Heroes Not Zombies

I read this yesterday (in a book by the Swiss author, Oliver Clerc) – if you take the seven colours of light in a rainbow (or in a prism) and blend them together, you get white.

But if you take the seven colours of the rainbow in paints and blend them together on a canvas, you get black.

Interesting, huh?

He says, the laws of the Spiritual realm (light) applied in the Material realm (paint), won’t necessarily produce the same outcome.

The context for this observation is one of his essays, where he explores one of the great paradoxes of reality – that in the Spiritual realm, All is One, but in our Material realm, we humans break up the flow of reality into separate sensations, elements and parts. Both are True. Our challenge is to hold both truths at the same time – to know that I am different from everyone else, but that I am also part of the same Unity as everyone, and everything, else.

By the way, in this essay, he also observes that with our sensory organs and our brains, we name seven colours as white light makes its way through a prism, and we name seven notes from all the sound we hear (to create a musical octave). We then learn how to discern and play with thousands of shades of colour, and thousands of musical notes. We need both – the distinct, “main” colours and notes, and the thousands of shades and nuances.