Month: August 2023

Is Blue the Original Green?

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We are used to seeing it every day, well, not entirely every day if you live in a changeable country and climate, but mostly we know that during the day the sky is blue. A large expanse of ongoing blue, changing to black a night with the stars and moon to illuminate that expanse. I have been giving it though along the way with the flat earth, round earth debate that quietly rumbles on, and not so quietly in some circles. Wondering how it could be that they could deceive us with a fake space, and of there being a firmament which we can’t get through to escape. And there were a few things that tied together to give me this idea,

  • Plasma screen TV’s
  • A claim apparently by an Australian professor back in the 60’s that the moon was made of plasma
  • Plasma balls
  • The new show piece in Vegas – The Sphere
  • Planetariums

And the actual point of this, as with the title, I wonder if the blue we see in the sky is the projection screen we might expect with films, but is green for us. Maybe in the bigger version, blue is the go-to colour to hide, or create illusions so seamless one wouldn’t even know what they were seeing. I had already wondered too about plasma balls due to lightning sprites and leader bolts that come up from the ground during storms, looking awfully like the ones simulated in the plasma balls you can buy as an ornament.

Blue screen then becomes the background of reality, but what exactly is projecting the image onto it if that is the case? Is it like a machine that harnesses and amplifies energy, creating the ‘observable universe’ as we know it, because it is created from the thoughts of people. They say we are a finite mind trying to understand an infinite world and existence, which we are unable to, so we construct a reality that is definable, and consciously comprehendible to some extent.

Blue is not natural they say. I know we do have some examples in nature of blue occurring, so one could argue that blue is a natural colour, although it could be that we have a few remnants of a previous time when the light spectrum was very different and maybe some blue things developed. Green is an optimal colour for photosynthesis, so perhaps when things were different, we had an array of blue plants and leaves, and the sky was green. Who knows. But it was the recent noting of blue things not being melted in those recent Maui fires, mentioned too in my article Show And Tell. Because it made me think of a character in Twin Peaks, a very brief moment and they weren’t seen again, but it’s what they and their attire represented. It being a blue rose on the dress which was of special significance – “Since there is no such thing as a blue rose in nature, the designation could represent cases which cannot be rationally or scientifically explained, the “impossible” cases”. So, blue could be marker to give away that things are not natural, something they couldn’t hide perhaps.

Project Blue Beam – this name has been doing the rounds for a while now, and obviously would just seem an upgrade on the Project Blue Book, which was there to apparently investigate UFO’s and related things, the speculation is that the beam version, is to simulate an invasion, to create panic and confusion. We’ll see on that, I’m not sure people are half as interested as they were on the subject, and as most of the drama surrounding them seems to be generated from America, maybe it’s just for them really.

Planetariums – a domed shaped area within a building usually I believe, with a projection of the stars and galaxies giving you the feeling of being in space. Quite possibly just mocking the reality, or part of the reinforcement needed to keep people in the state of knowing what they would like. Many people do not have what I would consider fluid thought, and often have a very firm idea or belief system that will get in the way of a thought going further. Or perhaps they already have given it thought and came to their own conclusion, and there they settle, and with all the pieces put in place for it to be so, I can understand why. Screens and things that are there to deceive should be viewed with sceptical eyes and followed with caution, perceptions of reality are being augmented along with the physical changes coming. It’s going to be a strange road ahead…

(c) K Wicks

Mango Butter Moisturiser Recipe

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I’ve been making a few moisturisers here and there, and as they last a while, takes some time to get around to needing a new one. But that time came, so I decided to make a predominantly mango butter one. For one pot like the one in the photo (around 2oz), the amounts are –

25g Mango Butter

8g Shea Butter

1 tbsp geranium infused coconut oil

1 tbsp calendula infused olive oil

10 drops jasmine essential oil

10 drops sweet orange essential oil

The method can be viewed in my Dandelion Moisturiser recipe.

(c) K Wicks

Hair

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It may seem like just another part of your exterior, one to be managed and maintained throughout our lives, not everyone of course as not all keep their hair, but even then it is still noticed and I guess, thought about. It’s been made a thing in society too, as part of your appearance, for judgement and categorising people. A shaved head being a classic one, if you are not a prisoner, in a mental hospital or in the military, people are not sure what to make of it. We had a whole social movement which had it very much as a focus, so attitudes towards it are varied. And if you happen to be female with a shaved head, then also some assumptions and raised eyebrows follow. Although there are plenty of attitudes towards all sorts of hairstyles, this piece is focusing on two, with hair, and without.

Monks – even though apparently enlightened, or at least seeking the path to, they believe that hair symbolises worldly fashion and ego.

Native American Indians – I read an interesting snippet recently about Native Americans being ‘recruited’ by the army for their tracking skills. But once they were fully enlisted, regulated with uniform and military haircut, they say they ‘lost their ability’. Now, that could be the case, or they simply may have been forced to join and didn’t actually want to help, we’ll never know. But on the premise that it is true, I wondered if the hair really could be important.

Antenna – it is said that our hair acts as an antenna, connecting us to the energy around us as a kind of sensor. What it is sensing who can say, but the idea that we are connected to electrical energy all around us isn’t that crazy. Ever do the weird thing where you rub a balloon on your hair to make it static, then the balloon would stick to the ceiling? That’s when you activate it with the balloon rubber, who knows what goes on with other stimuli. And perhaps why certain products might be worse for your hair that at first thought, not just as it lets things seep directly into your head by way of your hair follicals, but because it might also block what is meant to get through. Over the years there have been more and more, hairspray, dyes, gel, shampoo, conditioner, glitter, straightening, hair dryers, perms etc. And that is just all for your hair, when you add up all the products being absorbed through our exterior, willingly applied by us, then it can be of concern.

Senses – we say there are five senses, the main ones anyway, and there is speculation over a sixth one for ESP related activities. So, what if our hair is actually a sense, but one which functions without our awareness perhaps. Taking in our surroundings and feeding us either information or energy, they say if your hair feels good, you feel good, maybe there is something in that. And maybe ties into the antenna idea too, as when something is sensed like the saying ‘someone just walked over my grave’, it’s often accompanied with all the hairs on your body standing on end. Or if you think you are being watched. Now, some may say that is touch, as your skin is alerted to something, but if nothing actually touched you, and you can’t see anything, is it actually your hair that has picked up something? Passing that along to the other senses to then decide on the necessary response. That may be why there has been a policy in certain institutions and punishments to shave people’s hair, under the guise of ‘health and safety’ but is ultimately to cut off one of your senses. As well it being called a dehumanising act in itself anyway, maybe there is an extra layer of dehumanising there we hadn’t quite considered. I wonder…

(c) K Wicks

(c) K Wicks

Copy of a Memory

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Do we remember beyond our own lifetime and experiences? It is theorised in psychology that we have genetic memory, a basic idea of some learned responses perhaps being handed down. But not actual experiences.

I’ll thrown in a few films to delve a little further into the idea, having already written an article about Memory, from a different angle but it ties in here too.

Dark City – it is about injecting memories into people, to create a ‘personality’ which can then be studied, where also the landscape changes and all the people are part of the set up. A good metaphor for society but condensed into short periodic changes – the idea that you are pumped full of ‘education’ and ideas, and conditioned of how to go with a certain history given to you. Then over time the landscape changes, buildings go up, and come down, place names change and people move around, adapting to the changes. All playing their part.

Aeon Flux – In a future time, where the population is sterile and breeding occurs through cloning, reusing people’s blueprints to keep the human race going. But as with much, it’s not quite as it seems, and memories are a running theme throughout, an overlay of what once was being carried down through the DNA.

The Island – another cloning one, but also very much about memory, and how the original host memories were ‘growing’ in the copy despite a complete lack of experience of any of the events. Only fragmented and coming through as dreams or nightmares, mixing with the clone’s life experiences to that point, creating an odd thought process and ‘reality’.

And this is where I wondered about people as we know them in our society, and if you did have clones amongst us as some speculate, would there be something different about them? Where they were almost an exact copy, but not quite, because you lose something of the original when you copy, or at least you used to. Maybe like the photocopier to scanner difference in quality, it is an improvable formula.

Or are memories more important than we realise, and aren’t because of being reused, but because we remembering what came before. Reincarnation of the stages and life cycles that are theorised probably tie in here, and maybe why it is necessary to keep changing things in society. Making sure knowledge is lost, people are split up and their traditions replaced with new ones carefully formulated to give them a past. Keeping us all away perhaps from who we really are…

(c) K Wicks