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MONDAY MUSE (4 January 2010)
COLOURED MOON
On New Year’s Eve we witnessed a blue moon in our skies. Blue does not refer to
the colour of the moon that night… it was the rare incidence of a thirteenth
moon in the year. Hence, we use the phrase ‘once in a blue moon’ to single out
rare happenings. The occasion triggered the connect to a visual that I use
during my unlearning unlimited workshops.
It is a photograph that is widely circulated on the net to demonstrate the
illusion of sight. The visual is about a lady sitting before a dressing table
mirror, but it appears like a human skull. On stretching our observation, we
notice many more possibilities… a bulb, a sailing ship, a
wedding, a fort, so on and so forth…
Whenever somebody suggests that they can see a moon, I immediately ask, ‘Is the
moon yellow in colour?’ Most persons laugh and instantly declare that it
actually looks like the yellow sun. I repeat my question till somebody answers
that the moon is quite often yellow in colour, especially when close to the
horizon.
The lesson is obvious. Our minds are conditioned to pick up white and silver
colours when we seek to colour the drawing of a moon. But it can be seen in
many colours... if we would only look to see! We must be better at keeping an
open mind... for it is only an open mind that can see the spectrum of
possibilities... and the many colours of the moon!
Let’s BE BETTER at searching the skies to see...
The visionary moon is as coloured as it can be!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
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