What is the Aura?
Extracts from the published works of
Spiritual Teacher Stephen O'Brien


The Auric Fields of Man

     Q: What is the Aura?

     A: The aura is made up of complex sets of high-frequency fields of energy and sensitivity that surround all living and seemingly inanimate things. The auric energies are vibrant electro-magnetic, psychic, and spiritual powers, and they are usually perceived clairvoyantly.

     
Q: Does the aura vibrate?

     A: Yes. The atoms of every life-form are in a state of constant vibration, even when the creature appears to be stationary or at rest. All energy-waves disturb the ether which surrounds and interpenetrates them, and through psychic vision a clairvoyant perceives these disturbances as sets of undulating lights and changing rainbow-colours.

     Q: How does the human aura originate?

     A: Souls are Thought into existence by the Mind of the Great Spirit of Consciousness, who bestows upon their bodies, minds and spirits the miraculous power of life. Through the very act of living, souls constantly draw upon the God-Energy that is everywhere, and by using it to think and move they  transform it into waves of  light and colour, which manifest psychically as the aura.

     
Q: Do we have only one aura?

     A: No, there are several auric fields; but the four main auras of interest to spiritual workers and mediums are: the physical aura, the mental aura, the emotional aura, and the spiritual aura.

     
Q: What does the physical aura look like?

     A: If a person is in good health, the physical aura usually appears as a faint blue light that radiates up to about an inch or so in depth all around the body; but there is a slight 'transparent' gap visible between the skin and the commencement of this aura.

      I believe it was this physical aura that the surgeon Dr Walter John Kilner, of St Thomas's Hospital, London, so painstakingly observed and then catalogued in his book The Human Atmosphere, which was first published around 1911 and which is still available today.
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     Q: What happens to the aura when we die?

     A: The physical aura gradually dematerialises as a 'dead' body decays, but the other auras immediately move on into the next world with the person whose consciousness has created them.

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