I was thinking about the affect of colors when considering how the chakras and bodies, in the Ra material, are referred to by their colors.
There is one quote in the material referring to the use of the colors themselves in therapy, which is not particularly enthusiastic, but does seem to acknowledge some effect:
One of the problems may be cultural associations of color as well as individual preference and sensitives which may make the therapy not particularly useful.
However, my interest here is not in the therapeutic use of color, but in color psychology itself.
I want to know if over a large population, it can be said that different colors have different sorts of effects on people.
I believe that there are some studies saying colors do have an effect; however I can't find the particular ones right now, though even the Wikipedia page does seem to accept some measurable affects.
For now I'm going to put a few simple assumptions and try to correlate these with the rays:
Red is the most attention-getting, as we would expect by it being the base chakra and the first to react to experience. Passionate and power
Orange is a sensuous color; we would expect it to be the most explicitly sexual and food-based color because of what orange ray is.
Yellow is of course the chakra of the mind and I'm supposing can (over?)stimulate the nerves. It's actually the most difficult color for the eyes to take in; being that we are in the third density of yellow it makes sense we wouldn't need any more stimulation of it.
Green Immediately after yellow is the first cool color, and first ray of spirit. A very different effect from yellow, it is calming and soothing. Actually said to be the easiest color for the eyes to take in, makes sense because third density moves towards 4th or green.
Blue is seen as trustworthy, presidents wear blue ties when they want to be trusted (versus red when they want to assert power) in the Ra material blue is the ray of truth and free communication.
Indigo/Violet (purple) symbolizes mystery and magic, makes sense because of the third eye association.
There is one quote in the material referring to the use of the colors themselves in therapy, which is not particularly enthusiastic, but does seem to acknowledge some effect:
Quote:33.3 Questioner: Thank you very much. We have a device for so-called color therapy, and since we were on the concept of the different colors in the last session I was wondering if this would in some way apply to the principle of color therapy in the shining of particular colors on the physical body. Does this create a beneficial effect and can you tell me something about it?
Ra: I am Ra. This therapy, as you call it, is a somewhat clumsy and variably useful tool for instigating in an entity’s mind/body/spirit complex an intensification of energies or vibrations which may be of aid to the entity. The variableness of this device is due firstly to the lack of true colors used, secondly, to the extreme variation in sensitivity to vibration among your peoples.
One of the problems may be cultural associations of color as well as individual preference and sensitives which may make the therapy not particularly useful.
However, my interest here is not in the therapeutic use of color, but in color psychology itself.
I want to know if over a large population, it can be said that different colors have different sorts of effects on people.
I believe that there are some studies saying colors do have an effect; however I can't find the particular ones right now, though even the Wikipedia page does seem to accept some measurable affects.
For now I'm going to put a few simple assumptions and try to correlate these with the rays:
Red is the most attention-getting, as we would expect by it being the base chakra and the first to react to experience. Passionate and power
Orange is a sensuous color; we would expect it to be the most explicitly sexual and food-based color because of what orange ray is.
Yellow is of course the chakra of the mind and I'm supposing can (over?)stimulate the nerves. It's actually the most difficult color for the eyes to take in; being that we are in the third density of yellow it makes sense we wouldn't need any more stimulation of it.
Green Immediately after yellow is the first cool color, and first ray of spirit. A very different effect from yellow, it is calming and soothing. Actually said to be the easiest color for the eyes to take in, makes sense because third density moves towards 4th or green.
Blue is seen as trustworthy, presidents wear blue ties when they want to be trusted (versus red when they want to assert power) in the Ra material blue is the ray of truth and free communication.
Indigo/Violet (purple) symbolizes mystery and magic, makes sense because of the third eye association.