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Color Exploration

How do we Perceive Color?

Colorful flower pots

While color has a vibrational effect upon us spiritually, exploring it scientifically and historically will also lead to some interesting insights. We soon learn that the ancients had no word for blue. Could they not see that color? Even in the Russian language today there are two distinct words for what the english language calls light blue and dark blue. They see this as two different colors while english speakers see this as two different shades of one color.

Color's Link to Language

These contemporary videos help us understand humanity's perception of color throughout history, and its relationship to the development of language.

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Color can also be very tricky to discern.

Color Illusions

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