The Kaleidoscope In You

Every once in a while, my mind falls into a space that can't be defined with words. I am trapped in the middle of a kaleidoscope and all the colors are slowly merging into me.

I look to the right and see bright red. I look to the left and see deep blue. I look up and see flaming orange. We are all made of various colors. There are so many aspects to us as spiritual beings.

A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument using mirrors to produce changing symmetrical patterns. In 1816, Scottish physicist, Sir David Brewster invented this magical device that is sized a couple of inches to 12 feet.

With an eyepiece at one end and colored chips of glass loosely situated between two glass disks, this device stretches our imagination with two rectangular mirrors.

The mirrors lie against each other at an angle where they intersect near the tube’s axis. Patterns are formed where the glass chips lie and the patterns change as the chips fall into new positions when the tube rotates.

Each pattern undergoes multiple reflections in the mirrors in such a way as to produce a resulting symmetrical pattern as seen through the eyepiece.

Don’t kaleidoscope have the secret to life? They let life’s rotation change their perspective by tilting their view. When we turn a kaleidoscope, we can see many aspects of the mirror - many reflections.

When we tune into our own inner kaleidoscope, we can see just as many reflections - of ourselves. One way to keep our perspective tuned is to rotate it and see how it looks from a different angle.

Our world is not black and white. We live in a world of color and matter - meaningful measures of light that shades the darkness. Let your kaleidoscopic destiny take you in it’s arms and feed you your dreams.