMath]

It's interesting to contrast how the different areas of the brain
process the perception of a color against the concept of a color...

i.e. the quale that is 'yellowness' verses the word that is 'yellow'...

http://www.ojohaven.com/cgi-bin/ColorText.pl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia


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.M___A___T___H.

[Anibis]

I tend to gravitate to the Blue-Orange couple.
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[Luciftias]

I usually like to wear my favourite colours, as probably most people do. Red was my favourite as a child. As a teenager I went through a phase where I wore green almost exclusively. I wore green jeans or fatigues, all sorts of green shirts, etc... I even dyed my hair green in high school. Currently about 80% of my clothing is black, but I have a lot of red and green in there too. Also, I just love colours and colour matching in general. I especially like bright colours. I love how different colour schemes can effect people's moods. Currently, although I don't wear it, I would probably say that my absolute favourite colour would be aquamarine or any vibrant blue-green colour.

Luciftias

[Seipiriz]

think it is immensely important not to expect contact only with a limited color spectrum,

Kain you are quite right here, sometimes the energy I described in my last thread appears in different colours too but in the pass of time and through work it has stabilized to this colour I described .Generally, expecting, is the way you influence thing and this is probably the most ruining and confusing part of the thing...Up to now though, I still become confused with the changing of colours I see sometimes in the Octarina after a short period of time..

[Kain]

Generally, expecting, is the way you influence thing and this is probably the most ruining and confusing part of the thing...Up to now though, I still become confused with the changing of colours I see sometimes in the Octarina after a short period of time..Certainly. Defining the perceived colors can be quite confusing for me also (based on my experiences), that's why I have sort of gravitated away from even attempting to define a perceived (subtle) hue unless the initial experience in itself readily provides such a definition. You see, we have quite a narrow perception of "color" to begin with, and since preconceived expectation is often our worst enemy in pursuits of greater perception, we need to keep our sensory instruments disciplined and true.

Kain

[m1thr0s]

I've been playing around with this image for a possible print...only it turns out it's too complex for a 2-bit online print operation. Anyway, I was thinking of this thread when I comped it. This is a small version but the big one is extremely hypnotic...

The Juggler

http://abrahadabra.com/images/juggler01.jpg

kinda colorful eh? lol...

note: there's an interesting numerical correspondence some of you numerological types might be interested in regarding the 108 petals of the Lotus Blossom. There are exactly 108 Yin, Yang and Jen lines (each) in the Ternary Tetragrammaton, or the 81 Tetragrams of the Tai Hsuan Ching (also called the 81 Shou, or *Chiefs*)...here we see 108 expressed as 12 x 9 = 108. It occurs to me that the catholic rosary may have the same number of beads if I remember correctly. Catholics might be horrified to discover they are actually performing an occult evocation ritual when they work the rosary. Then again, they might not...it all depends on the Catholic I suppose...

m1thr0s

[Luciftias]

A standard Dominican rosary, which is by far the most common, is composed of 59 beads. I used to work the rosary a lot, adding qabalistic and hermetic visualizations. I found the Franciscan rosary to be much more "esoteric" (for lack of a better term) in both it's inception and practice. The Franciscan rosary happens to be composed of 72 beads.

You're thinking of the Buddhist rosary. I think it's also called a japa mala. It is also used by some Hindu's. It has 108 beads.

A cool connection between the numbers 72 and 108 is that they are both angles that can be found on a pentagram. The other angles are 36 and 144.

Luciftias

[m1thr0s]

huh...that's funny...I had heard 108. Oh well...their loss...lol

yeah...looks like I was thinking of the Hindu Mala (http://www.innerlightcentral.com/)
That would make more sense all things considered...

m1thr0s

[Amur]

I love the color of birch green, although I've lost contact with that part of myself, I'm looking forward to getting the connection back up. I've also become very fond over Sky-Blue and it seems to be the emission of myself mostly when I'm humble and healthy...

There are some shades of too bright/muddy yellow/yellowish orange which I'm not all too fond over. Mostly it for me is connected with the energy of Wealth. Though corrupted colors might alltogether be an internal thing instead of an external.

Perhaps the spine vertebrum itself communes with colors of various shades. Which in turn gets linked to the body of light. Might also have something to do with the biophotons.

[Alisa]

I have really enjoyed all of the colour posts. Everyone here is so eloquent and throught-provoking. :)

I LOVE the Juggler. It is hypnotic at the size in the post, I can only imagine it's effect when it is larger.

Since I love red, I was intrigued by the meaning. I have always been attracted to red. I remember being no more than 3 years old and being mesmerized by a dried glossy puddle of red fingernail polish that had been spilled on the concrete floor of the basement in the house we were renting. I was practically haunted by it and drawn to it as if it were magic.

Red also features in some of my spiritual experiences. For example, one evening as I lay in bed tossing and turning, I kept feeling there was an entity near the head of the bed. I tried to push this feeling away so I could sleep. Finally, I started to drift off when quite suddenly, but gently, I was touched on the forehead, as if by a finger, at which point pure red light lit up the inside of my head and I could see the glow from several perspectives. I screamed, as it really scared me. My eyes flew open, but there was no one there that I could see though everything still seemed red for a few moments. It reminded me of being touched by E.T. with his glowing red finger.

My favourite form of red is metalic or shiny like foil or prism-paper. If I see this, I actually have to try not to keep looking at it. I bought some such paper that I have not yet used on anything... still thinking, but I did cover a canvas with red foil-like wrapping paper and hung it in my bedroom (which is painted red, hooray!). I do stare at it often. In fact, I began to see images of entities in it and have drawn them. It is kinda like my crystal ball.

[Αzωת]

I've always had a love for orange-yellow. Being a Gemini, I tend to be both solar and lunar. Orange-yellow is a solar color that I can identify with and one that keeps showing up in my day-to-day life, as if it was trying to give me a message that I cannot decode.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/maledoro/Crazy%20Smilies/86f140c6.gif

[Radiant Star]

I read m1thr0s post about seeing the sea in red and it gave me an idea for a meditative visualization and that is to visualize things in their opposite colours and explore that.

Just an odd idea that crossed my mind. I might play around with it on screen first because I think it might be difficult to hold say a red sea and keep that in mind whilst changing the colours of other things around it at the same time.

Makes me think that our memories and experience of life have a great hold over us and its hard to break free of this.

[MythMath]

Radiant Star,

If you have access to Photoshop or equivalent,
experiment by viewing familiar images after they have
had their colors inverted (similar to B/W negative)...

Is this what you meant by 'opposite colours'...?

The effect is often able to reveal common details as
abstract forms; which offers a unique visual experience...

[Alisa]

I've always had a love for orange-yellow. Being a Gemini, I tend to be both solar and lunar. Orange-yellow is a solar color that I can identify with and one that keeps showing up in my day-to-day life, as if it was trying to give me a message that I cannot decode.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/maledoro/Crazy%20Smilies/86f140c6.gif


I love the whole red/orange/yellow spectrum. I am mesmerized by your avatar (wish I had a mesmerized smilie to punctuate my point--and by the way, I love your great smilies)! :D

A solar/lunar Gemini! :cool: I have some sort of connection with the moon. If the moon is out, my sight is forcefully pulled toward it (day or night), without physical explanation because the moon can even be behind me as I walk out the door and I am compelled to turn around and look up without even thinking about the moon or knowing it is visible that night/day.

[m1thr0s]

I actually had a vision of a red sea once while listening to Passion by Peter Gabriel (Different Drum I think)...it was pretty intense actually...

m1thr0s

[Alisa]

I love red, but a red sea sounds a bit scary. Was it? I have a thing about sea serpents and the idea of a red sea with sea serpents in it is very chilling (but exciting nonetheless). :cool:

[m1thr0s]

I think "ominous" was the overall feeling...there seemed to be a great deal of death and danger hanging in the air somehow, yet there was also a distinct kind of beauty...very strange actually...

m1thr0s

[Radiant Star]

Radiant Star,

If you have access to Photoshop or equivalent,
experiment by viewing familiar images after they have
had their colors inverted (similar to B/W negative)...

Is this what you meant by 'opposite colours'...?

The effect is often able to reveal common details as
abstract forms; which offers a unique visual experience...

No I don't have Photoshop but I do have a picture editor of some kind which inverts colours and this is what I was thinking of using.

There is something about walking the magickal path that seems to stimulate creativity in me, I have never felt creative before really, but now I think that a part of my mind has opened and barriers and conditioning are being circumvented at times to allow a much freer view of how the world could look and how the world 'beyond' could/does look ;)

I have often looked at the work of artistic people and wondered how they got their ideas and I think it is that they are able to see past set ideas and are not afraid to experiment with art materials or explore their minds.

I have noticed a greater freedom in myself since taking up magick and it has opened up a whole new world of possibilities, something in my soul is excited as if I have suddenly had the door opened up to seeing true colours and my previous imaginings seem monochrome in comparison.

[Αzωת]

I am mesmerized by your avatar (wish I had a mesmerized smilie to punctuate my point--and by the way, I love your great smilies)! :D
Here's a "mesmerized" smilie for you to copy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/maledoro/Crazy%20Smilies/43.gif

I'm a notorious smilie whore...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/maledoro/Crazy%20Smilies/4a807cb8.gif