September on the Spectrum

“Our hearts were ringing - In the key that our souls were singing

Holding hands with your heart to see you - Remember true love we share today”

The month that marks the start of the sprint to Christmas, the smell of flowers revealing their inner blooming beauty, bouts of hay fever for some, a sense of love in the air and definitely a local lift of night-life-style with the announcement of lockdown Level 1 for us in South Africa.

So, after the most interesting few months of 2020, we decided that for CreativeMornings CT, it was time for a bit of a breather, to freshen up for our last exciting events of 2020. 

Of course we never leave you hanging without some food for thought and we still took a good look into Isaac Newton’s prism to see what colours it could reveal for us in SEPTEMBER on the SPECTRUM.

If we let our thoughts wander back to the days of 1672, one could imagine that the act of peeking through a triangular shape to see if just one source of light could produce an array of colours, must have truly been perceived as absurd. Wonderfully weird ideas always come with a sense of skepticism from society.

So what exactly did Newton discover on his light missions?

Well, a bit of a science recap will remind us that a spectrum is the range of colours observed due to light being bent (or refracted) by the angles and plane faces of a prism. Each wavelength of light energy is refracted by a slightly different amount, resulting in the light separating into individual bands with unique characteristics of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet and ultimately forming the image of a rainbow.

In short, spectrum is the conceptual tool we use to organise the physical phenomena of waves traveling through space at different frequencies. 

So essentially, Newton found quite a unique way to physically demonstrate the vibrations of “appearance” and “perception”.

The way in which things appear to be is highly correlated to the way in which we position ourselves to perceive them. And it seems the prism swings two ways. 

Light energy around us is constantly being refracted by the 3D bends and planes to show us objects of various shapes and colours. Meanwhile, light energy entering our cornea is also being refracted to reach the back of our eyes to let our brain make sense of what we are seeing. Each human being with a similar set of eyes and brains seeing the same world but yet unique in its angles and interpretations.

We are all on the same spectrum of earth, however, how we perceive is dependent on our position in the light. Interestingly, how we are perceived seems to be dependent on the same.

There have been psychological studies done which determined that there is a universal belief that a person’s physical appearance influences the way in which they are perceived and treated by others. It is termed The Attractiveness Bias or “what is beautiful is good” effect.

We can feel your knee-jerk reaction through the screen. Yes, what is termed beautiful in today’s society is not always good. But we can’t help wondering whether there isn’t some truth in the statement and whether Earth Wind & Fire were in fact secretly contemplating this phenomenon in writing the lyrics for their most famous song, September.

When we position ourselves in the light with a vibrational energy of self-love and we create a prism of connectedness in mind - body - soul, we will appear and be perceived as a rainbow of existence. 

We will emit outwards what is refracted inwards. 

May you find your rainbow and share your light.
.… Ba duda, ba duda, ba du