The Society You See Reflects...

The society you live in reflects what it thinks.

And the way you can see what it is thinking is to observe and take note of the colors that it uses in its clothing.

Where things are drab or just 'black and white' or all black, or all white, or dull or beige tones - then that society has lost its connection with spirituality.

Black and white in themselves are not indicative of the lack of connection to human access to spirituality - but when these are generally there across all of or the great majority of people then you have a problem.

A warm, foot soak.
Will relax the whole of the rest of your body.

People love to be connected and most commonly, the need is to be connected with other people. And this is passed off as authentic 'society' and friendship but it is an addiction to contact and 'togetherness' on any terms so long as the person is not isolated, alone, apparently bewildered, scared, vulnerable...

But the standing assumption is that they are connected therefore, with others - who are like themselves. But they are not like each other at all when you come to examine things closely.

Recently, there have been three major controversies in a very good example of this social connected-ness experience - in the Islamic world.

One young Sheikh in the Emirates - Waseem Yousef - was ostracized and made to pay a fine last year by his fellow scholars when he absolutely ripped them all apart live on television for lying about what they said in public compared with what they said in private and in the company of their wives, regarding the Islamic concept of 'bondswoman,' and he worse yet, said that the idea was not produced in authentic hadiths regarding the Companions of the Messenger, and so it was a fabricated tradition and something that had to be done away with.

The highly credentialed and respected Sheikh Ahmed al Gulbanji in Iran, has for years and years been extremely outspoken about the authenticity virtually of anything in Islam! His position is that there is an Arab culture and many traditions about Divinity, and one prevailing false narrative spread by tyrants in order to procure a 'manuscript culture' authorization he calls it literally: for their wickedness!

Dark or dull is not a bad thing.
But it really depends on the intention.
Modern generic social drabness is a virus.

And then there was the Pakistani cleric and scholar Tariq Masood, who openly said to large public gatherings that the Quran was full of contradictions and nay, even worse - mistakes! 

Chinese Communism since Mao was marked by the expression in the attire of its whole society - of a standardized blandness. With Islamic countries it is even less bland but it is still a totalitarian thing. 

But we cannot jump exclusively onto those obvious cultures that obliterate the individual's individuality, and where there is a strong insistence on particular austere dress codes.

The in-obvious one is all of today's West.

As you have come from trying to enact some mind-games or better said, body-mind energy games to transmit personal characteristics intended for someone to see, you should know that colors are not metaphorical connections to the spirit world, but actual direct connection to there.

The minute you start to deliberately, intentionally wear special colors that are not part of the standard modern social palette, you will immediately feel 'out of step.'

And that may well be a good thing, even a great thing. 

Look, if 'everyone' doesn't know how to swim and the whole ship sinks - they all will also drown.

Make sure you are are out-of-step with the general trend.

Venice was wealthy.
Where did all the wealth go
when they 'signed themselves
out of existence in one night'
when Napoleon entered there?

You are entering into the time of dealing with a lot of power now.

And yes, that will mean the waters can get rough, or the seas become even mountainous.

But you will be able to stay above them, even walk on them. Oh yes.

It is what it is.

In your mind you are disputing over whether this means something just metaphorically, or if it is meant materially and physically.

The connection is in no way simply metaphorical. It is, instead, a parabolism.

This below is called 'Seishin.' You should know what that word means in Japanese...