The Fourth Saturday of November is International Aura Awareness Day, so here are 10 facts about auras:
The word aura comes from Latin and Ancient Greek, and means Wind, breeze or breath. It was used in Middle English to mean a gentle breeze. By the end of the 19th century, the word was used in the context of an energy field around a person.
According to ancient Hindu texts, the aura has seven layers: the physical, astral, lower, higher, spiritual, intuitional, and absolute planes. Some schools of thought associate these layers with the seven chakras of the body, others with different glands.
It’s not just people who have auras. So do animals, plants and even inanimate objects.
The concept of auras was first popularised by Charles Webster Leadbeater, a former priest of the Church of England and a member of the mystic Theosophical Society. He’d studied in India and believed that it was possible to determine an individual’s state of evolution from their aura. He also believed that men came from Mars but more advanced human beings came from the Moon.
Needless to say, scientists do their best to debunk the whole idea. Most experiments have shown no significant proof that auras exist or that anyone is capable of seeing them.
One theory that has been suggested by scientists is that the ability to see auras is connected to a condition called synaesthesia, in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. For example, a person will experience a colour when they see a number. There is no scientific proof, however, that people with synaesthesia can see auras.
Taking a photograph of a person’s aura is a practice that began with a French doctor called Hippolyte Baraduc in the 1890s. The most famous name in the field is probably Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, who, in 1939 discovered that by placing an object or body part onto photographic paper, and passing a high voltage across the object, he would get an image of a glowing contour surrounding the object. This process came to be known as Kirlian photography. Believers say this is the psychic energy of a person, debunkers say it is caused by heat or moisture emanating from the person or object.
If you choose to believe that auras are a thing, and that they convey information, then the colour of a person’s aura is significant. A person with a Red aura is energetic, passionate, fiery, driven and full of life. Orange is creative, action-oriented, and optimistic. Yellow indicates a sunny disposition, mental clarity and confidence. Green indicates nurturing, healing, compassion and connection to nature. Blue is stillness, wisdom, peace and perceptiveness. If your aura is Purple, you are intuitive, empathic, spiritually aware and possibly psychic. Indigos are sensitive and even more empathic. Pinks are kind, caring and loving. Whites are pure, wise, spiritually connected. A Black aura suggests weariness or lack of energy; an indication of exhaustion or illness. Multi-coloured auras mean the person is dynamic and busy, an expert at multi-tasking.
Some people believe the aura carries a person's soul after death.
Auras feature in the 1994 novel Insomnia by Stephen King. Through constant insomnia, the main character, Ralph Roberts, begins to see the world as different coloured auras.
Beta
(Combat Team Series #2)
Steff was abducted by an evil alien race, the Orbs, at fourteen. Used as a weapon for years, he eventually escapes, but his problems are just beginning. How does a man support himself when his only work experience is a paper round and using an Orb bio-integrated gun?
Warlord is an alien soldier who knows little but war. When the centuries-old conflict which ravaged his planet ends, he seeks out another world where his skills are still relevant. There are always wars on Earth, it seems. However, none of Earth's powerful armies want him.
Natalie has always wanted to visit England and sees a chance to do so while using her martial arts skills, but there are sacrifices she must make in order to fulfil her dream.
Maggie resorted to crime to fund her sister's medical care. She uses her genetic variant abilities to gain access to the rooms of wealthy hotel guests. The Ballards look like rich pickings, but they are not what they seem. When Maggie targets them, little does she know that she is walking into a trap.
Hotel owner Hamilton Lonsdale puts together a combat team to pit against those of other multi-millionaires. He recruits Warlord, Natalie, Maggie and Steff along with a trained gorilla, a probability-altering alien, a stockbroker whose work of art proved to be much more than he'd bargained for, a marketing officer who can create psionic forcefields, a teleporting member of the landed gentry, and a socially awkward fixer. This is Combat Team Beta.
Steff never talks about his time with the Orbs, until he finds a woman who lived through it, too. Steff believes he has finally found happiness, but it is destined to be short-lived. He is left with an unusual legacy which he and Team Beta struggle to comprehend; including why something out there seems determined to destroy it.
No comments:
Post a Comment