Theory suggests that releases of packets ("quanta") of energy from light beams ("photons") affect the energy level of proximate particles ("matter") making "color", that energy levels tend to equalize over time ("entropy") and this change in energy level changes function. The effect can be dramatic, as with the apple making your mouth water, or very subtle, such as the damage done by free-radicals, but over time changes in function are important to physical health and well being.

But is there a further, spiritual quality to this energy we call color?

THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF COLOR

In the second chapter of the Pentateuch, [Exodus 26:1] Jehovah commands his people build the "Tabernacle" (a place for Jehovah to reside), very specifically describing a combination of certain colors 26 times in the account.

That the text places a specific color combination in a numerically significant position (2x13) TWICE indicates incredible importance, and that it fits precisely into the "divine proportion", "the Golden Mean", the "Fibonacci Sequence" and other spiritually significant applications of 'Phi' indicates Jehovah thought there might be some relationship between color and spiritual matters.

Mohammed and his successors, the Caliphs, are the only Muslims allowed to wear a green turban, the Virgin Mary and Christ are often shown wearing blue in Christian art, and it is the attribute of many sky gods including Amun in Egypt, the Sumerian Great Mother, the Greek Zeus (Jupiter to the Romans), the Hindu Indra, Vishnu and his blue-skinned incarnation, Krishna. In Buddhism, it is believed that by meditating on the individual colors, which contain their respective essences and are associated with a particular buddha or bodhisattva, spiritual transformations can be achieved. Pagans, of course, place great emphasis on the meaning of color.

The world's great religious traditions recognize color as spiritually significant, that the "good" colors can put one closer to "God" and that "bad" colors can alienate us from "God".