The Secret Shades

The Secret Shades: the colour of me and we

What would you do

If I let you in on a secret -

All about you

All about me

All about we?

It's all about colour -

One so-called 'colour secret' (though too commonly known to be secret!)

Are the 'chakras',

Steeped in Eastern mysticism

These are a coding system energising our bodies -

Red is the root at the base of our spine, orange is our sacral,

Yellow for the solar plexus,

Heart is green (not red?)

Throat energy is blue (even when your words are shining),

Indigo is the third eye of extra perception

And your exploding crown is purple violet (whether or not you’re the shrinking kind).

But that's not the secret.

This secret of colour is lesser known

An almost 'unknown'

Which defines me

Defines we -

Defines the world as You know it.

Could the secret be that we are all Rainbow?

Whether BGLT rainbow

or NHS rainbow?

But no -

We are not ALL these.

Then there are other rainbows, more prophecy than secret

Native American:

'When all the trees have fallen

When all the rivers have dried

When all animals have died,

There will come a tribe of peoples

From all nations, of all colours, of all skins

Who join to fight a peaceful fight

To save the Earth, and they shall be called

Warriors Of The Rainbow.'

Well –

I AM a Rainbow Warrior, yes really -

I have turned back whaling fleets

Closed a dodgy nuclear reactor

Been shot at shielding wild birds from hunters,

Saved vast swathes of old growth rainforests,

And helped protect clean rivers from corporate polluters.

So is this rainbow the identity of which I speak?

But no, not entirely,

For there is a far greater tapestry of light...

The secret of which I speak is a thing of science -

To unveil it –

Let me ask you a question...

Wait for it...

wait ...

I am a Storyteller

Hardly a secret –

Since the year 1992 to present day

I have walked too many stages to count -

In my Storyteller guise aka The Man From Story Mountain

Rainbow robed carrying a twisted staff and armed with tools of wizardy and music:

Every Glastonbury Festival from that year to this,

1000s of events across dozens of lands,

From music festivals to literary tents, castles, schools, museums, hospitals and hgh security prisons,

I have looked all manner of humanity in the eye

And asked all

This same thing.

'What percentage of colour and light can the human eye see?'

Yet not once

Not

Once

Has the correct answer come.

Not in the UK, USA, Middle East, Asia, Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, Africa, Australia or Iceland...

So yes, it IS a secret

No matter how many times I share

And yes, it is the core

Of my identity

Me

And yours - We

The root of how we define who we are.

All that we see is colour and light - defined, refined

How we SEE the world

And our place in it -

But I ask again: what percentage of colour and light -

The whole spectrum detected by instruments of science -

Can the human eye see?

Pause. Take a moment. Give me your answer. What are the odds? Form a bubble of an answer in your mind's eye.

One out of every one thousand is the correct answer, give or take. That's 0.1%

Yes! For every colour you can see,

There are 999 you, I, we are blind to.

For every real object which your human eye can see, there are 999 equally real colours and objects

We simply cannot see.

The secret to the colour that defines me, us, we

Is Invisibility! - to never assume

That just because something cannot be seen

It is not real.

We are the tapestry with infinite possibilities

Seen and unseen

We are the magic of Life

And this is truly me.