field close to our skin, which is often seen in dim light conditions as a fine golden glow around a person. An even finer field of energy-the human aura or luminous body-extends outwards, sometimes as far as 30 ft. (9 m) in faster and higher frequencies, penetrated by the swirling chakras. Esoteric teachings usually assign this energy field a number of layers (see pages 14-15), each of which corresponds with a color and a quality. These colors progress through the aura like those of the light spectrum, from red to violet.
the aura in history
Throughout the ages people have been aware of the human energy field, in diverse cultures worldwide, from ancient Egypt, Greece and China to India, Persia and the Americas. In Hindu tradition it was called prana; in China, ch'i; while in ancient Greece Pythagoras wrote of "vital energy" being Many researchers now agree that the human energy field provides an energy matrix upon which physical cells grow. This means that the energy exists before the physical body. They have shown that disturbances in the auric field eventually manifest as disease in the physical body, meaning that healing any imbalance in the aura will assist the body to resist illness.
the light spectrum
As humans, we exist within the 49th Octave of Vibration of the electromagnetic light spectrum. Below this range are barely visible radiant heat, then invisible infrared, television and radio waves, sound and brain waves; above it is barely visible ultraviolet, then the invisible frequencies of chemicals and perfumes, followed by X-rays, gamma rays, radium rays and unknown cosmic rays. If you remember that you are a Being of Light in a physical body, you will be open to understanding how chakras are vital to all perceived as a luminous body. interactions of life on Earth. During the 1930s to 1950s scientific Our auric field and subltle energies are research by Dr. Wilhelm Reich enabled "colored" by our personal strengths/ healers to show not only the existence of the weaknesses, health/sickness, happiness/ auric field, but also its correlation with sadness, love/hate and the degree to which chakras, as intense energy vortices within it. we commune with our spiritual life.