Seeing and Reading Auras

When you have become skilled at meditation and visualization, you will be ready to learn to see auras. Auras are the fields of bio-magnetic energy that emanate from and envelop all living things. Like the Earth Herself, each of us is a living field generator. Since we're not spinning on our axis like the Earth, our field poles are not generated by rotation, but are more like those of a magnet. One pole, called the Crown Chakra, is at the top of our heads, right at the juncture of the three large skull bones (frontal and parietals) that come together there (when we are babies, this point is actually an open hole!). The opposite pole--called the Root Chakra--is at the base of our spine, right at the tip of our tailbone.

Just like the Earth's magnetosphere, with its Van Allen Belts, our auras form several layers, based on energy levels. The first layer, extending about an inch out from our skin, is called the etheric body. Because it is the densest layer, it is also the easiest to learn to see. The next layer is called the astral body, and it extends another several inches further. Beyond the astral body are the mental and spiritual bodies. These are very high-energy and elastic, and their limits can vary under differing circumstances.

Perhaps you know of the Aurora Borealis, or "Northern Lights" that fill the skies of northern countries with brilliant, shimmering ethereal "curtains," "spears," and dancing "flames" of rainbow-colored light. Around the South Pole, these are called Aurora Australis, or "Southern Lights." These awe-inspiring displays are caused by the ionization (stripping away the electrons) of particles from the Solar Wind as they are sucked into the circular "event horizons" of the Earth's magnetic field around the magnetic poles. This is just like what happens inside a florescent light, including a "black light." Your etheric body, then, is equivalent to the Earth's auroras. And if you learn how to look for it, it can be just as visible.

Seeing Auras

The aura around the head is called the nimbus; around the whole body it is called the aureole. Have a friend sit in front of a blank wall or curtain--something tan, beige, or off white is best. Have the lighting below, with the light source out of your view (a few candles can work well). Sit about ten feet back, settle yourself into a light meditative state, and stare blankly at your friend's "third eye" ~~ right between the eyebrows. As you do so, open your eyes wide and let them go into a soft focus, as if you are actually focusing on a spot about halfway between you. You may find this easier to do by hanging a white thread from the ceiling at this distance, and focusing on it. Breathe smoothly and maintain your off-focus. After a bit, you will begin to see a clear light outlining your friend's head, as if they were glowing softly. But if you shift your focus to try and see it more clearly, it will disappear. The trick is to not look directly at the aura, but rather catch it at the edges of your vision.

Practice this awhile until you can do it easily. Then try the same thing under differing lighting, different backgrounds, and with different people. Eventually, you will be able to see auras around anyone--in school, on the bus, in restaurants, theater's. And when you can see auras around people, you will be able to see them also around pets, plants, and especially trees (which have enormous auras!)

What you will have learned to perceive in this way is the etheric aura. As your perceptions improve, you can also learn to detect the energy that radiates into the astral body and beyond. You may be able to see flowing, ebbing, waving, and shimmering like the Earth's Aurora. With practice, you may become able to see colors, which can indicate a person's emotional or physical condition. Any state of the individual's being causes reactions in the aura. Emotional states will primarily affect the color. Physical conditions not only affect color, but also cause peculiarities in the patterns of the aura, such as ragged edges or holes over injuries or sore spots. Learning to see these patterns will be of great use if you become a Healer. (see "Auric Healing.")

Seeing the colors of auras takes considerably more skill than merely perceiving a glowing light around someone. And such colors, when they are perceived, will be very individual to the perceiver. You and a friend may both learn to see aura colors, but they may seem to be different to each of you. This is normal. With time and practice, you will learn your own system of what these colors mean to you.

Exercises: Controlling your Aura

• Seeing the auras of others is a passive exercise.
• Now here are some exercises for you to actively expand and contract your own aura.

Hold your hand out in front of you, back towards you and fingers spread wide, as if you were pushing something away. Use the same technique you have just learned to see the aura of your hand and fingers. Now start breathing intensely, rapidly in and out, through your nose. Without changing your position, tense your muscles, and stare at your aura as if your eyes could emit laser beams. As if you are turning up a burner on the stove, focus your intention on "pumping up" your aura, so that it seems to "burn" brighter and brighter. Visualize the auras lengthening from your fingertips, extending like the flames of a blowtorch as you level your hand and point your fingers away. Then, when you have extended them as far as you can, suck in a deep breath, and retract them back to the normal glow as you slowly close your fingers into a loose fist. Practice this over and over. If you have friends to work with, you should each take turns practicing pumping up, extending and retracting your auras while the other watches. This will help each of you learn to both see and control your auras.

• Tractor Beams and repulsor beams: When you have practiced this technique enough to get good at it, you will be ready to try projecting psychic tractor beams and repulsor beans. It's just a matter of extending and retracting your aura. As you forcefully extend it, use it to push against (repulse) anything before it. And as you retract it, use it to suck in (attract) stuff in the same way. Also, for practice, try just reaching out with your aura and "tapping" someone on the shoulder, see if you can get them to turn around!
• Candle flames: Light a candle in a darkened room, and practice using your auric tractor and repulsor beams to affect the flame. Make it flicker, flare up, or die down. As you get better at this, keep moving the candle further and further away from you, until you can affect the flame from across the room.
• Smoke weaving: Around campfires, the smoke can often become a problem as it drifts into our faces. When the smoke begins to drift to my side of the fire, I use both hands to weave and shape it away from me, and to direct it straight up. To do this, I spread all my fingers, extending their auras. Like a potter shaping clay on a wheel into a tall vase, I wave my finger auras against each wisp of smoke, brushing, patting, smoothing, and redirecting its flow. This can become like dancing. And I have a policy about this; anytime anyone notices what I'm doing, and asks me about it, I show them how. Most people, I've found, can learn this fairly easily.
• Cloud Busting: If it's a cloudy day and you'd like it to clear up, say, for a picnic, the first thing is to find some little patch of blue sky somewhere (this is called "sailor's breeches") - or even a place where the cloud cover seems a bit less solid. Reach toward that weak spot in the clouds with both hands, and visualize extending your aura as far as you can in a long repulsor beam. It may take years of practice to be able to reach it all the way up to the clouds, but it can be done. Hold your hands back to back, fingers extended, then "pry" the clouds apart as if they were piles of cotton right in front of you. As the clouds open and the blue patch becomes larger, just keep pushing the edges of the opening wider until the sun shines through.

Shielding: You can also learn to "harden" the outer shell of your auric field into a psychic shield. This is done in pretty much the same way as projecting an auric repulsor field. But instead of making it into a single tight beam, move your hands, palms flattened and fingers spread wide, up, down, and all around your body at arms' length, while visualizing that you are shaping and pressing against the inside of an impenetrable shell all round yourself. Like the Earth's Van Allen Belts, this shell will protect you from any incoming psychic energy - and it can even be developed into a "cloaking field" to make you invisible.
Cloaking: Psychic invisibility does not mean that you can stand in the middle of a room jumping up and down and waving your arms and no one can see or photograph you. Being invisible means that you become so inconspicuous that people simply do not notice that you are there at all. Their gaze will pass right over you, sliding off your aura like it was Teflon, or reflected elsewhere as a mirror. Afterwards, they will not remember your having been present. In addition to "hardening" your auric shell into a cloaking field, there are two opposite tricks of invisibility that Wizards use; both involve your gaze.

The first works best with total strangers, as on the street or in a crowd. In this trick, you gaze intently at the other person, locking eyes briefly with them. Usually they will blink and look elsewhere almost instantly just to avoid your gaze. And as soon as they do, drop your eyes and turn away, and you will become invisible to them. They simply will have erased you from their mind.

The second trick of invisibility is just the opposite, though it also works best in a crowd - like at a party. If there is someone who knows you, whom you don't want to them to see you, the most important thing is to not let him or her catch your eye. Look anywhere else, but avoid looking at them, or even closely enough where they can see your eyes. With your cloaking field up, you can slip right past them and they'll never notice you were there.

 

May you always walk in the Light of Divine Truth and Wisdom, Amen~



NOTE: Don' t feel bad if you simply cannot manage to "see" these auras, no matter how much you try. Just as some people are color - blind, or tone - deaf, we may develop some senses more strongly than others. After all, what we sense and experience really occurs in our brains, not actually in our eyes and ears. You may find that you can sense auras in other ways - "feeling" them, perhaps, or "hearing" a hum around people...

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