Understanding Auras: A Beginner's Guide to Your Energy Field
Exploring the Aura: A Timeless Concept
Exploring the Aura: A Timeless Concept
A lot of people think it is a new age concept. However, auras have been represented from antiquity in many pictorial ways.
Auras in Art, Religion, and Ancient Cultures
Both Christ and Buddha are frequently shown with a single or triple halo surrounding the head. The Church of the Resurrection in St. Petersburg, Russia depicts Christ and his disciples on lavish mosaics reflected this way. The painting of the Last Supper by Tintoretto (1592-94) clearly shows Christ’s aura surrounding his body as a glowing light.
The Virgin Mary is frequently shown this way, too with a glowing light all around her body. And there are many other examples.
This is interesting because…according to Harpers’ Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experiences, (HEMP) “The aura is not visible to normal vision, but may be seen by clairvoyance as a halo of light.”
And it suggests that clairvoyants, who see the aura, see the magnetic field which may register as light.
In Matthew (17.2) after seeing Christ’s transfiguration he says “his garments became white as light.”
Ancient writings and art of Egypt, India, Greece and Rome reflect beliefs of the emanation of vital energy from life forms.
In the sixteenth century Paracelsus expounded on the astral body describing it as a “fiery globe.” (HEMP)
Many cultures around the world recognize the spirit. The white buffalo in Native American culture is actually the spirit buffalo.
Science Meets Spirit: Kirlian Photography and Modern Aura Research
Kirlian Photograph was developed in the 1940’s. Kirlian photography is a technique for photographing electromagnetic energy or the aura.
The former Soviet Union used Kirlian photography as a way of assessing athletes’ metabolic processes and fitness. (HEMP)
These are clearly not new age concepts, but classical art, ancient wisdom and modern science.
The Aura as the Spiritual Body
The aura is the spiritual body. The aura itself relates to the electromagnetic field which emanates from all matter. This field of energy is outside of the range of normal vision.
However, even for those of you who cannot see an aura, you can still experience it in many ways.
For example, think of a time when you have been driving down the highway and you find yourself looking in your rearview mirror, seconds before the approaching highway patrolman appears. That’s your energetic sensitivity in action. We actually feel it.
Or when someone gets too close and you instinctively think, “They’re in my space.” You’re feeling the edge of your aura.
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The Chakra System and Layers of the Aura
The aura surrounds the physical body and consists of seven layers of subtle energy. The seven layers are generated by the seven Chakras referenced in yoga traditions and Chinese medicine.
In the ancient language of Sanskrit, chakra means “wheels of light”. These spinning vortexes of energy generate the aura itself.
Each Chakra has its own characteristic and relationship to one of the various glands of the endocrine system. The Chakras are the channels through which this energy flows into our bodies.
The first three Chakras, and layers of the aura have to do with the physical body, the fourth Chakra connects the physical and spiritual body, and the have to do with spiritual body.
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What Happens When Your Aura Is Blocked
When energy patterns become stuck or unmoving in the aura, it disturbs both the physical and emotional bodies. (Even the former Soviet Union knew this).
We are depend on the active and harmonious flow of energy to maintain our good health. Because our minds as well as our bodies are composed of energy and create dis-ease.
These blockages can be released when we make changes in our thinking about ourselves and our lives.
Once we become aware of negative patterns we can remake them into positive and validating attitudes that allow energy to flow clearly.
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