Creative Meditation & Visualisation by David Fontana

Author:David Fontana
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Creative Meditation and Visualization
ISBN: 9781780284590
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2011-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

Does the Aura Exist?

Visualizing oneself surrounded by a cocoon of white light touches on the concept of the so-called aura, a concept that has been with us since ancient times. As the aura is supposed to be actually seen rather than just visualized, extended discussion of it lies outside this book. However, judging by their art and their writings, the early Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all appear to have believed in the aura, so the subject needs a mention, particularly as the 16th-century scholar Paracelsus, regarded by some as one of the founders of modern medicine, considered it to exist, as did the great 18th-century Swedish scientist and seer, Emmanuel Swedenborg, who wrote in his Spiritual Diary of a ‘spiritual sphere surrounding every one, as well as a natural and corporeal one’.

The aura is said to be a cocoon of vital energy that surrounds the human body, closely following its shape and extending outwards some three or four inches. There are various explanations for its existence, but common to most of them is the belief that it is the outer limit of the subtle energy system that contains the energy meridians permeating the body and that sustains physical life. Auras are said to surround all living beings, including animals and plants, and are even considered by some to radiate from minerals. There is also a widespread belief, shared by many natural healing traditions, that the energy body, sometimes called the etheric body leaves the physical body together with the spiritual body at death, and disintegrates three days later leaving the spiritual body to continue its journey into the afterlife.

It is worth noting that a number of physicians and those associated with the medical profession have believed in this energy body. The 18th-century physician Anton Mesmer, the originator of mesmerism which later became associated, rightly or wrongly, with hypnotism, believed that it consisted of an electromagnetic force that could, in certain circumstances, be transmitted to others. The 19th-century German chemist Baron Karl von Reichenback referred to it as the odic force, and developed a number of experiments claimed to demonstrate its reality, one of which involved seating clairvoyants in darkened rooms and recording what they saw, which was reported to include flamelike energy radiating from the fingertips of humans, animals, plants and certain crystals. Said to contain the colours red, green, orange and violet, these flames appeared and disappeared, sometimes intermingled with sparks and with stars.

Dr Walter Kilner, the doctor in charge of what was then called electrotherapy at the prestigious St Thomas’s Hospital in London, went further still and developed spectacles with lenses containing the coal tar dye dicyanin, which makes ultraviolet light visible, by means of which it was claimed the aura becomes visible. In the course of his experiments with these spectacles Kilner noted that, although male and female auras were the same in childhood, those of adult women tended to be more refined in texture than those of men. More importantly, he claimed to have discovered that

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