Several elements of the aura energy fields were examined in the preceding chapter. However, those elements were merely a selection of the more simple and obvious phenomena of the aura energy fields. These simple elements needed to be identified, but they were also presented as background for the additional, highly complex elements discussed in the chapters ahead.
Like most other things that have dynamic importance to life and living, the nature of energetic auras is not a simple matter if one begins in-depth examination.
As a way of getting into what is to follow, it is worthwhile making reference to a bigger picture scenario into which the existence of aura energy fields will logically fit.
The modern sciences of the nineteenth century first assumed that the universe was made up of matter—and that the physical atom was the smallest indivisible particle of matter.
When it became possible to “smash” atoms during the atomic age, it was seen that the atom was divisible into energetic particles.
Roughly speaking, then, the atom was composed of energy; and this clearly implied that the most fundamental “ingredient” of the universe was not matter but energy:
Out of the energies, or because of them, the atoms of physical matter are somehow composed and come into physical or electromagnetic existence.
As this book was undergoing final editing, the January, 1999, issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN magazine published an article entitled REVOLUTION IN COSMOLOGY.
The article indicated that “New observations have smashed the old [scientific] view of our universe. For the past year, theorists have scrambled to make sense of the latest data.
“Either the universe is dominated by a bizarre form of energy or our universe is just one strangely curved bubble of space-time in an infinite continuum.”
If, then, physical matter is not the basic stuff of the universe, but energy is, then a significant question can be posed—at least for hypothetical consideration.
Why should ANY life systems emerge on any planet only in a strictly three-dimensional physical context and with sensing systems geared uniquely and only to perceiving the physical forms of matter?
This question can be posed in a number of other ways. For example, since energy is the fundamental constituent of physical matter, why should life forms consist only of the matter and not the energy?
Or, if life forms are fundamentally erected out of energy, why should they only possess sensory systems regarding matter, and not possess sensory systems regarding energies?
The most comprehensive, and logical, answer is that all life systems have arrays of sensing mechanisms and faculties regarding both matter and energy—and in fact it is understood that all life forms are probably more sensitive overall to energies than to physical matter.
This equates to TWO sets of sensing systems, one geared for perceiving the physical, the other geared for perceiving the energetic.
While philosophic and scientific confusions can arise, as they have, regarding the existence of the double matter-sensing and energy-sensing systems, there is one fundamental area of energy sensing and experiencing that leaves little doubt in this matter.
This fundamental area has to do with the sensing of dynamic sexual energies—a.k.a. sexual vibe sensing—and which are invisible to physical eye-sight.
SEXUAL ENERGY SENSING SYSTEMS
There can be absolutely no doubt that our human species possesses sexual sensing systems, although the efficiency of these can be distorted or downgraded by societal confusions.
Of course, in the behavioristic context, this type of vibe-energy sensing is explained away as subliminal responses to “cues” of body language and behavior posturing.
Such cues probably play an obvious role, but the responses often occur over distances when the direct sighting of body cues is not possible.
Subliminal perception of sexualizing aura energies is a far more logical explanation for sensing invisible sexual energies, especially if the human being is energy-based in the first place.
For clarity here, if one senses another’s sex vibes, then those vibes are emanating from the other person’s aura energy fields. In that one is sensing invisible energies in this case, such sensing is a form of clairvoyance, albeit this term is not usually applied to the sensing of sex vibes.
EMOTIONAL ENERGY SENSING SYSTEMS
People also possess energy sensing systems with regard to emotions radiating from energy fields of others, such as emanations of love, hate, acceptance and rejection, danger, approachability, imminent illness or death, and etc.
Again for clarity, one is sensing invisible emotion-laden energies from another’s aura energy fields. This kind of thing is often referred to as empathy, which in itself is frequently being acknowledged as a type of clairvoyance.
THE COMPLEXITY OF AURA ENERGY FIELDS
By considering the two types of aura energy sensing above, it can begin to seem that aura energy fields must be complex if they can emanate sexual and emotional radiations.
Therefore, the aura is not simply an oval energy field around the body, but has a multitude of highly complex and dynamic factors.
But this is what might be expected. After all, the physical human bio-body is ultra-complex, indeed marvelously so. Why, then, should its energy aura fields not be at least as equally complex?
EARLY OBSERVATIONS OF THE AURA
Many nineteenth century descriptions of the aura seen clairvoyantly indicate it as “An emanation said to surround human beings, and supposed to proceed from the nervous systems. It is described as an oval cloud of light, and suffused with various colors. This is perceived clairvoyantly, being imperceptible to the physical sight.”
From this description (which has had wide exposure) it can easily be supposed that the aura, in a kind of static passive way, is a thing having prescribed shape, form and contours.
However, backtracking to the Renaissance, the venerable Paracelsus indicated auras of a quite different nature:
“The vital force is not enclosed in man, but radiates around him like a luminous sphere, and it may be made to act at a distance. In these semi-natural rays, the imagination of man may produce healthy or morbid effects. It may poison the essence of life and cause diseases, or it may purify it after it has been made impure, and restore the health.
“Our thoughts are simply magnetic emanations, which, in escaping from our brains, penetrate into kindred heads and carry thither, with a reflection of our life, the mirage of our secrets.”
THE AURA AS VITAL FORCE LUMINANT
Here, then, is a description of a quite different caliber. Indeed, the aura Paracelsus describes is not an aura as a thing in itself, but in his view is actually the vital force luminant, extending beyond the body, and which can act at a distance.
The direct implication is that the vital force luminant is not a static cloud of colors, but an active entity in its own right, and one that would seem to have highly active and mobile characteristics.
Modern descriptions of the aura in this sense are rare. This rarity indicates a number of things, major among which is that this kind of aura activity is more difficult to perceive and so it usually isn’t.
But if we consider that there are subtle but meaningful distinctions between perceiving and sensing, then it is quite clear that certain types of vital emanations which “penetrate into kindred heads” can be sensed if not actually perceived clairvoyantly.
It doesn’t take any great leap of imagination to comprehend that although the emanations can be clairvoyantly perceived, they can more easily be sensed as “vibrations”—i.e., usually, and frequently, described as “vibe sensing.”
To mention again for emphasis, vibe sensing can easily be thought of as a type of clairvoyance without the pictures, so to speak. As it is, a thorough examination of the great accumulation of literature reveals that nowhere has any rule been established that clairvoyance has exclusively to be made up of any kind of sight or images.
Indeed, sensing the vital force luminant doesn’t necessarily require clairvoyant pictures. Non-visual feeling of it is quite often enough, such as in the case of sensing sexual or emotional energies. One gets the picture, so to speak, without needing the pictures.
There are many categories of vital energy phenomena that can be sensed, but which do not absolutely need visualizing.
One most probable reason is that the “information content” of the sensing is sufficient enough in itself to convey, or result in, cognitive meaning. As will be seen ahead, and in many different aspects, the concept of energies having information content has wide significance.
THE SCOPE OF THE COMPLEX AURA ENERGY FIELDS
While the existence of aura energy fields has been appreciated since time immemorial, it must be openly acknowledged that the earliest research group in the modern West to examine such energies were the working members of Theosophy, especially between about 1870 and 1932.
Some aspects of Theosophy have already been discussed. There exists a very large literature regarding the nature of Theosophy, and to be sure many definitions of it have been presented.
But as a seldom recognized truth of the matter, it can be stated that the Theosophists, in addition to their philosophical endeavors, were researchers of vital life energies and the larger perspectives of cosmic energetics.
Indeed, the leading researchers of Theosophy pursued the topic of energetics so thoroughly that they eventually could identify aura energy field as “entangled manifestations.”
By 1914, just before the onset of World War I, the Theosophists in general had arrived at certain conclusions regarding the nature and constituents of the aura.
It was, first of all, “a highly complicated and entangled manifestation,” and altogether consisted of many influences simultaneously operating within the same area.
Far from being a mere luminous cloud around the physical body, it both interpenetrated it AND some of its elements were projected from the body sometimes to great distances.
Some of the auric elements did not belong to the body at all, but were emanated from “astral principles.”
ASTRAL referred to the first permanent “world” of vital force energies not subject to or changed by physical death.
As had many earlier cultures, the Theosophists indicated that the astral was “material, but of a refined texture” having permanent but quite plastic substance.
The ancient traditions of India divided existence into seven “worlds” or “planes,” the lowest of which was the physical.
The astral was itemized as the second lowest of the seven worlds—the world of emotions, desires and passions, and which have existence with or without the physical body.
The physical bio-body and the astral “body” (as it came to be called) coexist and interpenetrate for as long as the physical body endures.
The emotions, desires and passions, however, belong to the astral, not to the physical body.
And indeed, upon reflection, it is difficult to attribute emotions, desires and passions to the physical body.
After all, it is made up only of inert, inorganic particles—and it IS difficult to see how any sum of the inorganic particles could of itself possess emotions, desires and passions that are otherwise defined by, and only by, their energetic nature.
THE CO-EXISTENCE OF FORMATIVE ENERGY AND ITS FORMED MATTER
In keeping with traditional Eastern concepts, the Theosophists accepted the concept that since the physical and the astral coexist and interpenetrate, not only clairvoyants could sense and experience the astral, but “also ordinary men”—inclusive of women, of course.
The cross experiencing between physical and astral happens, as but one example, during dreaming sleep, anesthetics, drugs, or sometimes as a result of accidents during which the astral “body” might temporarily separate from its physical component.
In this sense, the dream world consists of the astral component in process of, as it were, thinking, meditating, or visualizing.
As everyone realizes, the dream world is entirely plastic—as modern surrealist artists have portrayed—while the physical world is solid—as physical realist artists have portrayed.
Although the Theosophists did imply as much, it would be clear that the “astral principles” would have their own sensing systems regarding emotions, desires, and passions. This would clearly be the case if the astral world was the world of emotions, desire, and passions.
In this instance, then, sensing of emotions, desires, and passions (including those sexual) would be a concomitant of the astral energetic principles.
It would also be the case that these energies would have, or result in, “physico-orgasmic” phenomena, especially of the ecstasy type.
But the whole of this would also mean, for example, that a full part of the sympathetic systems researched by Paracelsus and others were energetic in nature, and thus belonged by right to the plastic astral principles.
Extending this line of thinking a little further, the more real human “being” would be composed of the “astral principles”—with the physical body being only their material vehicle.
In other words, energy senses energy. However, for any of this to work, the astral principles need to be possessed of Intelligence, or at least some version of it.
Here it is worth mentioning that although results and effects, and successes and breakdowns, of intelligence can be authenticated, no one has the least idea of what it actually is.
It might be observed, however, that whatever Intelligence is, it is certainly plastic, since it can be shaped and distorted in ways that can amuse and horrify any intelligence watching. Indeed, researchers of intelligence have often become confounded when considering the plastic nature of intelligence.
The NATURE of intelligence is a far more complex topic than merely mapping its various kinds of behavior.
SEVEN KINDS OF AURA INFORMATION SYSTEMS
The Theosophists attempted to categorize different aspects of the “complicated and entangled manifestation.” They were moderately successful in this, but there were still some rather tattered open ends.
The categories, “all blended together,” were set up along the apparent lines of order of importance, as itemized below:
1. the health auras
2. the vital animating and energy auras
3. the emotion, desire, and passion auras
4. the thought-form auras
5. the Karmic auras
6. the character auras
7. the spiritual nature auras
Please note that all of the above-mentioned auras are given in the plural. All of them auras could be broken down into two subsequent categories of the “higher” and the “lower.”
But much in this regard depended on certain biases, motives and predispositions of anyone seeking to establish what was higher and/ or lower.
And here was a situation that many Theosophists sought to polemically embroil themselves—usually in ways that ended up not being very constructive.
For example, theoretical attempts were made to establish sexual desire as lower-order astral, and creative passions as higher-order astral, or even as belonging to the spiritual nature auras.
But there was one brilliant conclusion broadly shared, and likely to be of some endurance and future enlightenment: that IGNORANCE (whether natural or socially engineered) of these categorized auras contributes big-time to all sorts of human and societal difficulty and misery.
AURA MULTIDIMENSIONAL AND RESPLENDENT
The term MULTIDIMENSIONAL did not really come into vogue until the early 1970s.
However, the “complicated and entangled manifestation” of the Theosophists is entirely compatible with multidimensionality—and especially if the multiplicity of dimensions can be conceptualized as interpenetrating.
And this helps explain, in some part at least, why certain clairvoyants perceive only some of the auras and not others.
This can be elaborated a little by suggesting that clairvoyance (of any kind) is both linked to and relative to different energetic dimensionalities. Energies, if we might apply them to different dimensions, would in the whole of human sensing systems then have distinct kinds or layers of receptor-faculties that respond only to a given dimension.
So different kinds of clairvoyance or clairlucidity are dimensionally dependent—meaning that if one level of clairvoyance might activate, other levels might not.
One additional and quite special factor needs to be pointed up. While it is hardly mentioned anywhere, it is indicative of why so many never experience a clairvoyant turn-on, so to speak.
If one studies a larger number of artistic representations of aura energy fields, it can be seen that although their differences can be quite remarkable, they none the less have a very special factor in common—beauty, to the degree of being resplendent.
Aside from the fact that the entangled manifestation is complex and complicated, the whole of it from the smallest to the biggest parts is of beauty so extraordinary, so resplendent, that mere words, illustrations, or special effects equipment are quite challenged in approximating it.
In this sense, then, it might be assumed that those not prepared to recognize or deal in beauty are unlikely ever to experience turn-on jolts of clairvoyance.
Indeed, such turn-on jolts might actually be mentally unbearable within otherwise jerkwater realities that exclude or minimize beauty.
Thus, if anyone is curious about what auras (or energy fields) look like, it can be said they are unbelievably beautiful. If this initial proviso does not register, then one probably can forget about ever sighting one—sexual or otherwise.