What if colour isn't only attached to objects, like the colour on a painted surface or like the colour of a GREEN leaf or an ORANGE flower. What if colour is objective, like it shows itself in a prism or a raindrop?
Can colour float?
These, I think, are very interesting thoughts in our time, as quatum physics becomes more and more recognized. If you follow Rudolf Steiner’s thoughts further, with what he says about our eyes, freely translated:
In a world without light, in a dark world, the eye would not have developed the capacity to see. Those forces, creative forces if you like, would not have been able to develop the eye to see in a darkness where there is no need to see. Our whole system, with all of our senses, has developed in accordance with the outer world.
If we take this thought further, we may philosophize: According to many scientists, among them the German scientist and doctor Fritz Albert Popp, MD, we live from light, our eyes drink light. Our hormone system works by light and our cells depend on light to be healthy. Perhaps many of our illnesses are due to a hunger for colour.
Colour Hunger, a School Alternative
If the light has in it floating colours, that are percieved and absorbed by other forms of life, a resonance of frequencies from which plants and the animal world nourish, if this is the formula of life, it is unbelievable that we did not include humans in this life process. If our eyes are meant to receive energy from light, and not like we have been taught, only to see, it is incredible that science has avoided this and only concentrated on serving the pharmaceutical industry.
Is it because light is free and because the light is for everyone?
Could we have been healthier and stronger?
If we had planned our lives differently. If we had taken into consideration that we are children of nature, born to live in light, and that we were not meant to live indoors with artificial light most of the day. If we had changed our life-style and let schoolchildren be outside in the daylight 2-3 hours in the middle of the day instead of sitting indoors. If we had added three hours outdoor teaching in all kinds of weather. Instead of starting at 0830 and finish at 1400, the children could have started at 0800 and finished at 1700. Finishing school at 1400 must be wrong in any case. All adults work at the same time. And what do the children and the youth do with this time? If it is the teachers working hours that is the problem, I have an other solution.
The athletics environment.
The athletics environment is more and more dependent on professional help to get sponsors in order for the clubs to survive. What if we engaged all kinds of athlets to be teachers those three hours. We need all kinds of athletics and we need all kinds of outdoor qualities both in the primary school and all the way to highschool. Children need physical activity and they need light and air to be strong and healthy people. We must use the resources that we have, and we have an army of people that perfectly well can be teachers in outdoor school subjects. Imagine what it means for the youth to have professional athlets instead of their language teacher as their outdoor teacher. We have almost no professional gymnastics teachers anymore, it is pure luck if the students get a gymnastic teacher that know his subject. Gymnastics is more than handball and gymnastic exercises. It is dicipline, it is teamwork, it is endurance and will power training and it is strengthening of the competitive instinct.
Light Nourishment
To learn to know your body and to stretch your limits is just as important as other school subjects. Today all voluntary training takes place in the evening, and here north we have longt dark evening with no light, and in the wintertime almost all training is indoors. And if we really have not understood that our hormone system lives from real organic substances as colour through light energy, we cannot give people second rate treatment via artificial light in the classroom during the best daylight time in the middle of the day.
