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Aura (paranormal)
In parapsychology and many forms of spiritual practice, an aura is
a field of subtle, luminous radiation surrounding a person or object
(like the halo or aureola in religious art). The depiction of such an
aura often connotes a person of particular power or holiness.
Sometimes, however, all people, or all living things, or all objects
whatsoever are said to manifest such an aura. Often it is held to be
perceptible, whether spontaneously or with practice: such
perception is at times linked with the third eye of Indian
spirituality.[1] [2] Various writers associate various personality
traits with the colors of different layers of the aura.[3] [4] [5]
Spiritual traditions
In Iran the aura is known as farr or "glory": it is depicted in association
with Zoroastrian kings and the prophets of Islam.[9]
Ideas of the aura are well represented in Indian religions. The Buddhist
flag represents the colours seen around the enlightened Buddha.[10] In
Jainism the concept of Lesya relates colours to mental and emotional
dispositions. To the Indian teacher Meher Baba the aura is of seven
colours, associated with the subtle body and its store of mental and
emotional impressions. Spiritual practice gradually transforms this aura
into a spiritual halo.[11] Hindu and Buddhist sources often link these
colours to kundalini energy and the chakras.[12]
For holistic healers, aura reading is the art of investigating the human energy field, or the energy fields of other
sentient beings. It is a basis for using techniques of holistic healing, and includes such practices as bioenergetics,
energy medicine, energy spirituality, and energy psychology.
Tests
Recognition of auras has occasionally been tested on television. One test involved an aura reader standing on one
side of a room with an opaque partition separating her from a number of slots which might contain either actual
people or mannequins. The aura reader failed to identify the slots containing people, incorrectly stating that all
contained people.[23]
In another televised test[24] another aura reader was placed before a partition where five people were standing. He
claimed that he could see their auras from behind the partition. As each person moved out, the reader was asked to
identify where that person was standing behind the slot. He identified only 2 out of 5 correctly.
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See also
• Afterimage
• Astral Body
• Aura (symptom)
• Aureola
• Clairvoyance
• Energy (spirituality)
• Etheric Body
• Halo (religious iconography)
• Walter Kilner
• Kirlian photography
• Odic force
• Parapsychology
• Qi
• Radiesthesia
• Chakra
• Element (philosophy)
Notes
[1] Jack, Alex The New Age Dictionary First Edition: Kanthaka Press:1976; Second Edition Japan Publications, Inc. Tokyo and New York:1990
(Page locations taken from Second Edition)--See definition of "Aura" page 14; Definition of "Third Eye" Page 200
[2] http:/ / parapsych. org/ glossary_a_d. html Parapsychological Association website, Glossary of Key Words Frequently Used in
Parapsychology, Retrieved January 24, 2006
[3] Oslie, Pamala: Life Colors, What the Colors in Your Aura Reveal, New World Library, 2000.
[4] Bowers, Barbara, Ph.D: What Color Is Your Aura? Personality Spectrums for Understanding and Growth, Pocket Books, 1989.
[5] Swami Panchadasi The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms Des Plaines, Illinois, USA:1912--Yogi Publications Society.
Available: here (https:/ / dlib. stanford. edu:6521/ text1/ dd-ill/ human-aura. pdf) (accessed 4 March 2010)
[6] http:/ / www. skepdic. com/ auras. html The Skeptic's Dictionary by Robert Todd Carroll, entry on auras, Retrieved Oct 13, 2007
[7] Deprez, L. et al.. "Familial occipitotemporal lobe epilepsy and migraine with visual aura <Internet>" (http:/ / neurology. org/ cgi/ content/
abstract/ 68/ 23/ 1995). . Retrieved 16 July 2007.
[8] Hill, Donna L. et al.. "Most Cases Labeled as "Retinal Migraine" Are Not Migraine <Internet>" (http:/ / www. jneuro-ophthalmology. com/
pt/ re/ jneuroophth/ abstract. 00041327-200703000-00002.
htm;jsessionid=GhrQLFv3rNwf4Jn7BmDjDxh3LGxwfLpVVvswDrV41nRTlPpdQY7M!675572714!181195628!8091!-1). . Retrieved 16
July 2007.
[9] Abolala Soudavar, The Aura of Kings: Legitimacy and Divine Sanction in Iranian Kingship, Mazda Pub. 2003, ISBN-10: 1568591098,
ISBN-13: 978-1568591094. http:/ / www. amazon. fr/ Aura-Kings-Legitimacy-Sanction-Kingship/ dp/ 1568591098
[10] http:/ / www. buddhanet. net/ e-learning/ buddhism/ pbs2_unit07a. htm
[11] Meher Baba, The Path of Love, pub. Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, 2000 pp. 71-76. http:/ / www. avatarmeherbaba.
org/ erics/ aurahalo. html
[12] C Breaux, Journey Into Consciousness: The Chakras, Tantra and Jungian Psychology, Motilal Banarsidass, 1998
[13] http:/ / www. thefreelibrary. com/ The+ Correspondence+ of+ Walter+ Benjamin%3A+ 1910-1940. -a016456254
[14] J Damon, The Mystical Shroud the Images and The Resurrection an Ecumenical Perspective, 2002 http:/ / www. shroud. it/ DAMON. PDF
[15] Henri Corbin, The man of light in Iranian Sufism, Shambhala Publications, 1978
[16] LeadBeater, Charles: Man: Visible and Invisible, 1902.
[17] Palamidessi, Tommaso: The Occult Constitution of Man and Woman, 1968.
[18] Butler, W.E.: How to Read the Aura, pp 181-183. Destiny Books, 1978.
[19] Bruce, Robert: Auric Mechanics and Theory, "Capturing the Aura," pp 301-303. Blue Dolphin Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-9652490-6-9.
[20] Bruce, Robert: Auric Mechanics and Theory, "Capturing the Aura," pp 293-296. Blue Dolphin Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-9652490-6-9.
[21] Morris, Glenn J. Path Notes of an American Ninja Master (1993) North Atlantic Books, ISBN 1-55643-157-0 p111-2
[22] Morris, Glenn J. Path Notes of an American Ninja Master (1993) North Atlantic Books, ISBN 1-55643-157-0 p118
[23] "auras" (http:/ / skepdic. com/ auras. html). The Skeptic's Dictionary. . Retrieved 2006-12-15.
[24] "James Randi tests an aura reader" (http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=OZeQGld5QBU). . Retrieved 2008-01-14.
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External links
• Auras in the "Skeptic's dictionary" (http://skepdic.com/auras.html)
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