Auras...again (ritual, experience, spiritual)

[finalfrogo]

I read through an old thread about auras, but I still have some questions.

1) Can anyone here actually see auras?
2) How can one gain the ability to see auras?
3) What is the difference between an aura and an etheric field?
4) What does an aura suggest about a person? Emotions, lifestyle conditions...?
5) How visible is an actual aura? How solid does it appear? Or does it exist mentally; is it more sensed rather than seen?

[Feathers in Hair]

Originally Posted by finalfrogo

I read through an old thread about auras, but I still have some questions.

1) Can anyone here actually see auras?

I can. I haven't really gotten in the habit of trying to see them with every person, but if I make an effort, I can.

2) How can one gain the ability to see auras?

I'm not sure if anyone can 'gain' the ability, since I think that we're all born with it. When I was little, I'd see them around trees, before 'growing out of it'. I think one has to remember how to do something they already know. Something I've found helpful is to hold your hand against a black cloth, paper or glass, with a light source behind it. Stare at it a bit like you would those 'magic eye' images, trying not to concentrate on what you see, but a bit beyond it. In time and with practice, you should be able to discern an area around the hand beyond the skin. What it looks like will depend on what's being viewed and the viewer themselves. I'm not sure if I should tell you what it looks like to me, since sometimes people feel that how they experience it is influenced by how it was described by another.

3) What is the difference between an aura and an etheric field?

From my own understanding, the aura is what appears to a person 'visually', whether sensed by the eyes or the third eye. An etheric field is the physical energy around a person. I think it has more to do with the sense of touch and more visceral sense than the other.

4) What does an aura suggest about a person? Emotions, lifestyle conditions...?

The shape of it (again, to me) can suggest the person's personality, the color their emotions in various parts of their personality, and how clear or clouded some things are can indicate physical issues. For instance, when I was in massage therapy clinic, I could just 'know' where to work on a person because of what I saw in their field.

5) How visible is an actual aura? How solid does it appear? Or does it exist mentally; is it more sensed rather than seen?

I think the solidity of the aura is based on things like how strong-willed or spiritually active the person is. On some people, it can seem like a physcial presence, something that can't even be seen through. On others, it's like gauze, and the colors are almost impossible to see. For me, it is more sensed than seen, it's just that my brain seems to process it as something visually.

I hope that helps!

[Orleander]

Is an aura a color? If so, do the colors mean anything?

[Feathers in Hair]

Originally Posted by Orleander

Is an aura a color? If so, do the colors mean anything?

For me, sometimes they are. At times, when a person is at their 'lowest' in the mental, physical and spiritual sense), it's almost like a tiny, clear outline of the person around that person. It's as if they barely have the energy to keep themselves together, let alone anything beyond that. I think the colors tend to correspond to what the viewers associate the colors with. For example, for me, yellow is a color of spiritual enlightenment, so if I see that around someone's third eye or crown level, I assume that at some level, they might be 'scoping out' my aura, too. At other times, it's more visceral than colors. When someone is distressed... How to explain this? Well, to me, what I see is the way tin smells.

Please forgive all the 'to me's- I just don't want to create the impression that I think everyone's experience is the same.

[Orleander]

Since not all people see auras, is it possible the people who do have a form of
Synesthesia, a condition characterized by one sensory experience generating another - so that shapes have tastes, for instance - is estimated to affect between 1 in 200 to 1 in 2,000 people. The most common form involves seeing specific letters or numbers (graphemes) in specific colors. For these individuals, known as grapheme-color synesthetes, an ordinary "5," in black ink on a white background, always appears red or a "k," greenish-blue.
I read about this is Discover magazine

[Feathers in Hair]

I certainly think so, especially since being able to percieve auras is such an individual experience. I remember that I had co-worker whose daughter would 'hear' colors, and they were very relieved when the research on synesthesia came out.

You raise a very interesting question, and I wonder if I've been using the wrong phrase in saying 'see auras'. Perhaps 'percieve' would be the better term.

(Off-topic, but I just wanted to let you know I love your signature!)

[Orleander]

Do you feel them? I always wondered if people could feel or hear the Northern Lights.
and thanks on the sigi

[Mister_T]

Originally Posted by FinalFrogo

1) Can anyone here actually see auras?

A good buddy of mine was able to see auras until he got it "fixed"

2) How can one gain the ability to see auras?

He received his "gift" through use of a Qujai Board. A spirit gave it to him.

3) What is the difference between an aura and an etheric field?

No clue

4) What does an aura suggest about a person? Emotions, lifestyle conditions...?

He wasn't too sure. From his observations about people, he gathered that it had to do with the nature of that person. For example there was this guy that worked in the same company as us. He told me that the guy had a trailing black aura. Which he assumed was very bad because he never saw one like that before. The guy was fired from the company. A few months later, the FBI was looking for him. They wanted to question him about a child abduction/murder case (the case is infamous and was all over the news at one point, but I don't wish to say which one it is)

5) How visible is an actual aura? How solid does it appear? Or does it exist mentally; is it more sensed rather than seen?

He could see them as clear as day. He told me that he would go into a movie theater and still see everyone's auras after the lights had gone out. He said they might as well have left them on.

[Feathers in Hair]

Originally Posted by Orleander

Do you feel them? I always wondered if people could feel or hear the Northern Lights.
and thanks on the sigi

The auras? Sometimes. What I can physically feel may be more what Frogo was discussing about an ethereal field. These, like auras, tend to take their form according to the individual. If a person is 'closed off', feeling angry or anything like that, their field takes a kind of nasty feel- like sticky tar. It makes me not want to be physically near the person, even if their outward posture, words and actions seem like everything's okay. On the other hand, people that are happy, naturally friendly or those types of feelings tend to have kind of a cotton-candy area around them. You want to be near them, because their presence is comforting.

An interesting exercise that I had with auras/ ethereal fields was I was in a workshop on being able to percieve the energies within yourself and around you. Half of the people would sit in a circle, while the other half would kind of sense around those persons head and shoulders, getting the feel for where the field begins and how to sense it. As this exercise went on, we were encouraged to try to show each other what peoples fields were like when they were happy, versus upset. When I was one of the ones sitting down, the example we were given was to think of how we would feel if we didn't want anyone around us. Tending to associate with animals, I pictured being a porcupine, quills standing on end. While most described their partners as having a tar or brick feeling, when it came time for the woman who was working with me to describe what she'd felt, she said that it was 'as if there were all these spiky projections in the air around her.'

It's one thing to be studying something and think it's possible, but quite another to have it actually be proven to you. I was kind of floored by that.