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By Dr. Lourdes Gray
Have you ever wished that you could see auras? Auras are real and anyone can easily learn to see them. For thousands of years, clairvoyants and psychics have described the presence of auras surrounding people, animals, and plants. The aura has often been depicted as a halo of golden light encircling the head of a spiritual master or saint, or as layers of glowing colors emanating from living things. The concept of auras is ancient. We have known about auras ever since becoming human. The knowledge of auras is universal; at least 97 different cultures and philosophies, from the ancient Chinese to the modern Theosophists, have described the existence of auras from a spiritual as well as from a metaphysical perspective.
Scientists have also addressed the existence of auras. Early scientific studies supporting the existence of energy fields or auras can be traced from the 18th Century work of German Anton Mesmer with animal magnetism, to on-going research (first begun in 1965), on the existence of bioplasmic fields in living organisms conducted by the Bioinformation Institute of the A.S. Popov All-Union Scientific and Technical Society of Radio Technology and Electrical Communications in Russia.
Russian scientists claim to have evidence of bioplasmic fields ranging from 300 nm to 2000 nm detected around living organisms. (One nanometer is equal to one billionth of a meter.) Their findings have been corroborated by scientists from a number of other countries including Germany, Great Britain, and The Netherlands. According to these reports, the auras of living organisms contain electromagnetic frequencies ranging from the near ultraviolet to the infrared section of the electromagnetic spectrum. These energy fields are partially created by the electricity produced by body organs such as the heart and brain, by acoustic fields, as byproducts of metabolism, and by a host of other energies that science has not yet formally identified.
I first became interested in the human ability to perceive auras after completing my Reiki I training with John Harvey Gray. One day, while giving a Reiki treatment to a woman, I suddenly saw a bright emerald light glowing around her body. The light continued to glow for the rest of the session. It was such a powerful experience for me, that immediately afterwards, I called John and told him about it. John listened attentively, and said that I must have seen that woman’s aura. What I had seen visually was the same as the general physical vitality that I had felt kinesthetically during the scanning process prior to starting the client’s Reiki session. Thus, what I had seen, and that which I had felt, are one and the same. He said that auras are actually perceived by the mind; the perceptions come in through the senses, either visually, kinesthetically, or both. He concluded by adding that auras are also perceived and interpreted spiritually by the mind with the help of the Third Eye chakra.
I considered John’s words carefully and meditated on the subject. Over the next several days, memories from my childhood began to emerge. I remembered having the ability to see auras as a little girl. As a child growing up in Cuba, my favorite time of day was just before dusk. I loved being in the garden at dusk. As the light of day dimmed, I could see multi-colored lights around the tropical flowers, plants, trees … even animals. It was a magical time for me. Of course, at that age, I did not know that what I was seeing in the garden were the auras of living things. Later, after coming to the United States, I got busy at once learning about my new country and forgot about my childhood abilities. Now, through Reiki, I had found them again. What a joyful feeling! I was suddenly hungry to read anything written about auras. I started practicing viewing them every chance I could. Soon, I had regained my previous skills.
As I continued to study auras over the next several years, I learned that the perception of auras is a natural human ability, not one that requires years of intensive spiritual study to develop. Even though some persons believe that the ability to perceive auras is a spiritual gift granted only to a few lucky individuals, thousands of ordinary people have learned to perceive auras after having only one short lesson.
Australia’s leading authority on the human aura, author Judith Collins, explains that everyone is born with the ability to see auras, and infants and toddlers can see them easily. Collins claims that although seeing auras is a form of psychic ability everyone is born with, most people repress this ability as they grow older. She believes that the growth and development of children’s psychic abilities become stunted when adults fail to give children the needed encouragement and support in their intuitive pursuits.
Even when the mind represses the ability to perceive auras, most people are able to regain this ability. Evidence supports the premise that the perception of auras is a learnable skill. Both Collins, and Englishman Walter Kilner, who practiced medicine in the early 1900s, have taught hundreds of people to see auras. Dolores Krieger, co-founder of Therapeutic Touch, and Reiki Master, John Harvey Gray, have taught thousands of people to perceive auras kinesthetically. In 2004, I created a one-day course called “Learn to See Auras” and began to hold aura classes at our institute. The course includes research from my Parapsychology Ph.D. thesis.
Spiritual development enhances a person’s ability to perceive the aura by allowing him or her to have a greater awareness of its subtleties. The quality of aura interpretation is relative to the observer’s degree of spiritual awareness. Remember, the development of the brow chakra, also known as the Third Eye chakra, is a crucial part of this process.
Many aura observers do not engage in advanced spiritual practices, nor are they involved in metaphysics or the occult. For instance, Kilner, who taught himself and others to see auras, had no special psychic abilities or metaphysical training, yet he accurately diagnosed hundreds of patients based on aura readings alone. At first, he worked with color filters to enhance the eye’s ability to see auras. Later, he found using the filters to be no longer necessary. Kilner meticulously documented cases of dozens of patients whose signs of health problems were indicated in their auras. Kilner wrote two books on the subject of perception of auras: The Human Atmosphere in 1911, and The Human Aura in 1920. Details contained in both of the books have made a significant contribution to understanding how the human eye is able to detect auras.
The physiology of the human eye plays an important role in the viewing of auras. Some of today’s most effective aura teachers have used this knowledge to teach students to see auras.
The visible aura appears as fluctuations of light around an individual. These fluctuations may be caused in part by perturbations, or changes of the refractive index of air due to both infrared emissions, and body heat conducted into the atmosphere. In other words, light refracts or bends as it moves from the air through the body’s energy field, or aura, causing the white light to break into its individual components and create the rainbow effect. Although the aura’s index of refraction is unknown at the present time, it can be assumed to be sufficiently different from that of air to cause the bending of light waves around the individual. This makes the individual’s aura visible under certain conditions. The fluctuations caused by the bending of light cannot be distinguished by using regular vision alone. Instead, they can only be observed by utilizing both regular and peripheral vision simultaneously, while the subject is in an environment suitable for observation.
Most people can learn to see auras by following these four steps:
1. Understand how the human eye sees color and light.
2. Understand what makes the aura visible.
3. Set up exercises where all the criteria needed for observing auras exist.
4. Practice techniques to help relax your vision while observing the aura.
The aura is not always visible. People subconsciously retract their auras when they feel inhibited, or are unreceptive, or afraid. (I always know which of the students are paying attention in class by looking at their auras.) The aura is most visible when the person being observed is at ease and emotionally open. In addition, the aura is rarely seen as an envelope surrounding the entire body of the person or other living thing being observed. Most of the time, the aura presents itself in small sections that both appear and disappear in a rhythm of their own. The fact that the aura often appears in several sections and not in one piece, contradicts popular belief and often confuses novice aura viewers.
The tactile perception of auras is even easier to learn. Energy healers such as Dolores Krieger and John Harvey Gray have taught thousands of students to perceive auras through the sense of touch. Learning to perceive auras through the tactile senses involves feeling the aura with the hands and fingertips. This is easy to learn because the hands and fingertips, rich in sensory nerves, are capable of transmitting an abundance of information about the aura to the brain.
Visual and kinesthetic perception methods are incomplete on their own. Visual methods are fascinating, but due to the limitations of human sight, do not represent the entire aura. Human eyes can only see the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, i.e., from red, at 770 nm to blue at 380 nm. The aura contains a much wider range of frequencies, from infrared 2000 nm to near ultraviolet 300 nm. Tactile methods are more thorough, but lack the excitement provided by the visual method. But to truly see and interpret auras, one must ultimately learn to develop his or her own spiritual sight. Once a person develops spiritual sight, he or she is able to observe and interpret auras under any situation or condition.
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