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A Colorful Life

By Connie Kaplan

looking at color as a wayto understand spiritual influences

in our universe, our world, and our lives


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Book One: An Overview

A Colorful Life www.turtledreamers.com

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A Colorful Life

looking at color as a wayto understand spiritual influences

in our universe, our world,

and our lives


by

Connie Kaplan

2008, Connie Kaplan

Book Design by Carla Ciuffo


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Dear Reader,

This book is not about how you should apply color in your

wardrobe, your decorating, or your art.

This book uses color as a metaphor

for the spiritual frequencies

that influence you,

and it explains how these invisible frequencies

have been operating through you

and around you

all your life.


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Dedication

With loving gratitude to my friend

Jamie Sams,

the most colorful person I know.

In Gratitude

To Marsha Hartos, Carla Ciuffo, and Robin Bernstein for their invaluable help.

To my dreaming sisters, the ones Ive met and the many I havent, for supporting

this work through these many years.

To my mystery school for encouraging me to keep writing. . .keep writing!

To my husband and children for living with me and loving me anyway, even

when Im in the throes of writing a book!


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table of contents

Preface vi

From the Author vii

How it all Started/The Vision 1

The Backstory 5

The Spheres of Consciousness 7

The Ego and Evolution 9

The Established Spheres of Influence 11

! Black and White Alpha and Omega 12! Violet Ceremony and Architecture 13! Indigo Devotion and Idealism 14! Blue Reasoning and Abstract Thinking 15! Green Balance and Harmony 16! Yellow Clarity and Expansion 17! Orange Compassion and Wisdom 19! Red Will and Power 19

The Evolving Spheres of Influence 20

Coral Surrender and Synthesis 23

Amber Sophia 25

Peridot Service 27

Turquoise Logos 28

Tanzanite Trust and Initiation 30

Rose Quartz Mastery and Observation 32

Ruby Christ Consciousness 34Opal Cosmic Truths Reflection in the World 36

What Next? 37

References 39


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preface

The information in this series of books entitled A Colorful Life extends the

previous teachings of author Connie Kaplan. In her earlier books, The Womans

Book of Dreams, Dreams are Letters from the Soul , and The Invisible Garment ,

she chronicled a series of extraordinary dreams and visions which have led her

to develop a unique spiritual practice which she teaches internationally. While

these books definitely interweave her earlier teachings, it is not necessary for the

reader to be familiar with her other work to understand the concepts in this

series.

That said, we still invite you to explore all of Connie Kaplans work, and

purchase her other books by visiting our website:

http://www.turtledreamers.com


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from the author

I have intentionally written this series of color books backwards. Usually

when an author teaches a spiritual practice, or publishes a new cosmologicalmodel, the first chapters tell readers how to apply the model directly to their

personal lives, and subsequent chapters expand the ideas to show readers how

friends, family, community, and world might be similarly affected. Too often in

my years of teaching, Ive found that people whom I call spiritual butterflies

want the me me me, what does this say about me? immediately, and will stop

there, never receiving the benefit of the fullness of a body of work.

This color information is not only personal, but also universal. Ive decidedto write it by starting with a wide overview of these concepts. With each

subsequent chapter I take you deeper and deeper into understanding your

personal role in the universal plan. For that reason, its not until we get to the

fourth chapter that I explain how you can determine your colors. From there

we will explore how your life-colors affect the world around you.

The color work is not linear; rather, its labyrinthine. These chapters are

written in a circular manner, each one covering the same topics as the onesbefore, but with more detail, a different perspective, and more texture. I

provide suggestions throughout for you to keep a journal, so that as you come

to understandings in each frequency, you can record your insights. As in

walking a labyrinth, by the time you get to the end, youll be at the core of the

teachings, and fully knowledgeable of your personal colors.

Reading material like this may feel as if youre trying to digest a seven-

course meal. Theres no need to rush. Take your time. Know that the material

works within you in its own way. The page you may not quite understand right

away will become clear to as you rest and continue at your own pace.


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how it all started The seeds for these books were planted one morning in 1997 when I had

an unusual experience which seemed to download a body of information into

my mind. I wrote this information down to the best of my ability over the next

few months. That amazing experience started a long line of inquiry. What I

share with you in these chapters comes from subsequent years of intense

observations, research about color and frequency, and most importantly,

feedback from the hundreds of clients and students who have immersed

themselves in this material. After over a decade of research, I feel confident

that the information is credible and will have value to you as a reader.

the vision On Easter Sunday morning in 1997, I arose early to take a walk on the

beach, watching the eastern sky to glimpse that first laser beam of sunlight as itpeeked over the horizon. Just a few moments before sunrise, I had a

remarkable experience.

Far away on the horizon, I saw a tiny black ball, which seemed to be

traveling toward me. I admit I was hoping for a UFO. Instead, it was something

even more undefined. It eventually hovered about 18 inches from my body,

approximately at heart level.

It was a black sphere about the size of an orange. It was spinning.Simultaneously, as if I had external eyes looking back toward the ball from the

other side, I saw that the other side of this sphere was brilliant white.

Suddenly the ball burst (but never lost its form), and out of it erupted a

golden infinity symbol about two feet in wingspan. It looked like one of Harry


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Potters flying quidditch snitches (but this was long before I had read the Harry

Potter books.) Suddenly seven concentric spheres flared out of the original ball,

engulfing the infinity symbol.

The vision is indescribable because it is technically impossible that I saw

what I saw. Each sphere was a different color of the rainbow: violet, indigo,

blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Because they were concentric and each

one was larger than the one before, it would seem that the red sphere the

outside sphere that surrounded all the rest would have been the only one I

could see. But indeed, I could see each sphere resting inside the others, and

each sphere's color was very clear.

I could see with my other set of eyes that on the opposite side of thesespheres were other colors that are not in the typical rainbow. They were

simultaneously more subtle and more brilliant than the normal spectrum, blends

of the usual colors: magenta, coral, amber, peridot, turquoise, tanzanite, and

pale rose pink. And at the same time they were infused with a golden-silvery

shimmer that made them appear otherworldly. On that side of the rainbow,

the black and white sphere became shimmery gold and silver with veins of all

the colors running through it, likean opal.

I ran back to my hotel room, and

to the best of my ability, drew the

vision in my journal. I perceived

that the colors of the rainbow

created a unified form (a sphere

made up of concentric spheres)and that they seemed to be

evolving toward new frequencies

new colors on the other side

of the rainbow.


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What did this mean? I had no clue.

Shortly after this vision, I had the following dream:

One by one, I v isited several small ch ambers, one of each color of the

rainbow. A benevolent, highl y evolved being, (a master of the frequency )

greeted me in each room. These masters job is to oversee the workin g of

their spheres of though t or activ it y on Earth.

On a wall in each council chamber , I saw an otherworldly,

indescribably beau tiful piece of abstract a rt in the color of the council .

Each painting looked simultaneously pointillist and abstract (because each

was not a realist ic image and i t was made of millions of tin y dots) . Closer

inspection showed me that each dot was really a point of light, and that it

corresponded to a living human being who was a student in that sphere.

When a studen t made a decision to align more authentica ll y wi th the

benevolen t potential of that color sphere, his or her light became sligh tl y

brighter. Dimming lights mean t that the person had just made a decision

not in integri ty wi th the frequency . I watched as the masters monitored

the activi ties of the members of their color spheres. There was great joy

and celebration when a light became slightl y brigh ter. There was equal

sadness when a light dimmed. Apparentl y the master teachers of these schools cannot in terfere

wi th the persona l wi ll of an y of the hu mans except under ext reme

circumstances. Those of us on the human plane ha ve to make the choice to

brighten or di m our lights withou t an y coaching f rom the council .

However, I saw that we are rewarded when we make the choices to

brighten our l ig hts because the cheers of the masters seemed to strengthen

the circuit . I saw some lights brighten slightl y, t hen flicker, until amas ter's applause and cheers stabilized and empowered them. I knew (the

way you j ust know in a d ream) that the ac tual daily life of those persons

would become easie r flow more steadily and th at their choices to li ve

lives of integrity would become more and more clear because the infusion


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of power that came from the masters would root itself in the hu mans. The

people who were making choices that dimmed their lights were apparently

reall y struggling in their daily lives, but because they didn't see that t heir

own free will wa s creating the strug gle, there was little the masters could

do except grieve and pray for them. These masters were ve ry p ra yerful.

I also saw that when human beings become masters (or reach

certain desired lev els of competence) in th e colors of their pri ma ry

spiritual principles (which I will name and describe later), the lights on

their particular pieces of art (the lights which represents those

individ uals) stay permanen tly illumi ned. There is ecstatic joy when such

thi ngs happen. One of the master teachers explained to me tha t when

someone reaches very high levels in his or her primary life purpose, there

is a soul-cleansing, and the bein g is now a pure vessel of the soul. It's cause

for grea t multidimensional celebra tion. In addition, when that persons

light becomes permanen tly illumined, smaller lights cluster around. The

master explained that the person corresponding to the permanently

illumined light has become a master teacher , and the smaller ligh ts are

the teachers students. The masters can infuse spiritu al energ y into the

students through the teacher if need be.When I have a profound visionary experience, I understand almost

nothing about it in the beginning. Then over a few weeks or months, I have

waking experiences, dreams, and aha's that seem to explain it. Also, books

fall into my hands, movies insist on being seen, and perfect strangers say the

most unusual things to me that "connect the dots" of the vision. But mostly, and

most importantly, I contemplate the experience. I use a focus technique. For

example, during such times I often simply sit under a colored light. Its notpossible to explain what happens when I do that, but it feels as if information

pours into me through the light. Try it. Youll see what I mean.


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the backstory First, in case youre not familiar with any of my other work, you need to

know that I have a history of dreams and visions, some of which continue to

explain themselves over a long period of time, as this one did. The most notable

of these experiences was in 1986 when I contracted a viral infection in my brain

which more or less put me to sleep for a couple of years. I wasnt in a coma, just

unable to operate normally and unable to stay awake for more than a few

hours at a time. After a few years, I shared with friends the messages of what I

had dreamed during my sleep messages that seemed to fly in the face of the

traditional psychological interpretation of dreams. That sharing led to a small

movement of people across the country, and eventually around the world, who

wanted to learn this new approach to understanding dreams. That story and

the resultant conclusions can be explored in my first two books, The Womans

Book of Dreams and Dreams are Letters from the Soul.

In 1994, as I sat with my dying father, I received another transmission,

which I shared in my third book, The Invisible Garment. This time the information

didnt come in the form of dreams, but rather I had a waking-life conversation

with the angels who came to take my dad on his death journey.

These first two mystical experiences were evoked by extraordinary

circumstances a bizarre disease and the death of my father. This third one,

described in these chapters, was preceded by what any mother of a teenage

girl would consider perfectly normal. The night before this vision I had caught

my 14-year-old daughter, clad in her steel-toed, knee-high Doc Martin boots,

her ripped fishnet stockings, her tacky vintage (meaning used, not really old)

black mini dress, and her Goth make up which made her look (in my opinion,

but not in hers) like The Joker from the Batman series having a relaxing

cigarette on our hotel balcony. I think I may have actually frightened her with

my anger. She was used to a take it in stride mother, and suddenly she


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encountered a shrew who must have appeared ready to throw her off the

balcony into the crashing waves four floors below. She ran into the room and

quickly showered and put on her cute little jammies Id bought her at the Gap.

That night I slept very little. I spent most of the night sitting out on my

balcony, looking at the stars and wondering whether I had the fortitude to be a

parent to a rebellious girl-child. Not having slept much, I left the room before

dawn to take a walk on the beach and watch the sunrise. The vision came on

the heels of emotional turmoil.

In each of these cases, while the intense circumstances may have had

something to do with the mystical nature of the experiences, the years of follow-

up research and testing of the material lends a high level of credibility to myconclusions.

During the next few months, while following this vision of the color spheres

and the subsequent dream, I contemplated the idea that we are constantly

monitored by the councils of the spheres and that we are always given help

when we need it. Of course, dreams are metaphors, and so these councils may

or not be literal people. Perhaps I needed to anthropomorphize the experience

in order to articulate it; perhaps I needed these evolved energies to look likepeople so I could speak about their influence on our lives more concretely. But

for purposes of these teachings, lets say there are advanced beings who

constantly assist us in our lives. Sometimes such help is given directly by an

embodied teacher, an ordinary person (who is not consciously in cahoots with

the advanced beings). At other times, the help comes in the form of a dream or

through a serendipitous experience.

I started looking around to see if I could identify the various color spheresat work in the world, and I began to see them clearly. For example, the Blue

Sphere (Just give me the facts) is at work in the scientific world, while the

Indigo Sphere (Loyalty to a tradition) is clearly visible in our fundamental

religious movements.


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the spheres of consciousnessEach of the spheres that I saw in the vision that day on the beach

represents a sphere (or level) of consciousness a way of looking at how we

make choices in our lives. These spheres are as interdependent as are atoms in

a molecule. They arent separate but equal parts of a whole, but rather they

are interwoven, varying expressions of the whole. We are all influenced by all of

the colors/spheres, and yet we are each uniquely configured to be students of

only a few of them. Let me explain more fully.

As I described in my book The Invisible Garment , you were born wearingan invisible garment woven of spiritual fibers that make up your unique

configuration of energy. In a later book of this series, entitled Book Four: Your

Spiritual Principles and their Colors, I explain in detail how you identify your

personal fibers and your own palette of colors. The combination of your spiritual

threads weaves a metaphorical pattern that says I am unique, and yet the

colors of those threads mingle with the colors/energies in the external world.

Your tapestry pattern belongs solely to you, but the fibers are simultaneouslyinterwoven with everyone elses. In other words, each person portrays a unique

way in which universal spheres of influence express themselves.

I use the metaphor of the color of the threads to help you understand

that we live in a consensus reality in which various invisible frequencies influence

our expressions of life and tie them to all other such expressions. Our actions, our

attitudes, and our choices are not only determined by our upbringings, our

egos, and our desires, but are also influenced by our spiritual frequencies and bythe way their influence on us creates an interface between us, the visible world,

and the invisible world.

A person whose primary influence is Yellow (the sphere which highlights or

magnifies facts) will behave quite differently in a stressful situation, for example,


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than will a person whose primary influence is Orange (the sphere which is

compassion-oriented.) In the case of an accident that involves casualties, a

yellow person might be busy gathering the details, finding the needed

supplies, calling the authorities, and organizing any bystanders to respond

appropriately, while an orange person would be more immediately

concerned with the care and comfort of any victims. Both those responses are

helpful and right, but they may both be entirely different from the choice you

might make. When you learn to see peoples behavioral choices as reflections

of their specific frequencies, you will understand not only your own choices and

feelings more clearly, but also those of your family, your community, your world.

You will begin to see the external world as an interweaving of these influencesas enacted through the personalities, thoughts, and emotions of the people

around you.

These spiritual influences flow through your life whether or not you are

aware of them. Learning to recognize them makes your personal relationship to

the flow more graceful, more peaceful. These influences arent to be

manipulated by you, but rather they are to be observed, integrated, and

celebrated.Sometimes spiritual practitioners find it hard to connect their private

practices to the external world. Too many of us separate spiritual space from

mundane reality. We go to a yoga class, and on the drive home we curse at

the driver who cuts us off. We do our morning meditation, and then at work we

have an ugly argument with one of our colleagues. It often seems that our

spiritual selves just cannot thrive in the external world. The material in these

books bridges that gap. It helps the life student see every occurrence in theexternal world as directly influenced by the spiritual spheres.

Understanding your unique spiritual spheres of influence will give you a

new window into the workings of daily life and a new perspective of your life

purpose. It will also give you a new way to view the reasons that certain things


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happen in our cultures, in our p olitical systems, and in our environment. The tool

of wisdom will be at your fingertips.

the ego and evolutionIts important to understand the role of the ego in this work because right

use of egoic energy determines whether someone who consistently works at a

spiritual practice, such as meditation or yoga or certain religious ceremonies,

can experience true spiritual power. The human ego is a device created to

translate pure experience into language. The ego is a function of the mind, and

it regulates our thinking processes most specifically how we think about

ourselves in relation to the world. I think; therefore I am could be rewritten to

say I think; therefore my ego is working.

Most egos operate dualistically, convinced that there is a difference

between me and them. However, as we study the influence of the spiritual

energies represented by these spheres of influence, our egos have to face the

reality that (pardon the grammar) me is them. Accepting and integrating

the idea that everything I do and think affects all of them (and vice versa) is

perhaps the most difficult task for the human ego. This work with the color

spheres requires the student to fully align the ego with truth not with my truth,

but with the truth that we are One. Spiritual work is not about the death of the

individual ego, but rather it is about the alignment of the ego with Divine Will.

A few words about that phrase my truth: The ego uses relativity to

determine how to experience the world. For example, lets say youre sitting on

a beach looking at the horizon. You see a dot, which within a few minutes

becomes larger. You soon recognize it as a ship. Your way of relating to the

ship is to say, A ship appeared on the horizon. Actually the ship didnt

appear. Rather, it moved into a position and became visible to you. In a


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larger perspective, the ship was always there, beyond your line of vision. It

simply became a part of your personal story when its position was specifically

relative to yours. The ego works like that. Your experiences become a part of

the story that describes your life. That story is not necessarily Truth, although

within the unique configuration of energy that is you, it is a reality. To the

extent that you completely identify with that one reality, you limit life. To the

extent that you recognize that your reality is blended with all other realities, you

expand life.

Expansion and evolution are synonymous. Evolution does not refer to

individual development, but rather to the flow of the as above into the so

below through the individual. It is true that as any person liberates the mind sothat the ego is aligned with the intelligence of the universe, that person

evolves. However, the effect of that evolution occurs on a much greater

spectrum than on just that individual. All evolution is for the service of Life. The

evolved ego directs the individuals thinking toward seeing the whole,

perceiving the weave, and bringing the reality of the inner realms (the dream)

into the visible realms of waking reality.

There is a Sufi phrase, Step out of yourself and see the path. Thats thework of the evolved ego.

Each color sphere has both advantages and pitfalls. Youll read more

about the specifics of the advantages and pitfalls in the chapter entitled Book

Three : Students of the Spheres . For now, just know that the individual (and

therefore the world) experiences the advantages of the colors by aligning with

the spiritual power within that specific sphere of influence. Conversely, the

pitfalls are experienced to the extent that the practitioner remains stuck inpersonal will and dualistic ego thinking. The role of the ego in this work is to

dissolve itself into the larger reality, recognizing that all the spheres are at work

simultaneously, even though your personal attention may be able to focus only


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on your immediate surroundings. In other words, the ship still exists, whether or

not it is on the horizon of your perception.

the established spheres of influenceReading this next section, you will begin to understand the job of each

of the colors in the waking world. This information is fairly complex, especially in

the sense that when one tries to describe it, the language sounds stilted and

heady. Hang in there. Its actually simpler in observation that it is in articulation!Throughout all these books, I will occasionally quote other authors who

have written about color frequency and its connection to the spiritual world.

Rudolph Steiner, Goethe, cosmologist Brian Swimme, and Sri Aurobindo are

probably my most frequently used citations. Each book contains a list of

references at the end.

In order to make the explanation more concrete, I have woven an

example through all the spheres. Ive chosen to describe the process throughwhich my website, http://www.turtledreamers.com, came into being by

demonstrating the journey from the original idea all the way through to full

manifestation. I created this website in order to share the spiritual practice that I

teach involving dreaming. I named it turtledreamers to indicate that the

dreamers of Turtle Island (a Native American term used to describe North

America) offer this information to the world.

It will be very helpful to you if you purchase (or make) a journal specificallyfor this work. Im assuming you already keep a dream journal. If you do not,

reserve a section of this one for your dreams. Journal-keeping is invaluable for

the spiritual practitioner. We simply cannot keep all the information, all the

insights, and all the memories in our heads to connect the dots as we raise our


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consciousness and deepen our understanding of life. Having a journal to refer

to will be incredibly important to you later. At our website we will offer many

opportunities for you and other students of this work to share your wisdom with

each other. Your journal notes will be the source of many ah-ha moments as

you expand your perspective.

Journal suggestion:

Make a page in your journal for each sphere. As you read about each color.write down the passages that jump off the page. Write down your questions.Write down your discoveries as you observe the various spheres operating withinyou and around you in your daily life. Later when you read the other chapters,you can see how those perceptions grow and change. You may find that your questions answer themselves. After youve finished all the books, if you chooseto join your color communities on our website, you can post those questions andshare your insights.

! Black and White The Sphere of Alpha and Omega

Every form begins and ends in this sphere. From the white, everything that

exists emerges. To the black, every form eventually returns when its purpose has

been met. This sphere sits at the center of the concentric circles of my initial

vision.

Black absorbs all color. It represents the great void, the beginning and

end (alpha and omega) of all manifestation. Black is the spectrum of all that is

unseen (including gamma sphere, X-sphere, etc.) In esoterica, black is called

the Invisible Light . In dreams, black is called the future that which is not yet. In

religious liturgy, black is called the Ground of the Soul . In pagan cultures, black

is called Earth Light .

White reflects all color. White depicts the big bang. It is the expression of

all manifestation. Goethe stressed that the relationship between black and

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function as the source of manifestation (Amber, 1982, p. 21). In various traditions

white is called different things, but in all traditions it is basically the light of matter.

Esoteric traditions refer to white as the Visible Light. In dreams, white is called the

light of purity. In pagan cultures, white is called the body the form. All of these

references basically refer to white as the light that brought forth (birthed) form.

The idea for the turtledreamers Website originated as a vague desire to share

dreaming information with more people than I could reach through the dream

circle that meets in my home. The idea sprang into my head one morning

while I was writing in my journal. It came out of a dream, through the white

sphere.

! Violet The Sphere of Ceremony and Architecture

Throughout human history, we have been creating ceremonies as a way

of calling in the energies for something to manifest itself. In this second sphere,

the possibilities which spew out of the white light of creativity begin to establish

themselves as a form.

In the color spectrum, violet has the shortest wavelength and the highest

frequency. That means that the photons that are "violet" move faster and on a

shorter circuit than do those of any other color. In the rainbow, violet is almost

invisible, as it is close to ultraviolet, which is in the invisible spectrum. Violet is at

the outside edge of the rainbow as it drifts off into the invisible spectrum. This

position in the rainbow implies that it has a connection to spirit it has the ability

to communicate with the unseen.

Violet has been proved to be very effective in healing because its fast

vibration allows for penetration into the body. It is spirit taking form.

According to Rudolf Steiner, the nature of violet (he called it lilac) is that it

wants to vanish (1992, p. 35). It doesn't assert itself because its natural tendency


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is to fade back into its own potential. In this way it is both the beginning and the

end of the rainbow! Just as a blueprint loses its importance after the building is

completed, violet is happy to disappear after the possibility passes through it.

One is reminded of the sand painting ceremony of the Tibetans, when monks will

spend hours and hours creating an amazingly intricate mandala, only to dump it

into the ocean or a nearby river when it is completed.

According to Goethe (1840, p. 124), violet responds to a wider range of

possibility than the other colors do. It contains red, pink, purple, blue, and a

smattering of gold. The violet sphere accepts all possibility, and it molds the best

potential beginning for a journey into the realm of form.

As I began to contemplate creating a Website, I realized that the format for itneeded to be visually pleasing and that it needed to contain many possibilities

for exploring dreaming. Often more ideas would come to me as I sat in dream

circle ceremony with my dreaming sisters. The violet sphere went to work

through me at that point, designing the plan.

! Indigo

The Sphere of Devotion and Idealism

The work of the Indigo Sphere is to give weight to an idea by making it an

ideal. Devotees of a cause make that cause a movement an institution.

Without the substance of devotion, a thought or idea will simply vanish back into

the black sphere.

Indigo is a blend of violet and blue, with a splash of black deepening its

color. It is, therefore, a blend of the longing to disappear into Source (violet),

the longing for ultimate truth (blue), and divine mystery (black). It is a frequency

that is almost imperceptible in the rainbow, being a very thin, dark slash

between violet and blue. It doesn't take up much "room," but it exerts enormous

influence in that it marks a clear line, whereas the other colors seem to bleed


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into each other. If an idea crosses that barrier between violet and indigo, it is an

idea that will eventually manifest as a social form. It is an idea with a mission!

Steiner said that indigo deepens spirit into form (1992, p. 39). Indigo is a

"denser" frequency than is violet. In the Indigo Sphere, spirit begins to merge

with matter through the form that was started in the Violet Sphere.

Indigo calls you into it, and therefore it calls you into yourself. The blue

aspect of indigo makes it a color that pulls, demands, and commands your

attention. The robes of royalty are often this shade of deep purple because the

color itself pulls the attention of the viewer. This frequency is one of deep inward

probing.

Eventually, I introduced the idea of the Website to my dreaming sisters. Theybecame the devotees that made the concept more concrete. One of the

dreamers in my circle was an artist, and she volunteered to create the turtles

that adorn the home page. Other dream sisters shared other ideas and

excitedly encouraged me to create the site.

! Blue The Sphere of Reasoning and Abstract Thinking

After a new idea has become more substantial in the Indigo Sphere, it

moves closer to manifestation in the Blue Sphere. While it may still exist in the

realm of an abstraction, it becomes a reasonable concept through the agency

of the Blue Sphere.

Steiner said that blue is darkness as seen through the light (1992, p. 15). In

other words, as we stare at the sky, we're really staring at black, but we areseeing it through the light as diffused by the atmosphere. Ditto, when we look at

the ocean, we see the blackness at the bottom of the ocean through the light

as diffused by the water. Goethe said that blue is the creative force of life


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plants learned to photosynthesize green was born. Green became an integral

part of the planet's signature. It is life as seen through the light. It is light

interfacing with matter: the lifeless image of life (p. 24).

Green is the middle of rainbow the negotiator of all other colors. It is the

bridge, the stasis. Goethe called it the perfect color because it is the perfect

blend of blue and yellow. "If the two elementary colours are mixed in perfect

equality so that neither predominates, the eye and the mind repose on the

result . . . and have neither the wish nor the power to imagine a state beyond it"

(1840, p. 316).

Green's waves and revolutions are of equal length. Violet has short waves

and long revolutions; red, at the other end of the spectrum, has long waves andshort revolutions. Green is in the middle, so its waves and revolutions are equal.

At this stage, we were ready for the light of the idea to interface with the

matter of a Web domain. (I realize that a Website isnt a tree that

photosynthesizes, but in a way, it had become a growing organism that fed on

the energy of its participants.) We found the right domain name, found a server,

and started making visual choices. It was at this stage that I began to research

all the icons that became windows to the various options on the site. I looked

into the history of religious imagery for these symbols in order to visually

demonstrate the way dream work bridges and balances many different spiritual

traditions. The Green Council was at work!

! YellowThe Sphere of Clarity and Expansion

In the Yellow Sphere, an idea starts to grow. It is the job of the yellow

sphere to help an idea explain itself, to give this idea which is on its way to

manifestation a definition, a clarity about itself, a way to extend itself into form

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The color yellow radiates out of light's core (think of a star). Goethe called

it the color "nearest to light" (1840, p. 306). It is the first color one perceives when

even the smallest amount of light is present. It is a color which moves out of itself

and continues to expand to the edges of the Universe, the edges of

consciousness. When yellow interfaces with another color, it permeates that

color and seems to amplify it. Look at a tree when the sun is shining on it.

Notice how much greener the leaves in the sunlight are than the ones in

shadow.

Yellow creates shadow/dimension/definition. It brings depth and a wider

spectrum of perspective to anything it touches. On the personal level, yellow

shines into you and attunes you to the "I-ness" of yourself. It bringsenlightenment. It is the color of inner clarity and expansion.

Yellow has a serene, gay, softly exciting character which gladdens the

eye and expands the heart as its glow breathes toward us (Goethe, 1840, p.

307). Jacob Liberman quoted a double blind study in which bright yellow light

was unquestionably successful in lifting depression in people (1991, p. 123).

Gold is yellow with the brown of earth added. We could say that gold is

yellow with weight added. It is the yellow of light blended with the weight ofmatter. There are gold overtones in every sphere, if you think about it. The eye

can perceive gold in every color. But gold's home base is the yellow sphere.

I chose a yellow/gold as the primary background color for the Website. I cant

say that at the time I was aware that yellow and gold were the colors of

expansion, but I can say with full confidence that the Yellow Council was

working through me as I made that choice. I also began, at this point, to write

all the text for the site. The more I wrote, the more I realized I wanted to share

for free so that the dreamers who were attracted to the site would have tons of

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! OrangeThe Sphere of Compassion and Wisdom

Orange is a perfect mixture of the two colors on either side in the vibration

and symbolism of the spheres. Red's will and power and yellow's clarity andexpansion blend to create orange's compassion and wisdom.

Orange is a color that demands authenticity of the self. Orange gives us

a sense of being armed with our own inner strength (Steiner, 1992, p. 76). To

work effectively within the Orange Sphere, one has to understand the power of

personal will from the Red Sphere, and one has to equally blend that

understanding with the clarity and expansive illumination of the Yellow Sphere.

Sri Aurobindo said that orange is the light of truth manifested in one'sphysical consciousness and being (1958, p. 964).

Wisdom and compassion are illusive. One isnt really aware of either as they

are expressing themselves. The awarenes s comes in retrospect. As I look

back, it does seem that wisdom was speaking to and through me as I made

decisions about what to share, what to make available for free, with whom to

link, etc. Most importantly, the open forum a free space in which dreamers

from all over the world share dreams and insights seems to be a product of wisdom and compassion. So many dreamers who know that their dreams are

more than just psychological statements use the site not only as a place to

share their dreams, but as an oasis a well at which to gather and to receive

wisdom from each other.

! Red

The Sphere of Will and PowerRed represents the fiery breath of life.

According to Rudolph Steiner's theories, blue is the darkness as seen

through the light, and red is the light as seen through the darkness. He explains

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you are standing in the dark (with the dark behind you) and red is the color you

see when you look toward the light (1992, p 26). Steiner further commented that

red aggressively pushes itself into you, awakening you to action, while blue pulls

you out of yourself and asks you to contemplate (p. 28).

According to Goethe's Theory of Color , red is the color in the light

spectrum that allows all other colors to emerge (1840, p. 314). Red is at the

bottom of the rainbow because it is the longest wave/longest refraction unit of

the spectrum. It is closest to the earth because it is closest to manifestation.

Because of its wavelength, it appears to take up more "room" in the rainbow.

Sri Aurobindo said that red is the light of power. For him, red is the light of

Divine Love, descending from the nonphysical cosmic dimensions for thetransformation of the physical realm (1958, p. 964). No matter what system you

study, red is considered to be a strong, aggressive, powerful, dynamic color.

When the Website was finally ready to launch, the red frequency took over.

Word about it spread rapidly. The people who were attracted to it were the

right people real dreamers who benefited from the information and helped

each other with enormous generosity. In addition to the open forum, we use

the site to teach classes which are highly successful, bringing thousands of

visitors to the site monthly.

the evolving spheres of influenceI have said that on that Easter Sunday morning in 1997, as I stared at the

ball of colored concentric spheres, I could simultaneously see both sides. On

the primary side, I could see each sphere as a unique ball contained within the

other balls. These colors Ive named the established spheres of consciousness.

On the other side, the balls were not so discernable. They were more like

spheres of a vaporous substance, and their colors bled and swirled into each

other, much like the colors of an amazing sunset reflecting on the clouds.

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where one color stopped and the other started. These are the colors Ive called

the evolving spheres of consciousness.

As I have pondered this experience, I've come to feel that this vaporous

appearance of the other side of the rainbow has two messages for us. First,

those spheres of influence are not fully formed. They are the colors the

energetic frequencies which call us to the future. They still reside in the realm

of the not-yet (another term for the future.) The primary colors have been in

active service to life on earth for thousands of years. We can, if we want, study

history and discern when certain councils were in higher levels of authority. For

example, the Indigo Council has obviously been very powerful in the last 2,000

years. We can see that through their influence, religions have played a primaryrole in the building of civilizations, the structuring of governments, and the

fighting of wars. People's strong devotion to their belief systems has dominated

the collective dream. Now, however, those segregated beliefs are giving way

to an ecumenism that demands a loosening of the divisions between

governments, religions, and belief systems. The Indigo Council, with its focus on

belief, is giving its authority to another council, whose focus is on a more

concrete trust. The second reason that the evolving spheres aren't asdiscernable as the primary spheres is that they never will be. The new being,

and the new way of being, will always be much less individuated than are the

old beings and old ways. As fearful as that may sound to those Americans who

value individual freedom more than just about anything, and to people who are

concerned with preserving "culture," it is true. We are moving (very slowly)

toward being a species that trusts its communal self as much as it trusts its

personal self. We will be less individuated and yet even more free. By being lessindividuated, we'll be free of our own restrictions and limitations and personal

prisons. By allowing cultures to maintain themselves while simultaneously

blending into the "new way," we will be liberated from the taboos, superstitions,

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wholeness. We'll not have to stop at the thresholds of each sphere and readjust

our energy. We'll swim more smoothly in the waters of our contractual colors.

Although only about 1% of the total electromagnetic spectrum is

perceived by the human eye (Liberman, 1991, p. 4), the typical rainbow

spectrum has been considered for thousands of years to be the complete visible

spectrum. But the other side of this Easter morning vision showed me an

emerging new spectrum. My sense is that these new colors are unfolding out of

the old ways. And yet, as in all evolutionary shifts, they include all the old, but

when in full bloom they will express energies never before known to life on this

planet. Our purpose for now is simply to study what we can discern about the

emergence of these new energies and see how we as individuals can assist intheir process of becoming.

I've named these evolving spheres according to the gemstones that

correspond to their colors. Gemstones are pieces of dense matter that have

crystallized and purified so that the light can shine through them. In a very real

sense, these new spheres are crystallizing themselves they are becoming

visible. They are creating new ways of working within the vast possibility of the

realm of form. Gemstones also hold memory. They contain memory of all thathas ever existed since the original flaring forth. And yet, their beauty and their

translucence is beyond anything that

could have occurred in the immense

heat of the silent blast that initiated

perceptual reality. In that sense, they

represent evolution that which

contains all that came before it andemerges as completely new.

Here is an overview of these

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concrete (even though, as I mentioned earlier, they are by definition sublime), I

have added comments about how these new spheres of influence seem to be

showing up in the world around us.

Journal Suggestion:

Now make pages in your journal corresponding to these evolving spheres ofinfluence. The examples I give in this section are cultural. See if you can findways that these colors are evolving in your personal life, and make a note ofthem. These discoveries about yourself and your world will grow and deepen asyou read each book and make more notes.

CoralThe Sphere of Surrender and Synthesis

The Red Sphere of Will and Power blends with the Orange Sphere of

Compassion and Wisdom in a unique way. This sphere is particularly infused with

Light, so that it becomes a salmon/pink color. This is the Coral Sphere.

This sphere is primarily concerned with relationship between will and

wisdom, compassion and power. The workers in this sphere will be assisting the

world to understand that true wisdom and power emerge when one surrenders

personal will and synthesizes it with divine will. God's gift to us, that which

differentiates us from all other beings, visible and invisible, is free will . Through

the emergence of this new sphere, we will at last begin to perfect the use of

personal will so that it evokes truth.

According to Goethe's theory of color, "red-yellow" gives an impression of

warmth and gladness. It represents the hue of the intense glow of fire and the

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red has a strong transforming power. It is a supernal, yet physical frequency. It is

the light of Divine Truth in the physical realm (1958, p. 963). He maintained that

when we see it in a dream, red-gold means that truth and power have joined

together (p. 983).

Coral communities are starting to form. These are not necessarily

groups of people who live together. They may not share the same religion or

political viewpoints. They may not even know each other. They are, instead,

groups of people who share wisdom about our planets direction.

Al Gore serves as the focal point of one such coral community.

Thousands of scientists, philanthropists, researchers, writers, actors, and

(surpris ingly) oil industry executives have joined him in starting to develop new,

renewable energy sources and infrastructures. They are aligning with the

divine plan that the earths atmosphere must remain healthy in order for life

on earth to continue to thrive.

Bill and Melinda Gates have created a foundation dedicated solely to

researching and underwriting the best ways to eliminate the global problems

within our various cultures. They have thousands of people on their team (a

coral community) working together to eliminate disease s, to raise the global

standards in education, and to change human behaviors that diminish thequality of life for all.

Bill Clinton has created a most interesting coral community which he

calls the Clinton Initiative. On a yearly basis he gathers wealthy people and

highly educated people and puts them together with people who can identify

our global needs most clearly. Together these people determine the most

efficient ways to address these needs, and they work together diligently to

accomplish their goals. This is a kind of philanthropy never before achievedbecause this kind of international, nongovernmental, apolitical group has never

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AmberThe Sphere of Sophia Love of Divine Wisdom

The Yellow Sphere of Clarity and Expansion blends with the Orange

Sphere of Compassion and Wisdom to create the Amber Sphere. This will be theSphere of Sophia the wisdom of the ancient of days. The word philosophy

means love of Sophia or love of divine wisdom .

The Amber Sphere Council will oversee each person's attempts at

mastering aspects of the divine wisdom. The person born in the Amber Sphere

will have particular assignments in life, assignments which are really initiations

into a higher form of beingness. This sphere has been deeply quiet for many

thousands of years, waiting for consciousness to develop to a level of readinessfor its teachings to emerge. The Sphere of Sophia will be responsible for

returning the Divine Wisdom to its proper place in the consciousness of the

species.

Amber is a color that is unique to a certain "stone." It results from the

crystallization of ancient tree resin. Actually, amber is neither mineral nor plant.

It has the properties of a stone, except that it can melt with enough heat.

The study of amber bridges many sciences. Gemologists love it becauseof its beauty, its clarity, and its unique coloration. Geologists and paleontologists

are interested in it because it contains fossil evidence of prehistoric life.

Archeologists use the presence of amber discovered in various digs to mark

trade routes of ancient times. Chemists study it because it has unique chemical

qualities. Botanists study it because it often has insects frozen in its golden form.

Poets and mystics love it for the inspiration that it brings to their work. Healers

know it to have qualities that drive away disease.

The Sphere of Sophia is showing up most clearly in the New Age spiritual

systems. Many indigenous, earth-centric peoples around the globe have

prophesies about this present era, when their most ancient secrets are to be

shared with people of the West. This trend really made itself known in the 60s,


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when Native American shamans began to share their spiritual practices with the

hippie culture. On the heels of that decade, Australian dreaming cultures

began opening their tightly sealed spiritual secrets to outsiders. Then African

shamans started showing up in America and in other places around the world to

share wisdom teachings, as did members of the Huichol and other South

American Indian tribes.

Some say that these doors to the secret spiritual traditions could only be

opened after the Westerners opened their minds (in many cases through the

use of hallucinogenic drugs) to receive such information. Theres no doubt that

people like Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), who used

psychotropic drugs, wrote books, and spoke broadly to the youth of the 60s,

influenced them to become more conscious of the multidimensional nature of

the world. Writers like Carlos Castaeda also added to the youth-culture

mystique, indicating that by expanding our consciousness, we can encounter

bodies of wisdom heretofore kept secret by a strong lineage of seers who only

taught through verbal means. Though books have been written disputing

Castaedas authenticity, the popularity of his writings cannot be discounted.

Even the secret mystical societies within organized religious systems

have opened their doors in the past 50 or so years to students who would not

have been considered qualified in the past. Kabbalah, the mystical arm of

Judaism, is becoming quite a popular system, as is Sufism (the mystical arm

of Islam.)

The Amber Sphere has struggled the most, I suspect, in its attempt to be

birthed into existence because it is riddled with so many scam artists and self-

proclaimed shamans. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed against gurus who

were eventually revealed as con artists. And yet, truth and wisdom continue to inch their way into peoples hearts

and minds. We will experience, I expect, a glorious awakening of the Sphere of

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Peridot

The Sphere of ServiceThe Yellow Sphere of Clarity and Expansion marries the Green Sphere of

Harmony and Balance to create the Peridot Sphere. This will be the Sphere of

Service. In the new world, every person will come into form knowing that service

to life is the reason for existence. The Peridot Sphere will assist every being on

the planet, human and nonhuman, in finding a place of service. The Peridot

Sphere will be extremely visible in the next few thousand years as we learn to

release the oppression of servitude and slavery in our cultures and embrace the

privilege of service.

Peridot is a perfect blend of yellow and green. Therefore, we might say

that it is the color that marks the purest merger of light and matter, spirit and

form.

Peridot evokes happiness because of its yellowness, as well as a

connection to nature because of it greenness. It creates a sense of expansion,

and it simultaneously brings repose, grounding, and healing. Because green is

already a mixture of blue and yellow, peridot has a high percentage of yellow.

This ratio causes the peridot frequency to be "more yellow" meaning that it

carries more gaiety and happiness than would a deeper green, but it also

carries more balance and stability than would a pure yellow.

Peridot will become the new "center of the rainbow." Through the Peridot

Sphere, people will learn to serve life with more abandon, and they will enjoy

new levels of pleasure from the act of serving.

The Peridot Sphere is showing up most overtly in the field of health and

healing. Alternative healing techniques have gained substantial credibility in

recent years. Of course, many of these so-called alternative therapies are

really ancient healing technologies. Acupuncture, meditation, herbal


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supplements, nutrition, vitamin regimens, and exercise have become

mainstream in disease prevention worldwide. Holistic and naturopathic

practices have been opened in every corner of the world and have achieved

high levels of respect from patients and Western medical doctors alike.

Yoga, tai chi, and many other ancient systems of exercise have gained

international popularity. In addition, many new body science-based exercise

programs have been introduced in the past fifty years. Pilates is the latest very

popular trend in core exercise practices. Its founder, Joseph Pilates, called

his method contrology because it uses mental discipline and physical

postures to strengthen the muscles in the core of the body. Feldenkrais,

developed by Mosh Feldenkrais, also trains the body through specific

movement to reach deep levels of personal development. All these exercise

technologies (old and new) focus on the body-mind connection. This kind of

whole-ism is the beginning of the Peridot Spheres influence in the worldwide

movement toward health for all citizens.

At the present time, we in the United States s tand on the precipice of a

completely different relationship to the world. Rather than being the world bully,

we can possibly be the world physicians. Using our power wisely, sharing our

knowledge generously, making our resources available efficiently these arethe possibilities of the influence of Peridot.

TurquoiseThe Sphere of the Logos Healed Thought

The Green Sphere of Harmony and Balance merges with the Blue Sphere

of Reason and Logic to create the Turquoise Sphere. This is the primary sphere

of the New Age. This is the sphere of Logos, or healed thought. This Sphere will

bring the human species to the mental vibration that demands not only clarity

of thought, but also healing and wholeness, balance and harmony as the

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have to consider all the babies of all the species when we make our survival

choices. It will bring us to an age of Peace.

According to healer and eye specialist Joseph Liberman, turquoise light

acts as an anti-inflammatory agent. He uses turquoise light on his patients to

heal optic nerve disease (1991, p. xxii).

Of all the colors in the other-side spectrum, the turquoise that I saw is the

hardest to describe. It was the color of the most brilliant blue turquoise you've

ever seen on a piece of Native American jewelry. However, it was translucent,

and the effect of the light pouring through this dazzling color was almost

blinding. I've seen the color in the sky at sunset on particularly clear days. It's a

color, however, that you can hardly believe. I've often looked at the sunsetsthat turn the sky that color and thought, "Only Georgia O'Keefe could get by

with painting the sky that color."

We think of turquoise as being a mixture of blue and green. But since

green is a mixture of blue and yellow, turquoise also contains yellow. This is a

very important encoded key to fully understanding the frequency because the

clarity of mind and the expansion of consciousness provided by the Yellow

Sphere is always present in the Turquoise Sphere.The Turquoise Sphere is showing up most clearly in the sciences.

Starting in the middle of the 20 th Century, thanks in great measure to the genius

of Albert Einstein, physicists began to study subatomic mechanics. The more

they learned, the more they saw that the universe is not Newtonian (a world that

can be broken apart into small separated particles) but instead is an indivisible

whole, all aspects of which influence and affect all others. In fact, as quantum

physicist and mathematicians delved further into subatomic physics they

learned that the realm of form is really made up of frequency rather than matter.

This new science introduced us to a different conversation in the study of

physical science. We began to see the effect of toxins in our environment, the

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draining the earth of nonrenewable resources. These polluting frequencies

are intertwined and interconnected with all forms.

The more this kind of thinking becomes a part of the global conversation,

the more important the issues of ecology become in the political scene and

indeed in the economic balance of our planet. As truth-telling about the

environment becomes acceptable, the more the Logos will take root in our

consciousness in every aspect of our lives.

Most importantly, the human genome project is a result of the influence

of the Turquoise Sphere. Learning to understand the specific genetic

proclivities toward certain diseases is opening a new arena of medicine called

personalized medicine. As we learn to study our own bodies, meet the precise

needs of our genetic patterning, and determine lifestyles that are specifically

beneficial to our own uniqueness, we will change the way people take care of

themselves. Research on the human genome i s new, and yet the discoveries

are pouring forth at rates heretofore unimagined. This research is surely the

golden star in the Turquoise Sphere!

TanzaniteThe Sphere of Trust and Initiation

The Blue Sphere of Reason and Logic merges with the Indigo Sphere of

Devotion and Idealism to create a Sphere of Trust and Initiation. The Tanzanite

Sphere will be blending the devotion and loyalty and intensity of the Indigo

Sphere with the pure-mindedness of the Blue Sphere. This blend will create an

energy on earth that allows science and spirituality to become a unified force.

The new emphasis will no longer be on "proof" (Blue) or "devotion" (Indigo), but

rather on trust (informed belief.) As we learn to trust life, ourselves and each

other, we learn to allow trust to influence our choices. Of course, the trust has to

be earned. And the Tanzanite Sphere will create an environment in which we

can learn to live from our authentic essence so that the trust is inevitable. As our

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knowledge. In this sphere, the individual human mind will learn to merge with

the collective mind, and eventually with what the Buddhists call Mind referring

to transcendent consciousness. Through this sphere, new disciplines of

meditation, telepathy, and mind technology will emerge. In addition, new

models of philanthropy will be born.

Ironically, the gemstone Tanzanite is under interdiction right now, as the

mining companies in Tanzania apparently fund the Al Qaeda network. This irony

may be something we can examine to help us understand the metaphor of this

sphere. All the ethical gemologists are refusing to buy or sell it right now. This

decision on the part of gem traders begins a ricocheting cycle of economic

sanctions against terrorism, and these sanctions may prove to be much moreeffective than weaponry.

The color of Tanzanite is definitely a part of the blue spectrum, so by

Steiner's definition (1992, p. 45 ), it pulls us out of our small selves and into a

perspective that evokes deep truth. It has enough of the Indigo and Lavender

influence, however, that it also longs for the perfect form or ceremonial

perfection of the Lavender Sphere.

Contemplating this color brings a certain peace to the mind of thespiritual practitioner. In addition, it creates a longing within the mind of the

people who meditate to know more clearly and more directly the truth of God.

We can see the Tanzanite Sphere at work in the world through the new

theories and methods of philanthropy that have sprung up in the 21 st century.

These new ideas about giving have empowered individuals. One no longer

needs to be wealthy to be a philanthropist. Thanks to the Internet, individuals

can join e-communities and become a part of a massive economic movement

to address poverty, disease, hunger, and global misfortune.

A good example of the new philanthropy is the organization kiva.org.

Matt and Jessica Flannery, a young working couple, realized that they had

enough (money, resources, etc.) for themselves, and their desire to help other

people led them to create kiva.org. It is a micro-loan Website, in which


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participants can select an entrepreneur from the hundreds that Matt and

Jessica and the kiva staff have found, lend the person a small amount of

money (usually $25) to seed a busines s, and in so doing, join with thousands

of other like-minded people who simply want to give people the help they need.

This model is vastly different from the old way of using money to solve a

problem. In the old way, we might send rice to feed the hungry. In the new

micro-finance model, we will underwrite a farmer, who can then grow the rice.

Its the teaching the man how to fish mentality that the Tanzanite Sphere is

evoking.

Rose QuartzThe Sphere of Mastery and Observation

The Indigo Sphere of Devotion and Idealism and the Violet Sphere of

Ceremony and Architecture merge to create a new kind of shaman. The

worker in this sphere will be a master of ceremonies in a whole new sense of the

word. This worker will be able to stir an experience of wholeness in each

individual he or she encounters. This sphere is called the Rose Quartz Sphere.

People who are born into this sphere will need to be protected and cared for bytheir communities and families. These workers will be highly evolved, and their

sensitivities to global processes will be acute.

This color and the nextruby/magenta are variations on red. They both

have some purple in them, too, but they are primarily red infused with light.

Technically, this sphere should be the result of Indigo and Lavender; however, in

my vision, I saw it as pink or light amethyst.

Pink brings Light (truth) to manifestation. Pink is often related to the heartchakra because it is the natural color of the heart when it is infused with

enlightenment. The enlightened being is a compassionate person who thinks

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This sphere is named Rose Quartz for two main reasons. First, the idea of

"rose" includes the color and the fragrance, both of which have meaning in this

sphere. The color of the pink rose is a powerful physical representation of the

frequency of the energy of this sphere of influence. And the fragrance of the

rose softens the mind and the heart, allowing the energy of this sphere to enter

the consciousness of the beholder. Second, quartz has a specific

mathematically perfect crystallization pattern that reflects the truth of this

sphere. If you meditate using a piece of rose quartz as your focus point, you'll

understand the frequency of this sphere. If you meditate using a scientific

schematic drawing of the rose quartz molecule as your focal point, the entire

truth of this sphere may be transmitted to you directly. If you meditate using apink rose as your focus (and also smelling its fragrance) the same truths will be

revealed.

S. G. J. Ouseley, a doctor who uses colored lights as a healing technique,

maintained that the color pink or light amethyst nourishes the brain cells that

allow us to expand the horizon of our understanding into the arena of the Divine

(1967, p. 10). Sri Aurobindo maintained that rose is the color of psychic love

(1958, p. 252) As the Rose Quartz Sphere begins to show itself in our world, leaders

come to the forefront to light the way. Barack Obama is a class ic Rose Quartz

Sphere person, someone who has chosen to become a politician. He

challenges the people of his constituency to empower themselves. His

Presidential campaign begged the question whether the United States was

ready to leave the Indigo Daddy will fix everything if you put your trust in him

mentality toward government, and instead adopt the We must work together to

solve our cultural problems perspective. He is more an inspirer than a

decider . He is an architect of ideas and concepts, and he calls on the workers

in all the other spheres to unite to rebuild our infrastructure.

The indisputable popular vote given to him in the 2008 election was also

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vote to evolve. It gave permission to the new color councils to enter our society

through the conscious students for equality, peace, and social justice. At this

writing, it remains to be seen how the Obama Administration will reshape

history. But at this moment we can know that each of us participates actively in

an experiment in whether America can and will lead the world into an age of

economic stability, reusable energy development, educational opportunity, and

global peace.

RubyThe Sphere of Christ Consciousness

When the Red Sphere of Power and Will merges with the Violet Sphere of

Ceremony and Architecture, the Ruby (Magenta) Sphere results. This sphere will

be about truly merging spirit with action. Ruby's color, which is really magenta,

doesn't change intensity in the dark or in the light. It has the properties of

magenta, meaning that it contains all color. The Ruby Sphere will be

consistently delivering sacred energy into the form of expression chosen by the

worker of that sphere. It is to be the sphere of realizing and actualizing divinity in

form. It will be the council of the Cosmic Christ consciousness. The term Cosmic

Christ refers to the contemporary theological theory that the second coming is

actually the birth of expanded consciousness in each individual. I will discuss this

concept more thoroughly in later chapters. The masters of this council will be

working to assist every being in the birth of the consciousness of universal love

within their personalities.

Because magentas properties do not change in the dark It is equally

intense in the sunlight and in the moonlight the works of the Ruby Sphere are

equally intense in the "light and dark" aspects of life. This particular sphere of

influence deals more directly with light and dark than does any other sphere.

Magenta is a very intense pink with a splash of violet, but it has a neonish

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called Aura Soma maintains that while white reflects all color and black absorbs

all color, magenta is the frequency that contains all color. Magenta is intense

because it holds the perspective of all potential. When we see the color, we

are transported into an ancient memory of the time and space that contains all

possibility.

According to Reuben Amber's (1982) book on healing with color,

magenta may be used to energize the adrenals, the heart, and the

reproductive system. It is a diuretic, and it is an emotional stabilizer. It stimulates

and stabilizes the flow of energy in the body . These paradoxical properties are

important aspects of this sphere of influence.

We are seeing the Ruby Spheres dawning in our culturalconsciousness Thanks in no small measure to Al Gores amazing work in

raising awareness of the global ecological crisis (also mentioned in the Coral

Sphere), people are being educated as to the damage weve done to the earth

through our careless and greedy choices about energy use. As a result, many

individuals around the world are exploring every possible way to create energy

using renewable, nonpolluting sources. From the richest oilmen in Texas to

the government of Brazil, we are seeing the merging of spirit and action.

Why do I call this the work of the Ruby Sphere? Because it is in a very

real sense, the awakening of Christ Consciousness within people. Christ

Consciousness by definition demands that one view the entire spectrum. We

must understand the connection between our overuse of pollutants and the

loss of millions of species in the plant and animal kingdoms. We must see the

direct correspondence between bleeding the earth of her oil/blood and the

changing of the atmosphere around her. And we must act from the wisdom of

that information.

The behaviors we see in the people who are actively taking part in our

global mind-change about the proper use of energy are, I believe, inspired by

the deep and abiding love for all of life. That love stems from Chri st

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OpalThe Sphere of Cosmic Truths Reflection in the World

The Opal Sphere is an evolving of the Black and White Sphere in the sense

that it is the source sphere. But it articulates itself more eloquently and moresubtly than does the Black and White Sphere. It is the light of the sun and the

light of the darkness. Black is said to absorb all color; white, to reflect all color;

magenta, to contain all color. But Silver and Gold (the main colors of this

sphere) both penetrate all color. They are the common denominators in every

color, and these new colors blend and swirl through each other rather than

differentiate.

Gold indicates something from the supra-mental. Gold is that which has

been derived by a metaphorical alchemist from the quality we know as Truth-

Consciousness (Sri Aurobindo, 1958, p. 959). In other words, gold is spiritual

knowledge, cosmic truth.

The silvery light of the moon is known as "Krishna's light." It is the light of

blue (truth) penetrated with the white light of The Mother (Sri Aurobindo, 1958, p.

961). Sri Aurobindo worked closely with an avatar named Mirra Richard, who

was generally called The Mother. It was not unusual to see white light

emanating from her body during darshan (Hindu meditation), and it is to that

light that he makes reference in this quotation.

Gold is the light of the dimension of Truth. Silver is the reflection of the sun's

light into the human plane of consciousness. Gold and silver penetrate all the

other colors and thereby bring Cosmic Truth (what new agers call the Great

Plan) into every sphere. In a sense, we could say they are the "stuff" that

interrelates all the other spheres.

This sphere is harder to see in our cultures than are some of the others

because of its very nature: It weaves through all the spheres. However, we can

see it in certain spiritual communities. More and more were seeing spiritual

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In addition, by studying the spheres that influence you and your family,

you will come to understand your relationships more clearly. Understanding

where you are in cooperation and/or in contrast with your children, your life

partners, the people in your workplace, your parents, and your friends is perhaps

the most helpful personal aspect of this work.

To learn more about the other books that I have written which may be

valuable in helping you in your study of this work, please go to my website:

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Theory of Colours . London: M.I.T. Press,1840 .

Liberman, Jacob . Light Medicine of the Future: How we can use it to heal

ourselves now . Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Co., 1991.

Ouseley, S. G. J. Colour Meditations. London: L. N. Fowler & Co., 1967.

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga 2. Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Press, 1958.

Steiner, Rudolf. Colour. Sussex, England: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1992.

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