Every lower level of consciousness
is dreamlike seen from a higher level of consciousness

Jes Bertelsen

Balance and Transformation

The personal and spiritual development process, or in Jung’s terminology, the Individuation, has two stages. The first stage consists of a synthesis of the personality, including the shadow, the emotions, the body and sexuality. The second stage, which is more possible and only safe after stage one has reached some depth, is the development towards higher levels of consciousness. If an individual has not worked particularly with himself, the higher Self is outside the physical body. The higher Self and its symbols can be seen in the radiance above the crown chakra.
If an individual has worked a fair bit on his or her development, there is a connection between the higher Self and the physical concrete personality. The clarity and light from the higher Self is penetrating deeper and deeper into the physical and makes it transparent. Transparency is appearing as the Self more and more is functioning through the personality. In the end a state is achieved, where the centring of the personality changes, the individual becomes ultimately transparent, the ego is on hold in order to give space to the Self or the essence. The higher self is the goal of development. A transparent individual has become transparent to his own essence, and accordingly he or she is his teaching.

The 7 Chakras and the 7 etheric colours of the rainbow

Gold: God’s will to protect. Silver: Gods will to be

Point of Identity No colour: God’s will for you to be

 

1. Crown, Sahasrara Violet

2. 3’eye, Ajna Indigo

3. Throat, Vishuddhi Blue

4. Heart, Anahata Green

5. Solar Plexus, Manipura Yellow

6. Hara, Swadhistana Orange

7. Root, Muladhara, Red

The root chakra

Root, Muladhara, Red.
Health, grounding
The degree of grounding in a person is reflected in the red colours and symbols in dreams.

People who are too much living within their heads, who are intellectually fixated, whose self image is unrealistic, who are “out with the fairies”, who in other words are ungrounded, are unbalanced in their
energy field. In order to level out and compensate this unbalance, the dreams will produce certain types of red symbols.The common denominator amongst these symbols is the red colour and the focus on the root chakra - legs, feet and earth. The particular symbol that has - is coloured with -in this case the red
colour, tell about which aspect of the energy field that is involved. The physical aspect of the aura reflects itself in naturally red things, stones and earth. The particular etheric aspect will show itself in plant symbols. Flowers, trees and fruits. The astral emotional aspect will often be reflected in animals: red cows, yellow lions etc. the mental aspect will be man-made things - tools,, clothes, houses, etc. The spiritual dimension mirrors itself in higher symbols - a blue triangle, a red cross, a green star, etc.

The Hara Center

Hara, Swadhistana, Orange.
Suffering, flexibility

The etheric orange energy radiation mirrors the balance in sexuality, in the instinctive movements, walking, rhythm, spontaneity, and in the relationships with the unconscious, particularly the collective unconscious. Examples of the meaning of orange symbols: A happy orange fish. Fresh carrots, an orange cat, an orange butterfly all tell about a relaxed and open relationship with the personal unconscious, the instinctive, vegetative, and the potential for sexual transformation. The fear of the unconscious could symbolise itself in a big dangerous jellyfish, an orange spider, an octopus, etc.

The Solar plexus
Solar Plexus, Manipura, Yellow.
Power

The yellow symbols reflect the whole scale of the emotional in its good as well as bad aspects, and it reflects the whole way from the etheric level up to the higher, intuitive comprehending aspect. Emotional projections can show up as for example yellow gloves, a yellow bike, a yellow dagger, a happy child in a yellow raincoat. The balancing etheric aspect could be a yellow water Lily, the higher intuitive wisdom could mirror itself in a yellow mandala, or a quietly burning yellow candlelight.

The heart
Heart, Anahata, Green.
Power to live your truth

The green colour is fundamentally an opening towards the light, the Sun (the photosynthesis). It is through the green vibration, that the higher part of the aura enters into the lower system. Therefore the green colour is also related to the heart centre, where the Self enters into the physical orientated, normal ego-consciousness. Human growth tends towards self unfoldment, towards the Self, essentially. This growth is mirrored in the condition of the plants. Sick, clipped or withering plants tell about prohibited growth and poor conditions for a contact with the Self. Sprouting plants, a profusion of foliation and big, healthy trees shows the personality’s growth energy towards the Self.

The throat center
Throat, Vishuddhi, Blue.
Creativity versus void

Dark blue: Stagnant creativity. Light Blue: Openness within the etheric. An unbroken, whole etheric field, a sort of background colour. Calmness. This colour symbolises in its positive extreme higher consciousness and healing energy, and in its neutral aspect it symbolises thinking, and in its negative aspect, it symbolises repression and blockages. The higher aspects in dreams can be the heavenly blue sky, blue windows in churches, blue butterflies. The neutral aspect, thoughts could show up as blue cars, blue geometrical things and figures. Blue colour showing up in lower parts of the body or aura is often a sign of repression, for example blue shoes, blue legs etc.

The indigo-violet colour range
3’eye, Ajna Indigo Will
Crown, Sahasrara Violet Unity with God

Since the crown chakra and thus the violet colour is not included in balancing work, it makes sense to include the colour together with indigo, in the 3’rd eye, between the eyebrows. This energy is, because of its fast vibration, both creating unrest and penetrating at the same time. In its higher, penetrating aspect, these colours reflect themselves in dreams in for example light, in the robe worn by the wisdom figure, in flowers. In its nervous or unrest-aspect it mirrors itself in unsteady, uncontrollable phenomenon.

The etheric-astral colours mentioned in Alchemy are as follows:

Black (Nigredo): Positive aspect (velvety black): Fertility
Negative aspect: Chaos

White (Albedo) Positive aspect: Purity
Negative aspect: Death (Related to the primary white light)
Red (Rubedo) (colour as in red wine): Life, Essence
Darker red: Life, Gods joy
Rose pink Joy, suffering
Turquoise (Astral in nature, as it creates structured energy-fields) Creativity meets growth’

 

Astral colours do not exist on the physical level

Astral colours are characterised by their absence on the physical level, they simply do not exist on this level. The colours in the astral dimension are so quick in their vibrations that they cannot be seen as connected to specific chakras, they reflect a “chord” a relative balance between two or more of the chakras.

 

Astral Metal-colours as found in Alchemy:

Gold: The will to do
Silver: the will to be
Copper: The will to learn
Mercury: The will (or ability) to listen
Lead: Heaviness, pollution
Brass: Expansion
Iron: Strength and rigidity
Platinum: Will not be reflected, neither on the etheric, astral or spiritual
level. If it does, it is a projection (expectation) on the healers
behalf.

 

Spiritual colours:

Peach blossom: Connecting to the source
Creamy white: Connecting to the source (further out in the aura)
Pearl: Compassion
Gold: ˜Improving, transform.
Silver: Original unity (shining silver reflects a by far higher reality than gold)

The Auragramme. Using dreams as the source

The purpose of working with an auragramme is primarily that it is a playful and creative process in itself. The Auragramme makes it possible to obtain a colourful, visual overview of your own energy field. Dreams with colours will generally only start when a person is relatively engaged in his or her own development consciously or unconsciously. The colours in dreams reflect the self-regulating function of the psycho-physical organism, the steadily and evenly distributed balancing and up keeping function of the chakras. Accordingly, if a person’s colour dreams are analysed over a longer period (6 - 12 month), they will show a tendency towards an even distribution in the areas the person lives, and more sporadic in the not-so-lived areas.

Edited and translated from Jes Bertelsen: Drømme Chakrasymboler og Meditation

The Procedure:

• Take a note of the various colours as they show up in symbols,
  (clothes, landscapes, people., tools, animals etc.) in your dreams.

• Arrange the coloured symbols in accordance with the etheric colours of
  the chakra system: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

• Finally, draw the selected coloured symbols in the aura around a human
  figure (your self), in the vicinity of the appropriate chakra.

NB: The following second stage in this procedure requires in-depth training in Jung’s dream analysis and a deeper understanding of the levels of the aura, It is not required here, but mentioned anyway:

• In addition to collecting the various coloured symbols, they may be divided into positive and negative aspects.

• Every symbol is drawn in accordance to its place in the lower aura:
  The physical-etheric, astral and intellectual-mental, or the higherâ
  aura: Wisdom, the mental-spiritual, the higher colours.

• The selected and most typical coloured symbols are drawn in the aura
  around a human figure, not only arranged in accordance with the
  chakras, but also in layers depicting the lower and higher aura.

The Auragramme is valid and interesting even without the last stages!