Indigo dye has great longevity: archeological evidence of its use dates back to Indus Valley civilization in the third millennium BCE.
Ancient cultures such as Greek, Roman, Chinese, Japanese, Indian all created distinctive textiles based on indigo blue. Remarkably, indigo was also used in Central and South America, where it was independently discovered.
Indigo can dye all natural fibers. It gives beautiful shades of blue — from the palest summer sky to an almost purple black.
Ancient cultures such as Greek, Roman, Chinese, Japanese, Indian all created distinctive textiles based on indigo blue. Remarkably, indigo was also used in Central and South America, where it was independently discovered.
Indigo can dye all natural fibers. It gives beautiful shades of blue — from the palest summer sky to an almost purple black.
Indigo’s name gives its origin away: it simply means ‘the Indian’ or ‘from India.’ But we now know that, besides India, indigo is also endemic to the tropical zones in Africa, China, and the Americas.
As early as more than 5,000 years ago, people in India, East Asia, and Egypt, as well as probably the Maya, used the blue dye derived from the Indigofera Tinctoria plant to dye their clothes.
They must have really adored the deep blue, almost violet shade that could be produced with the help of this plant. Otherwise, they would not have gone through the very demanding process necessary to achieve it.
As early as more than 5,000 years ago, people in India, East Asia, and Egypt, as well as probably the Maya, used the blue dye derived from the Indigofera Tinctoria plant to dye their clothes.
They must have really adored the deep blue, almost violet shade that could be produced with the help of this plant. Otherwise, they would not have gone through the very demanding process necessary to achieve it.
Newton used "indigo" to describe one of the two new primary colors he added to the five he had originally named in his revised account of the rainbow in Lectiones Opticae of 1675.
Indigo and some of its derivatives are known to be ambipolar organic semiconductors when deposited as thin films by vacuum evaporation.
Due to its high value as a trading commodity, indigo was often referred to as blue gold.
The love affair with the mysterious dark blue color is still going strong. Even more than 5,000 years after its discovery, we humans are still enthralled by indigo and observe with fascination how the color changes continuously, fades, ages, and wears away. Just like us.
Indigo and some of its derivatives are known to be ambipolar organic semiconductors when deposited as thin films by vacuum evaporation.
Due to its high value as a trading commodity, indigo was often referred to as blue gold.
The love affair with the mysterious dark blue color is still going strong. Even more than 5,000 years after its discovery, we humans are still enthralled by indigo and observe with fascination how the color changes continuously, fades, ages, and wears away. Just like us.
Forwarded from THE NORTH FOLK
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Forwarded from wandering spΛrtan
The desire to live forever does not only betray a profound fear of death but complete spiritual ignorance.
The process of reincarnation allows the soul to evolve by accumulating experience through action. Death, or the cessation of being is an illusion, something limited only to the material/ physical world. In the spiritual plane, there is and can be no death.
Due to the “sexy” portrayal of technologically enhanced humans in movies, the immature soul; the tech enthusiast; modernity’s average city-dweller who believes that reality perceived by his physical senses is all-that-is, will easily fall into the trap of transhumanism.
Seduced by the prospect of merging man with machine, the bugman, having failed to graduate from the school of life, not having mastered himself/ his body and mind will excitedly jump onto the ship of doom (that is, transhumanism) which lures the ignorant and the fool into surrendering their souls to the machine by allowing them to be entrapped into physicality and have their life-force harvested for the purpose of feeding that machine.
Do realize that the concept of living only one lifetime is a preposterous idea, initially alien to our people. Before the abominable Abrahamic religions of fear and damnation/ redemption came into the picture to cloud the Aryan consciousness, during the times of Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and all the way back to the Vedic era, reincarnation was a predominant aspect of our ancestors’ belief system.
It is time we unshackled our minds and souls.
The process of reincarnation allows the soul to evolve by accumulating experience through action. Death, or the cessation of being is an illusion, something limited only to the material/ physical world. In the spiritual plane, there is and can be no death.
Due to the “sexy” portrayal of technologically enhanced humans in movies, the immature soul; the tech enthusiast; modernity’s average city-dweller who believes that reality perceived by his physical senses is all-that-is, will easily fall into the trap of transhumanism.
Seduced by the prospect of merging man with machine, the bugman, having failed to graduate from the school of life, not having mastered himself/ his body and mind will excitedly jump onto the ship of doom (that is, transhumanism) which lures the ignorant and the fool into surrendering their souls to the machine by allowing them to be entrapped into physicality and have their life-force harvested for the purpose of feeding that machine.
Do realize that the concept of living only one lifetime is a preposterous idea, initially alien to our people. Before the abominable Abrahamic religions of fear and damnation/ redemption came into the picture to cloud the Aryan consciousness, during the times of Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and all the way back to the Vedic era, reincarnation was a predominant aspect of our ancestors’ belief system.
It is time we unshackled our minds and souls.
Many times when hardship comes, we have our own plans for how to handle it.
We have plan A, B, C, D, etc., and after we have exhausted all of those, we find ourselves in that place where we say, “If God doesn’t come through for me, it is over with. This is horrible.” But actually, it is not horrible because it is an opportunity for God to show His glory.
When times are tough, we have a built-in instinct to become dependent upon God for strength that is needed. It is obvious that so many of us are growing weary in these dark days of oppression that we live.
Struggles surround us at every corner, and it is hard to stave off the growing fears of uncertainty. We were told in the Scripture that these times would come and test the faithful.
Remember, when you get to the end of yourself, you get to the beginning of God.
We have plan A, B, C, D, etc., and after we have exhausted all of those, we find ourselves in that place where we say, “If God doesn’t come through for me, it is over with. This is horrible.” But actually, it is not horrible because it is an opportunity for God to show His glory.
When times are tough, we have a built-in instinct to become dependent upon God for strength that is needed. It is obvious that so many of us are growing weary in these dark days of oppression that we live.
Struggles surround us at every corner, and it is hard to stave off the growing fears of uncertainty. We were told in the Scripture that these times would come and test the faithful.
Remember, when you get to the end of yourself, you get to the beginning of God.