Autumn Pastels: The Backwards Season

Last Updated on August 1, 2016 by Patrick

Going back with my thoughts to the month of May, to the spring season spent in the mountains, when the young shoots and leaf buds began to appear, in which they wore a saturated green and coloristically enriched the forests. It fascinated me the fact that the trunks of the trees were dark colored giving a strong contrast with the leaves and the scenery being all the more impressive and picturesque. It appears that the saturation of the colors in the sunlight can darken their trunks in such a way that they appear like they’re moistened by torrential rains. They are always this way, everytime their leaves are saturated with colors. The same illusionist phenomenon occurs in autumn as well.

I notice, this way, that the extremes are touching each other in these two sister seasons: spring and autumn. In fact, autumn, phenomenologically speaking, is nothing more than reversed spring.

This notion stayed with me, haunted me, was and still is like a splinter in my mind. It’s not a bad thing, it’s just a thing I need to clarify myself and to check upon from time to time.

It seems to me that these kind of phenomena are created somewhere beyond the realm of the so-called “time and space”, somewhere in a kind of conceptual realm, beyond the mind. I think it was a music, a sound wave of some sort that gave birth or initiated these movements in Nature. Of course, when one contemplates them reaches a certain understanding and if it goes far beyond concepts and believes limited to the three dimensional intellectual realm, then one reaches their cause. And I only scratched the surface, actually…

I remember now the movie “The curious case of Benjamin Button” in which the main character was a man called Benjamin Button with a strange way of aging. His life went backwards to the period of being an infant due to a circumstance that happened during his birth I think, something that had to do with a magical clock of some sort. Anyways, he started to age backwards in a bizarre way and actually he became a very old man, when physically he became an infant, with all the consequences of old age and decrepitude. Now, come to think of it, it reminds me when we are physically very young, newly born even, when our brain, for example, is not completely developed. We can’t normally speak, like when we are adults. We are still in developing. Going backwards, when our physical body is an embryo, we can see that we can barely move. But aren’t we still alive? Yes we are! Many grim experiences that the doctors who performed abortions had speak of this, that embryos are alive.

But let’s get back to the outer Nature, so to speak. In spring leaf buds and saplings are saturated in colours and many are not even green but yellow, orange going to red, even pink or purple. There is a scientific explanation for this. Basically, the chlorophyll goes through different biochemical processes before becoming chlorophyll itself, with that green tint that it has because it’s also a natural colorant. But this phenomenon too happens both in spring and in autumn. But during the autumn season it goes in reverse in comparison to spring. Chlorophyll denaturates itself, turns into something else and retreats from the scenario of the life of the leaves. This happens at the biochemical, physical level. But in other dimensions what happens? More of the same? I would think so but more or less.

What I can understand is that it is a chain reaction from the causa causorum, from their initiator, which has a musical quality, to the last phenomenon going on in the physical realm. They’re all geometrical, symmetrical and mathematically musical both in aspects and in their fundament. The song that’s being sang in the causal realm, so to say, crystallizes to what we can see with our physical eyes.

In conclusion it is only one song that comprises the entire Universe and we usually hear and see only parts of it. Life and death are intimately connected indeed. :)