Vicky Wall - Aura-Soma: Self-Discovery through Color

Editors Note

The book that you hold in your hands is based on Vicky Walls 1990 autobiography, which she titled The Mirror and the Miracle, and which was published as The Miracle of Colour Healing: Aura-Soma Therapy as the Mirror of the Soul. To create this new edition, the editors returned to Vickys original manuscript while at the same time updating and amplifying the information to make the text as accessible as possible. The heart of the text represents Vicky Walls own unique presentation style, since we believe she can tell her own story better than anyone else. Some sections of her text, however, have been re-sequenced to increase understanding of the material. Part introductions, footnotes, appendices, and a glossary also have been added to supply missing information.

It is important to note at the outset that the Aura-Soma Color System has continued to evolve since Vickys passing (see the Epilogue for details). Vicky continually emphasized Aura-Somas gift for healing physical complaints, and this focus is evident throughout her story. Teachers and practitioners today, however, regard Aura-Soma primarily as a technique that helps modify consciousness and aids the growth of awareness, while acknowledging the healing consequences that are possible with this system. Claims made in the text of the systems therapeutic value should be considered wholly the property of their author.

Putting Aura-Soma into Practice

Aura-Soma is a non-intrusive soul therapy. The Aura-Soma products are primarily tools for spiritual development and personal growth, tools to facilitate a growth in awareness and consciousness. The products are not intended to be used as a diagnosis or treatment of any disease, illness, or physical problem. Aura-Soma therefore does not make therapeutic claims for those products.

Students who have a health concern should consult a suitable health professional.

Foreword

It gives me great pleasure to make this book available to a new generation of readers. To have known Vicky Wall and to have loved her enriched me beyond measure. I hope that your heart will be, as mine was, touched and uplifted by her presence in the pages that follow.

I was fortunate to spend the last seven years of Vickys life with her. By this I do not mean I was just a casual acquaintance, but rather her constant companion most waking hours seven days a week. By the time that we met, Vicky was registered as blind, she only had forty percent functional muscle within her heart, and she had late-onset diabetes. More apparent than any of these health concerns, however, was her incredible desire and energy to bring benefit to others. Rarely have I encountered a human being who had such a will to assist her fellow humans. As Vickys eyes and hands during those years, much of my role was to be of help to heras she expressed it to meto teach the baby that she had brought into the world to walk. This infant was called Aura-Soma. I believe it is an incredible offering from spirit to this world.

Vicky understood Aura-Soma to be Gods shop window, a window into the soul, and she viewed it through her own window of healing. Both she and her partner and closest friend, Margaret Cockbain, a pioneer herself in cranio-osteopathy, had been involved with healing throughout the whole of their professional lives. When confronted by the unanticipated arrival of the first dual-colored Equilibrium bottles, both Vicky and Margaret naturally asked themselves, What is this for? And they just as naturally answered, For the healing of humankind.

In a sense, their original intuitions were correct. While Aura-Soma has evolved from a gift that emphasized physical healing to a gift for helping to increase awareness and modify consciousness, today, more than twenty years later, we can clearly see that the Aura-Soma system is an offering of healing through aiding our awakening. We are at a point of transition between the ages; we live in a push-button age, expecting immediacy. With less opportunity to retreat to quietude to grow in consciousness, we have been offered the means to hasten our awakening. Aura-Soma is a tool relevant to our time brought into being through a remarkable blind woman who had clairvoyance from birth and who could see the energy of animate and inanimate things more clearly than most of us can see what is directly in front of us.

As you will see, Vicky identified me as her chosen successor. To her, that we would work together was certain from the beginning. I, on the other hand, felt a great sense of resistance at the beginning, preferring my established identity as a contemplative potter in the woods. So it was that I offered to assist her in spite of my known self, dragged forward by that less familiar part of myself that knew my destiny. True, the relationship that I had with Vicky was not easy, but even now makes sense. I think that it is said in the Course of Miracles: Love brings up everything unlike itself for the purpose of healing. My time spent with Vicky Wall certainly taught me what that expression really means.

In the end, Vickys vision struck a chord within me, and the harmony still resonates as the wonder of Aura-Soma reveals itself through me. It is now fourteen years since her passing, and it continues to be my sincere wish to manifest the vision that was there for Aura-Soma to come into being. I attempt within my own limitations to nurture her child. The baby that was handed to me gradually grows in recognition. To be writing this introduction is part of that process. To think that Vickys life story will again be available in the English language gives me great joy. Her spirit and what she brought forth live on.

I would particularly like to thank Carol McKnight for her tremendous assistance in publishing this book. Her work has enabled us to return to Vickys original manuscript and present readers with a more cohesive text. I would also like to thank Jon Graham for his openness and understanding, and to thank Inner Traditions for making this volume possible. It has been a great disappointment over the last years that the works of Vicky Wall and other texts about Aura-Soma have been widely available in German and Japanese but not in English, Vickys mother tongue. Here in this volume, Aura-Soma and Vickys message become available again. It is with gratitude.

MIKE BOOTH
DEV AURA, TETFORD, 2005

Vickys beloved father

Introduction

I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

YEATS, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W. B. YEATS

Tread softly, friends, for you tread upon the fabric of my life, the warp and the weft of it, the pattern woven from the beginning of time, the repeat performances, the inevitabilities preordained, the preamble toward the true purpose. Instantaneous physical blindness, my road to Damascus, brought forth the blinding revelationthe birth of Aura-Soma Equilibrium oils that were to heal and change the lives of so many, the truth shown through the mirror that made miracles possible.