Mercy Hunter: All colours have a special meaning to you, haven't they?
Alice Berger Hammerschlag: Oh definitely, yes, definitely.
Mercy Hunter: Could you tell - brown, for instance -
Alice Berger Hammerschlag: Well, brown is essentially what it really, what you probably also would associate it with, is essentially an earth colour, and anything that's connected with it, but so is red and orange. Only these are more, these are the, let's say, pulling up colours, the, let's say the, positive values that exist on the earth's plane, if you know what I mean by that. If you don't just say, interrupt me, you know? Very happy actually, if you interrupt me, I would be very happy.
Student: Well could you explain a wee bit more further?
Alice Berger Hammerschlag: Well, you see there, I'm talking now of states inside as well of with outside, you know, and earth plane means, well we are living on this earth, you see, and anything on this earth like the good things, the bad, the desires, the ambitions, etcetera, etcetera. They needn't necessarily be all be bad, you see. An ambition can be a good thing, but it can of course become a bad thing, you know, once the actual purpose is blurred, you become so ambitious that it becomes useless. It becomes a negative thing. Therefore that to me changes into a dull red.
A bright red or an orange is a force to go on. You see, it pulls you up. But you see, that is a thing that I haven't thought out so much as it has really more or less presented itself but then I, over the years, analysed it, you know? Whenever I found a situation like that, somewhat presented itself in an orange upburst or in a semicircle, but always up. And when I hear of something that is perhaps called negative, somehow that's a dull, dull browny-black or dull red, you know, and that's how you evolve these things. You don't do them from a day to another, you know, then they become certainties, because they repeat themselves.
And like blues, blues are for me - this word I must always use again for want of a better one - let's see, the spiritual qualities, you know? By that I don't mean moral, you know, and - moral, yes, up to a point, but not as it's generally understood: your own morals, your own values, you know. Very simple to me always, I mean, if a person is hurt, you know, by whatever you do, then it's wrong, you know? And that is a very good guide - it's, it's for me, it mightn't good guide for somebody else. But that for me is blue. You see, once you're conscious of all these things, you know, you step a little higher, you aim it a little more. You make hundreds of mistakes of course, but that doesn't matter.
You know, all these things - if you want to ask anything - green for instance again is an earth colour, but for self recognition, you, you watch yourself a bit. You know, supposing you detect a little jealous or something like that. You detect it at certain circumstances and you don't like it too much, it always is unpleasant for oneself anyhow, and next time, when you don't expect it, you notice this again, well you check it, before you say anything, before you do the wrong thing, you try and check it. That is a green colour for me. It's like, it's like grass coming out. This is something new, something fresh, which you, if you don't take care of it, it's tired, but if you do, it gets greener and greener and blossoms, etcetera.
Student: What about yellow?
Alice Berger Hammerschlag: Yellow for me is the, you see, this is the wisdom colour. This is, this is to me the the purple region. That's probably what I'll call it in the end, it's short enough. Purple is a very high region and I'm talking from inside, you know? It's wisdom plus very high spirituality. That means you really have sort of more or less this disregard for earthly wishes, desires, etcetera, but that can only evolve. I mean, if you do it by force, it's no good, is it? But this sort of - white is round also, and fairly light because it's movable. It can shrink, it can be bigger as needed, you know. Too much - no, there can never be too much wisdom because those who have it don't pronounce too much of it, you know, just whenever little is needed maybe, and it goes up, it floats.
