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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]

Skeptics such as Robert Todd Carroll contend that auras may be

seen for reasons such as migraines, synesthesia,[6] epilepsy, a
disorder within the visual system, a disorder within the brain, or
due to the influence of psychedelic drugs such as LSD.[7] [8] Eye
fatigue can also produce an aura, sometimes referred to as eye
burn.

The Human Aura in a healthy woman after a diagram

by Walter John Kilner (1847-1920). The picture
depicts Kilner's "inner and outer auras." Colours have
been added for illustrative purposes and have no other
significance.
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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]

In the classical western mysticism of neoplatonism and kabala the aura

is associated with the lustre of the astral body, a subtle body identified
with the planetary heavens, which were in turn associated with various
mental faculties in an elaborate system of correspondences with
colours, shapes, sounds, perfumes etc.[13]
An old Iranian Shi'a Muslim impression of Jesus
and Mary shows an aura after the style of the farr The symbolism of light found in The Bible is at times associated with
the idea of the aura or "body of light":[14] similar interpretations are
found in Islamic traditions.[15]
According to the literature of Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and Archeosophy also, each colour of the aura has a
meaning, indicating a precise emotional state. A complete description of the aura and its colours was provided by
Charles Leadbeater, a theosophist of the 19th century.[16] The works of Leadbeater were later developed by
Palamidessi[17] and others.
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The British occultist W.E. Butler connected auras with clairvoyance

and etheric, mental and emotional emanations. He classified the aura
into two main types: etheric and spiritual. Auras are thought to serve as
a visual measure of the state of the health of the physical body.[18]
Robert Bruce classifies auras into three types: etheric, main, and
spiritual.[19] According to Bruce auras are not actual light but a
translation of other unknown sensory readings that is added to our
visual processing. They are not seen in complete darkness and cannot
be seen unless some portion of the person or object emitting the aura
can also be seen.[20]

Glenn Morris, grandmaster head of the Hoshin Roshi Ryu lineage,

included perception of the aura in his training of advanced martial
artists. His experience was that it consisted of multiple layers. He
described the most easily visible of these as being "light and denser
than the air in which the body is immersed", typically half to quarter of
an inch thick and correlating with the etheric body of an individual.
Around this he described a yard thick egg-shaped layer reflecting
hormonal state that he linked to the emotional body, and outside this,
other barely perceptible layers corresponding to the mental body and
A stylised aura surrounds the figure of
beyond.[21] Recalling the aura of another sōke, he wrote, "The first
Shakyamuni Buddha in this Bhutanese
time I saw Hatsumi, he was running continuous bright, lime, neon illustration.
green a foot wide and was so easy to see he would flash in bright
sunlight".[22]

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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