Thanks Colin and Bridget
makes sense to say that colours are produced before our eyes when certain frequencies of white light are absorbed, and remaining un-absorbed frequencies have the combined effect of a particular colour...
this primarily makes a model where light has something that can be absorbed or can be reflected back (photons ? , i dont know)... like an un-answered question "where does reiki go" is a question that where does go that energy that is absorbed from the white spectrum by an object......
it means that darker objects like red, brown, black have absorbed lot more energy of light than the lighter shades ? but when we come to chakras if would appear that base chakras (having associated with darker colours) are usually considered less powerful than chakras associated with lighter shades like brow chakra and crown chakra... thi is somthing that made me wonder as i read through your reply Colin...
second thought, for something to have a 'colour' does it necessary that it has a physical mass ? i m ean to say that energy spirals of chakras are often seen as colours even when these are non-physical...
people who have experience with Chakras might be able to answer this question that do chakras have colours ? or that they emit energies that trigger same areas of our photo receptors in brain who report us that this is, lets say, red colour...?
there must be some wisdom in universe that everything has a unique colour... nature, for example, is such a masterpiece of different colours... earth is green, water blue, sky is also blue, and so on...
okay, the black colour... Bridget so aptly asked "is black a colour"... i also see that black is not a colour... it is a feeling of nothing or maybe a feeling of everything...
whenever we write something on paper, we start with a dot... the first touch of nib of the pen on paper is a dot...our knowledge, our communication, our thought process in writing originate from a dot...
in hypnosis, we have a classical exercise that starts by gazing on a tiny dot.... within time, white light start oozing from that black dot...we keep on increasing the size of the black dot, it becomes of a size of a small ball... and light engulfs it too...
so white oozing from black... what does it tell ??
similarly, when we switch off the light, and it is dark everywhere, we come to a startling point.... is it darkness an absence of white light, or darkness is the essence of presence, that is as it is, without the thanks of light being present to make its presence known to us...
black reprsents hollow too.. it reprsents mysteries too... we have black holes in the cosmos, from where nothing returns... it is a mystery whether they eat up everything or they just shift our realm to some other one...
we have bermuda triangle where every ship seems lost, is that a black hole too ?
one last question
sunlight reaches us through vacuum of trillions of miles... what we should assume : heat is the carrier of light, or light is the carrier of heat, since they come simultaneously? what is the catch?
i have a buddy who is totally blind... he says that when he has spiritual expriences, he sees light, and i asked how would he define light... he said something like air leaves from your mouth when you exhale... so, you see, the concept of light is so different with people having eyes and people who are blind...
i asked him again, when he visualizes things, how does he 'see' them, he told that he can feel boundaries of things... but he could not describe what he wanted to say, and for a moment when i tried what he meant, i felt 'one' with him... and i saw things like him, but without actually 'seeing' them...
that is a beautiful experience itself....... but, ah, there are no colours....
what an amazing feeling that if there is total complete dark, jet black, we no longer feel it is dark !!!
take care
salman