Colors and the Web

Dear Daddy,


Howdy! I have been reading the Secret Doctrine lately. Great Scott!!! What an amazing book! I am reading an abridgment, so as to make it a little easier, and a commentary by another guy, too. I can't help thinking about how this was the document that inspired and motivated so many of my writer "heroes"--Alice Bailey, Annie Bessant, C.W. Leadbeater, Krishnamurti...the list goes on. It's got to be worth a look, huh? I also finally have called the Lucis Trust (Alice Bailey's people) at the U.N. in New York. They seem interesting, and are sending me some info. I will let you know when it comes. It seems she wrote 24 books, including an autobiography. She was a member of the Theosophical Society at one time, and studied with them. They have a library similar to the Theosophical Society, and I will let you know about access if you are interested. There is some major "meat" here, don't you think? Turning 40 seems to have me asking the "What is the meaning of life" question with great intensity, and with a sincere need to actualize it in an everyday, very cognitive way. In the infamous words of Josh Perry at five "Sometimes it's just time to get on with it." anyway... here we go...


I had a friend who was having some emotional and physical problems. I attempted to look at and evaluate her aura to try to see what was going on and to help if I could. The colors seemed very "hot" -bright gold, reds, and oranges. I can remember thinking that they needed cooling off, and recommending blue, green, and rose. In my therapeutic touch experience and research, blue is often used for cooling and soothing, green is a color of healing and rebirth and "minty" cooling, and rose is a color of the essence of love and has a calming and purifying effect. Violet purple is another good color, although it seems to have a stimulating effect as well as soothing. None of this means that I think yellows and golds are not good colors, quite the contrary. (some of my best friends are yellow and gold) It just seemed to me that it was out of balance.


In all the research that I have studied a smooth, balanced, even current is advised for the energy body. When we visualize a current within, we can use that concept. Free flowing pathways will be unlikely to cause the "jerks" and blockages that she was suffering. Blockages can be of many natures and sizes, but all essentially break the free flow and exchange of energy from one area of the energy body to another. They can cause illness or dis-ease if left for a long period of time. But one can cleanse the energy body and remove blockages with exercise, meditation, visualization of the free overflowing current, and purification through a disciplined lifestyle that includes honest, sincere and fearless self-evaluation. Then not only is the person herself energized by the free exchange, but also those around her and her environment will receive benefit.


These "strands" of energy are part of the Great Web in which "we all live and move and have our being". We are all intricately connected as we are all atoms in the One Great Life. We must constantly be aware that nothing we do is without its implications and effects on all of those around us and closely associated to us through the Web.


As far as the "form of man" goes- could it be the form of man "perfected". Perhaps that is something of how we perceive Jesus, Buddha (there have been others). The "infinite becoming" we go through to try to move toward "perfection" definitely has its place. And yet there is the paradox between "infinite becoming" and the "eternal now"--the dimension accessible to each of us (we are promised by the "great ones") that has naught to do with "becoming". It is not that "becoming" is not part of our lives. Surely it is as we have placed ourselves in time-space. It is evolution, growth, expansion, part of what makes life good. But there is another "space" accessible--eternal life that has nothing to do with duration or infinite time. Could this be what Don Juan meant, and he was shaking Carlos up so he could see it?


As far as what I have said, take it for whatever value you find in it. If you find none, so be it, disregard it. If you find something of worth or help, that was my intention. Please take it in that spirit.


Love Lisa
(Feb. 15, 1995)