Training to See Auras

Object	Auric Colour
Red	Green
Orange	Pale Green
Yellow	Pale Blue
Green	Orange
Blue	Yellow
Indigo	Gold
Violet	Pale Gold
Pink	Iridescent Green

The exact shade and tone of a colour's aura varies a great deal, according to the shade and tone of the colour you are observing. Auras are also affected by the background colour against which they are highlighted, when observed.

Auric colours are similar in appearance to after images. Afterimages are generated by staring - for twenty seconds or so - at a brightly illuminated colour, and then quickly closing your eyes, or looking away.

It is commonly thought: that afterimages are generated by colour depletion, of the rods and cones in the eyes, caused by staring at one colour for too long. This generates the reverse, or negative colour, of that colour. An afterimage stays in sight until this colour depletion is corrected, and the eyes return to normal.

I disagree with this theory - and for very good reasons. Afterimages are generated by staring for a long time at a coloured object - for twenty of thirty seconds, or more. This is why I disagree with this theory: When auric sight is more advanced, the aura of a colour can be seen clearly, almost the instant a coloured object is glanced at with auric sight. No prolonged staring is required to produce an aura.

I have just done a test, while sitting here typing this. Across the room from me, about seven feet away, is a chair. Hanging over it's back is a bright-blue shirt. I have done no exercises to stimulate my auric sight, at all. It is early in the morning now, about 6am, and I have not long woken up. A clear, dense, yellow aura begins to appear in just under four seconds (I timed it). This is, surely, far too short a time to generate an afterimage? I did this several times and it became faster and easier to do, and the aura brighter, each time.

Now, you could say that my eyes are becoming depleted of the colour blue, by continuing to do this, thus more easily generating the yellow aura. So, I turn around and look at a red shirt hanging on a hook behind me, on the other side of the room. This time, a clear, dense, bright-green aura appears in just under five seconds. This is _far_ too short a time to generate an afterimage? Now, when I am on what I call, a clairvoyant high, the auras of colours appear to me, almost the instant I glance at them - within one second. There is no appreciable delay at all, they are just there, ballooning out from colours, as I look at them.

The auras I see, around colours as well as people, do drag slightly at my eyes, creating a kind of afterimage effect if I stare for too long at it. This effect is similar to how a normal afterimage behaves - dragging and following my field of view.

Now, when I observe the aura of a person, I normally ask them to remove some of their clothing. This gives me a much clearer view of their aura, without the interference caused by the colours of their clothing. I see clear, bright colours in these auras, building up from bare skin. My point here is this: bare skin has _no_ colour that can generate any kind of coloured afterimage.

To be truthful, though, the auric colours I see around colours, as well as people, are often still visible, hanging briefly before my eyes, when I look away or close my eyes. This _is_ a coloured afterimage - but created by staring at an aura's colour _not_ at a physical colour.

Another interesting point: the colours of any afterimages I get, when observing living human auras, are exactly the same colours, as the colours of the aura I am looking at - there is _no_ reverse colour effect at all, with a bare skin, living aura.

So, if colour depletion, of the rods and cones in the eyes, is solely responsible for afterimages, how can this happen?

A better way of explaining the reverse colour afterimage effect is: (slow auric colours).

By staring hard at a colour, the auric colour of that subject is slowly impressed upon the sight centre of the brain. It is _not_ the eyes that are depleted of colour, but that the auric colour has been impressed upon the brain's sight centre.

The afterimages that appear, when you stare at primary colours, are the same as the auric colours generated by those colours. The similarity in these colours - rather than contradicting the validity of the auric colour of colour - supports them. Why would they be any different?

You will, in the early stages of training to see auras, cause quite a strong after image effect. This will drag and follow your eyes, and still be seen when you close your eyes or look away. This is the slow auric image effect - caused by staring so intently, and for so long, while trying to master the basic\ technique for seeing auras.

This after image effect lessens in stages. Once the basic technique is mastered, most of the afterimage effect disappears. Then, as the brow centre develops further, being stimulated through use, the afterimage effect decreases steadily, until they are hardly noticeable.

There will, however, always be a slight afterimage, of sorts, when you really study an aura. This is unavoidable when you gaze intently upon an aura, trying to discover it's secrets. The nature of auric sight, and the involvement of the normal optical sight process, will always cause a slight afterimage drag - or slow auric image, as I call it. This happens, even when auric sight develops into the advanced stages.

The way the aura builds up is also, totally unlike the way an after image appears. It builds up, mushrooming bright colours from bare skin - it does not just fade slowly into sight - it grows before your eyes. The colours of a living aura do not begin as a pale shadow, fading into view and then slowly deepening and growing brighter. They are one consistent colour, from their first appearance as a thin outline, highlighting the etheric aura, close to the skin, to their full size - often more than two or three feet wide. Auras are also, not just a slight outline of colour around the skin, but large, vivid bands of colour, with thickness and depth to them. And, finally, while an aura is building up, if you shift focus slightly, or blink, it disappears instantly - only to reappear a few seconds later - an after image does not.

Auras are seen with peripheral vision (side vision) and cannot be seen by directly focussing on them. To see an aura, you have to look to the side and past your subject. Peripheral vision is extremely sensitive to movement, much more so than direct focussed vision. It can detect minute movements that your central, focussed vision will not see. Peripheral vision is also sensitive to many other types of subtle energy that surround us.

Most people have had the experience of catching sight of some movement - out of the corner of their eye - only to see nothing when they turn and focus on it.

What happens is:
1. They have seen an aura building up from a coloured object.
2. They have seen a spirit entity (ghost) manifesting near them, and have detected it's energy with their more sensitive, peripheral vision.

An English doctor, Dr Walter J. Kilner, in 1911, used colour as an aid to stimulating auric sight.

Dr Kilner, researched the use of auric sight, as an aid to diagnosing the health of his patients. He used dicyanin screens for this. Dicyanin is a dye product of coal tar. These screens consisted of two pieces of glass with dicyanin dye sandwiched and sealed between them. He found that by using these - aura goggles, as he called them - he could stimulate the ability to see the human aura.

He would stare, for a few minutes, through these screens, at a bright light. When he looked away, he could see an aura surrounding his patient. He would then note any changes and abnormalities in their aura, and compare them with other observations, taken of healthy people. This allowed him to detect disease, in the very early stages, before the actual symptoms of that disease appeared.

Dr. Kilner used several different coloured screens, and combinations of them. Different coloured screens showed him different aspects, or layers, of an aura. He also used strips of brightly illuminated, coloured cloth. He would stare at one of these strips, after preparing his eyes, by looking through one of his screens. These strips caused a phantom strip, of a different colour, to appear in his gaze. These were like small windows, that could be moved around by shifting his gaze, highlighting different parts of his subject's aura. This gave him a different view of their aura, in that part.

How this works: By looking through these screens, at bright light, Kilner flooded his eyes with the slow auric colour of that screen (it's reverse colour). This made his eyes hypersensitive to that particular auric colour, enabling him to see that colour in his subject's aura. Different coloured screens would allow him to see different colours in an aura. The use of the strips of colour, then enabled him to see the slow auric colour (reverse colour) of the coloured strip, minus the original colour of the screen he was using - showing a small band of an entirely different colour, in the aura. This small band of colour could be moved around the patient's aura, by shifting his gaze, like a small window, highlighting the area it covered.

One interesting thing about Dr Kilner's work is this: After using these screens for several months or more, he found he needed to use them less and less. By continually straining to see auras, with his aura goggles, he stimulated his brow centre, and mastered the visual technique needed to see the aura. He eventually gained _full_ auric sight, i.e., he no longer needed the aura goggles to see auras.

If you would like to get a copy of Dr Kilner's book, you will find it contains many fine colour plates (paintings) showing the aura, as seen by himself and his associates. These show the different effects that can be had using combinations of different coloured screens and coloured strips.

Kilner's book is listed, in the book I read, as: Kilner, Walter John. (1965). "The Human Aura." (New Ed.). New York: University Books. I was quoted $300.00 US, for the purchase of this book.

Note: I cannot comment on the effectiveness of using genuine aura goggles, as I have never actually seen a pair. I did, however, experiment with a pair I made myself, many years ago. I used two pieces of glass, covered them with a deep blue dye, and sealed the edges with windscreen sealant. I followed Kilner's instructions, staring at a bright light through this screen, etc.

I found this made my eyes _extremely_ sore, and so, after awhile, discontinued using them. They did work, however, and showed me some interesting auric effects. I considered it was not a healthy practise, though, due to the painful burning it caused in my eyes, and the possibility that it could damage them. In his book, Kilner gives a warning about this nasty side effect - burning, sore eyes.

The human aura is an energy field that surrounds the human body, and reflects the subtle life energies at work within and around it. This is something like the magnetic field that surrounds a simple magnet. Like a magnetic field, the aura is generated within physical matter - but is also affected by it's surroundings. The energies flowing through the aura make us what we are, and are in turn affected by our surrounding life conditions and life style. The aura reflects the activity of our organs, health, mental activity and emotional state. It also shows disease - often long before the onset of physical symptoms. The strength and properties of an aura are determined by the amount of, and the quality of, the energies flowing through it.

The main human aura is banded around the body - strata like. Imagine a person with thick, coloured hoops of light dropped over them, and you get the general idea. The main colours of the aura emanate from the primary energy centres (major chakras - or psychic centres). The individual bands of colour are difficult to see, unless you have very well- developed auric sight, and are observing under optimum conditions.

Close to the skin is the etheric aura. This is often called "The vitality sheath". It is seen (with auric sight) as a pale, narrow band, next to the skin, outlining the body. This is usually no more than half an inch wide - depending upon the vitality of the subject. It looks like a dense layer of pale smoke, clinging to the skin. This is the visible part of the energy body, in it's contracted state. During sleep, the etheric aura expands and opens (becoming larger and finer) in order to absorb and store vitality (cosmic energy?) within it. After sleep, the energy body contracts and forms a dense sheath surrounding the body, close to the skin. This holds within it the stored energies we all need for living. In a way, the energy body is like a living storage battery. During sleep, it automatically sets itself on recharge, replacing the energies that have been used up.

The primary energy centres (chakras) are the non-physical organs of the energy body. There are at least seven primary centres, and over three hundred secondary and minor centres, scattered throughout the human body. All together, they form a complex network of non-physical energy components. These are all joined together by interconnecting pathways, or meridians.

These centres, and their interconnecting pathways (meridians) were charted by the Chinese, and other Eastern races, thousands of years ago. Modern versions of these charts are still widely used today, in many types of alternative medicine and body work, i.e., acupuncture and reflexology.

Primary energy centres are attached to major internal organs, glands, nerve ganglia and the spinal cord. Secondary and minor energy centres are attached to joints, glands and nerve clusters, throughout the body.

There are active centres - transforming and manipulating energy - feeding other energy centres and taking care of life processes - both physical and non-physical. There are storage centres, communication centres, and centres designed to absorb energy from other energy sources around us.

Some energy sources: Food, water, oxygen, sunlight, planetary energy, cosmic energy, love, sex, music. Some of these energy sources are very subtle, but all are necessary for us to live a balanced life.

Energy centres are invisible to the naked eye but can be felt, quite strongly, when they are active (as a pulsing, thrumming sensation). When energy is consciously drawn from one centre to another, through the connecting meridians, this can be felt as: A rushing water sensation, a spreading warmth, a tingling feeling, or a combination of these. Energy centres (chakras) can also be seen - with auric and clairvoyant sight - as whirling vortexes of intensely coloured light).

Every energy centre has important individual functions, in the energy body. It also works in conjunction with all the other major and minor centres. Each centre is an individual, but integral part of the energy body. They all work together, for the good of the whole energy body; just as all the physical organs, brain, heart, liver, kidneys, glands, etc, work together for the good of the whole physical body.

The energy body is extremely complex. It is, in a way, similar to an electronic device. Energy flows into the electronic device, and on through connecting pathways (meridians) that are etched into the circuit board. These connecting pathways (meridians) carry energy on to all it's electronic components, (chakras), diodes, resistors, capacitors, etc. Energy is continually being changed, enhanced and transformed, by these components; to serve a multitude of different purposes, required by the device, as a whole unit, to function properly.

A single energy centre, is very much like a single electronic component. It takes in energy from the components around it, and changes the value of it. It enhances this energy, in various ways, transforming it into something different, that is needed by the whole unit.

Each energy centre (chakra) takes in the different types of energy it requires, from other energy centres in the energy body, and generates a completely different type of energy - with a different value and colour - according to what is required.

The strength of each primary energy centre, in any particular person, depends upon that person's individual makeup; their nature, health and life style, as well as their spiritual, moral and psychic development. The energy generated by all the chakras at once, is reflected into the aura, mixing together and causing the dominant hue of the aura. This, dominant hue, is the part of the aura most commonly seen with auric sight.

Chakra Name	Colour
Base	Red
Spleen	Orange
Solar Plexus	Yellow
Heart	Green
Throat	Blue
Brow	Violet
Crown	Gold

1. Base: base of spine (between anus and genitals)
2. Spleen: navel area
3. Solar Plexus: base of sternum
4. Heart: centre of chest (over heart)
5. Throat: base of throat, just above where it joins the chest
6. Brow: exact centre of forehead (between the eyes)
7. Crown: whole top of head, above the hairline

Notes:
Each primary is best thought of as - roughly the size of your hand.
Each primary has more than one functioning part (or petal).
The _exact_ location of sensations felt, when a primary centres is active will vary slightly - depending on what part of that centre (or petal) is active. E.G. The spleen centre is usually felt between the tummy button and pubic line. The brow centre is often felt between the eyebrows, instead of on the actual brow.

The basic hue of an aura is it's dominant colour. This is the most visible colour of the multiple energies generated by all the chakras (mixed together) creating a general, overall colour. There are, of course, many different colours in any person's aura, but the basic hue is usually seen first.

Many people suggest that people can be classified, as being a particular type of person, by the basic hue of their aura.

For example:
Red - sensuality, vitality, raw energy.
Orange - emotion.
Yellow - personality power, mental power, intellect.
Green - spirituality, love, affinity with nature, natural healer.
Blue - highly spiritual, religious, natural teacher, healer.
Violet - very highly spiritual, psychic, clairvoyance, religious, teacher and healer.
Gold - highly advanced spirituality and psychic abilities - an adept.

I have found this method of classification to be both unfair to the person being classified, and extremely misleading. The basic meanings of the individual colours are well known - as above. I find the human aura to be such a complex and changeable engine, it just cannot be classified in such a simple way.

For example: if a person, with a predominantly blue aura, is experiencing an emotional crisis, their aura will be flooded with large patches of orange. This is a temporary state only, and once the crisis is resolved, their aura will revert to it's natural blue.

There are so many things that can temporarily change the appearance of an aura - sometimes just for an hour or more. Devotional worship, for example, generates high minded feelings and deep spiritual love. An unstable, emotional, dominant and violent person, who's aura is, say, naturally red and orange, with streaks of black in it - can generate higher spiritual colours, during worship. These will temporarily flood their aura, giving them the appearance (to auric sight) of being a very spiritual person - but hiding their "true colours" and hence, their true nature.

Jock:
Blue: Jock was a young man I knew, several years ago. He was an extremely vital, sensitive man, but was very unstable, having a lot of problems. Jock was a deep thinker, and we would often expound upon the meaning of life and the nature of the universe, together. At times like this I would often see a lovely spiritual blue, surrounding him.

Red: Now, once Jock had a few drinks in him (alcohol), he could become extremely aggressive, violent and dangerous - at the drop of a hat. At times like this, I would see his aura change dramatically, in moments, to a bright, angry red, with big orange patches and black streaks in it. Not a trace of his original blue aura would remain. This, red, orange and black colour, would stay with him, until he calmed down completely and sobered up.

Dan:
Dan was an old friend of mine, with a naturally green aura. When Dan has a problem, his mind goes into overdrive, trying to find a solution to his problem. His aura then changes to bright yellow, flooding strongly through his aura. This reverts to it's original green, very quickly, once he has found a solution. I have often observed this, while playing chess with him. Every time he gets into a sticky situation, his aura floods yellow.

Gardening:
When I have been gardening - having a lot of physical contact with plants - the aura around my hands and forearms changes to a lovely green. This green fades away a few hours later. Close contact with plants seems to have an effect on the energy body. Maybe this is where the old saying comes from "Having a green thumb" - for gardening.

These examples demonstrate the changeable nature of the human aura, in a very general way. An aura is a variable reflection of the energy activity going on within a person. This reflection is detected by the brow centre of the observer, and interpreted, as coloured bands of light, by the sight centre of their brain. Health, mood, emotion, strong thoughts, drugs, and other influences, stimulate many different energy patterns in the primary and secondary energy centres. These different patterns change the overall quality of the energy being reflected into the aura. This generates many different colours - which changes the auras dominant colours.

The human aura is very sensitive to colour. It reacts to the colours of clothing worn and to the colours of it's surrounding area. Colour affects the subtle flow of energies within the energy body. This accounts for our strong natural likes and dislikes, when it comes to choosing the colours we wear, and those that surround us.

This sensitivity varies, from person to person, depending upon how sensitive they are and how sensitive their aura is. Women, generally, have more delicate and sensitive auras than men. They are, therefore, far more sensitive to the effects of colour, than men are. Colour can have a strong effect on a very sensitive person. If they wear a colour that clashes too badly with their aura, it can make them physically ill.

The effect of colour on the emotions is well known. Wall colours are carefully chosen, in hospitals and other institutions, to calm agitated people and put them at ease. Soft pastel shades of pink and blue are the most frequently used colours for this, because of their well-known calming effect.

Training to See Auras - Part II