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Color Perspectives

Our world is full of different colors. We receive the experience of color through one sense only- our eyes. Something that is cold can be seen, felt and tasted (a cool drink).When we see green, we only see it through our eyes but we experience it on many levels. 

Colors are similar to an event that is triggered only by the observer observing. It can invoke emotions even in those who see colors differently (color blind). So passed our ability to see a color is our own experiences that determine the meaning to which we may attach to the colors we perceive.

French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61) acquainted seeing colors as a seeing seen dynamic, an encounter with the world and an encounter with one’s Self. So you could say color is seen with our eye and also our “I”.

What is Color Energy?  Modern Physicists believe light can be both a particle and a wave, but they also recognize that either view is a very simple explanation for something more complex.  For the purpose of helping understand Aura-Soma® I will refer to light as waves.  It provides the best explanation for what our eyes perceive.

Christian Huygens theroy of waves was developed in the 1600’s.  Albert Einstein’s Theory of Photon Particles was developed1905.

The perception of color, like sound, is a complex subject that involves the disciplines of Physiology, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.  When all the wave lengths of visible light hit your eye at the same time you perceive white.  So visible light is referred to as white light.  Technically speaking white is not a color, but a combination of all the colors in a visible light spectrum.  This is called Additive Color (you must add the colors together to make white).  If all the colors in the light spectrum give the appearance of white, then none of the wave lengths would appear to make black.  But black is not a color either.  Black is the absence of wave lengths in the visible light spectrum.

Pigment is any material resulting in color.  There are both natural and synthetic pigments, both organic and inorganic ones. Pigments work by selectively absorbing some parts of the visible spectrum (see light) whilst reflecting others.