Thinking shapes and colors

Thinking Shapes and Colors
Ali Anani, PhD

Vibrancy
Creativity
Wisdom
Nature
Divinity
Inﬁnity
Spirituality

GramaKeshava Ananthram
Ananthram wrote to me:
Mark it please; Dr Ali, you said: Refreshing; Tone:
Tune! Tools for lyrics, literary creation; Colour
Canvas:
musical composition - etc!
Now please continue your discussions on these
metaphysical aspects in your narratives!

The interesting
coincidence was
that two rainbows
shone on two
neighboring walls of
my room during
sunny daytime

So, writers receive
the same information
(rainbows), but they
have different
capacities to make
them into

Different
shapes

Repeating
shapes

Different clarity of color separation

Your turns now
What ideas cross
your mind?

@GramaKeshava Ananthram made the following comment:
@Dr Ali Anani , Ph D
My thoughts took me elsewhere!
Very Good Idea to moot the point with two rainbows!
Gradually unknown to readers and unaware to the author the
arrows from the bows cris cross; create and recreate;
supplementing and complimenting each other to develop into
the brilliantly lit soothing sight on large canvas of the Sky!
Best of the Luck Dr Ali!

Heart moves Heart when on the love length! Soul connects soul
while on spiritual axis! Thank you: I wish and pray all people on
this planet Earth come together!!!

Rainbow colour supplement and merge with each other to
produce the third vibrancy and similar Seven hues! What does
this tell us? Mix and mingle the human emotions with each other
person, one and another race and colour!

Even vegetation too do cross pollination; absolutely necessary!
Human races have thus come together to produce better
progenies! But alas minds and hearts have not yet succeeded!
I keep on and on and on hoping: hoping: hoping-------- Hoping!

Abdi Osman Jama - Founder of Institute for Strategic Initiatives,
co-author of LEAD LIKE A LION
Contributed the following:
Dr. Ali, "Yes, thinking shapes, indeed. That is why training the
mind by reading good contents and practicing what is learned
helps the mind rain more and support the heart feel better.
This combination then bears beautiful rainbows.
And your rainbows are results of your work."

Contribution of: GramaKeshava Ananthram
Let us go back to our childhood and neighbourhood days!
Do you remember having danced in the rains getting wet and all drenched and
dripping with broad smiles from ear to ear in spite of the reprimands of the elders,
particularly of Grand Mother's anxious cries!
Do you remember picking up the little hail stones and enjoying sucking the ice
pebbles?
You will get hailstorms of ideas Dr Ali; Go, once again; dance in the rains!

Contribution of: Rod King, Ph.D.
I believe that the fundamental language of thinking is in primal shapes and colors.
As I look at the presentation, I was reminded of one of my favorite artists: the
abstract Russian Painter, Wassily Kandinsky. And it's the second time in three
days that I'm reminded of Kandinsky's soul and contribution. The ﬁrst was a
feature of Kandinsky's art last Friday during the opening ceremony of the Winter
Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. My second reminder of Kandinsky is your
presentation, "Thinking Shapes and Colors.“
I believe that as in Kandinsky's art, we express our innermost thoughts and
desires through the use of simple shapes and colors.

Contribution of: Kim Gosselin
I can only think of how often we, as writers sometimes choose a
favorite set of words to make our "play" with them. We must not
repeat ourselves when writing. Just as a painter strokes his
brush, or even the way God "paints" rainbows in the sky, no
artist's endeavors are quite the same.

Ali Anani, PhD

Tearful
hearts
have
beautifully
shaped
rainbows!

Hearts ﬁlled with
grudge don't
shine beauty

Ali Anani, PhD

Contribution of: GramaKeshava Ananthram

When one is extremely happy heart shall
fountain out joyful tears!

Contributed by: Karin Hurt
As a writer, I ﬁnd that I
experience the rainbow of stories
in my life at a deeper level than I
did before I was writing. I look
more deeply at the colors and
shapes, to understand how I may
better draw them so others may
feel and learn.

Juao Maya, Your contribution (next slide)
is touching, moving and is of high value.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts

Last days have been the hottest days I have ever experienced in my life.
I wake up very early and open doors and windows just to let the fresh
morning breeze in and blow outside the heavy and thick air of the night
before.
I then walk across the garden and gently touch the round, tiny dew drops
still covering the deep-green grass and some few ﬂowerbeds of unknown
shapes.
I look up. The sky is empty and gray. No clouds randomly passing by high
above and my thought runs free: are the long, thin, multi-colored
dracaenas stairways to heaven?
But all I see is a monotonous skyline, shaped by the roof of neighbors’
houses right over my own wall painted into dull concrete color as well.
Till the moment the sun slowly rises like a ball of ﬁre behind the poor view
and everything around me shines.
So I can see all marvelous shapes and colors of my ordinary life. Shapes
and colors which seem God created just for me and a new day begins
again…
I start watering the garden and then I have a little rainbow in my
square-shaped front yard.

Cntributed by: Bernie Nagle
We all transition to physical
existence imbued by Spirit with a
unique bounty of gifts.
The richness and blending of the
colors on the palette is fashioned
uniquely as they pass through
those gifts, just as water becomes
tea by passing through the tea
press and dough becomes cookie
by the shape of the extruder.
Same colors; same ingredients...
different gifts; different rainbows.

Ice crystals form rainbows.
The quality of ice crystals
then determines the quality
of the rainbow.
We say some ideas are
crystal clear.
So, ideas form rainbows
by deduction.
Ali Anani, PhD

Moving one more step:
low quality water doesn't
form crystals or ones that
are distorted.

So, are crude
"idea crystals".

Ali Anani, PhD

If a low quality water is cooled to
form crystals in the presence of
music, then much higher quality
crystals are formed.
By extrapolation, if we stay cool
and think in a musical and
relaxing atmosphere better
"Idea crystals" should form.
Ali Anani, PhD

Contributed by: GramaKeshava Ananthram
Every moment we stay wasted in lowest level of mundane magic, forgetting
illusion is not THE REALITY.
We tend to take pride in lowest level of crawling! We do not realize we have to
walk and climb the highest peak of the mountain and touch the sky! We gloat in
what we did, over glorifying the simple things the Ants also do, collecting and
hoarding wealth that do belong to all, over lording they are ours!
We pronounce judgment without realizing we stand in the docks

Contributed by: Gorg
Sciberras
It is never easy to map emotions on
the body. From scientiﬁc studies it
resulted that people reported that
happiness and love sparked activity
across nearly the entire body, while
depression had the opposite effect: It
dampened feelings in the arms, legs
and head. Not everybody paints each
emotion in the same way.

Contributed by Isabella M H Wesoly

April Shower: Rainbow 2012

I ask in slide 29 ‘WHAT IS COLOUR?’ after telling you in

slide 28. Did you get the point? It concerns pigments,
which crystals are. Crystals mined from the earth contain
metaphysical properties reputed to subtly assist us on
subtle levels.

Spectrum ﬁeld and pigments can help us to
shape our lives.


Intense colour by Nature


Water splashed

Contribution by: Rod King, PhD
Ali, Great thoughts. I like your analogies because they often
illustrate one-to-one mapping; there's always a strong logic and
parallel between the objects or phenomena being compared.
Also, as an observer of the practice of what Edward Wilson calls
"Consilience", I like how you are seamlessly combining science
and the humanities. I'm therefore looking forward to your
addition of other analogies in the presentation.

The next two slides on

“The Colors of
Sacred Geometry”
are contributions of

David A. McCuistion
Vanguard Organizational Leadership (VOL)

Quantum Process for
Communications
Sacred geometry is apparent in the natural realm, depicted by
spiral galaxies, hexagonal snowﬂakes, and even in the
commonly seen shapes such as the sunﬂower and the
honeycomb. Light language is a system of sacred geometry,
developed and kept alive by the Mayan and Aztec civilizations.
Starr Fuentes introduced this ancient system to the modern era.
http://sacredgeometrymandala.com/light-language-sacred-geometry/

5 Cycles of Balance / Imbalance
The Five Elements and their cycles of balance and imbalance are the basis for much of Chinese culture. These
elements were used for describing interactions and relationships between phenomena:
METAL (Jin) Color White for Purity
Yin or Zang (Solid) Organ: Lungs
Yang or Fu (Hollow) Organ: Large Intestine
WOOD (Mu) Color of Nature / Fertility / Life
Yin or Zang (Solid) Organ: Liver
Yang or Fu (Hollow) Organ: Gall Bladder
WATER (Shui) Color Blue for Cleansing / Soothing
Yin or Zang (Solid) Organ: Kidneys
Yang or Fu (Hollow) Organ: Urinary Bladder
FIRE (Huo) Color Red for Zeal / Courage / Heat
Yin or Zang (Solid) Organ: Heart and Pericardium
Yang or Fu (Hollow) Organ: Small Intestine and Triple Heater
EARTH (Tu) Color Yellow for Longing / Awareness
Yin or Zang (Solid) Organ: Spleen
Yang or Fu (Hollow) Organ: Stomache

http://www.northernshaolinacademy.com/new/NsaQigongMeditationFiveElements.asp
Color meanings added by D. McCuistion - VOL

Contributed by: Rosa Jordan
The Rainbow is mentioned at least twice scripturally. We find it
first in the book of Genesis. Finally, it is mentioned is in the book
of Revelation. In the book of Genesis verse 9 chapter 11. It is
referred to as "Bow" that represents a covenant God made with
Noah and all living things This covenant seals the promise that
the earth will never again be destroyed by water, as it previously
was during the days of Noah. Through obedience, Noah found
grace in the eyes of God. Therefore, he survived the flood.

Contributed by: Rosa Jordan
When the Rainbow shows up, it commands attention whether it
shines through the clouds, or positions on different surfaces.
The colors illuminate and are seven in number. Neither the
colors Black or White is listed among them. So far as the
capacity of the human eye to behold, the colors seen are Red,
Orange, yellow, Green, blue, indigo and Violet.

Contributed by: Ali Anani, PhD
The last slide of Rosa Jordan
prompted me to add the
following slides

Snow Ice has
many shapes.

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/faqs/faqs.htm

Snow Ice has many shapes.
The shape that a snowﬂake takes is
determined by weather conditions,
including temperature, wind and
humidity in the atmosphere

Ice Crystals reﬂect light inside the
body of the cloud's water .
The shapes and their reﬂections of
light cause different shapes of
rainbows.

We don’t still understand fully how
crystal ice shapes form. It is
complexity in action.

The wind determines the shape of
rainbows as
they determine
the shapes of
our” thinking
rainbows”.

Colour has immense power on human mood..
Whilst blue is the world’s most frequently chosen colour (most corporate logos
are blue) mainly signifying calm and stability – other colours have extraordinary
power. Here are just a few….
Green the human eye can distinguish many shades of green (hence why night
vision goggles are green). It relaxes the human nervous system and interestingly –
when Blackfriars Bridge in London was painted green – suicide rates fell by 34%!
Green plant walls and being near greenery is a major productivity booster.
Red is energy, passion and considered lucky/beautiful in Asian culture. Hard
colour to balance’ as many lighter shades are more symbolic of love and success
whereas darker shades may indicate aggression and bloodshed.
Yellow a happy colour that stimulates mental creativity & focus. It can also denote
approachability. In Indian culture it is sacred (particularly in spring). Over
50% of the pencils sold annually in the USA are yellow!
Purple historically a royal colour as it was expensive to produce before William
Henry Perkin discovered mauveine.
Generally seen as opulent and noble

contributed by: Richard J Francis

A range of treatments linked to colour are beginning to be developed – which
alter the state of people’s minds (positive effects are lowered stress, less anxiety
greater clarity and even overcoming physical conditions.
Have you noticed that sometimes a colour does not ‘fit’ with a shape. An item of
clothing, a kitchen implement, a car. This can mean we associate those items
with a particular mood or purpose – and the incorrect colour can disrupt that
mood, association or purpose. Maybe that explains why most Ferrari’s are not
grey, and most mens’ business suits are not pink?
Perhaps we are even hard wired to finding materials in our physical world that
transmit colour through material that symbolise where we are from. Only recently
did I discover that turquoise originated in Turkey – but in ancient Persia it was
used to ward off evil spirits. David Icke became a UK ‘figure of ridicule’ for always
wearing a turquoise coloured suit – but given his life crusade – maybe this is why!
contributed by: Richard J Francis

As some fun – this ‘day by day’ chart for wearing colours that are best suited to
the day of the week – it may be seen as ludicrous by many – but try it…?

contributed by:
Richard J Francis

Do you know to whom you talk to?
Ice crystals,
chemicals and
minerals have many
polymorphs identical chemical
structures with
different
arrangements

Which color and shape do we talk to?

Flunky People?

True Color of Leadership

Leaders belong in the community,
not above it

Contribution by:
Magdalena-Maria Grosu

Contribution by: Jeff Washburn
Rainbows combine shape and color.
From my somewhat limited perspective, it appears that
rainbows universally produce similar results in people when
they see a real one.
The characteristics of that product include joy and peace.
There is no confusion in what people feel.

Contrast this with the preceding rainstorm.
There can be pleasure and there can be foreboding.
These two oppose one another, and, therefore, confusion exists
during the storm.
No peace exists in the middle of confusion.

Other shapes and associated colors that produce good results
include: ﬂowers, mountain lakes, springs, creeks, evergreen
trees, the young of mammals, very high, contiguous, vertical
rock, purple glass bottles, artifacts of bygone civilization.

Same Shapes and Colors and
Same Meanings
· Trafﬁc Lights

• Red means stop
• Green means go
• Yellow means go faster

· Prey Animals Recognize Predators
• Eyes in front of head
• Smell like they eat meat
• Some walk on two legs

Same Shapes and Colors
Different Meanings
· Snow

• Children love to play in it
• Some adults dread driving in it
• Ranchers must feed in too much of it
• Skiers think it
• Wind drifts it


Changing Shapes and Colors
Changing Meanings
· Complexity encountered
· Fire Alarms

• One means evacuate
• Tenth one in a short interval means go back to sleep


Thinking shapes and colors

Recommandé

Recommandé

Contenu connexe

Tendances

Tendances (20)

Similaire à Thinking shapes and colors

Similaire à Thinking shapes and colors (18)

Plus de Ali Anani, PhD

Plus de Ali Anani, PhD (20)

Dernier

Dernier (20)

Thinking shapes and colors