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1 Spiritual traditions
SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS
the subtle body of seven colours. In many Hindu paintings of gods and goddesses, aura is marked on their
backhead. The Buddhist ag represents the colours seen
around the enlightened Buddha.[16] 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.[17] Hindu and Buddhist sources often link these
colours to Kundalini energy and the chakras.[18]
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For holistic healers, aura reading is the art of investigating the human energy eld, or the energy elds 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.
Astral plane
Aura (symptom)
Aureola
Chakra
Clairvoyance
Tests
Tests of psychic abilities to observe alleged aura emanations have repeatedly met with failure.[11]
Classical element
Energy (spirituality)
Etheric Body
One test involved placing people in a dark room and asking the psychic to state how many auras she could observe.
Only chance results were obtained.[12]
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.[13]
Mental body
Subtle body
Kirlian photography
Odic force
Parapsychology
Qi
Radiesthesia
Walter Kilner
List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
5 References
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Explanation
See also
Afterimage
Astral body
[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 denition of Aura page 14; Definition of Third Eye Page 200
[2] Glossary of Psi (Parapsychological) Terms (A-D)".
Parapsych.org. Retrieved 2015-03-05.
[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 (accessed 4 March
2010)
[6] Painter, Sally. Aura Colors and Their Meaning.
[7] Brennan, Barbara Ann (1 May 1988). Hands of Light: A
Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field. Bantam Books. pp. 109110. ISBN 0553345397. Retrieved
22 June 2014.
[8] auras - The Skeptics Dictionary. Skepdic.com. Retrieved 2015-03-05.
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Auras in the Skeptics dictionary
The Aura: A Brief Review
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