Smile you’re on Candid Camera!!!



"Oooohhhh! I knew the camera was there all along, I was just playing."... Yeeeessss, sure you did!

Something struck me as I watched the old reruns of Candid Camera - an old programme where the makers would set people up in all manner of weird and bizarre scenarios then catch their reactions on a hidden camera.

On this particular occasion the team had set up opposite a lift. As the door opened a young man walked in. He went straight to the back wall and turned to face the open doors.

Immediately, the crew sent in four production members. They all faced the opposite way to the young man they were setting up. They all faced, what was quite obviously the back wall of the cubicle.

The young man’s face was a picture of confusion and bewilderment.

He knew that he was facing the door, he could see it, there it was as plain as day. One open door and three solid walls - so why were the other four all facing the back wall?

Did they know something he didn’t?

He was in turmoil. "I know I’m right ... there’s the door, there are the walls - I’m right and they’re wrong, all four of them!"

I watched in disbelief; certainty turned to perplexity, which turned to mystification - slowly he began to move, he edged his way round ... eventually, he turned to face the same direction as all the others in the room!

They played this same stunt over and over just for laughs. I found it funny too, but there was a far darker and ominous side to this manipulation prank. This was peer pressure in the extreme.

Without fail, the victim would always turn to face the same direction as popular consensus dictated.

The victims knew, with absolute certainty, that they were right, yet conformed to the overwhelming will ‘for the sake of conforming’, even though everyone else was wrong!!!

The victims were manipulated to the extent of turning to face several different directions simply because everyone else did. Every time the crowd changed direction the victims followed and I would bet that they had no idea why! One man in particular would even take his hat off and replace it, simply because everyone else did.

Now if the victims had asked ‘WHY’ would they still have conformed; would they still have been manipulated and been made a fool of? Stool pigeons for us all to mock.



Read the sign the Candid Camera crew had placed at the entrance to a coffee shop.

The floor consisted of a checkered black and white tiled floor (like a chessboard)!

As people were walking in they could see that this was a regular, everyday shop and there was nothing wrong with the black squares, yet as soon as they saw the sign they immediately stopped walking normally. They began to tentatively make their way to the counter via the white tiles. They literally had to tip-toe across the space as the tiles were too small for their feet.

Loads of people did it!

Why?

I have no idea!

This manipulation was taken to the limit when the crew placed a red light on the table at another cafe`. Under the light was a sign:

So people didn’t!!!

There was this fellah trying to eat his doughnut, his mouth was watering and his eyes were wide.

He’d obviously been looking forward to it for a while and delved in. As the cake reached his mouth, on went the red light ... and he stopped; the bloody cake was between his lips and he stopped!

As he went to put it back on the plate the light went off, the coast was clear. Up to his eager mouth went the doughnut - on went the red light ... and he stopped.

This went on for minutes and was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen - 'fall off the couch and piss yer pants' funny.

So the $Million question is: What would you have done?

You’ll see a similar scenario played out on any day, in any town or city: People get to a pedestrian crossing controlled by traffic lights, look right, look left, look up, look down, look right and left again. Clearly there are no cars coming. No traffic for the next twenty minutes!!! Then why in the reign of pig's pudding don’t they step onto the crossing, walk the few meters to the other side and continue their journey. WHY?

Because the little 'I give you my permission to cross now and continue your journey light' is red!!!

Now I know the next part may make some feel uncomfortable ... GOOD!

If you are a religious person, question what you have been taught.

Please, please don’t accept other people’s views just because they have been taught to you as being the way of the world.

Much of what is taught is just that ... other people's viewpoints. It is said that only the real truth, something absolute and undeniable can only be found in mathematics.

5+5=10 FACT! Anything other than that is uncertain.

You get called up for jury service. The prosecution have what would appear to be a water tight case. Over several days you are presented with overwhelming evidence; they have the assailant who shot his woman's lover right through the head in a crowded shopping mall. They have the murderer in the dock, the body, the motive, the weapon, the CCTV the fifty witnesses...

But when it comes to it how can you say with ABSOLOUTE CERTAINITY, unquestionable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, 5+5=10 certainty ... that the man before you is the right man, the man who pulled the trigger, or even that he shot any one at all?

How can you say that the whole thing isn't rigged and that the killing happened at all ... you didn't see it with your own eyes did you?

Question, and if you still feel that your principle is the way things are, and it makes you feel happy, then so be it. But ask the questions. If the teachings, doctrine and dogma do fall short and don’t stand up to closer scrutiny, clear them out of your head - don’t retort with that ubiquitous, cop-out answer: "God works in mysterious ways" - He doesn’t - but your beliefs may be fundamentally flawed.

In my experience, and I am not judging here it’s merely an observation, if some people put as much faith in their own abilities as they do into their religion they would be far, far stronger. They would not need the crutch of Gods to lean on.

I have found that many people thank their God when things go well, and forgive them when bad times prevail as ‘God’s will’.

You may well disagree, but I believe your not having all that you could wish for is not the will of Gods, it’s not your destiny, bad luck is not stalking you, Karma isn’t taking revenge for what you did in past lives, your mother-in-law hasn’t got it in for you, and the black cat that crossed your path didn’t cause a voodoo, black-magic curse!

Your problems and frustrations are of your own making.

The sooner you get into this mind set and become accountable, the sooner things will settle down for you.

Have a God by all means - they make many millions of people happy and contended all over the world, but don’t overestimate their influence upon your life.

YOUR LIFE AND DESTINY ARE IN YOUR HANDS.

I am fully aware that I am forging into dangerous territory now and what I am about to write is purely my own conclusions derived from questioning my place on this Earth.

I am not religious and never have been. I went to a Christian school and was taught Religious Studies however, as long back as can I remember (aged five or six) I questioned the stories and they never convinced me of anything 'otherworldly'.

I remember getting into all sorts of trouble for not preying. I would sit bolt-upright in assembly and look over the entire flock, heads bowed and with probably no clue as to what they were really preying for.

I would wonder why they would just 'prey' when the authority figure asked, yet not know what they were preying to, or for. Even then, at that tender age, I felt strongly that we shouldn't be 'forced' into acceptance of these teachings. I felt that they were stories and myths, just like King Arthur and The Knight's of The Round Table or Atlantis!

The stories about the great flood and Noah's Arc were great to a child, but they were just that - stories! I couldn't understand why they were been taught as fact? All other subjects were based on 'correct thinking' at the time and based on contemporary research, not folk law. I really did question why we were taught this stuff.

My son keeps getting into trouble for asking awkward questions - not because I have taught him to do so, simply because he seems to have inherited that part of my personality - he asks about Santa and the Tooth-Fairy too!

I remember a little witch-dwalf woman from hell, the deputy head, Mrs Gill taking me aside and threatening me with detention if I didn't prey. I told her that I made no trouble, I sat and attended as I should but nothing; nothing she could say or do would force me to say words I didn't believe were true. So after a good whipping I was sent back to class!

I do believe in good and bad luck to an extent, I don't believe it's dished out from on high. I do believe in having moral values and leading your life respecting others and I do believe in leading life to the full. I do believe that things happen for a reason, fate, and that good things can only come from the bad things that happen, but I don't believe my life is mapped out and I'm merely following a path set out by an all-powerful entity.

This is what I believe based on my own limited time here and one thing's for sure, I don't need a prophet, preacher or clairvoyant to tell me what I should or should not do or believe. And certainly I don't accept that the rewards for my efforts in this world will lead me to a better place when I die. I believe that I'll be rewarded right now for the good things I do!

All this does not mean that I am right. It merely means I do not believe in something I find unfeasible. I do not believe in tenets that have been developed because (a) something cannot be explained by rationale and (b) because other mortals receive a direct Earthly benefit from my devotion.

I do not look to another’s theory and embrace it simply because I can’t explain events, happenings and nature. I just can’t explain why some things are what they are and am content with that.

But, as a tolerant and open-minded person I would not think less of anyone who had questioned their beliefs and found contentment in their answers - so long as they did the questioning!

After all, that person may well be right and what they believe could well be the way of the world ... I wouldn't know, because until proven otherwise, I believe that my way is the right way!

Are you religious?

If so, what is your religion?

Where have your beliefs come from? ... Your parents, your community, your teachers and school, Government policy, a book written many years ago based on myth and legend ... or is there real tangible, substance to your faith?

Do you follow that religion because it’s a social requirement of whatever group you come from or because you truly believe it is the answer to the very life within you?

What if you were born a native of that warm and ancient land, thousands of years ago: Greece!

You were brought up in the mountains enjoying an intimate relationship with Mother Nature! (Sounds fun!)

You were taught that all things and all the elements have their own Gods and their gifts to your world are sacred. This is the way of the world you are familiar with.

One day you ask that immortal question: WHY?

"Why do I believe the myths?

Is this actually the way things are, does Zeus wield Godly power over all things mortal, is Poseidon down there in the ocean's depths, do we navigate Styx to a better place when we die and should we fear Hades ... and if we could set Persephone free would winter be such a cold and dark time?"

You look around and begin to question your faith.

Do you come up with this answer? "What I have been taught by my family, my friends, my ancestors, my race; what we have all believed these years is wrong - it’s all wrong.

The real answer is that there are no such things as the Gods, there is no need to place in such high regard the land, for the land was created for us in seven days and seven nights, there is only one God and he will have a son who will die on a cross and" ... NO!

You are an ancient Greek living hundreds of years before a guy gets crucified and changes the lives of millions. You would not come up with this answer because Christian doctrine does not even exist on the Earth at your time.

Your religious beliefs are what you have been taught all your life by other people!

The Greek myths? Well they are a Greek’s interpretation of how we came to exist. They are a Greek’s attempt to explain the unexplainable and even though there is no rationale to those stories, the religion was strictly adhered to, without question and even adopted by the Romans.

So when you begin to ask questions, more questions arise and the fabric of the world you have created about yourself begins to look a little worn.

Ironically, if you study your art history, even the face most widely recognized as Jesus was taken from the famous statue of Zeus at The Temple of Zeus. I've even seen theories that the name Jesus is derived from Zeus 'Je' Zeus. Who knows, but the point is that all we believe and hold so dear is a thin as egg-shell and cracks at the slightest tap ... it has to be questioned.

As far back as 10,000 BC the sun has been worshipped ... understandably since it is the bringer of life. It dispels the cold of night and brings with its rise, warmth, comfort and light.

It has been recorded in carvings and paintings across the globe. Without it the cultures understood that the crops would not grow and life would cease.

Horus is the sun god of Egypt from around 3000 BC. He is the sun depicted as a bird. We know a lot about this ancient beast from the hydrographics found in the tombs. The word horizon come from the term Horus has risen

The term sun set comes from the daily battle between Horus and his evil brother set. Set was the personification of darkness as opposed to Horus, the bringer of light.

Every morning Horus would win the battle against Set and in every evening Set would beat Horus and banish him to the underworld ... hence the word sunset!

It is important to note that dark vs light; good vs evil is one of the most widely spread, ubiquitous dualities know to man.

These attributes, whether original or not seem to permeate many cultures of the world and many other Gods are found to have the same general mythological structure.

Are the many religions which seek to promote good over evil simply an evolution of this basic fact of life and death, light and dark,

Our beloved image of Santa Claus, the fat, bearded chap in a red costume comes to us courtesy of a Coca Cola advertising campaign in the 1930s.

'At the beginning of the 1930s, the burgeoning Coca-Cola company was still looking for ways to increase sales of their product during winter, then a slow time of year for the soft drink market. They turned to a talented commercial illustrator named Haddon Sundblom, who created a series of memorable drawings that associated the figure of a larger than life, red-and-white garbed Santa Claus with Coca-Cola.

Coke's annual advertisements featuring Sundblom-drawn Santas holding bottles of Coca-Cola, drinking Coca-Cola, receiving Coca-Cola as gifts, and especially enjoying Coca-Cola, became a perennial Christmastime feature which helped spur Coca-Cola sales throughout the winter (and produced the bonus effect of appealing quite strongly to children, an important segment of the soft drink market).

The success of this advertising campaign has helped fuel the legend that Coca-Cola actually invented the image of the modern Santa Claus, decking him out in a red-and-white suit to promote the company colors or that at the very least, Coca-Cola chose to promote the red-and-white version of Santa Claus over a variety of competing Santa figures in order to establish it as the accepted image of Santa Claus' ... they did a great job eh!

I always thought the image of Santa I grew up with had been handed down over hundreds of years ... I was devastated when I discovered it was yet more manipulation by The Machine.

Cowboys didn't look like the sanitized picture Hollywood created ... it goes on and a lot if it matters not ... EXCEPT WHEN OTHERS ARE SET TO GAIN.

As a humble God-fearing Greek living your life, you had no contact with other religions and no clue as to their beliefs. So as far as you're concerned, your religion was the right one and the way of the world.

Here's a question for you: If each religion is not an individual’s attempt to explain the unexplainable and impose a set of values upon others, then why are there so many religions, and why are they so radically different?

Whose story is the right one? Roman Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, The Scientologists!!! And in most cases why is each religion so vehemently trying to convert the other to their way of thinking - They can’t all be right - and most importantly are any of them?

I don’t know and if I'm being honest, don't care!!! I have asked my questions and come to my own conclusions; I don't follow someone else's teachings. What I do know is this - I have more faith in my own ability to influence my life than any of the myriad of Gods out there.

At one time people thought the world was flat and if you walked too far you would fall off. Believe it or not, some people still believe this to be the case! "

The facts are simple," says Charles K. Johnson, president of the International Flat Earth Research Society. "The earth is flat." ... Probably thinks we're all nutters for thinking the world's round!

Anyway, this is was what people believed (or in spite of the advancements in science, still believe); it was their way of seeing the world. It was a mind-set adhered to because everyone in the community was taught it to be true, so all saw it that way and consequently no one ventured further than the edge of the settlement.

It took hundreds of years before someone asked WHY and ventured out to see if, what they had been taught all their life, was true. To their amazement they discovered that if they kept on going the precipice (horizon) kept getting further away, and eventually they arrived at where they began - in one piece ... mad eh!

Do you believe in life after death?

I am not writing this to generate hostility or make enemies, or lose readers! I am simply asking questions and coming up with my own conclusions. I am sharing them with the sole intention of lighting your touch paper, to promote open and questioning thinking. You should ask your own questions and draw your own conclusions.

At what point do you pass over to the other side?

The moment you die?

Does your soul continue to age, do you continue to live a life in the afterlife, do you continue to deteriorate and decompose or do you remain the person that passed through from life. Do you continue to learn, do you keep getting wiser like the immortals in the great film Highlander, or do you all get reset to say, age thirty by default?

If I was to die as a shrieking, screeching three-month-old baby, am I destined to spend the rest of eternity dribbling, shitting and breaking wind?

If I were to lose my beloved 25-year-old wife in a car accident, should I live happily for the next forty years secure in the knowledge that one day we would be reunited on the other side?

What a deal!!!

I pass over having sowed my oats, living the life of lives and outliving my welcome on Earth only to be reunited with my young woman who's obviously waited patiently for me still in her prime and sexy knickers!

Am I destined to live eternally as a wretched old man trying to keep up with my virile, slinky, babe?

And what about my poor wife’s deal!!! Sounds like a story out of ‘Tales From The Crypt.’

Do you argue and have domestics in the afterlife and if so what about? Do you still have money worries and if not. How has the ruling entity solved the problems associated with communism? And whilst I'm on the subject, who or what the fuck is the ruling entity of this afterlife place and if it was so smart why didn't it make life perfect on this side of death ... Bastard??? (or maybe he has???)

Do they have busses and coffee shops, do they have Porsches and Ferraris!

If life after death is so perfect, how do they make it so?

Use your imagination and think about how perfect could a life possibly be?

I'll guarantee you that most of what you come up with is readily available, right here, in your life now!

I have yet to hear a single description of a more desirable paradise than can be found right here in this world. I have put the question to many people. One answer was that "the light from the soul leaves the body as a form of energy and floats serenely around in Heaven" ... well whoopi fucking do ... that's something to look forward to ain't it???

Problem is, with this perfect life were all promised is that you have to be dead to answer these reservations.

Reincarnation?

Does that theory suppose that there are a given, finite number of lives to go round and be recycled. Are we are constantly moving from life to life, be it human or animal. What happens to evolution?

In the past would you spend one life as jellyfish (not a stupid as they look with their four brains and 24 eyes!) then come back as a triceratops? Then when the dinosaurs die out do you come back as a bird and go from life to life until humans evolve? And how is it that only humans, with their huge brains and unfathomable intellect get to ask the questions of reincarnation? I'm sure it's not in the forefront of the mind of the orangutan as he wanders the forest.

And why are you not reincarnated as a potato? Potatoes live, have life, have that intangible energy running through their potato veins.

I maintain that the only constant through all this is the force of life itself. It exists everywhere. From super heated poisonous springs in the ocean to the coldest places on the planet, from the fields in the country to even maybe the plains of Mars. Life itself is that line running through all living matter.

Life will prevail against the very darkest of forces and if there was a God, I believe it would be life itself. We do not need to look outside of self because through life we are all God if that's what we choose to call it ... That's what I reckon anyway!

I’m not trying to belittle the beliefs of millions of people, honestly. I’m just putting forward a different point of view. Ask the questions and if you still believe in life after death and you feel I’ve missed something, then that’s all I ask.

I'd love to be wrong, especially with the questions I've just posed. I truly would love there to be a good life after my demise ... I don't want to die, I sincerely don't. I don't want to miss my children's lives and I would give up everything if I could spend the rest of eternity with my family as happy as we are at this time.

Bollocks ... I'm starting to well up now!

Do you believe that one day they will invent time travel?

Well ask yourself this: If they invent time travel in the future, sometime in the next hundred billion years ... then why, oh why isn’t it here now?

Let's assume that time, as we know it is linear and that along that time line sixty minutes equals sixty minutes. This is important because that's what we're taught - time is a constant.

Well I maintain that although in the future we may develop faster travel or even be able to move through time by teleportation (looking forward to that! No more bloody plane delays) we'll never be able to transcend it, have total control like Doc Brown in Back to the Future.

We'll never be able travel back in time because in a million years from now, if someone cracked it, they'd have visited us by now. Then there's the wider picture. It would be as commercial then as cracking Hydrogen storage would be today. They'd find it impossible to keep it a secret.

If they did then and resisted the temptation of putting to right ALL of history, someone, two million years from then would crack it too and they might not be so modest.

Fact is, that someone would crack it, tell the world and sell it ... probably some descendant of Richard Branson! We'd be inundated with people from all time - bloody time immigrants. So no - we'll never, ever, in the next hundred billion gazillion years crack time ... Will we?

How do we know people aren't here from the future watching us in another part of the spectrum right now?

Is my offspring looking over my shoulder as I'm writing this?

How do we know that a law for time travel hasn't been ruled and that people can only travel back in time so long as they don't upset the order of things. Are they cloaked at the ultra violet, x-ray, gamma or cosmic ray end the spectrum or far deeper along the infrared, micro, or radio wave scale.

The world we see in governed by what we are able to process through vision and our visual spectrum is so tiny. There is a vast, vast world that we simply cannot comprehend. Energy, electric, moods, even gravity.

We are so affected by the waxing and waning of the moon that until recently, if you committed a crime on a full moon you could get a lighter sentence! Our bodies are so full of water that the gravitational pull has an effect.

Wifey reckons she doesn't have to look to the sky to know when the moon is full, she can tell by my mood swings! I tell her I don't need to look in her handbag for the sanitary towels to tell when she's on...

You only have to look at the tides to see the power of the moon - if it can move an ocean just think what it's doing to your body - ever wondered about the origin of the word lunatic? Well now you know ... Luna (moon) tic.

So there is a hidden world so vast, so much bigger than the one we can see it is entirely plausible that people or energy could be hiding there.

Aleta Pippin, an artist covers the energy of colour in a fascinating page:

Research shows that each color has its own distinctive frequency and that our eyes are the receivers through which these frequency waves travel. Our brain then translates these frequencies into the colors we see. We know that red has the lowest frequency and violet the highest.

We know that the effects of color differ among different cultures. For instance, white is the color of death in Chinese culture, but purple represents death in Brazil. Yellow, though sacred to the Chinese, signifies sadness in Greece and jealousy in France.

An entire field has been developed surrounding the psychology of color in marketing. For instance, fast food restaurants are decorated with vivid reds and oranges, encouraging diners to eat quickly and leave. Bright primary colors are used for toys, books and children’s web sites because young children prefer them and respond more positively than to pastels or muted colors.

In North American mainstream culture, the following colors are associated with certain qualities or emotions:

Red – excitement, strength, sex, passion, speed, danger

Blue – (listed as the most popular color) trust, reliability, belonging, coolness

Yellow – warmth, sunshine, cheer, happiness

Orange – playfulness, warmth, vibrant

Green – nature, fresh, cool, growth, abundance

Purple – royal, spirituality, dignity

Pink – soft, sweet, nurture, security

White – pure, virginal, clean, youthful, mild

Black – sophistication, elegant, seductive, mystery

Gold – prestige, expensive

Silver – prestige, cold, scientific

I believe color can affect us even more deeply than our emotions. Oscar Wilde said, “Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” Kandinsky said, “Color is the keyboard. The eyes are the hammers. The soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, causing vibration in the soul.”

Color literally impacts our vibrational (energetic) body and has the ability to change it. Consider the impact music has on you. You may actually become joyful, melancholy, introspective, etc. when you listen to certain music. That impact is more than just emotional, it is a vibrational impact that influences your body as it energetically aligns to the music.

What is meant by a vibrational or energetic body? It is the acceptance that what we see and what we don’t see is made up of energy, each having its frequency. For those of you who are Trekies, the use of a transporter is based on reasonable assumptions that we are energetic and can be de-molecularized and re-molecularized (is there such a word?) as the person who stepped into the transporter to be beamed up. Of course, it raises the question – how do the right molecules end up in the right place? Or wouldn’t it be possible that Captain Kirk and Scotty could have come back as two completely different people. The answer is that each person has a frequency that differs ever so slightly.

Here’s another example of how our body reacts to the energy that surrounds us. A chiropractor friend explained that when using a treatment called Network and several people are getting adjusted at the same time, in the same room, with two or more experiencing the same problem, one person can be adjusted and the others with that ailment are affected by the adjustment. There’s a vibrational energy that’s set up, much like tuning forks. If you have several tuning forks of the same key and start one vibrating, others in close proximity join in.

By understanding the deeper impact color can have on an individual, you have an essential ingredient to consider in your work, particularly if you are a colorist. There is an entire field of alternative healthcare called Chromotherapy built upon the use of color for healing. As artists, we can utilize this research and incorporate the results into our work. Or we can explore the possibilities further, record our own observations and use those.

Humans are made up of various frequencies of electromagnetic energy relating to the colors of the rainbow, all variations thereof, and to light. Each of our energy centers (charkas), and each of our internal organs vibrate and harmonize with the specific frequencies of the many colors in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

On one end of the electromagnetic spectrum is energy being transformed into wavelengths shorter than visible light waves, creating ultraviolet energy waves, which can be used for killing germs, sun tanning and more. Infrared energy waves, or wavelengths longer than visible light, are on the other end of the spectrum. These are radio waves, heat rays, etc. Humans, and all that we see, are directly in the middle, a very small spectrum called visible radiant energy.

Because color frequency is a sound wave, it has the inherent ability to pass through our energetic field, whether we see the color or not. As the color passes through our energy field, it will have an impact on us. The following definitions based on research by Dr. Annette Patterson and her belief that color touches every area of our being, discusses the possible impact.

Red – Physically affects the lower portion of the body, and internal organs within the lower abdominal area including the sexual organs. Red ignites and stimulates. It is life-force energy. Good for circulation. It has the ability to ground us. Red triggers characteristics of ambition, change, anger, war, power, sex, alertness, liberation, and survival. It’s a primal color. The medical profession recognizes red for use in cancer treatment.

Orange – Physically affects the area around the naval and upper abdomen; ovaries, spleen, prostate, kidneys, bladder, and sacrum. Characteristics of orange are joy, happiness, warmth, creativity, pleasure, sensuality, sexuality, and generosity. Orange moves energy gently. It awakens one to wisdom. Eases cramping anywhere in the body, and can lift depression. Acts as a relaxant and is said to boost the immune system. Cleans and purifies the hormonal system.

Yellow – Physically affects the solar plexus, digestive system, liver, gall bladder, pancreas and adrenals. Yellow is great for mental activity, learning, intellect, concentration and focus. Yellow is cheerful, sunny, warm and cleansing. It helps with empowerment, self-esteem, and confidence. Eases fear and emotional instability.

Green – Physically affects the heart, lungs, breasts, shoulders, arms and hands. Green is sedative, cooling, calming and soothing. It balances the body on the whole. Good for eye problems, bronchitis, gout, diabetes, cysts, tumors bones, and is an anti-inflammatory, helping with painful joints, and allergies. Its characteristics are money and prosperity, birth, new beginnings, nature, health, healing, trust, precision work, feelings, harmony, integrity and truth.

Blue – Physically affects the throat, hypothalamus, thyroid, ears, jaw and neck. Blue is cooling, soothing and brings deep inner peace. Great help in communication to allow one to be clearly understood. Boosts creativity, can cool a fever, promote restful sleep, and ease the pain of arthritis. Good for general healing, overall. Characteristics are expression and creativity.

Indigo/purple/violet – Physically affects the pineal, eyes, and temples. It connects higher mind to all that is. Stimulates emotions, meditation, inspiration, intuition, inner emotional release and helps to open the inner doors. Indigo allows vision beyond your physical sight. Good for menopause, as a sedative and relaxant. Purple/amethyst works well to combat addictions.

White – Physically affects the pituitary, brain and head. White contains all colors, so it does everything on all levels; physically, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. Characteristics are purity, truth, brilliance, radiance, innocence, and illumination. White resonates with every part of our being. It helps to merge God/Goddess/Universe/ Nature/Spirit.

Dr. Patterson goes on to say that there is a huge range of various hues and shades to each of these colors that have their own subtle vibrations and that each individual’s experience with color will be unique.

Whether or not these colors actually effect us in the manner described, we do know that color is energetic and therefore, must mingle with our energetic bodies. Just that very fact is exciting, making the possibilities endless for artists. Through the use of color, we’re able to communicate to the very essence of the viewer. At the same time we’re painting, we’re receiving the benefits of working with color.

One more thing that pertains to the concept that all things are energetic is the impact of your intention when you do your art. Intention is also vibrational. If you paint with the intention of enjoyment, your finished piece will reflect that joy and that intention will be imbued in the painting. When we were visiting in Thailand, where most of the people are Buddhists, our guide told us that they believe that every interaction changes the energetic field of all people. For instance, when you pass a stranger and you smile at them, you are forever changing their energy field as well as your own and that of the world.

Awareness of the impact of color and intention means that we can communicate feelings of joy, beauty, inspiration, spirituality, etc. Artists are a light in the world and that light shines through our work.

And so we come back to this time travel stuff. Just how would it work? What happens if Arnie the Terminator succeeds in killing Sarah Connor? If she dies all events in the future, from that point forward cease ... so how would the Terminator get to be sent back from the future because he would know nothing about her!

How do we know that when we feel a presence it isn't your children's, children's, children's, children's, child come to see how and by whom they were conceived?

We won't invent time travel because the guy from the future would be traveling around time as it exists and we'd see it in our lives now. Plus, if one person invents it The World of Scum will spoil it and the whole order of things will be shot to piecesssssssssssssss..... oooorragghhhhhh..... sorry, I just went off into a time warp type thing and just met myself?

Thoughts and ideas to be explored and questioned. Little of the above can be influenced by you and my worry with all of it is that people have mistaken the effects and influences of al these unseen forces for something not of this Earth.

So ask the questions, that's all; questions that will set you free...

Road to Tyranny