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In the west, its called the aura. In east Asia, the chi or ki. Sometimes its called the Maai. I’ve heard that there is scientific evidence for its existence, but never seen any reports. Your thoughts…?
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on a more serious note:
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The Holy Aura is not the same as chi or ki or maai.
The Holy Aura is the Light of God raiding from the skin of the saint or from the being of the angel portrayed in art and seen in apparitions and vision.
The chi, ki, and maai are the energy of the individual raiding from the body. It’s a New Age idea.
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Not just New Age. The chinese and other eastasian philosophers have writen about it for 3000 years or more.
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People who suffer from migraine headaches often experience auras (even when they aren’t suffering from a headache).
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Old thread, old, I know. Was just searching for something about auras and found this.
Back when I was deeply involved in the occult, I would sometimes see colors around someone. One time I actually witnessed an argument and one person had a red aura and the other had a smokey aura that was hook shaped. Looked it up and it said that red could be anger or passion and a hooked aura meant someone was fixed in their views and wasn’t going to let go.
I also was given an aura reading, twice. Once was with Kirlian photography, as mentioned above and I’m pretty sure it’s bogus. But…I did another one where I pretty much had to place my hands on this metal thing that was hooked up to a computer, and I could watch my aura change in real time. It was interesting that if I started thinking about things I wasn’t supposed to, the aura would begin to react quickly.
It was a session that was scheduled to be on NBC news but it never made it. The news crew was also tested and it seemed that those most skeptical had auras that seemed to indicate a very mundane perspective. I had an indigo aura and it showed my crown chakra was very open and that I was always channeling, while my base chakra was very closed, meaning I had difficulty being grounded.
I’m just kind of wondering to myself if it’s still okay to believe in this kind of stuff, as long as I don’t go back to studying it and playing around with “energy work.” I’m not sure if auras are really bogus or if it’s a real biological part of our anatomy.
Back when I was deeply involved in the occult, I would sometimes see colors around someone. One time I actually witnessed an argument and one person had a red aura and the other had a smokey aura that was hook shaped. Looked it up and it said that red could be anger or passion and a hooked aura meant someone was fixed in their views and wasn’t going to let go.
I also was given an aura reading, twice. Once was with Kirlian photography, as mentioned above and I’m pretty sure it’s bogus. But…I did another one where I pretty much had to place my hands on this metal thing that was hooked up to a computer, and I could watch my aura change in real time. It was interesting that if I started thinking about things I wasn’t supposed to, the aura would begin to react quickly.
It was a session that was scheduled to be on NBC news but it never made it. The news crew was also tested and it seemed that those most skeptical had auras that seemed to indicate a very mundane perspective. I had an indigo aura and it showed my crown chakra was very open and that I was always channeling, while my base chakra was very closed, meaning I had difficulty being grounded.
I’m just kind of wondering to myself if it’s still okay to believe in this kind of stuff, as long as I don’t go back to studying it and playing around with “energy work.” I’m not sure if auras are really bogus or if it’s a real biological part of our anatomy.
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skepdic.com/kirlian.html
Krilian photography has nothing to do with “auras”, anyone who proclaims this is stating something outside of scientific fact.
Dymphna82, if it might interest you:
Yes the East has talked extensively on auras, or “Qi” (chi, ki) surrounding the body. My former “religion” was an eastern practice that talked a lot on this, and without scientific explanation might I add. Before that though, I was involved in eastern martial arts, since I was 12, and gravitated towards the Japanese sword arts towards the end of that interest. My primary interest after receiving hand to hand combat knowledge was the katana and the sword arts, most particularly Miyamoto Musashi that created Niten Ichi-ryū. It is said the main reason why he was able to win every duel he engaged was because he saw the auras of his opponent. In Japanese hand to hand arts, such as Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu or the late Aikido, profess their high level masters can see the aura of a person change colors and each color represents the state of the person. I.E. blue is calm and red is aggression. So many make the connection that Musashi was able to win everytime is because he was able to see his opponent’s aura change, thus knowing when to counterattack.
As a former strict non-qi martial artist, Gong Fu San Soo (Tsoi, Li, Ho, Fut, Hong Ga), that only dealt with reality application, I say otherwise and many others do as well. Every master in the martial arts in the past that was able to win everytime, such as Musashi, was mainly due to the fact that each one of them was changing the paradigm of martial arts. Since Shintoism was the religion of Japan during Musashi’s time, the martial arts were heavily influenced on the doctrines of it and especially of the fatalistic doctrine that everything is predetermined, thus warfare and the self-defense arts were based around this doctrine. Which is why in the ancient arts you’ll see techniques and forms that are only 1-3 moves because the notion was that since all is predetermined, the true outcome will be evident regardless of fighting for hours or a single second. Musashi did not practice this line of thought and engaged people that did, ontop of the fact the man was a brilliant tactician. This coupled resulted in sure victory. There was no aura reading on his part, it was all tactical and paradigm changing to the general mentality of warfare to Japan.
But as far as humans go and auras, it’s all speculation and non-scientific. Not to say they don’t exist, but if they do they are not observable yet due to present day technology and science or not observable at all since it would be beyond the corporeal-material world.
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