Question:
To what extent can one’s consciousness be expanded by visualizing various colors and their combinations.
Answer:
Practical spiritual work leads to expansion of consciousness. Visualizing colors per se, and even more within a complex spiritual-growth system, can deliver appropriate results.
Before I started dealing with visualization, I had investigated Light. Light enables perception. Without light there is no life. Our relationship with God is a relationship with Light, because God reveals Himself through light. Christ is Light of the world. In all traditions light plays the main role and is elevated on the level of divinity.
Glass prism provides a method of splitting white sunlight into constituting colors, from red to violet. The traditional rainbow is sunlight spread out into a spectrum of colors. Human eye can distinguish around 160 different color variations. Colors represent only our subjective experience.
The color symbolism is very broad. For example, yellow and white symbolize air, blue sky and sea, green vegetation, black death, darkness, mystery, place of sprouting, orange symbolizes the very zenith of activities and radiation, and violet unconscious and mysterious.
Colors are represented in every segment of spiritual development. For example, in Kabbalah, every Sephirot has its own color. Working with energy centers (chakras) is also partly connected with colors.
The relation man - color can be understood as a process of ascending from the exuberant sea of colors toward one’s Higher (True) Self. If we are able to see that objects are colored because God manifests Himself in them, than we can feel that thrill arising from various spiritual experiences. This is something capable of spreading through our souls with internal strength, and also capable of inspiring artistic creation and artistic pleasure. In real art, it is the relation to the Spirit that is important, or at least toward the spiritual which is being hoped for.
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