I was listening to Joe Dispenza on YouTube. I like Joe Dispenza. He teaches us to make the future so firmly present in the mind that we must live up to it. He gives hope to those who believe that who we are has been determined by our past. It reminds me of a Zen idea that the future becomes the present and the present becomes the past (as opposed to the more common view of the direction of time, when the past becomes the present and the present becomes the future).
But lately, Mr. Dispenza has been talking about colors – for instance, choosing the correct color of our clothing impacts greatly our ability to live up to the future we intend. I really was astounded that he could be reaching so low, as this seems a little as if, well, he’s running out of material.
He used the examples of red and yellow and green as the best colors to dress oneself in. Black, of course, is very bad; you shouldn’t wear black, it represents death, and mourning.
Of course, I was thinking that black clothing, to me, represents cool. Yellow, he said, sunlight; red, vibrant, attractive, beautiful as in pretty flowers; green, trees and life. As with black, I thought, contrarily, yellow – that is fear; and red – that is anger; and green – that is jealousy and envy.
I really had to think about this because he seems so much better than this. It finally came to me that my interpretation of the colors were not the beautiful interpretations, but the sublime interpretations. My interpretations reflected the human landscape, and human thinking; his reflected ecosystems.
And so, whether or not you buy into what he was saying, colors provide a nice entree into teaching ourselves, priming ourselves, to begin thinking about the difference between the beautiful and the sublime.
Our ideals, and our sense of the future that compels us in our lives, can fall easily into one or the other aesthetic category, the sublime (reflecting human oriented thinking) or the beautiful (which is ecosystem oriented thinking).
Our ideals may be unattainable, and in truth it is simply quite difficult to keep out eyes upon them. However, the ability to recognize, as we fall away from them, whether we are heading back toward the human landscape, or onward toward ecosystems, is imperative.