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THE OTHER YOU: How To Develop Your Psychic Potential
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Author: Andrew Laurance
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(C) 1986 Javelin Books/US Sterling Publishing Co., Inc
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AURAS:
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Subtile emanation from anything; atmosphere diffused by or attending a
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person etc. especially in mystical use as a definite envelope of body
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and spirit.
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OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
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The idea of an aura, a luminosity radiating from our bodies, is as old
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as history itself, and that all living matter is surrounded by an enrgy
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cloud, which can be seen by sensitives as a colorful emanation
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following the contours of the body to a width of between one centimetre
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and a metre, is one of the phenomena described by psychics which is
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accepted by scientists as being worthy of examination.
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Since time immemorial holy personages have been represnted by a
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surrounding light, and long before the Christians circled the heads of
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their saints with halos, the early Egyptians, the Greeks, Romans and
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Indians had fringes of radiancy shinning from the bodies of their
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dieties and the aura of Buddha was believed to envelope a whole city.
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Not until the middle of the 19th Century were auras questioned by
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science. In the 1850's (*interesting date, is it not?*; LM) the German
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chemist Baron Karl von Pheichenbach (1788-1869), who discovered
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creosote and paraffin, became interesed in the paranormal and started
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experimenting with various psychic friends, coming to the conclusion
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that people radiated a force that particularly sensitive persons couls
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see and feel in the DARK. He called this force od, from which came the
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term "odic force", a form of body magnetism which many at the time were
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pleased to believe explained away the root of spiritualists' ectoplasm,
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their power to move furniture, speak in a multitude of voices and make
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a good deal of frightening noises.
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Though a Yugoslav scientist, Nikola Telsa became interested in the
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subject some thirty years later and invented a wire coil device that
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caused the body to spark, it was not till 1911 that someone decided to
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research the possibility that this divine mythical light could in fact
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be explained as an electric currnt produced by the human body.
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A British doctor, Walter Kilner (1847-1920), in charg of the
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electro-therapy department of St. Thosmas's Hospital in London
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discovered that by looking through coloured glass screens he could see
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a definite band of light, six inches wide emanating from the body. He
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further discovered that the band of light changed shape and colour
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depending on the health of the subject and realized its immense
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potential for diagnostic purposes.
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Inventing a glass screen which hermetically sealed solutions of
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dycyanin dyes, he was able to precieve a misty light around the head
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and shoulders and hands of his human guinea pigs when he stood them up
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against a black back drop.
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In his book, "The Aura", he describes the luminosity appearing in three
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layers, the innermost of which he refers to as "the etheric double" ,
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the middle the "inner aura", surrounded by the "outer aura".
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The whole aura, he found, was sensitive to magnetism and electric
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current, which, when applied, vanished to reappear again with greater
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intensity.
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Not everyone was able to see Kilner's aruras, though using his screens,
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and he explained that he had had to sepnd a good deal of time before
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carrying out his experiments getting his eyes accustomed to looking
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through his screen by first staring at daylight through darker glass.
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He also claimed that he was perhaps more sensitive to auras than
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others, and that his is likely is explained in this passage from Lyall
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Watson's "Supernature":
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"Our eyes are sensitive to light that lies between the wavelengths of
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380 and 760 millimicrons. With very high intensity artificial sources
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we can extend this at either end of the spectrum into the areas of
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infrared and ultraviolet light. The fact that man's body sends out
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electromagnetic waves just too long for most people to see has been
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vividly demonstrated by the new "thermographic" technique, which
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translates heat radiation into wonderful colour pictures. Atpms
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generate infrared rays by their constant motion, and the warmer they
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are the more active they become. In thermographic portraits, cold hair
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and gingernails show up black of blue, cool earlobes are green, the
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nose is a lukewarm yellow, and the neck and cheeks glow with orange and
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red. The system is now being used to detect tumours, arthritis, and
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cancer, which show up as isolated hot areas."
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(Note: Shampoo advertisements on television demonstrate thermographic
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hair as an easily accessable example.)
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"So the body does radiate on a wavelength just outside our normal
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vision, and this radiation changes according to the health of the
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transmitter.
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Perhaps Kilmer was right. THe range of human sensitivity is quite wide:
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some people hear sounds that to others are supersonic, and some people
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see wavelengths that to others are invisible. Those who claim to be
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able to see an aura surrounding living things could be supersensitive
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at the infrared end of the spectrum. Wave this length are beyond the
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capability of the cone-shaped cells of the retina, which appreciate
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visible colours, but they may be within the range of the rod-shaped
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cells that are more sensitive to low light intensities."
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Kilner's theories and discoveries had to wait until 1939 before they
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gained credibility amoung the scientific factions. In Krasnador,
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southern Russia, near the Black Sea, lived an electician, Semyon
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Kirlian. He was an extremely competent man and his services were often
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called upon by researchers working at the local hospital to repair the
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varioius pieces of equipment when they malfunctioned.
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One day, while in a laboratory, Kirlian was present during a
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demonstration of a new high frequency electrotherapy unit.
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As the patient received the treatment through electrodes, Kirlian
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noticed minute flashes of light sparking between the person's skin and
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the electrodes themselves.
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An amateur photographer, fascinated by the infinite possibilities
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offered by a photographic plate, he wondered whether it would be
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possible to record these minute skin flashes.
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He realized that since the electodes were made of glass for safety, the
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photographic plate would be ruined by exposure to light before the unit
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could even be switched on, so he decided to use metal electodes; though
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this was clearly dangerous.
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Placing his own hand in the right position after adjusting the
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photographic plate, he switched on the power, was instantly and
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painfully burnt, but hoped that after the three seconds he had exposed
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the plates, he might have an original photograph.
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When the plate was developed he saw a very strange imprint. Around the
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contours of his fingers a luminosity had been recorded.
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He set to work developing a machine that would photograph this apparent
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aura. The known techniques of photography without light -X-Ray and
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infrared - he knew would be of no use, so he devised a process that
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would only catch this new luminous energy emanating from the body.
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Helped by his wife, Valentina, a journalist and teacher, he eventually
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found a method of taking the pictures he wanted and his first
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successful result was the photograph of a leaf revealing, around its
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edges, millions of light energy dots flaring in turquoise and orange
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patterns from the direction of the lef's veins.
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When he similarly photographed his own finger, it appeared on the
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picture like an erupting volcano, flames of energy sparking from the
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tips.
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As these were static pictures, the husband and wife team went on to
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perfect an optical instrument that would enable them to see their
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discovery in motion and, according to the Ostrander and Schoeder report
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in "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain":
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"The hanbd itself looked like Milky Way is a starry sky. Against a
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background of blue or gold, something was taking place in the hand that
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looked like a firework display. Multicoloured flares lit up, then
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sparks, twinkles, flashes. Some lights glowed steadily like Roman
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candles, others flashed out then dimmed. Still others sparked at
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intervals. In parts of his hand there were little dim clouds. Cerain
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glittering glares meandering along sparkling labyrinths like spaceships
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travelling to other galaxies.
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"When the Kirlians places a fresh leaf under the lens of a microscope
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connected to the high frequency generator, they saw a picture similar
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to that of the human hand. Next they tried a half withered lead. It
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looked like a great metropolis turning out its lights for the night.
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They tried an almost completely withered lead. There were almost no
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flares and sparks and "clouds" scarcely moved. As they watched, the
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lead seemed to be dying before their eyes and its death was reflected
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in the picture of energy impulses. "We appeared to be seeing the very
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life activities of the leaf itself," Kirlian said, "intense, dynamic
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energy in the healthy lead, less in the withered lead, nothing in the
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dead lead."
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This Kirlian discovery soon made scientific news and, with the backing
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of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, they elaborated further on their
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machines and carried out endless experiments.
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What they proves was what mediums had been saying for years, that
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living matter has an aura, and that that aura is affected by
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frequencies of energy governed by the state of health of the subject.
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Fatigue, poor states of mind, anxieties and illnesses all contribute to
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the behaviour of the aura.
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When the Kirlians examined two leaves side by side taken from similar
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plants and saw a sharp contrast, they were puzzled. But a visiting
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scientist who had given them the leaves was quite ecstatic.
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"Both leaves were torn from the same species of plant, but one of these
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plants had already been contaminated with a serious plant disease.
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You've found this out immediately! There is absolutely nothing on the
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plant or this lead to indicate that it has been infected and will soon
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die. No tests on the actual plant or the leaf show anything wrong with
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it. With high frequency photography you've diagnosed illness in the
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plant AHEAD OF TIME!"
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In the Ostrander and Schroeder book a series of photographs are
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reproduced. These show, among other things, the changes in
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lumninescence of a figertip when the subject was calm and even tempered
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compared to the fingertip when the subject was in a state of gatrigue.
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The aura, when the person is calm, resembles a glowing coal fire, when
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gatigued, like the exhaust of flaring rockets.
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Psychics who can see auras all seem to agree that the luminescence
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around the human body is egg-shaped, wide around the head and
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shoulders, tapering towards the feet.
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In the famous book, "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of
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Knowledge" by Carlos Castaneda, who wrote it when he was a graduate
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student at the University of Califronia, this egg-shapes aura is
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briefly but interestingly mentioned.
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In 1960, Carlos Castaneda first met Don Juan, a Yaqui Indian feared and
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shunned by the ordinary folk of the Maerican South West because of his
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unnatural powers. During the next five years Don Juan's arcane
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knowledge led him into a world of beauty and terror, rules by concepts
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far beyond those of Western civilization. Using psychedelic drugs --
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peyote, jimson weed and mushroom humito -- Castenada lived through
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encounters with diembodied spirits, shamans in the form of huge wolves,
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and death in the shape of silver crows. Three times he met Mescalito,
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the god of peyote; finally, after a night of terror in which he
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realized his life was threatened by forces which he still cannot fully
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explain, he gave up the struggle to become a Man of Knowledge -- to
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find the other you -- but wrote his remarkable book in which Don Juan
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tells him:
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"I like to sit in parks and bus depots and watch. Real people look like
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luminous eggs when you "see" them. In a crowd of egglike creatures you
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can spot the one who looks just like a person, then you know that there
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is something wrong and that, without this luminous glow, this is not a
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real person at all."
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Having accepted that all living matter is surrounded by a field of
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force which can sometimes be seen or photographed as an aura, there is
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also the aura which is perceived by psychics that DIFFERS slightly in
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that is is coloured by the thought processes of the subject.
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This colouring ranges from fine violet, blue hues to yellows, dark
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browns, greys and dull reds. Sometimes the auras shine with a pure
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golden light, which, if some of the interpetations put on colour can be
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proved to be correct, signifies spirituality.
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Pale blues and purples are interpeted as the given power of healing.
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Pink for pure love and effection. Red for desire and anger. Green for
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intellect. Browns and muddy shades going to greys signify disease. An
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aura which appears to be shrivelling sggests approaching death.
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THese colours, however, are not always reliable symbols and should not
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be applied as hard and fast rules. What matters most in the aura is its
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clarity and purity of colours which indicates stability, or instability
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in the subject's character. Blues merging into reds merging into greys
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like a dirty artist's palate is supsect. A clear yellow outlined by a
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pure green is obviously more sound.
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The acquisition of auric sight, like all otehr parnaormal faculties, is
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a question of practice and patience. Compared to other forms of psychic
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powers it is, however, relatively simpe to try out, providing you give
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yourself time and do not limit yourself to only one or two experiments.
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Auric sight is one of the faculties which may indicate that you can
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develop OTHER powers in the psychic field, but apart from this, and
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possibly confirming that a person is physically or mentaly unwell
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because of the poor state of their aura, auric sight can only be
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regarded as a fascinating additional and supernatural dimension.
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