On May 8, 3:21 am, "Hannele.Terv...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<Hannele.Terv...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I was referring to the sensations that the different colours produce,
> like red = warm, blue = cold, light = hope, dark = hopelessness,...
The sensations that the colours evoke are interpreted differently in
various cultures.
In Indian Tantra (particularly in Buddhist Tantra) red is warm and
invites, as neurosis
it leads to grasping at this or that individual quality, freed from
grasping
it leads to discrimination of qualities. Blue, in particular
dark blue, is cool, associated with space, a sort of flat quality of
accommodating everything - the neurotic aspect is ignoring what is
happening,
the awake aspect is basic is basic honesty -
seeing whatever happens - dark blue or black is seen as holding every
colour,
so is pregnant with infinite possibilities - so is the colour of hope
rather than hopelessness.
White is without colour, the colour of anger, agitated water, snow -
In Asia people wear
white at funerals to show loss...Transformed, it is mirror-like
awareness - seeing the
relation****ps between people and events...and so forth. Each colour
was also associated with a season, time of day, etc.
In European Heraldry red was regraded as the colour of warriors and
martyrs, blue as strength and
loyalty, white as sincerity and peace, black as constancy (sable) and
only sometimes as grief.
(i've left out yellow and green etc here, following your example. If
you're interested i will post more detail
on these and other traditions of colour symbolism...)
Recent Western colour theories are quite divergent...we have things
like Max Luscher's theory of
23 personality traits linked to colours, and the synesthesia research
into the cross modalities of the senses...
such things as musical pitches being perceived to have colours
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
)
etc. Ing Bank's Market Research division thought that orange was
associated with wealth so they
make commercials with orange balloons, oranges, etc Pepsi Cola
actually tried to *copywrite*
the exact shade of blue they use - that corp would *own* that
colour...pretty dang sick stuff flowing from pseudoscience...
i hope i'm not being too divergent in commentary, as i really liked
your post - lots of interesting ideas...
In Indian Tantric terms i'm being gold/yellow - asking questions to
enrich a situation.
They are questions hoping for a response because your insights struck
me as interesting...
i am friendly, not hostile, not dogmatic...It is an interesting
topic...
- n. :)
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