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Auras: A World of Light and Mystery · The Occult Rejects

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  Speaker 1: You see, something's going to happen. What's going to happen?
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  Speaker 1: From ancient myth and sacred art to new age healing
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  Speaker 1: and cutting edge science, few concepts bradge so many domains
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  Speaker 1: as the human error. The very word rror comes from
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  Speaker 1: Greek meaning breath or breeze, evoking an invisible essence that
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  Speaker 1: surrounds life. Across cultures and centuries, people have described a
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  Speaker 1: luminous emanation or energy field around living beings, a halo
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  Speaker 1: of sanctity, a vital force, or a subtle body of light.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a literal glow, spiritual symbolism, a physiological illusion.
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  Speaker 1: In this episode, we journey through folklore, religion, medicine, mysticism, science,
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  Speaker 1: and psychology to illuminate the many paces of the ore.
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  Speaker 1: We will encounter the golden haloes of saints and Buddha's,
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  Speaker 1: the chakras and she of Eastern traditions, the otic force
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  Speaker 1: and astral light of occultists, the ghostly flares of Kerlean photography,
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  Speaker 1: the ultra weak biophotons of living cells, and the skeptics
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  Speaker 1: laboratory where our readers meet blind tests. Each one reveals
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  Speaker 1: a new dimension, from sacred radiance to scientific research from
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  Speaker 1: personal perception to coarse cultural phenomena, inviting you to decide
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  Speaker 1: what the aura ultimately means. Neither dismissing the believers nor
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  Speaker 1: shine from the evidence. Let us explain the ore in
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  Speaker 1: all its colors. Long before or Is enter the vocabulary
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  Speaker 1: of spiritual healers, the idea that wholly a charismatic persons
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  Speaker 1: shine with an otherworldly light was widespread a religious art
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  Speaker 1: of East and West. Halos, nimbuses and orioles encircle the
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  Speaker 1: heads of saints Bodusatuus, and emperors to signify their inner sanctity.
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  Speaker 1: In Christian iconography, for example, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and
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  Speaker 1: the saints are traditionally depicted with a gold disc or
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  Speaker 1: radiant crown, a visual metaphor for divine grace. The Eastern
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  Speaker 1: Orthodox speak of the uncreated light of Mount Tabor the
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  Speaker 1: light of Christ's transfiguration, holding that truly holy persons may
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  Speaker 1: witness or even admit this divine light through intense prayer.
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  Speaker 1: This Taboric light is not a physical glow, but the
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  Speaker 1: actual energy of God manifesting in the material world, according
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  Speaker 1: to Palamite theology, and is considered uncreated of a different
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  Speaker 1: essence than any created luminosity. In the Bible, we likewise
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  Speaker 1: find Moses descending Mount Sinai with his face shining so
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  Speaker 1: brightly that he veiled himself, an encounter with God's glory
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  Speaker 1: cavode that left a residual ore. The Hebrew term cavode
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  Speaker 1: itself denotes weighty glory or radiance, understood as the visible
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  Speaker 1: presence of Yahweh. Jewish mystics later spoke of the shikina,
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  Speaker 1: or indwelling divine light. Other ancient cultures had strikingly similar notions.
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  Speaker 1: In Zoroastrian Persia, the king or hero was said to
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  Speaker 1: possess the kavaruna or far in later Persian, a mystical
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  Speaker 1: radiant force granted by Hora Mazda God to legitimate rulers.
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  Speaker 1: This glory was an invisible yet palpable aura of righteousness
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  Speaker 1: that conferred divine right and insured just rule. If a
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  Speaker 1: king fell into falsehood of cruelty straining from cosmic truth, asha,
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  Speaker 1: he was believed to lose his or grace and with it,
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  Speaker 1: his mandate to rule. The Iranian epic kings were literally
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  Speaker 1: followed by a luminous tale of glory, a concept so
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  Speaker 1: embedded that later Islamic rulers in Iran also claimed a
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  Speaker 1: sort of inherited far. In ancient Mesopotamia, the related idea
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  Speaker 1: of milam referred to a brilliant terror or radiance clothing
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  Speaker 1: the gods and hero kings. An Akkadian rulers inscription might
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  Speaker 1: describe their fearsome milam emin from his person, overwhelming his enemies. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: Mesopotamian and Persian law envisioned a shining or a sanctifying
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  Speaker 1: kings and temples, a divine radiance kavarna associated with rightful power.
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  Speaker 1: In Polynesian culture, mana is an invisible spiritual potency that
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  Speaker 1: can pervade people, places, and objects. Mana is often described
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  Speaker 1: as a supernatural force or energy that one can accumulate
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  Speaker 1: or be blessed with. A chief or hero is high
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  Speaker 1: in manner, effectively surrounded by a potent field of spiritual influence.
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  Speaker 1: While mana is not usually visualized as light, it functions
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  Speaker 1: like an aura, an intangible force that signifies power, authority,
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  Speaker 1: and divine favor the Polynesian heroes. Mana can even be contagious,
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  Speaker 1: rub off on those around him, or reside in his
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  Speaker 1: personal artifacts. In Hindu and Buddhist law, we similarly hear
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  Speaker 1: of great sages or deities glowing with tijas splendor or
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  Speaker 1: probra or. Early Buddhist text described the Buddhists body as
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  Speaker 1: emanating a halo of light. Buddhist art across India, China,
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  Speaker 1: and Japan abundantly features mendolas, full body halos, and crania halos,
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  Speaker 1: each colour coded with specific meanings. In Tibetan Buddhism, halo
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  Speaker 1: iconography became elaborate, flaming orioles around wrathful deities, rainbow colored
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  Speaker 1: rings around compassionate ones. All these serve to communicate the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual radiance of enlightened beings. As one scholar put it,
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  Speaker 1: halo serve as potent symbols of divinity, virtue, and authority
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  Speaker 1: across the verse cultural contexts. Notably, such radiance isn't reserved
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  Speaker 1: only for deities and royalty. Folk traditions often hold that
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  Speaker 1: ordinary people can shine under special conditions intense prayer, trance,
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  Speaker 1: or moral purity. Medieval Christian mystics like Hildegard of Bingin
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  Speaker 1: reported seeing luminous vapors around persons, interpreting them as individual
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  Speaker 1: soul light or health state. Hildegarde herself in her illuminated manuscripts,
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  Speaker 1: painted human silhouettes filled with cosmic circles of light. In Islam,
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  Speaker 1: Sufi saints were sometimes said to exude a neur light,
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  Speaker 1: especially at their death. In an intriguing cult cultural parallel,
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  Speaker 1: Tibetan Lamas who achieve the rainbow body or believe to
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  Speaker 1: literally dissolve into radiant light at death, leaving only hair
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  Speaker 1: and nails behind. This rainbow body phenomenon has been recorded
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  Speaker 1: into modern times. In Tibet, witnesses describe the physical corpse
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  Speaker 1: shrinking and a rainbow like or a filling the room.
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  Speaker 1: Tibet's datchin teachings hold that through advanced practice, togal one's
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  Speaker 1: flesh is ultimately transmitted into a body of light, often
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  Speaker 1: accompanied by lights and rainbows in the sky as the
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  Speaker 1: ad depth material form disappears. Such stories show how deeply
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  Speaker 1: the aura concept as a bridge between material and spiritual
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  Speaker 1: runs in human imagination. Whether called halo, glory mana, or
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  Speaker 1: rainbow light, the idea is that an inner essence can
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  Speaker 1: shine outward, visible to those with eyes to see. While
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  Speaker 1: halos conveyed sanctity and religious art, the Eastern mystical traditions
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  Speaker 1: developed a full anatomy of the unseen body, chakras, meridians,
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  Speaker 1: and winds to explain what an aura is and how
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  Speaker 1: it works. In yoga and tantra, spanning Hindu and Buddhist practices,
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  Speaker 1: the human being is understood to have not just a
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  Speaker 1: gross physical body, but layers are sheets khosas of life, energy, mind,
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  Speaker 1: and bliss. The second of the five classic kosas is
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  Speaker 1: the prana maya kosa, literally the body made of prana,
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  Speaker 1: which Yogic stages equate with the vital energy field permeating
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  Speaker 1: and surrounding the physical body In essence. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Yogic term for the aura. Prana in Sanskrit means both
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  Speaker 1: breath and life force, and the prana maya sheath is
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  Speaker 1: nourished by breathing exercises and meditation. Yogis map out thousands
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  Speaker 1: of subtle channels noddies through which prana flows, forming an
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  Speaker 1: etheric circulatory system parallel to the nerves and blood vessels.
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  Speaker 1: The chakras, meaning wheels of the majority energy centers where
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  Speaker 1: the knadis converge, typically numbered as seven along the spine,
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  Speaker 1: from the root chakra at the base to the crown
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  Speaker 1: chakra at the top of the head. Each chakra is
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  Speaker 1: said to spin and radiate its own frequency of energy,
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  Speaker 1: often associated with the color in modern interpretations. The aura
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  Speaker 1: in this model is the composite radiation of the chakras
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  Speaker 1: and product currents, visualized as multicolored layers of light extending
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  Speaker 1: just beyond the skin. This concept first appeared in the
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  Speaker 1: Upanishads over two thousand, five hundred years ago. The Tatria
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  Speaker 1: Upanishad described the five interpretating coosas Anamaya food body, physical prana,
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  Speaker 1: maya breath, energy body, man Omaya mind vision on Amaya consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: and Anadamaya bliss. The subtle body proper begins at the
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  Speaker 1: prana layer, which breathes life into the physical and reconnects
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  Speaker 1: it to the higher mental and spiritual layers. Later yogic
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  Speaker 1: texts elaborate is set system of vital winds and drops
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  Speaker 1: that move through the body, and tantric Adepts learned to
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  Speaker 1: control these to induce altered states or even paranormal powers.
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  Speaker 1: For example, by meditating on a chakra in certain mantras,
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  Speaker 1: a yogi could supposedly awaken kunalini, a dormant energy coiled
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  Speaker 1: at the base and send it coursing upward through the chakras,
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  Speaker 1: dramatically expanding the aura and consciousness. Tantra and Vajrayana Buddhism
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  Speaker 1: especially delve into subtle body maps. They identify central channels
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  Speaker 1: and side channels, and numerous chakras with varying schemas. Some
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  Speaker 1: text lists five, six, or eight chakras instead of seven.
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  Speaker 1: Despite differences, all agree that mastering the flow of subtle
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  Speaker 1: energy leads to extraordinary spiritual attainments, essentially by refining the
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  Speaker 1: aura or energy body. In Tibetan Dagen, for instance, there
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  Speaker 1: is a talk of luminous channels in the heart and
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  Speaker 1: skull that, when purified, cause the practitioner's body to emit
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  Speaker 1: light and ultimately achieve the rainbow body. It's important to
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  Speaker 1: note that traditional texts did not use the English word aura.
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  Speaker 1: They spoke of Prana Teja's ojas et cetera and luminous halos.
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  Speaker 1: In religious imagery. The explicit idea of a colored human
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  Speaker 1: aura owes as much to modern secretism as to ancient doctrine. However,
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  Speaker 1: these Eastern concepts provided a ready framework when Western esotericists
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  Speaker 1: and later New Age writers tried to explain or are
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  Speaker 1: seing they borrowed the chakra scheme and kosha layers heavily.
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  Speaker 1: Yogis themselves do describe experiences of seeing light. Some advanced
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  Speaker 1: meditation manual say that when prana is concentrated, it produces
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  Speaker 1: a glow, or that the aura of a yogi becomes
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  Speaker 1: visible to others as a golden halo aura of peace,
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  Speaker 1: and Buddhist jaytaka tales to Buddha's previous spirits are often
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  Speaker 1: recognized by an aura around him. Even in China and Japan,
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  Speaker 1: a long standing belief holds that great spiritual cultivators can
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  Speaker 1: develop a bright chi field visible as light. For example,
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  Speaker 1: Chigong masses sometimes depicted with a radiant chi energy enveloping
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  Speaker 1: their body, and some practitioners claim to see a chi
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  Speaker 1: aura around their teachers. Thus, through chakras and prana, Hindu
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  Speaker 1: and Buddhist traditions articulated in Anatomy of the Aura, giving
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  Speaker 1: later generations a rich terminology for the subtle body. Modern
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  Speaker 1: yogis will casually refer to cleansing their urror or aligning
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  Speaker 1: their chakras, concepts rooted in these ancient teachings as one
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  Speaker 1: holistic texts nicely summarized, the yogic subtle body has thousands
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  Speaker 1: of subtle energy channels nadis that convey subtle breath prana,
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  Speaker 1: and these determine the characteristics of the physical form. By
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  Speaker 1: working with this energy body, one's aura is strengthened and balanced.
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  Speaker 1: While India spoke of prana and chakras, Chinese traditional medicine
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  Speaker 1: and Daoist practice developed their own model of the body's
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  Speaker 1: energy field scentered aren't she and its dynamic transformations. In
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  Speaker 1: classical Chinese medicine, Chi is the vital and nat circulating
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  Speaker 1: through meridians that connect the internal organs with the surface
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  Speaker 1: of the body. Health is defined by the smooth, balanced
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  Speaker 1: flow of chi, illnesses by blockages or imbalances. Notably, Chinese
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  Speaker 1: physiology recognizes a specific layer of chi at the body's
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  Speaker 1: exterior called wheat chi, usually translated as defensive chi or
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  Speaker 1: guardian shee. The wii chi is essentially an energy ore
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  Speaker 1: that protects the body from external harm, be it pathogenic
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  Speaker 1: influences like wind, cold, or metaphorically any invasive negativity. As
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  Speaker 1: one source puts it, weed chi guards the body like
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  Speaker 1: an orea. It circulates on the surface, especially in the
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  Speaker 1: skin and muscle layers, creating a shield against illness. If
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  Speaker 1: the ch is strong, evil chi such as contagious factors
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  Speaker 1: or cold drafts, cannot penetrate. If weak, one becomes prone
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  Speaker 1: to infections or fatigue. This is why traditional Chinese doctors
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to the quality of a person's skin tone,
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  Speaker 1: fling of warmth or cold at the surface, and even
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  Speaker 1: phenomena like a boundary between body heat and air all
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  Speaker 1: seen as manifestations of wi chi integrity. Practically, this cheek
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  Speaker 1: corresponds to the immune and autonomic responses. It is daytime
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  Speaker 1: active yang energy governed by the lungs. In traditional Chinese medicine,
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  Speaker 1: it circulates on the periphery fifty times every twenty four hours,
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  Speaker 1: warming the flesh and forming a buffer zone. Ancient medical
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  Speaker 1: texts describe it as the chie that dwells in the
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  Speaker 1: skin and flesh, protecting against outside invasion. This sounds very
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  Speaker 1: much like an energy field emanating just beyond the body. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: modern practitioners often explicitly likened this chie to an ore
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  Speaker 1: and acupuncturis oraticle notes. Even in traditional Chinese medicine, the
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  Speaker 1: wi chi field is known to have a boundary that
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  Speaker 1: extends past the skin, and its purpose is to offer protection.
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  Speaker 1: Pathogenic factors can enter in when our wichi is weak.
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  Speaker 1: Chigonghill is speak of strengthening the chi field to become
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  Speaker 1: less affected by other people's negativity or environmental stress, a
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  Speaker 1: concept identical to fortifying your aura. Techniques like chief fill
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  Speaker 1: building and medical chigang involve visualizations to expand one's energy
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  Speaker 1: bubbles several feet out, sometimes using sweeping our motions to
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  Speaker 1: seal the aura. In one exercise, practitioners imagine five colored
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  Speaker 1: beasts phoenix, turtle, tiger, dragon snake emerging from their organs
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  Speaker 1: to whirl around and form a cocoon of protective energy
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  Speaker 1: encasing the body, a striking parallel to Western magical practices
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  Speaker 1: of creating a protective circle or shield of light. Chinese
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  Speaker 1: metaphysical texts also describe extraordinary auras around masters. There are
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  Speaker 1: tales of sages whose chi was so abundant that people
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  Speaker 1: could literally see a light around them or feel their
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  Speaker 1: presence from afar and kung fu legends, a great master's
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  Speaker 1: eternal energy is visible as an aura that can last
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  Speaker 1: objects at a distance, whether or not such claims are
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  Speaker 1: taken literally. The language of an energy radiance chi field
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  Speaker 1: enveloping the body is commonplace in diagnosis. Practitioners may speak
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  Speaker 1: of sensing a patience, or by hand a warm or
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  Speaker 1: cool sensation a few inches off the skin. The concept
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  Speaker 1: of chi itself is sometimes glossed as a matter energy
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  Speaker 1: that can manifest visibly, like heat shimmers or bioelectric sparks.
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  Speaker 1: Some Taoist alchemy texts mention an inner radiance that eventually
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  Speaker 1: shines outward as a halo around the ad depth. Modern
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  Speaker 1: experiments in China even attempted to photograph or measure this
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  Speaker 1: chi emanation, for instance, using high voltage photography, a variant
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  Speaker 1: of Curlyon technique to capture the corona around acupuncturist's fingers.
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  Speaker 1: Science aside, in traditional Chinese medicine, the aura is an
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  Speaker 1: accepted reality, not an ethereal ghost, but a functioning part
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  Speaker 1: of physiology that one can tonify with herbs, acupuncture, or
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  Speaker 1: breathing exercises. One classical diagnostic principle says healthy zang chi
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  Speaker 1: true chi keeps out illness when the wee chi aura
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  Speaker 1: is strong, one radiates vitality. When it fades, one literally
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  Speaker 1: looks or a less pale, listless skin and is easy
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  Speaker 1: prey to disease. In some Chinese tradition teaches that we
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  Speaker 1: are not solid, isolated bodies, but luminous emitters of life energy,
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  Speaker 1: continuously exchanging chi with the environment. The aura is simply
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  Speaker 1: the name for the outermost dynamic layer of this energy,
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  Speaker 1: our first line of defense and connection to the world.
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  Speaker 1: By the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, as the Age of
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  Speaker 1: Enlightenment science blossomed in europe An unlikely fusion emerged. Occultists
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  Speaker 1: and some scientists began searching for a hidden energy that
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  Speaker 1: animates living things, essentially a physical explanation for the ore
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  Speaker 1: seen hundreds, German physician Franz Anton Mesmer captured public imagination
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  Speaker 1: with his theory of animal magnetism. Mesmer proposed that a
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  Speaker 1: universal magnetic fluid permeates all organisms and can be manipulated
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  Speaker 1: for healing. He believed disease was due to blockages in
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  Speaker 1: this invisible fluid, and that by moving his hands near
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  Speaker 1: a patient making mesmeric peszis, could restore the harmonious flow.
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  Speaker 1: Mesmer's dramatic cures and hypnotic seances in the salons of
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  Speaker 1: Paris led to the term mesmerized. He spoke of an
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  Speaker 1: animal or of fluid emanating from healer and patient, linking
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  Speaker 1: it explicitly to the concept of an energy field enveloping
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  Speaker 1: the body. As one theosophical glossary later summarized, Mesmer's fundamental
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  Speaker 1: idea was that there resides in a man a power,
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  Speaker 1: an odic force, or nerve energy which can be projected
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  Speaker 1: by the will and directed to heal or harm. All
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  Speaker 1: people possessed this in varying degree. In short, Mesmer rebranded
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  Speaker 1: the old age ore in quasi scientific terms, sparking both
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  Speaker 1: scientific investigations and a paranormal subculture of transhalers. Following Mesmer,
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  Speaker 1: others attempted to find or measure this life energy. Around
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  Speaker 1: the eighteen forties, Barren Carl von Reichenbach, a distinguished chemist,
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  Speaker 1: conducted extensive experiments with sensitives physically sensitive individuals in dark rooms.
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  Speaker 1: He claimed to have discovered a new force, which he
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  Speaker 1: named the odic force after Odin, a vitalis energy akin
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  Speaker 1: to electricity or magnetism that emanated from magnets, crystals, sunlight,
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  Speaker 1: and notably the human body. Reichenbach's sensitives reported seeing colored
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  Speaker 1: lights around the poles of magnets, around certain chemicals and
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  Speaker 1: around the fingertips and heads of human subjects in total darkness.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, they described a pale, flame like aura extending
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  Speaker 1: from the body, with different colors blue, red, and et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: depending on various factors. Reichenbach noted parallels to the Asian
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  Speaker 1: ideas of prana and chi, but he emphasized that odic
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  Speaker 1: force was not exactly like breath. He thought it was
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  Speaker 1: related to electromagnetism, perhaps what we'd call electromagnetic field of
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  Speaker 1: the body. He documented that only about one third of
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  Speaker 1: people could see these aura like emissions, and only after
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  Speaker 1: long dark adaptation hours in a pitch black room. Despite
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  Speaker 1: his meticulous approach, mainstream science was not convinced. Critics labeled
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  Speaker 1: odic force as unfalsifiable or the product of imagination. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: Reichenbach's work gently influenced the esoteric scene. Believers in odic
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  Speaker 1: force said it was visible in total darkness as colored
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  Speaker 1: ours surrounding living things, resembling the Asian concepts prana and ch,
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  Speaker 1: albeit constructed as a biomagnetic field. This was essentially the
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  Speaker 1: nineteenth century attempted to put aura on a scientific footing.
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  Speaker 1: In parallel, spiritualism was surging with transmedians clairvoyance and our
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  Speaker 1: readers becoming popular. Many mediums describe seeing lights around people
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  Speaker 1: of spirits, calling it the person's magnetic aura. Theosophy, an
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  Speaker 1: esoteric philosophy founded by Helena Bolovotsky in eighteen seventy five,
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  Speaker 1: synthesized Eastern ideas with Western occultism and gave us much
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  Speaker 1: of the modern aura vocabulary. Blovotsky wrote an isis unveiled
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  Speaker 1: in other works, that what Reichenbach observed as the odic
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  Speaker 1: light was indeed the astral light of the Kabbalists, a
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  Speaker 1: universal ethereal substance that records all events, a concept akin
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  Speaker 1: to the Akashic records. She distinguished between the oric fluid,
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  Speaker 1: the actual emanation of vital atoms and energy from the body,
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  Speaker 1: and the oric light its astral reflection. According to Bolovotsky,
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  Speaker 1: the uric light, or that which Reichenbach calls ode a
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  Speaker 1: light that surrounds every animate and inanimate object in nature,
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  Speaker 1: is the astral reflection emanating from objects, its colors, denovading
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  Speaker 1: the qualities and characteristics of each. This remarkable statement essentially
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  Speaker 1: asserts that everything has an aura, even inanimate matter, but
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  Speaker 1: the human aura is the most complex and brightly colored,
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  Speaker 1: reflecting our emotional and moral nature. Theosophical authors like C. W.
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  Speaker 1: Lead Beater and Annie Bissan then elaborated a detailed doctrine
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  Speaker 1: of the human or lead beaters nineteen oh two book
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  Speaker 1: Man Visible and Invisible contained color plates of the aura
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  Speaker 1: in various emotional states, murky reds for anger, flashes of
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  Speaker 1: scarlet for sudden shame, clear greens for sympathy, blue for devotion,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and so on, with illustration of chakra energy vortices in
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: vibrant hues. They describe the aura as consisting of multiple
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: layers or bodies interpenetrating one another. The etheric double, a
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: pale bluish energy matrix exactly coincident with the physical body.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: The etheric double, a pale bluish energy matrix exactly coincident
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: with the physical body. The astral body. Emotional aura usually
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: shown as extending a few feet out and full of
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: swirling clouds of color that change with mood. The mental body,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: more refined aura of thought, often depicted as a bright
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: yellow radiance around the head, for intellectual activity and higher
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: spiritual layers. These ideas were borrowed by Eastern Sutratma life
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: threat concepts but adapted. Theosophists insisted that trained clairvoyants could
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: objectively see these oric layers. For example, Annie Bissan and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Lead Beater, in their nineteen oh five book Thought Forms,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: not only claimed to perceive thought auras, but even attempted
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: to categorize the forms and colors that different thoughts produce
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: in the are. A loving thought, they said, produces a
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: pink cloud, a sudden fear, a gray explosion, spiritual aspiration,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a blue cone, and so on, in effect creating a
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: color language of the ura. By the early twentieth century,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Western occultists treated the aura as a given. Organizations like
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the Rosicrucians and very metaphysical schools taught exercises to strengthen
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: ones or like visualization of a protective white light or
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: egg around the body. The are also entered popular culture.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Early psychic researchers photographed medians during seiences and reported string
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: mists or lights on the plates, though many such photos
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: were later debunked as tricks or double exposures. Notably, Rudolph Steiner,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: who founded anthroposophy, also spoke of aurrors. He described children
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and animals having precolored auras, and taught that education and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: art could uplift the aura of the soul. By nineteen eleven,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: doctor Walter J. Kilner, a British physician, even tried to
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: medicalize or reading, using tinted screens to view patient's energy fields.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later on. Thus, in the span
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: of one hundred odd years, the ore went from a
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: mystical religious symbol to a subject of quasi scientific inquiry
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and an explicit focus of Western esoteric practices. The Theosophical
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Society and its offshoots get a lot of credit for
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: its diffusion. He built of ridge between East and West,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: introducing terms like chakra and kama rupa desire body into
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Western occult language and solidifying the notion of the aura
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: as a layered colored field that reveals character. Later New
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Age writers like Barbara Brennan, author of Hands of Light,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: drew on this theosophical framework, describing the aura in seven
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: layers corresponding to health, motions, mind, and so on. In short,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the Western esoteric tradition by the twentieth century treated the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: aura as an objective reality, electromagnetic, psycho spiritual emanation that
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: could potentially be photographed, measured, and utilized, Anticipating what technology
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and science might attempt. The desire to see the aura
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: with one's own eyes, or at least with cameras, led
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: to some ingenious experiments over the past century. An early
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: attempt came from doctor Walter John Kilner, an electrotherapy physician
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: at Saint Thomas Hospital in London. In nineteen eleven, Kilner
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: published a Human Atmosphere, one of the first Western medical
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: studies of the ore. Rather than relying on clairvoyance, Kilner
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: wanted a device to make the ore visible to ordinary sight.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: He devised viewing screens and goggles treated with a cold
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: tar dyed called dicianin, a substance that filters out much
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: of the visible spectrum. By peering through dicianin screens in
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: dim light, Kilner reported that most people could eventually discern
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a faint emanation around the human body. He distinguished three zones,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a dark layer hugging the skin, the etheric double about
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: one eighth of an inch thick, a more luminous inner
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: or following the body's contours about one inch thick, and
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a delicate outer or extending several inches outward with a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: hazy boundary. In healthy individuals, he said the ore was
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: uniform and very fine, whereas in the sick it appeared dull, contracted,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: or with gaps. Kelner even claimed different illnesses produced specific
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: or abnormalities, suggesting a diagnostic application. For example, he he
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: observed that the aura of a paralyzed limb was shrunken
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: compared to the healthy side, or that emotional upset caused
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: temporary flares of uric intensity. Kilner's work caused a minus sensation.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Here was a respectable doctor suggesting the human energy field
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: is real and visible. He hypothesized the ura was likely
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: ultra violet radiation just beyond normal vision, and he noted
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: that the Diecian and dye might work by sensitizing the
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: eyes to UV, although staring through the die for long
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: periods made his eyes ache, and he warned others not
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: to overdo it. With practice, he could dispense with the
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: apparatus and still perceive the aura dimly. In nineteen twenty,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: he even published a revised edition retitled The Human Ore.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: His findings dovetailed curiously with the theosophical teachings of the time,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and indeed, theosophist authors eagerly cited Kellner as scientific validation. However,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Kilner himself tried to distance his research from spiritualism. He
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: focused on medical and physiological aspects. Unfortunately, follow up studies
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: were not kind. The British Medical Journal in nineteen twelve
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: reported failing to reproduce Kilner's results and concluded his aura
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: might be a mix of after images and optical effects.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Over time, Kilner's our screens fell into obscurity. Nonetheless, Kilner
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: had established a template using technology to bring the aura
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: from subjectivision to objective record and to photography. As early
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: as the eighteen sixties, after ordinary cameras were invented, experimenters
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: wondered if a camera could detect the life force glow
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: that clairvoyant spoke of. If a psychic can see these energies,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: why can a camera that challenge launch what came to
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: be known as affluvia photography photographic emanations. An Austrian scientist,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Baron Carl von Reichenbach mentioned earlier, actually tried a photograph
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: odic light, but wasn't successful. A few decades later, two
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: French researchers, Hippolyte Baraduke and Lewis Darget, conducted bold experiments.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: They pressed their foreheads on hands onto photographic plates in
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the dark willing their vital fluid to imprint. Amazingly, they
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: attained blurry, cloudlike images, which they believed were direct images
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: of thoughts or vitality. Barroduke published photos of fluidic emanations
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: from a person feeling love versus anger, and even an
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: image he claimed was departing soul of his dying wife,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: a hazy vortex on a photo plate. Today we might
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: attribute such images to static electricity, heat, or chemical fogging
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of the plates, but at the time these were taken
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: as groundbreaking evidence of an invisible energy body. These early
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: efforts paved the way for the most famous aural photography discovery,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: curlean photography. In nineteen thirty nine, in the USSR, electrician
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Semyon Curleian and his wife Valentina accidentally discovered that if
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: an object on a photographic plate is connected to a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: high voltage source, a strange, glowing silhouette appears on the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: developed film. This had essentially captured the corona discs charge
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: electrons leaping off the object's surface, creating a colorful aura
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: like outline photographing leaves, coins, and human body parts like
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: fingertips under high frequency electric fields. The images were stunning.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: A fresh leaf showed a vibrant fringe of light, whereas
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: an older, dehydrated leaf showed a weaker glow. Human fingertips
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: produced a corona that seemed to vary with moisture, pressure
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: or even emotional state, though these subjective claims are hard
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: to verify. The Curlians did not publish internationally until nineteen
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: fifty eight, but behind the Iron Curtain their work drew attention.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy, the book Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Curtain by Austrander and Schroeder introduced Curlean photography to the West. Suddenly,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the Curlian aura became a buzzword in paranormal research circles.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Here was a machine that apparently photographed the aura with
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: spiritualists had long claimed. New Age enthusiasts argued that Curlean
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: photos showed the life energy leaving a several leaf. In
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the famous phantom leaf experiment, a cut leaf seemingly showed
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the outline of the missing part in Curlean imagery, later
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: attributed to residue or moisture patterns. Scientists, on the other hand,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: explained curlions in straightforward terms. The electric field makes ordinary
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: gas molecules ionized and glow, whether or conductive areas glow.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: More so, living tissue full of water and salts produces
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a halo which is not present once the object dries
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: out or if it's insulated. In other words, the Curlean
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: aura is a physical electrical effect, not proof of a
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: metaphysical vital force. Still, the technique had a lore throughout
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies. Researchers and hobbyists produced thousands of Curlan images.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Some claim to diagnose health via fingertip coronas. The former
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Eastern Bloc countries use GDV gas discharge visualization devices in
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: medicine and athlete training to monitor stress via Curlean patterns.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: To this day, a small industry exists around Curly in
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: photography and aura cameras. An important orshoot of Curlian is
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the our camera for portraits. In the late nineteen seventies,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Californian entrepreneur Guy Coggin's combined hand sensors measuring skin conductance
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: with a polaroid camera to create the Aura Cam three thousand.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: When a person's photo was taken, the system translated the
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: sensor readings into a colorful cloud superimposed on the polaroid
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Around the person's silhouette, the idea that the fluctuations and
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the electrical properties of the hands correlate with one's energy
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and mood, which can be expressed as colors. Essentially, it
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: was a clever biofeedback artifice, but at birth the popular
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: our photography seen at psychic fares and wellness centers today.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: A client sits for a portrait, places palms on metal plates,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and out comes an instant photo with a rainbow of
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: hazy colors enveloping them. Interpreters then explain what a red
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: or violet patch above your head means for your personality
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: or chakras. This has become a cultural trend. By twenty tens,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: orophoto pop ups appeared in cheek boutiques and art museums,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and sharing a colorful or a portrait on Instagram became fashionable. Lastly,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: we returned to a more scientific or imaging GDV EPI
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: technology developed by doctor Constantin Koortkov in Russia in the
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: nineteen nineties. The GDV camera is essentially a sophisticated Curlean
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: apparatus with digital analysis. A client places each fingertip on
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: a glass electrode, a high frequency voltage pulse creates a
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: corona discharge glow, which is captured by a CCD sensor.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Software then extrapulates from the fingertip discharge patterns to generate
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: an image of the person's biofield and even estimates of
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: organ energy, stress levels, chakra alignment, and so on. The
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: logic is based on acupuncture meridians. Different sectors of the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: fingertip corona are thought to correspond to specific organs. Thus,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: by analyzing the glow, the system infers which organ's energy
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: is weak or overactive. While mainstream science remains skeptical, grot
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Cod's devices are used by some integrative practitioners and researchers.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: They contend that changes in the electrophotonic glow do correlate
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: with health changes, emotional states, and so on. Essentially, the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: GDV is presented as a quantitative or a measurement tool,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: even as far as monitoring athletes recovery or a meditator's progress.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: It represents the continuing appeal of making the invisible visible
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and measurable. As Gorokov writes, each living being is surrounded
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: by an electromagnetic energy field, which reveals our qualities, thoughts,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: and feelings. His bioweld device simply gives a way to
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: see that, albeit through the indirect lens of corona discharged physics.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Whether one views these technologies as profound or just pretty
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: light shows, they undeniably bring the ore concept into a
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: tangible realm. To believers, it's literally an or captured on film.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: To skeptics, it's a fancy electric spark. The truth may
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: be that our bodies do shed energy and particles into
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the environment heat, ions, photons, and so on, and cameras
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: can capture some of that, but interpreting it as life
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: energy remains contentious. Beyond photography tricks, science has confirmed that
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: living bodies produce various fields and emissions, not a glowing rainbow,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: per se, but a very real electromagnetic and quantum aura
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: of sorts. Modern biophysics doesn't speak of auras and mystical terms,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: yet it recognizes that the physiological process in our bodies
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: generate measurable energy fields that extend into space. For example,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: your heart and nervous system function via electrical impulses, and
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: by Maxwell's law, an electric current produces a magnetic field.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: The human heart, being an electrical oscillator, emits a magnetic
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: field that can indeed be detected outside the body. Using
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: sensitive instruments called squid magnetometers, scientists have measured the heart's
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: magnetic field up to about one to three feet away
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: from the chest in all directions. This is not fantasy.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: It's the basis of magnetocardiography MCG, a technique analogous to
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the ECG but detecting magnetic flux. Similarly, the brain's collective
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: neural activity produces a faint magnetic field detectable just outside
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the skull. In fact, the heart's field is roughly one
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: hundred times stronger than the brains, making it the dominant
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: electromagnetic ore of the body in purely physical terms. The
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Heart Math Institute, which researches heart brain interactions, points out
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: that the heart's electrical field is about sixty times larger
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: in amplitude than the brain's electrical field as measured by
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: ECG versus EEG, and the heart's magnetic component is correspondingly stronger.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: They suggest this field might act as a carry away
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: for biochemical and neurological information, potentially even mediating subtle energetic
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: communication between people at close proximity. It's tantalizing to connect
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: this to anecdotes like feeling someone's presence or mood without
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: obvious clues. It's tantalizing to connect this to anecdotes like
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: feeling someone's presence or mood without obvious clues. Perhaps our
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: nervous systems are sensitive to each other's field at an
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: unconscious level. Research here is ongoing and not yet conclusive.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Apart from electromagnetism, our bodies also emit light, yes faint
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: biophotons and the optical range. In recent years, ultrasensitive photo
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: multiplier experiments have confirmed that all living cells produce a
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: very low level of photo emission, on the order of
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: a few dozen photons per second per square centimeter of skin.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: In total darkness, cameras can capture an extremely dim glow
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: from a human body. In two thousand and nine, Japanese
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: scientists even photographs volunteers in a dark room with CCD
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: cameras over hours and found a subtle human body glow
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: that fluctuates with the metabolic cycle, strongest in the late
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: afternoon and around the face. These biophotons are thought to
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: originate from reactive oxygen and cells and other metabolic processes.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Though weak, they might carry biological signals. Some speculative theories
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: suggest cells use biophoton fleshes for communication. A twenty twenty
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: five study at University of Calgary made headlines for showing
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: that the biophoton emission of organisms drop off rapidly at death.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Mice were monitored before and after cardiac arrest, and their
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: tiny light output, which is normally present during life, quickly
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: dimmed upon death. This suggests a phenomenon is truly tied
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: to living metabolism, not an artifact. As one of the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: researchers said, the fact that ultra weak photon emissions is
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: a real thing is undeniable at this point. It comes
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: from all living things. To the poetic mind, this is
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: almost like saying science has proven that living creatures glow,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: albeit invisibly. Some enthusiasts call these biophotons the real aura. Indeed,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: a few scientists have speculated that ancient seeres who spoke
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: of halos might have been extraordinarily sensitive to these glows,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: or that these emissions interacting with the eyes could create
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: or a like perceptions. While that's unproven, it's fascinating that
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: life produces light at all. Beyond light and magnetism, consider
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: other fields of the body heat and for red radiation.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Ultrasound cells can produce sound, vibration even electrostatic fields. The
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: totality of these could be termed a biofield. Aware that
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: the US National Institute of Health has actually adopted to
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: categorize therapies like reyki, chiegong and healing touch, the biofield
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: hypothesis in integrative medicine posits that the body is surrounded
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: and penetrated by a field of energy and information which
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: can be influenced for healing. While mainstream science hasn't pinpointed
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: a singular new energy, it acknowledges known physical fields. For instance,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: every time your muscles move or your nerves fire, tiny
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: electric currents flow, which generate electric and magnetic fields. Our
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: skin also carries charges in capacitance. Some researchers have measured
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: that if you put two people facing each other a
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: short distance apart, each person's heartbee creates a subtle EEG
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: shift in the other's brain waves, possibly through the magnetic
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: field interaction. This raises the intriguing possibility that interpersonal aura
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: effects like good vibes or feeling uneasy around somebody could
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: have a real biophysical component. Our fields might be interacting
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: in ways we're only dimly aware of. This raises the
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: intriguing possibility that interpersonal aura effects like good vibes or
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: feeling uneasy around someone, could have a real biophysical component.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Our fields might be interacting in ways we're only dimly
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: aware of. That said, all these fields are extremely weak
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and mostly imperceptible without instruments. This skeptical view is that
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: what esoteric traditions calls auras is just a romanticized notion
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: of these mundane emissions. Yes, we have a heat aura
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: seen with infrared cameras, an electrical or seen with EEG
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: or ECG machines, and a photon or seen with photomultipliers.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: But none of these are colorful, conscious, or diagnostic of
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: moral character in any scientific sense. They are byproducts of
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: chemistry and physics. Nevertheless, they could underlie some or reports.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: For example, some people claim to physically feel others at
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: a distance. Perhaps some are especially sensitive to subtle temperature
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: changes or magnetic variations. The fields of bioelectromagnetics study how
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: weak electromagnetic fields affect biology, and while results are mixed,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: it's not impossible that humans evolve slight awareness of each
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: other's e M fields, like how some animals sense magnetic orientation. Also,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: electro encephalographs show that the brain is an electrical organ
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Could a discharge of emotion create an outward field pulse
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: that another's nervous system faintly registers. These are open questions
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: from a biophysical perspective. Nothing so far confirms a structured,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: multi colored aura as physics describe. However, research into ultraweak
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: photo emission is ongoing, and some have even positive that
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: coherent biophoton fields might act like a holographic aura around
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: the body. For instance, biophysicist Fritz Albert Popp suggested that
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: DNA emits photons that regulate cellular processes, forming a light
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: field that could extend externally. Others have measured high frequency
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: electrical oscillations on acupuncture points, speculating that meridians might correspond
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: to electrical conductance pathways, again tying into an electrical aura
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: as fringe as some of the sounds. It's notable that
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: mainstream medicine already uses electromagnetic fields for diagnostics mri eg
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: meg effectively reading the aura for medical information. When a
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: cardiologist does an ECG, they are detecting your heart's electrical
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: aura via electrodes. On this in, even something as simple
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: as using a thermal camera to find inflammation is reading
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: an aspect of the aura, the heat pattern. So in
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: a sense, science has validated that the body emanates fields
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: that reflect its inner state, just not in the mystical
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: visual form that our viewers claim. One of the most
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: compelling ovalaps of science and aur is the case of
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: curlians and GDV mentioned earlier. While skeptics attribute curlion images
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: purely to physical factors sweat pressure, voltage, some controlled studies
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: found that stress or meditation can alter the area in
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: fractal dimension of one's finger tip corona. Could emotional energy
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: modulate one's electrophotonic output, possibly via changing skin moisture or
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: hormone levels. This is a frontier area. If future research
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: solidifies such links, the measuring a person's em emissions might
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: indeed give insight into their bio energetic state, essentially a
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: scientific or reading. In summary, modern biophysics achnology a complex
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: biofield around living organisms, composed of thermal, electromagnetic, and photonic
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  Speaker 1: signals which can be measured and even imaged with technology.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: While this biofield is not the same as the clairvoyance
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: aura of swirling colors. It could well be the substrate
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: that inspired the aura concept in the first place. The
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: body is not a closed system. It constantly interacts with
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  Speaker 1: and broadcasts into the environment, and a silent symphony of
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: waves and particles that hum of life may be what
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: our ancestors intuitively mythologized as the radiant aura. In today's
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: metaphysical and wellness communities, the aura has become a household concept,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: a linchpin of new age spirituality and holistic health practices.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Walk into a mind, body, spirit bookstore, wellness center and
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: you'll find aura cleansing sprays, chakra balancing sessions, or reading
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: psychic services and books charting the meanings of every aura color.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: This modern aura lore is a direct in heridance of
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: theosophy and spiritualism filtered through the human Potential movement of
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties to seventies. During the seventies new Age boom,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: interest in personal energy fields resurfaced. Big time practices like reiki,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: therapeutic touch, and healing touch emerge where practitioners claim to
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: sense and adjust the client's aura or biofield. Reiki healer
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: for example, might slowly move their hands a few inches
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: above your body, smoothing out or plucking away disturbances in
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: your aura. The idea is that by channeling universal life
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: energy through their palms into your field, they bolster your
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: energy and facilitate healing. This is essentially a modern replay
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: of Mesmer's magnetic passes, but framed in Eastern cosmology. Reiki
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: comes from Japan, evoking the concept of chia. Many nurses
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: and massage therapists incorporate these techniques, referring to chakra balancing
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: or clearing. Even hospitals have offered healing touch as a
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: complementary therapy, with patients reporting subjective benefits, though clinical evidence
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: is limited. Oral reading has also become a popular intuitive art.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Psychic readers often advertise that they can see the colors
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  Speaker 1: of your or and give life guidance based on it.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: A typical or reading might go, I see a lot
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  Speaker 1: of blue around you. You must be very communicative or
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: seeking peace. There's a muddy orange near your soul of plexus,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: perhaps indicating stress or creative blockage. These interpretations are not standardized,
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  Speaker 1: but generally follow a loose consensus derived from earlier or literature.
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  Speaker 1: Blow equals spiritual or calm, Green equals healing or growth,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Red equals passion or anger, yellow equals intellect or optimism,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: violet equals mystical or imaginative, black or gray patches equal
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: pain or negativity, and so on. Clients often find these
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: readings insightful or validating those skeptics to note their often
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: generalized personality readings. Some individuals train themselves using exercises from
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: books on seeing auras, like gazing at a person against
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: a neutral background until a faint outline or color is perceived,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: taking advantages of after images and peripheral vision sensitivity. Whether
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: one truly taps into a paranormal sense or merely optical illusion,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: the experience can be compelling. New Age workshops will encourage
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  Speaker 1: you to practice saying everyone has this late in ability
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  Speaker 1: to see our as if they develop their third eye.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: In the wellness realm, the aura is treated as an
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: extension of the self that needs care, just like the body.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: So we see offerings like aura detox or protection rituals,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: and products like crystals or essential oils meant to raise
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: your vibration. For instance, one might use sage smudging or
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: sound bowls. To clear one's aura of stagnant energy. Yoga
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: classes sometimes end with the visualization of surrounding oneself in
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: white or gold light, essentially an aura cleansing. The language
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: of energy is ubiquitous. People speak of good vibes, toxic energy,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: and energetic boundaries, all referencing an invisible emotional atmosphere, which
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: is effectively the ore concept by another name. In common parlance,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: aura can simply mean the feeling one gives off, like
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: that place has a negative urror, or she has a
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: warm ura. You just feel comfortable around her. This metaphorical
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: usage actually keeps the aura idea alive in everyday life,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: even for those who don't literally believe in psychic light.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: One prominent figure in contemporary our teaching is Barbara and Brennan,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: a former NASA physicist urn energy healer who wrote the
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: best selling books Hands of Light in nineteen eighty eight
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: and Light Emerging in nineteen ninety three. Brennan claims clairvoyant
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: vision of ours and lays out a detailed model of
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the human energy field, describing it has seven layers corresponding
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: to physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects. She even draws
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: diagrams of these layers the etheric blue grid structure duplicating
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: the body, the emotional body rainbow colored clouds extending a
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: few inches, the mental body yellow are around head and shoulders,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: the astral body, rose colored amorphous cloud for heart energy
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: and higher template and casual bodies reaching out several feet.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Brennan's work basically translated theosophical our concepts into a modern
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: therapeutic context, and it has been hugely influential in New
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: age circles. Her books are standard texts for many healing schools.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: As Brennan notes, many systems exist to describe the aura,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: but they generally agree on the concept of multiple auric
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: layers and chakras as energy organs. A host of other authors,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: often self professed psychics, have their own spins, for example
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: rosalind Beria's Wheel of Light or Ted Andrews How to
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: See and Read the Aura, Yet they are remarkably consonant
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: in treating the aura as a source of information about
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: one's well being. By examining our colors of shapes, an
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: intuitive might detect illnesses before symptoms manifest, or identify emotional
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: traumas stored in certain areas of the field. This blending
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: of aura belief with wellness sometimes reaches into unexpected places.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Even corporated self help coaching may use terms like energy
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: and vibration to encourage personal change. Raise your vibration to
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: attract what you want. It's essentially securalized or a talk. Meanwhile,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: platforms like Goop Gwyneth Palchell's lifestyle brand have featured aura
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: photographers and energy healers, further mainstreaming it at an experiential level.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Many individuals claim that aura and chakra practices generally help them,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: whether through the power of suggestion, meditation effects, or actual
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: energy shifts. For example, one Oprah magazine editor recounts undergoing
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: an our cleansing session. The healer used shamanic breathwork crystals
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: on each chakra and physical body scrubs to clear stagnant energies.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: The editor noted feeling so much lighter, freed from negative energy. Afterward.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: The healer explained that as an mpath, she could read
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: the information from the elect magnetic field around the body,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: and that the client's stress was showing up as a
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: blockage in certain chakras. This exemplifies how modern practitioners seamlessly
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: mixed scientific jargon electromagnetic field with spiritual concepts, empathic reading,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: stagnant energy. To an outside observer, the outcome of such
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: a session might be attributed to relaxation, placebo, or the
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: therapeutic ritual, but to the participants invalidates the reality of
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: the aura. The client's subjective feeling of heaviness, leaving and
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: moolifting is taken as evidence that something in the energy
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: field was indeed cleansed. Over time, personal anecdotes acclimate into
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: a kind of shared truth in the wellness community. Auras
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: are real, sensitive people can feel or see them, and
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: tending to your aura is a part of holistic self care.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Of course, critics are quick to point out that many
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: ORE readers and healers use a lot of generalities and
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: barnum statements. Who doesn't have some stress in their solar
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: plexus these days? And there have been cases of c's solatanism,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: like charging one hundreds of dollars for or surgery that
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: removes fictitious implants. Nonetheless, the ORE concept itself is not
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: inherently about scams. For most practitioners, it's a sincere framework
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: to articulate feelings and intuition about the client that might
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: otherwise be hard to quantify. For instance, a skilled therapist
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: might sense a client's anxiety before it's spoken. In our terms,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: they might say they see great clouds in the client's field.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Whether that is a literal perception or a metaphor, it
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: opens a conversation for healing. The aura has found new
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: life and discussion of vibes and personal space. Psychologists might
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: talk about emotional contagion, how one person's mood spreads to another,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: which this spiritually inclined rephrase as negative orror or energy vampires,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: people who drain your aura. Even dating apps and business
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: coaches talk about energy, advising people to project a confident
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: energy or avoid those with bad energy. The aura as
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: a concept has permeated contemporary spirituality and pop culture, evolving
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: far beyond its religious art origins. It serves as a
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: useful way to visualize and discuss the invisible aspects of ourselves, mood, health, intention,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: and how those aspects might extend beyond our skin to
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: affect others. In the New Age view, we are not
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: isolated material beings, but radiant and energetic beings consistently interacting.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Taking care of one's aura through meditation, smudging, prayer, and
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: so on is as important as taking care of one's body.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: This holistic outlook, while not experimentally verified in all claims,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: provides meaning and a sense of agency to many. Whether
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: or not a curlyan photograph truly shows your soul, the
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: process of imagining an aura of loving light around oneself
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: can be profoundly calming and empowering a psychological reality, if
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: not a physical one. Amid the many spiritual interpretations, there's
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: another perspective. Two cons ours might sometimes be in the
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: eye or brain of the beholder. Human perception is notoriously
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: fallible and subject to interpretation. Neurologists and psychologists have long
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: studied how the brain can create sensations of light, color,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: and even presence that have no external source. These could
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: account for some or experiences. For example, migraine sufferers often
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: see what is clinically termed an aura before the headache.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Concept typically a scintillating scotoma, a jagged, shimmering crescent of
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: light that expands across the visual field. This is caused
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: by a wave of cortical spreading depression in the visual cortex,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: not by any mystical energy. It's interesting that the medical
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: community co opted the term aura for these pre migraine symptoms,
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: perhaps because they resemble a halo or shimmer. A migraine.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Visual aura can look like zigzag neon lights or kaleidoscopic patterns,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: and for someone who doesn't know the medical context, it's
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: easy to imagine how historically one might have thought they
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: were seeing some spiritual light. In fact, philosopher Walter Benjamin
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: speculated that the ore concept in art and religion might
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: find root in such individual neurological events, though that's just conjecture.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Another relevant phenomenon is synesthesia, a neurological condition in which
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: stimulation of one sense involuntarily triggers another. Some people see
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: colors when they hear music or taste flavors when they
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: read words. Particularly intriguing is a form called emotion colour
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: synesthesia or aura synesthesia. In rare cases, people report that
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: they perceive a colored glow around others, which changes with
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: the person's mood or identity. In two thousand and two,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: a scientific case study was published about a twenty three
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: year old man with Asperger's who show colored halos around
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: people's heads since childhood. The colors corresponded to his emotional
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: impression of the person. For example, one individual might consistently
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: evoke a blue halo because the synistee associated that with calm,
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: while another had orange spikes indicating the person made him anxious.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: This synisteate even had emotion or color associations for himself,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: which helped him identify his own feelings, something people with
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: aspergers often struggle with. Through tests, research is confirmed he
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: truly was experiencing these colors consistently and not randomly. They
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: concluded that his brain likely cross activated face recognition or
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: emotional processing areas with color processing areas, resulting in a
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: literal perception of auras around faces. This provides a compelling
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: natural explanation for at least some or claims certain individuals
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: might generally have a neurosensory difference that causes them to
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: see what others only metaphorically feel. For instance, a very
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: empathetic person might feel someone's sadness as heavy and dark.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: The synstite might see a gray cloud in that person's aura.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: This even speculation that historical figures known for oor revision
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: could have been cynisttes. The famous mystic Immanuel Swedenborg in
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: the seventeen h hundreds describe seeing spiritual light around people
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: and colors corresponding to their inner states. Some have wondered
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: if he had a form of synesthesia or migraine ores
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: that he interpreted theologically. Besides synesthesia, ordinary visual illusions can
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: come into play. One classic is the Troxlar effect. If
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: you stare at one point for a while, things in
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: your peripheral vision start to fade or blur. Many see
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: your or exercises exploit this, like have a friend stand
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: against the wall, gaze at their forehead and relax focus.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: Soon the edges of their body may seem to glow
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: or fuzz out. What you're likely seeing is the after image.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: The retina's cones get fatigued and create a light outline
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: or just the blurred edge where your brain is filling
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: in the background. From that light outlined, your brain might
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: then misinterpret it as a colored glow. Indeed, beginners often
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: report seeing a whitish or gray aura outlined first, which
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: matches the typical faint after image color, and with practice
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: they start adding color to it. This could be self
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: suggestion or increased involvement, or the visual cortex's pattern recognition.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: We know the brain can impose meaningful shapes or randomness,
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: so imposing a color meaning on a subtle visual halo
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: isn't hard to imagine. Psychological suggestion also plays a huge
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: role in group meditation or energy healing sessions. People might
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: be primed to feel energy and thus interpret any tingling, warmth,
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: or visual blip as or related. If a healer solely
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: waves a hand near your head, you might feel a
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: slight breeze or a temperature difference, which could be perceived
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: as sensing the or. Similarly, the feeling of being stared at,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: a common claim where someone just knows another is looking
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: at them, has been tested in experiments with mixed results.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: Most controlled studies find it at chance levels, attributing it
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: to a subtle cue or coincidence. However, people's belief in
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: such feelings reinforce or ideas I felt his eyes on me,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: his energies reaching me. Some aura experiences might be linked
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: to temporal lobe epilepsy or other neuropsychiatric conditions. Some epileptic
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: seizures are preceded by an ore in a different sense,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: a brief hallucination or intense emotion. Certain epileptics report seeing
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: colored lights or having profound spiritual feelings during seizures. If
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: someone had mild subclinical seizures that only produced visual or
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: emotional aura effects, that might interpret those as actual ores
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: of people or places. Likewise, psychedelic drugs can induce perceptions
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: of halos and ores around objects. LSD or psilocybin users
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: often describe seeing vibrant fields of color around living things,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: likely an effect of neural cross talk and visual cortex excitation.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: From a cognitive standpoint, the ura may also be a
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: projection of empathy. We constantly read body language, facial micro expressions, posture,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: pupil dilation, and so on to gauge other emotions. Usually
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: this is subconscious a good feeling. Those adept at this
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: might externalize it as I see a dark cloud around
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: him when someone is depressed, a metaphorical aura that feels real.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: The notion of reading someone's energy could just be heightened
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: sensitivity to subtle cues combined with intuition. No paranormal vision
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: is needed, but the experience can be described in our terms. Lastly,
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: consider after image and retinal fatigue. If someone wears a
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: bright red shirt and stands against a neutral wall, you
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: might momentarily see a greenish outline when they move the
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: complementary color after image that could be misconstructed as a
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: green ura. In fact, early researchers like Charles Leebeter cautioned
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: students not to be fooled by after images of clothing
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: colors when aura gazing, implying even in clairvoyant training, they
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: knew the eyes could play tricks. All these factors remind
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: us that the human brain is capable of generating aura
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: like perceptions without any external energy field. This doesn't necessarily
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: mean all our sightings are false. It means any claim
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: of our perception must to count for these natural mechanisms.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: Scientific skepticism of ours often highlights this. No controlled test
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: has definitely shown that people can see or sense an actual,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: unknown energy beyond these physiological and psychological explanations. If Orsi
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: is truly see a glow independent of normal light, he
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: should be able to identify a person behind a wall
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: by the aura above it, or tell a living plant
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: from an artificial one by its field. Such tests, including
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: those organized by magicians like James Randy, have consistently failed
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: to show results above chance. In one famous case, Randy
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: arranged people to stand behind screens and ask an or
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: reader to say which screens had a person behind them.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: If he saw their or extending above or to the side,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: the or reader could not perform better than random guessing.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: This suggests that whatever he normally sees as an ORR
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: disappears with such controls hinting, and might rely on seeing
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: the person's physical presence and perhaps subconsciously reading cues rather
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: than an independent or Another test involved therapeutic touch practitioners
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: who claim to feel the human energy with their hands.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: A young researcher, Emily Rosa, tested twenty one such practitioners
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: by asking them, while blindfolded two sense which of their
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: hands a person was holding their hand over without touching
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: just or proximity. If they truly felt an energy, they
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: should get a right around one hundred percent of the time.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: If it's guesswork, they'd be under fifty percent. The result
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: they scored about forty four percent, essentially random. The conclusion
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: published in Jama was damning. Their failure to substantiate TT's
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: most fundamental claim is unrefuted evidence that the claims of
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: TT are groundless for skeptics. These experiments show that when
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: you strip away visual cues and expectations, people cannot detect
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: an ore or energy field consistently. The aura, they argue,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: is a mix of optical effect, subjective judgment, and confirmation
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: by Yet, interestingly, even some skeptics acknowledged the experience of
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: our perception to be genuine to the perceiver. It just
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: originates within the brain. This crosses into the philosophical If
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: you see a glowing blue light around someone due to synesthesia,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: is that not real? It's a real perception. Neuroscience can
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: even mapp it in the brain scans, but it's not
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: a real blue light in objective space. Thus, one could
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: say ours or real phenomena in human experience, but not
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: necessarily real electromagnetic emissions visible to others or cameras under
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: controlled conditions. From the neuropsychological perspective, a possible synthesis emerges.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Perhaps Historically, a small number of people with synastasia or
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: certain neurological quirks literally sore colors around others and became
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: the first orosers or healers. Their genuine, if rare ability
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: became embedded in spiritual traditions. Others without that ability either
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: took it on faith or learned techniques to induce quasi
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: hallucinatory or revisions through chance, fatigue, or suggestion. Over time,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: the aura lore grew. Meanwhile, what they were keying into
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  Speaker 1: is often real aspects of the person their mood, vitality
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  Speaker 1: were perceived through an altered sensory filter. Modern science simply
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  Speaker 1: frames that differently reading subtle cues and possibly picking up
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  Speaker 1: chemical signals like pheromones or thermal signatures, could give an
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  Speaker 1: intuitive sense that one then visualizes symbolically as an ura.
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  Speaker 1: In conclusion, the psychological view doesn't negate the aura, it
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  Speaker 1: relocates it from the outer world to the inner mind.
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  Speaker 1: The aura one sees could be an image created by
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  Speaker 1: the brain to represent information and as subconsciously gathered about
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  Speaker 1: a persons state. It's like an overlay generated by our
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  Speaker 1: social brain. When someone says, I see you're angry. You're
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  Speaker 1: radiating red. They might literally see red or just metaphorically,
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  Speaker 1: but either way their brain has picked up anger. This
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  Speaker 1: approach forced its empathy for why aura belief persists. It's
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  Speaker 1: describing something subjectively real, even if not a separate energy field,
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  Speaker 1: and it gently cautions that we must tease apart what
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  Speaker 1: is subjective impression versus objective phenomena. The ore inhabits that
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  Speaker 1: ambiguous borderline between what we feel and what we measure.
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  Speaker 1: To truly appreciate the ur concept, one must view it
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  Speaker 1: as a universal human idea wearing different cultural garments. We
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  Speaker 1: have touched on many traditions already. Now let's draw them
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  Speaker 1: together and aid a few more fascinating threads from around
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  Speaker 1: the globe. The Egyptians didn't explicitly talk of ours, but
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  Speaker 1: their art in texts indicate a belief in an emanating
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  Speaker 1: life force. Vowers were often depicted with a serpent or
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  Speaker 1: sun disc above their head, symbols of vital power bestowed
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  Speaker 1: by the gods. The car was one aspect of the soul,
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  Speaker 1: often shown as a ghostly twin of a person. In
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  Speaker 1: some depictions, the ka is like a haloed second form.
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  Speaker 1: When the god amun Ray emerges with the king, the
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  Speaker 1: king is shown surrounded by sun rays. One might say
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  Speaker 1: the p rosa was the sole ar radiance of divinity. Interestingly,
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian tomb paintings sometimes surround important figures with a colored
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  Speaker 1: band or fringe, almost like an aura outlined, possibly to
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  Speaker 1: indicate their spiritual rank with indigenous and shamanic traditions. Many
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  Speaker 1: indigenous cultures hold that a light or energy surrounds living beings.
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  Speaker 1: Shamans in Siberia and the Americas speak of seeing an
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  Speaker 1: animal's power as light. The Navajo, for instance, have the
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  Speaker 1: concept of hashuji, inner forms or spiritual essence that medicine
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  Speaker 1: men see as lights or symbols around a person. Australian
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  Speaker 1: Aboriginal lord describes mi wi a sort of personal spiritual
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  Speaker 1: force that could be analogous to or Often these are
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  Speaker 1: tie to health and taboos. A person in a sacred
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  Speaker 1: state might have a special glow. We have Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier we discussed the uncreated light. In Orthodox hagiographies saints' lives,
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  Speaker 1: it's not uncommon to read that a saint was seen
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  Speaker 1: bathed in a light while praying, or that at moment
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  Speaker 1: of death. In Orthodox hagiographies saints' lives, it's not uncommon
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  Speaker 1: to read that a saint was seen bathed in light
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  Speaker 1: while praying, or that at the moment of death, a
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  Speaker 1: radiant column of light rose from the body to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: At Mount Athos, the monks have long sought the gift
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  Speaker 1: of theoria, direct vision of the divine light. Those who
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  Speaker 1: attain it are said to shine with it. Icons of
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  Speaker 1: Orthodox saints sometimes shown not just a head halo, but
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  Speaker 1: the entire body enshrined in a mandola of divine light,
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  Speaker 1: as in the Transfiguration Icon. The theology behind it is
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  Speaker 1: that the saint, through theosis union with God, participates in
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  Speaker 1: God's energies the uncreated light, and this can even transfigure
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  Speaker 1: their physical flesh, reminiscent of how Moses's face shone or
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  Speaker 1: how Jesus glowed on Tabor. There are modern accounts, if
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  Speaker 1: not verifiable, of elders whose faces shone in the dark
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  Speaker 1: or whose tombs admitted light. Then with Sufism and Islamic tradition.
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  Speaker 1: While Orthodox Islam doesn't emphasize visual halos, and in fact
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  Speaker 1: bands portraying the prophet's face often replacing it with a
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  Speaker 1: flame halo and art, Sufi mystics talk about anwar lights
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  Speaker 1: seeing during spiritual visions. In some Persian miniature paintings under
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  Speaker 1: Sufi influence, saints and prophets are shown with flaming orioles.
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  Speaker 1: The prophet Muhammad, in certain descriptions, was said to have
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  Speaker 1: a special light emanating from him, not visible to all,
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  Speaker 1: but perceived by the insightful. There's a parallel concept of
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: baraka a blessed energy or grace that holy people carry
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  Speaker 1: and transmit, which one could liken to an aura of blessedness.
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  Speaker 1: Rorready covered kavarina the royal glory. To add the Zoroastrian scriptors,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: the Avesta described the hero Yima and later king Frudun
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  Speaker 1: as having a bright glory that could even flee if
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  Speaker 1: they became unworthy, appearing as a bird or shaft of
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  Speaker 1: light that left them. Interestingly, in Persian literature, if someone
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  Speaker 1: loses far, they appear literally lackluster or dark to others,
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  Speaker 1: so the aura loss was perceptible. The word far surffives
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  Speaker 1: in modern Persian as a term for splendor in sometimes aura.
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  Speaker 1: In the Mahaparata, warriors like our Juna are said to
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  Speaker 1: have tejas so strong that weaker beings can't look at
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  Speaker 1: them in battle. Yogis who attain cities are sometimes described
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  Speaker 1: with an aura of light. The Yoga Sutras even list
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  Speaker 1: radiance as a sign of progress. The concept of the
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: divine effulgence around deities is common. Gods like Krishna Arama
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  Speaker 1: are often described as literally luminous. Even some historical figures
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  Speaker 1: like certain Sikh gurus or Hindu saints have accounts of radiance.
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  Speaker 1: For example, it said people could not paint a true
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  Speaker 1: portrait of Guru Nanak because an aura always filled the
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  Speaker 1: space around his head. The Tibetan rainbow body again stands
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  Speaker 1: out as a direct claim of full body or a
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  Speaker 1: transforming into pure light. Allied to this is the concept
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  Speaker 1: of the body of light. In Western hermeticism and Thalma,
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  Speaker 1: Aleister Crowley taught exercises to develop an astral body that
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: could separate and be perceived as a body of light. Also,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: various New Age teachings borrow the term light body activation,
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  Speaker 1: meaning raising one's vibrations so that eventually our physical body
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  Speaker 1: might turn to light, essentially aiming for the same ideal
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: as the rainbow body, but in modern ascension context and
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: then with modern myth and fiction. It's amusing to note
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: even in popular fiction the aura appears Jedi and star
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  Speaker 1: Wars sensing each other through the force essentially ores, or
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: in fantasy novels where characters have colored ores visible to images.
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  Speaker 1: This shows how deeply the ore idea has penetrated the
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: collective psyche. In comparing global traditions, one notices two broad categories.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: The aura of sanctity and the aura of vitality. Sanctity
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  Speaker 1: ores halo's divine light rainbow body emphasize spiritual achievement. The
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: person's aura shines because of enlightenment or divine favor. Vitality
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: ores mana chi far emphasize power and life force, the
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: aura as indicator of strength, health, and royalty. Of course,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: the categories overlap. A king's far required moral virtue, a
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: saints' life A saint's light often came with healing power.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: Both aspects come together in the idea of the aura
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  Speaker 1: as an indicator of alignment with cosmic or divine order.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: Iranian aura means urine tune, healthy embody, pure in heart.
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  Speaker 1: Why a dim a dark or a signal's disorder or
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: sin or sickness. This moral dimension of oras is common historically,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: Like in theosophy, dull colors mean based thoughts. In Christian iconography,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: only holy figures get a halo, while villains are painted dark.
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  Speaker 1: It raises an interesting question do people unconsciously project their
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: moral judgments by literally perceiving someone as brighter or darker.
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  Speaker 1: Psychological studies have shown that humans do metaphorically link light
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  Speaker 1: with good. We use phrases like bright personality or dark intentions.
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  Speaker 1: Some experiments even suggest people recall faces of trustworthy individuals
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  Speaker 1: slightly more luminous. It's as if our brains naturally create
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  Speaker 1: an aural like perception around those we admire or fear.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: Another cross cultural note, Rituals and objects to depict or
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: enhance auras abound priest's crowns. The aura is drawn in
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: art the use of glowing materials, gold leaf and icons, halos,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: and gold and yellow paint, or wearing white to symbolize
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  Speaker 1: a bright ura. All our attempts to either show or
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: amplify and aura. In some Buddhist ceremonies, monks place a
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: sacred white cloth around a sick person, perhaps symbolizing an
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: augmented aura of healing. The Catholicism, the halo is extended
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: to the Eucharist wafer. In art, it's often shown radiating light.
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  Speaker 1: The idea that holiness radiates light permeates religious expression. Finally,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: let's not forget the rainbow and global symbolism. Rainbows are
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: often connected to aura like phenomena. In the Bible, God's
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: glory is compared to a rainbow, Ezekiel's vision and Navajo
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: tradition the ye holy people travel on rainbow beams. In
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: New Age parlance, children with special psychic gifts are called
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: indigo or rainbow children, as if their ores are uniquely colored.
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  Speaker 1: The Tibetan rainbow body we discussed is interestingly parallel to
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: the Christian idea of the glorified body after resurrection, where
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: it's said the resurrected wills shine like the sun. Many
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: cultures express the culmination of spiritual journey in terms of
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  Speaker 1: light and color, reaching a state where the physical form
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  Speaker 1: is transcended and only light remains that can be seen
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: as the ore, completely taken over the material dropping off.
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  Speaker 1: In weaving this tapestry, one sees the ore concept is
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: not trivial or isolated. It is deeply rooted in humanity's
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: attempt to articulate the interface between matter and spirit, whether
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: it's the righteous king's glow, the healing shaman's light, the
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: meditating monks halo of the everyday person's good vibes. Across
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: languages and epochs, we find consensus that life and consciousness
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  Speaker 1: do not hide within us, but shined around us. The
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: metaphor of light is nearly universal for the soul, and
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: in many accounts. It's not just metaphor. People insist they
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: or others literally saw something that keeps the fascination alive. Perhaps,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: just perhaps, there is a common truth behind all these
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: that the aura in some form exists, and different cultures
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: have touched the elephant from different sides. Given the rich
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: history and widespread belief in orders, scientists and skeptics have
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  Speaker 1: naturally been driven to answer, is there something there to
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: be measured or observed under controlled conditions. The story of
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: scientific attempts to validate or debunk the aura is itself
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: fascinating and so far largely negative in outcome for aura proponents.
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  Speaker 1: We have already counted such attempts Kilner, Curlian, and Krochtov.
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  Speaker 1: Here we focus on direct tests of human orror perception
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: and the scrutiny of aura reading claims. One straightforward experi
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: mental design is to test ore readers on tests where
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: normal sensory information is removed. As mentioned, James Randy and
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: other investigators have repeatedly done this. A typical protocol an
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  Speaker 1: ore reader claims that they can see a glowing outline
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  Speaker 1: around the person, So people stand behind opaque partitions so
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  Speaker 1: that only their aura above the partition, if it exists,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: would be visible. The reader is asked to say which
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: partitions have a person behind them and which are empty
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  Speaker 1: time or after time. Self professed orisears have failed these tests.
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  Speaker 1: They perform no better than chance, indicating they were guessing
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: if someone could really see a human energy field extending
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: a foot above a head. A simple test like this
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: should be easy. The failure suggests that when the actual
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: person is hidden, whatever cues the ore reader was using,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: perhaps subtle motions, sound, or even psychological sense, disappear. A
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: psychic name Osawykey was tested by scientists Julian Ocho Wowick's
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: with an electrometer. OsO Whyke claimed to emit a s
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: force from his hands. The device did register some anomalies
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: when he concentrated, but it turned out he was unconsciously
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: moving his fingers muscular micro movements, not an independent aura. Similarly,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: other human radiation tests often found that expected or effects
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  Speaker 1: vanished under tighter controls, a devastating blow because TT practitioners
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: had been teaching and writing as if the human energy
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  Speaker 1: field were a clinically observable reality. When a nine year
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  Speaker 1: old student showed that none of them could actually feel
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  Speaker 1: an unseen hand reliably, it undercut the field's credibility. Published
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight in the Journal of American Medical Association,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: this study concluded the claims of TT are groundless and
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: further professional use is unjustified. TT organizations disputed the findings
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: but did not provide compelling counter evidence. It stands as
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: a cautionary tale just because numerous people believe the sense
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: in or doesn't make it objectively true. Human senses are
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: easily fooled, and expectation can create strong subjective conviction. Controlled
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: tests of psychics who see our colors are harder to design,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: but some have tried reading our photography or matching people
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: to their photographed or those two have shown results consistent
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: with guessing. Another interesting approach. If orocs are consistent, two
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: independenciers should report similar readings for the same person, Yet
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: when comparisons are made, the correlation is often low, suggesting
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: a high degree of subjectivity. There have also been double
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: blind studies on Curleian photography as a diagnostic tool. For example,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: experiments where doctors try to identify which Curlian fingertip photos
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: belong to patients with certain diseases. Versus healthy controls. Most
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: results show it's not reliably better than chance. Curllion images
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: do vary with factors like moisture and pressure, but not
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: uniquely with specific diseases, so the initial excitement of curlion
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: as the aura camera that can see illness waned. Skeptical
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  Speaker 1: investigators like Joe Nickel, Paul Kurtz, and others have frequently
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: debunked or reading demonstrations. In one case, a woman claiming
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: to see a blue or around everyone's head was tested
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  Speaker 1: by asking her to tell whether a person was present
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: or not behind a curtain similar to Randy's test. She
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: failed and admitted she didn't know why her ability vanished.
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  Speaker 1: Then perhaps she normally needed to see some part of
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: the person. Nichol suggests many our readers may be unconsciously
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  Speaker 1: reading body language and heat examples, a flush of the
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: skin might be interpretated as a red or of anger,
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  Speaker 1: and so on. If the whole person is obscured, that
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  Speaker 1: information is gone. However, that old tests have been utterly negative,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: some parapsychology experiments report small effects. For instance, a few
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: energy healing studies claim slight but statistically significant changes in
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: things like seed germination or cell structures when healers send energy,
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  Speaker 1: which would imply something emanated from their ore or hands.
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  Speaker 1: These are controversial and often not replical on repeat. Skeptics
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  Speaker 1: also note that the lack of mechanism. If errors are electromagnetic,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: they should be detectable with emmeters, but aside from normal
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: body em nothing exotic has been measured. If they are
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: some unknown quantum field, then how do psychic see them
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: as colors? Presumably via normal photons entering the eye, meaning
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: the aura must emit or reflect photons in visible range,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: but careful photographic tests in various lighting havev't caught any
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: mysterious glow. In one fun expert, a psychic was asked
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  Speaker 1: to identify the color of an ore around the black
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  Speaker 1: background versus a white blackground to test if after images
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  Speaker 1: were the cause. Results suggest that she was influenced by
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: background contrasts one might as could. Some people have the ability,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: like synastasia, and others not. Thus mass testing fails because
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: not everyone can see ours. Possibly, but those who volunteer
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: for tests are usually ones confident in their supposed ability.
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  Speaker 1: The fact they flop under conditions that remove bias implies
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: that at least in those cases, the ability wasn't really
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: or wasn't what they thought. Even so, science being open
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  Speaker 1: minded means the door isn't completely shut. Researchers in frontier
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: fields like biofield science strive to develop better instruments to
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: measure subtle outputs. Some are exploring gas sensors to detect
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: if a heala's presence changes the air ionization around a person,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: perhaps not light aura but an ion or Others use
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  Speaker 1: GDV devices and try to correlate readings with stressed biomarkers.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: While mainstream science might view it all as chasing phantoms,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: the pursuit continues in some corners. Many who believe in
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: auras argue that science as currently conceived might not capture
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: them because it demands repeatability and physicality, whereas or interactions
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: might be subjective or influenced by consciousness. This veers into metaphysics,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: like the aura might be a manifestation on an astroplane,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: only visible to consciousness, not to machines. From a strict
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: scientific perspective, that makes it non falsifiable and thus outside
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: science's scope. But believers often accept that for them, absence
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: of proof is not proof of absence. They might say,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: just because an or reader failed a test, maybe their
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: gift doesn't work under being observed or stressed. Similar to
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: how some claim psychic abilities are inhibited by skeptics or
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: lamp conditions, the so called shy effect and parapsychology. This
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: ortan frustrates skeptics, who counter that a real phenomenon shouldn't
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: be so slippery if it's truly objective appoint an example.
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  Speaker 1: A famous case was Kelly Kyhill, who reported a UFO
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: encounter where she saw aliens with no aura, implying there
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: were soulless. Interestingly, she assumed aura is normal, so the
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: absence was notable, but it shows how ura belief can
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: intersect with other fringe subjects. If one is predisposed to
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: see ouras, then any anomalous being or even illness might
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: be interpretated via or changes, which complicates objective investigation. One
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  Speaker 1: bright spot of common ground, both mystics and skeptics agree
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: human perception is limited. Mystics say we need the third
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: eye or spiritual development to see ours. Skeptics say we
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: need careful methodology to avoid illusions. In both views, the
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: obvious isn't the whole story, it's just the conclusions. Different
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: on whether ours are out there or in here. Perhaps
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: the most valuable outcome of testing auras has been improved
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: understanding of human suggestion and perception. The failures have taught
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: us how easily we convince ourselves of an ability that
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: isn't real. That has also put a check on Charlatan's like.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: Numerous fraudulent aura cameras or healing schemes have been exposed.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: James Randy million dollar challenge, now concluded, remained unclaimed by
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: any uras here despite many big talkers. He famously equipped,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: if you can see ours, I have ten people, some
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  Speaker 1: behind screens, some not. You tell me who's where. We'll
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  Speaker 1: dim the lights if you want. So far, nobody's taken
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  Speaker 1: my prize. That blunt approach, while antagonistic, two believers did
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  Speaker 1: emphasize the need for objective verification when claims meet commerce
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  Speaker 1: or medicine. It's one thing if you privately believe you
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  Speaker 1: see your grandma's purple aura. It's another if you charge
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  Speaker 1: patients one hundred dollars to repair terrors in their aura.
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  Speaker 1: Skeptics demand evidence for the latter. In the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: open inquiry. Let's imagine a future test if technology continues
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  Speaker 1: to advance, say ultrasensitive quantum sensors. Maybe someone will find
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  Speaker 1: a new emission from the body correlated with emotions, call
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  Speaker 1: it emodal radiation, something that could be the basis of
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  Speaker 1: aura or another route directly studying brain activity is self claim.
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  Speaker 1: Oros is when they say they see an aura. If
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  Speaker 1: neuro imaging shows their visual cortex lighting up in color
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  Speaker 1: processing areas when looking at someone even though there's no
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  Speaker 1: color there, that's essentially a synesthetic or a detection a
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  Speaker 1: neurological reality. Such a study could validate that they experienced
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  Speaker 1: something even if external cameras don't. This would put Orass
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  Speaker 1: in the same category as synistetes who taste shapes. A
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  Speaker 1: neat brain wiring not a new force, but still intriguing.
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  Speaker 1: A neat brain wiring not a new force, but still intriguing.
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  Speaker 1: To end this section, it's clear that scientific skepticism has
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  Speaker 1: not found empirical support for auras as an objective energy
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  Speaker 1: field detectable by others or instruments. However, it has helped
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  Speaker 1: refine our understanding of how aura like experiences can rise
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  Speaker 1: from natural causes, and crucially, it doesn't erase the meaningfulness
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  Speaker 1: those experiences have to people. The challenge remains to communicate
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  Speaker 1: that one can cherish the feeling of a loving, golden
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  Speaker 1: aura around one's child, for example, while knowing scientifically it
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  Speaker 1: might be one's own perception and not a literal glow.
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  Speaker 1: Science asks, can we measure it? Can others see it
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  Speaker 1: under conditions X, Y, and z. If not, it withholds acceptance.
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  Speaker 1: Spiritual experience says, I see it or feel it, and
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  Speaker 1: that's enough for me. The dialogue between the two is ongoing,
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  Speaker 1: ensuring that our exploration of the aura, that age old
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  Speaker 1: symbol of life radiance, stays intellectually honest and endlessly fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: In this journey through Halos and chakras Chi and Synastasia,
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  Speaker 1: curllion cameras and skeptical increase, we've seen the aura concept
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  Speaker 1: illuminated from many angles. To some, auras are among the
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  Speaker 1: great mysteries of life and cannot be completely logically defined,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: a quote from a modern ore reader that captures the
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  Speaker 1: sense of aura as an ineffable human experience. To others,
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  Speaker 1: auras are an age old illusion finally dispelled by science,
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  Speaker 1: or at best, a poetic way to describe mood and presence.
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  Speaker 1: Between those poles lies a spectrum of interpretations the aura
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  Speaker 1: as a psychological reality, as a spiritual metaphor as an
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  Speaker 1: electromagnetic phenomenon, as a cultural archetype. What is undeniable is
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  Speaker 1: the enduring appeal of the aura. We intuitively resonate with
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  Speaker 1: the idea that there is more to a person that
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  Speaker 1: meets the eye, a kind of luminous signature of who
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  Speaker 1: they are. Perhaps it is an emergent property of complex biology,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps an imagined projection of our social brains, or perhaps
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  Speaker 1: a genuine, subtle energy that future science will uncover. Each
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  Speaker 1: tradition we explored as a piece of the puzzle, the
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  Speaker 1: holiness that shine, the vitality that glows, the emotions that
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  Speaker 1: color our presence, the possibility that our bodies are not
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  Speaker 1: self contained, but glimmer at the edges with connection to others,
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  Speaker 1: to the cosmos, and to the divine. In a way,
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  Speaker 1: the study of ours is the study of how humans
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  Speaker 1: seek to see the invisible. Whether through art, ritual, or instrument,
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  Speaker 1: we continually externalize the inner light. In doing so, we
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  Speaker 1: give form to the formless, be it a halo of
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  Speaker 1: gold leaf or a graph of biophoton counts. We start
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  Speaker 1: it with breath, aura as breeze and end with light. Intriguingly,
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  Speaker 1: both breath and light are motifs of life across cultures.
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  Speaker 1: The aura marries them an ether that moves like breath
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  Speaker 1: yet shines like light. It is a poetic encapsulation of
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  Speaker 1: the life force. Even if one remains skeptical of literal
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  Speaker 1: aura energies, the metaphor is powerful. Treating each other as
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  Speaker 1: if we have sacred light around us, imagine the effect
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  Speaker 1: on compassion, many energy, heal us any The specifics don't
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  Speaker 1: matter as much as the intention to recognize that something
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  Speaker 1: beyond the physical is at play in healing and connection.
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  Speaker 1: In that sense, the our concept encourages a holistic and
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  Speaker 1: pathetic outlook. On the other hand, critical thinking argues that
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  Speaker 1: we not let the allure of colored lights lead us
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  Speaker 1: away from the truth or exploitability. In this episode, we
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  Speaker 1: have not solved the mystery of the aura, but we have,
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  Speaker 1: I hope, done justice to all perspectives and evidence from
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  Speaker 1: the Golden Icon, halos and zoration and royal radiance, through
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  Speaker 1: the subtle winds of tntra and the defensive chee shield
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  Speaker 1: of traditional Chinese medicine, through the seance room of mesmerists,
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  Speaker 1: and the galvinic labs of Curlan experiments, to new age
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  Speaker 1: ours and photography studios, and the neurological quirks of the brain.
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  Speaker 1: The aura touches so many facets of human incury. It
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  Speaker 1: is in a sense a mirror reflecting the knowledge and
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  Speaker 1: ignorance of each era. The aura has been supernatural, then
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  Speaker 1: quasi natural. Now may be psychological, but it remains above
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  Speaker 1: all a symbol of the glow of life that each
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  Speaker 1: of us carries. In the end, whether you see oors
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  Speaker 1: or that, the idea reminds us that we affect each
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  Speaker 1: other in ways unseen yet profound, that each life is
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by his story and a presence not immediately visible
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  Speaker 1: but felt. Perhaps the area is metaphorically the footprint of
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  Speaker 1: the soul in the world, and that concept will continue
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  Speaker 1: to radiate through human thought, challenging science and inspiring spirituality
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  Speaker 1: for as long as we seek to understand ourselves. Now
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  Speaker 1: Standing between mysticism and science, we can appreciate the ura
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  Speaker 1: in all its splendor, a true multi colored tapestry woven
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  Speaker 1: from the threads of culture, faith, art, and empiricism, an
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  Speaker 1: emanation from the collective human spirit that, much like the
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  Speaker 1: fabled or itself surrounds and connects us Aul