Fractal Enlightenment

Most people think of colour as how things look and something that is attractive, and often dismiss it as being cosmetic. But it has a much deeper and significant connotation.

It’s the first thing we register while assessing a thing. So the colours you wear and see directly affects your mood and influences your behaviour.

For instance, decorating your room with daffodils, roses etc. would make you feel livelier. Scenic pictures with mountains and waterfall would instantly draw you in.

So the colours of our surroundings or place where we live in instantly affects our mood. Different colours symbolise different emotions. Like Red would evoke a feeling of confidence, danger, power etc. Green, a colour related to life, evokes a sense of peacefulness and tranquility.

When you go to a hill station or a mountainous area you tend to feel relaxed and rejuvenated, that is because of the visual contact with colour green, the colour of nature. Blue is the colour of honesty, integrity and trustworthy, while White stands for purity and cleanliness.

However, a person’s response to colour varies; it is largely subjective. If my favourite colour is blue, which is soothing and calm another person might perceive that colour as being cold and unfriendly. But it is the combination of colours that generates response.

Angela Wright, a psychologist, in her exploration of colour psychology speaks about how colour is not just a visual phenomenon but it also has a physical effect on us.

Colour and Music

Colour and music works on similar lines. Perhaps that’s why you have the sound and light show, the combination is very exciting, vibrant and uplifting.

Jimi Hendrix in 1970 reflected – “I’m thinking of the days when people will be able to have this little room, a total audio-visual environment type of thing. So that you can go in there and lay back and the whole thing just blossoms with colour and sound. Like a reflection room. You can just go in and jingle out your nerves. It would be incredible if you could produce music so perfect that it would filter through you like rays, and ultimately cure.”

Read more on Colour and Music

Colour Psychology
The effect of colours on us is caused by their energy entering our bodies. The eleven basic colours have fundamental psychological properties that are universal, regardless of which particular shade, tone or tint you use. Each of them has potentially positive or negative psychological effects.

The psychological properties of the eleven basic colours are as follows:

RED
Positive: Physical courage, strength, warmth, energy, basic survival, ‘fight or flight’, stimulation, masculinity, excitement.
Negative: Defiance, aggression, visual impact, strain.

BLUE
Positive: Intelligence, communication, trust, efficiency, serenity, duty, logic, coolness, reflection, calm.
Negative: Coldness, aloofness, lack of emotion, unfriendliness.

YELLOW
Positive: Optimism, confidence, self-esteem, extraversion, emotional strength, friendliness, creativity.
Negative: Irrationality, fear, emotional fragility, depression, anxiety, suicide.

GREEN
Positive: Harmony, balance, refreshment, universal love, rest, restoration, reassurance, environmental awareness, equilibrium, peace.
Negative: Boredom, stagnation, blandness, enervation.

VIOLET
Positive: Spiritual awareness, containment, vision, luxury, authenticity, truth, quality.
Negative: Introversion, decadence, suppression, inferiority.

ORANGE
Positive: Physical comfort, food, warmth, security, sensuality, passion, abundance, fun.
Negative: Deprivation, frustration, frivolity, immaturity.

PINK
Positive: Physical tranquillity, nurture, warmth, femininity, love, sexuality, survival of the species.
Negative: Inhibition, emotional claustrophobia, emasculation, physical weakness.

GREY
Positive: Psychological neutrality.
Negative: Lack of confidence, dampness, depression, hibernation, lack of energy.

BLACK
Positive: Sophistication, glamour, security, emotional safety, efficiency, substance.
Negative: Oppression, coldness, menace, heaviness.

WHITE
Positive: Hygiene, sterility, clarity, purity, cleanness, simplicity, sophistication, efficiency.
Negative: Sterility, coldness, barriers, unfriendliness, elitism.

BROWN
Positive: Seriousness, warmth, Nature, earthiness, reliability, support.
Negative: Lack of humour, heaviness, lack of sophistication.

The above properties definitely holds true for everybody, its just that we don’t realise it. Personally, the colours I wear reflect my state of mind and my mood. If I am in a pink or a bright colour, I would be in a very jovial and chirpy mood. Whereas a black outfit makes me feel gloomy and sad. Based on that you also emanate those kind of energy and vibes to people around you. So be colourful!!!

Resource

Different colour evokes varied feelings and emotions.

Hey, are you a dreamer? I haven’t seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It’s not dead it’s just that it’s been forgotten, removed from our language.

Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I’m trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds.

Our planet is facing the greatest problems it’s ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don’t be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive and things are just starting..

Now that I have got your attention, let me bring to your notice an animated movie that was produced in 2001 by Richard Linklater called Waking Life.

The film cannot be watched at one go and is the second film that I have encountered that needs to be stopped and watched again after a while because of the mental taxation it puts you through with the amount of concepts and ideas it walks you through. (The first being a documentary, Gambling, Gods and LSD)

The story is about a young man below who encounters people from various walks of life. He has in depth and not to mention mind-blowing conversations that question various aspects of the way we as a functional human race interact with each other and what has become of the world as we know it.

Along with some screen shots I have posted a few quotes from the film. I also recommend that you get yourself a copy and watch it. The animation if trippy a little psychedelic here and there but the conversations are what leaves you awestruck with a racing mind.

“The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.”

A: “Excuse me.”
B: “Excuse me.”
A: “Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven’t met, but I don’t want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it’s like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continuously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner. “Here’s your change.” “Paper or plastic?’ “Credit or debit?” “You want ketchup with that?” I don’t want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don’t want to give that up. I don’t want to be ant, you know?”

“They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn’t you say the same thing about life?”

“Your life is yours to create.”

“Judge not lest ye be judged.”

“I want freedom! We have got to realize that we’re being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state.”

Random Bits of Info:

The “I want freedom!” from the above quote has been used in a Psytrance track called Jungle Disco produced by Ocelot.

To Read Some More Quotes:

Waking Life Script – Dialogue Transcript
Information on Wikipedia

I recently watched a documentary on Fractals: The Color of Infinity by Sir Arthur Charles Clarke the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Before this I would not be able to tell you what a fractal was, but now I have been researching and am going to awaken you to the possibilities of God using a fractal system to create us.

What is a Fractal?

A geometric pattern that is repeated at smaller or larger scales to produce self similar irregular shapes and surfaces that cannot be represented by classical geometry. In other words a fractal is a shape that is recursively constructed or self-similar, that is, a shape that appears similar at all scales of magnification and is therefore often referred to as “infinitely complex.”

The term fractal was coined in 1975 by Benoît Mandelbrot, from the Latin word fractus, meaning “broken” or “fractured.”

The Mandelbrot Set:

This is the Mandelbrot Set being zoomed into:

To see a video of a being zoomed into the Mandelbrot (which is one of the first few fractals discovered) check this beautiful Blue Oyster Spiral Fractal Zoom to see and understand the self replicating pattern.

Fractals in Nature

Most people around the world have seen fractals in nature. Clouds, trees, mountains rivers, ferns are all examples of fractals. For you to understand more clearly take a look at the image of the Romanesco broccoli showing very fine natural fractals below.

These are very basic fractals that can be found in nature, people have successfully seen complex fractals like the one below with Transcendental Meditation and the use of Psychoactive substances such as LSD.

Why do people consider Fractals as building blocks of God?

By giving fractals simple commands on a computer, man has been able to generate structures so complex that it would take a humongous amount of human time. To show you a simple example click on the image below.
Not only has man managed to create a mountain but a full mountain range in 3D using simple fractal commands. Towards the end of the 1980’s humans managed to create trees and multiples of trees put together with fractals. After the silicon chip revolution the fractal revolution is expected to be the biggest boon to the human race.

I hope I have helped explain Fractals in a manner easy enough for everybody to understand. Creating massive systems becomes easier with fractals, look into the sky the milky way is a fractal system.

Fractal Music, Literature and Art:

Fractal music has the possibilities of creating dimensions and space in the human mind. This is seen in modern generation music, mostly Psychedelic Trance.

Fractals in Literature are very common in Poetry, repetitive words.

In Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Sail of Ulysses (Canto I)” Pollard-Gott took know as the root. Here are the occurrences of know in the poem.

If knowledge and thing known are one
So that to know a man is to be
That man, to know a place is to be
That place, and it seems to come to that;
And if to know one man is to know all
And if one’s sense of a single spot
Is what one knows of the universe,
Then knowledge is the only life,
The only sun of the only day,
The only access to true ease,
The deep comfort of the world and fate.

Another example is ‘Mary had a little lamb,’ that shows the use of fractal in literature.

Fractal art can be used for meditation and healing purpose. In India many people actually use fractal art for mediation. Staring into it can lead you into a transcendental state where the fractals combine to make another image.

Fractal Paintings of Higher Consciousness and Energy like this one create a channel for enlightenment and intuition healing. I hope you enjoyed my the little run in with fractals. I am placing links of sources that have helped me write this article and which you can use to deepen your knowledge on fractals.

Resources:

Fractals on Wikipedia
3D Fractal Art