Chapter 4

THE LAYERS OF THE AURA AND OUR

MULTIDIMENSIONAL BODY

The physical body

While the physical body is obvious to our physical senses as it can be seen, touched and felt both by ourselves
and by others, the subtle bodies creating the layers of our aura are not detectable by our five physical senses.
However, many subtle effects can be measured that appear to have no physical source, such as the healing
energy of a healer’s hands or the instantaneous psychic flow of thoughts from one person to another.
Once we incorporate the subtle bodies of Man into his physical body, we begin to see a multidimensional
being. While the physical body is the only body currently recognized in western thought, in the East the
subtle bodies associated with this physical body have been very well defined.1
In the East, it is generally recognized that humans have a physical body that is surrounded and
interpenetrated by at least four other subtle bodies.2 The other subtle bodies exist at different frequencies of
subtle vibration. For instance, as electromagnetic radiation exists over a spectrum of frequencies from
microwaves to gamma rays, the magnetoelectric radiation also exists over a frequency range of vibrations, from
the lowest vibrations of the etheric to the highest vibrations of the causal or spiritual body. As an analogy, you
can think of the piano keyboard with low C, middle C and high C; all are C notes but at very different
frequencies. When a high C string is activated strongly, the low C string will also vibrate because of frequency
resonance. However, if you are measuring the energy of vibration at the low C frequencies, you are perceiving
only a small amount of the energy originally put into the high C string.

Figure 4.1 The multidimensional human body.

Interpenetrating and extending beyond the physical body are several subtle energy bodies of Man. The etheric body fits the physical body like a
glove fits a hand, while the astral body extends well beyond the etheric body but has a less distinct shape and the mental and spiritual bodies

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