What does the church view of auras

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Ok so I have a question. How does the church see reading auras. I have the ability to see auras around people. Had it all my life so I never trained myself to see them. By seeing peoples aura I can tell what type of person they are. I dont think its witchcraft because it’s not magic and I cant change the natural law of things.
 
I do not see auras, but I definitely get a good or a bad “vibe” about some people, sometimes even before they say or do anything. I got this feeling about a priest one time — never met him before, he hadn’t opened his mouth yet, there was nothing about his appearance to prompt this, I didn’t know him from Adam — and as it turned out, I was right. Something just felt very, very bad. He has since left the priesthood, and there are other reports about him that are not at all edifying. My ill feeling was entirely confirmed.

I much prefer getting “good vibes”, and I get plenty of those as well.
 
Cathgerine of Sienna in her Dialogues, asked the same thing of Jesus. She didn’t use those exact words, but the meaning is similar. I would suggest that you study the Dialogue of St Catherine if Sienna.
Also I think that you should look for a good spiritual director. If you feel that God has given you the capacity to intuit something about other people, just remember, it is very easy to be mistaken about these things. Also the devil if he sees an interest in these things is sometimes able to play with you and confuse you in order to meet his own ends.
 
Maegan01 said:
Ok so I have a question. How does the church see reading auras. I have the ability to see auras around people. Had it all my life so I never trained myself to see them. By seeing peoples aura I can tell what type of person they are. I dont think its witchcraft because it’s not magic and I cant change the natural law of things.
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There is no such thing as an aura around a person so anyone who claims to see that it’s simply their imagination.
 
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It is only witchcraft if you use it for divining ppl who
have them w/o finding out about their sanctity, most
ppl have a “glo” to their visage as in afterglow in the
wake of a spiritual or sexual encounter.
 
aroosi said:
It may even be a neupsychological condition
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I tend to agree with this as I know there are people who for neurological reasons can “see” colors associated with music and other things that aren’t visual. I would not however want to make a bad judgment about a person just from seeing his or her “aura”. I also don’t think that everybody who claims to see “auras” actually sees them or has a neurophsyical condition; some people are just a little too into the New Age practice, and that’s where it becomes sinful.

If you actually are seeing colors around people regularly, I would suggest discussing it with your doctor.

A gut feeling that something is “off” about the person is not the same thing as “seeing an aura”. We can pick up on all kinds of subtle behavioral cues that a person is acting dishonestly, suspiciously, or that they are disturbed. This isn’t anything supernatural, it’s our learned experiences from being around other people. It’s also not foolproof.
 
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I asked my bishop and he said it’s not a sin and not witchcraft, more of something of the holy spirit. So he said I should visit a spiritual guide as well
 
Maegan01 said:
I have the ability to see auras around people.
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You are a rare and fortunate person. Auras are a natural element, an electromagnetic field surrounding most living things. They can be photographed and are in no way related to the supernatural. Being able to see them is one thing, interpreting a personality with them something else altogether. In my opinion you have a gift to see something most of us don’t, just like some can hear very high pitch sounds that normally only animals pick up. There is a great deal about the physical world we live in we do not yet understand so it’s natural for people to be suspicious and you will encounter a wide variety of opinion wherever the topic is raised. What we do with it is what makes the difference. 🙂
 
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The problem is not that you see auras. The problem is that you attempt to read them which is a bit too close to divination in my estimation.

I think you leave yourself open to spiritual attack by trying to read them. I think the suggestion to seek out a spiritual director is a good one.
 
HomeschoolDad said:
I definitely get a good or a bad “vibe” about some people
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You must have the charism of discernment of good and bad spirits. It is a gift from your baptism courtesy of the Holy Spirit.

**I Corinthians 12:10 to another mighty deeds; to another prophecy; to another discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues; to another interpretation of tongues. **

Hebrews 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties are trained by practice to discern good and evil.
 
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I definitely get a good or a bad “vibe” about some people
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Could be, or it may just be a “spidey sense”. It is not that I can discern this about all people, but sometimes, it just jumps out at me, in a way I can’t describe.

I don’t think it’s that unusual. Sometimes you just don’t like the cut of someone’s jib.
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I don’t think it’s that unusual. Sometimes you just don’t like the cut of someone’s jib.
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because we are so verbal we tend to focus on that and ignore the fact that we are also using body language skills. Animals are much better at body language but we still respond to subtle body movements and that is what gives a person a ‘vibe’.
 
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Could be, or it may just be a “spidey sense”. It is not that I can discern this about all people, but sometimes, it just jumps out at me, in a way I can’t describe.

I don’t think it’s that unusual. Sometimes you just don’t like the cut of someone’s jib.
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I agree. I wouldn’t call this a “charism”. It can be triggered by body language, or by past experiences one has had where a person acted a certain way and it signified a problem or a shady character, or even by past experiences of our parents because they help teach us not to be naive.

It’s a useful skill to have but it’s not like we’re divining to reach that conclusion. Detectives, lawyers and others who conduct investigations build skills in this area and use them all the time. Sometimes they are also wrong and have to be careful not to overrely on their gut feeling, as in the past before DNA that would sometimes result in the wrong person getting convicted for a crime they didn’t do just because the investigator had an incorrect “gut feeling” he was guilty.
 
I also, see auras. I have built devices that can detect body fields but no way to take a photograph of auras thus far. When I started to see auras 20 years ago I had no idea what was happening. I don’t think it is a sin anymore than being able to paint, play piano, or run a marathon. It is just an ability that is learned in the mind like mathematics or the ability to write. For me it started out as a spontaneous ability. Now I have the option to turn it on and off. You just have to explore and know yourself. The new age people are involved with aura reading but God created us so I don’t understand how anyone can claim that it is new age. New age people adopted it as part of their religion.
We also have a body field that is electrical in nature. Medical science has proven this. It just happens that the body field is the exact structure as the auras that people describe they see.
Personally, I don’t like to look at auras directly because it makes me have health problems so I look at them remotely. Sometimes it is a lot of fun to see them. Joyful people, especially children, have white and gold auras and they are spectacular and they encompass a huge area around them. I don’t believe it is a supernatural ability. It is probably no different than someone who can play piano without reading music or it is a forgotten part of the mind that we once had.
There are people with red and black auras and they seem to be very troubled or angry all the time. Sometimes people are sick and this makes their auras black or gray in the area of the body that is ill.
Someone who lies a lot have red and black auras.
When someone has an implant like a knee replacement or anything that is not organic that area of the body is pitch black as if there is nothing there.
Most machines don’t have light around them. They are mostly pitch black.

One thing I have noticed is that the analytical skeptical mind set can disconnect the ability to see auras. So, if you don’t believe and you are saying to yourself, “I don’t believe it, prove it to me,” this attitude will certainly destroy your ability to see the auras.
 
Well it could be a bit of both. It’s worth being open to God and his potential in us too.
I sometimes just know what is about to happen. Like you I think it’s me picking up on peoples non verbal cues etc. but at the same time I thank God on each occasion and I am open to it in case he is giving me something or wishes to use me in some way. I shouldn’t like to miss his gifts just because of false humility, though I shouldn’t like to big myself up on pride either as someone special, it’s a tricky one. I just want to be available to him.
 
The OP says it happens. Are you saying they are lying?
You say it is their imagination. What do you define imagination as being then?
 
vsedriver said:
I don’t think it’s that unusual. Sometimes you just don’t like the cut of someone’s jib.
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This is absolutely true of animals. I care for feral animals, some of whom wander over from the nearby forest, and they can definitely tell when a human is threatening them or has more benign intentions. One of my cats desperately tries to “talk” to me, and makes her displeasure known when I haven’t fed her in a timely fashion. I care for my neighbor’s dog when he is away, and there is no mistaking his bark when he wants baby carrots out of the refrigerator (his favorite).
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I became more respectful of other people perceptions after I had an eye surgery that gave me a rare side effect of seeing rainbows and glares in certain light conditions. Especially in the few months after surgery I was seeing really odd light effects, immagine colorful rainbows 4-5 feet across the room. This was explained but my dr with optics and gradually improved. I wouldn’t be surprised if some people have other physical or psychological conditions that are giving them unusual image perception.
 
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If it is as you say - and we have no reason to believe otherwise, it is a gift which is meant to be rightly ordered.
 
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