Richard Webster - The Complete Book of Auras: Learn to See, Read, Strengthen & Heal Auras

About the Author

Author of more than forty titles published with Llewellyn, Richard Webster is one of New Zealands most prolific writers. His best-selling books include Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians, Creative Visualization for Beginners, Soul Mates, Is Your Pet Psychic?, Practical Guide to Past-Life Memories, Astral Travel for Beginners, Miracles , and the four-book series on archangels: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael , and Uriel .

A noted psychic, Richard is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotherapists (USA), the Association of Professional Hypnotherapists and Parapsychologists (UK), the International Registry of Professional Hypnotherapists (Canada), and the Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy Institute of New Zealand. When not touring, he resides in New Zealand with his wife and family.

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The Complete Book of Auras: Learn to See, Read, Strengthen & Heal Auras 2010 by Richard Webster.

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Contents

For two special friends,

TC Tahoe and Lesley Lange

When I started working, my first boss had a reputation in the company for always knowing when a female staff member became pregnant. He would tell the men in the cafeteria about it whenever this occurred, and wed all wait expectantly to see if he was correct. He always was. A week, or a month, or even later, the young woman would announce that she was pregnant, only to be told by everyone that they already knew. After witnessing this several times, I asked him how he did it. He replied that pregnant women emit a special glow that he could instantly recognize.

I see it all the time, he told me. Whenever I walk down a street I look at the young women. I can tell if theyre sad, happy, in love, or pregnant, purely from the glow around their faces. Its easyanyone can do it.

Although my boss would have been surprised to hear it, he was seeing the auras of these young women. To the best of my knowledge, his interest in the subject never went beyond determining whether or not someone was pregnant, but he obviously had developed some degree of aura consciousness.

Once you gain aura awareness, youll be able to do everything my former boss did, and much more. The ability to see and sense auras will enhance your life in many ways and enable you to help others more than ever before.

Throughout history, certain people have been able to see auras. Possibly the earliest depictions of these can be seen in the ancient rock carvings in the Val Camonica region of Northern Italy. These show people who seem to be wearing a strange type of headgear. Some people claim that this proves that beings from other planets visited Earth thousands of years ago. However, as some of these drawings show what appear to be flames surrounding the head, it is more likely that they are depictions of peoples auras.

There are at least three occurrences in the Bible that appear to relate to auras. When Moses descended from the mountain holding the tablets containing the Ten Commandments, his followers noticed something different about him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him (Exodus 34:30). At the Transfiguration of Christ, Matthew recorded that Jesus face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light (Matthew 17:2). When Saul, later to become St. Paul, was on the road to Damascus, suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven (Acts 9:3).

Well before Christian artists started depicting halos around saints, martyrs, and angels, artists in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and India encircled their most spiritually evolved people with halos to show the sacred nature of their subjects. Sacred books from the same period also mention auras.

Hildegard von Bingen (10981179) was arguably the first person in the West to write about auras, when she described the luminous sights she saw in her visions. There are many accounts of auras in Christian, particularly Catholic, writings. In the fourteenth century, when John Tornerius, a Carthusian priest, failed to attend Mass, a sacristan went to his cell and reported that the room was radiant with a luminous light that emanated from the Father. On one occasion, the light emanating from the Blessed Giles of Assisi was so great, that it totally eclipsed the light of the moon.1

In the sixteenth century, Paracelsus (14931541), the Swiss physician and alchemist, described the aura as a fiery globe. He wrote: The vital force is not enclosed in man, but radiates round him like a luminous sphere, and it may be able to act at a distance. In these semi-natural rays the imagination of man may produce healthy or morbid effects. It may poison the essence of life and cause diseases, or it may purify it after it has been made impure, and restore the health.2

One hundred years later, Johann Baptista van Helmont (15801644), a Flemish physician and chemist, put forward the theory that human beings radiated a magnetic fluid called magnale magnum . He believed this could be utilized for healing purposes. He also believed in the existence of the soul, which he called aura vitalis seminum .

Emmanuel Swedenborg (16881772), the Swedish mystic and scientist, described the aura in his Spiritual Diary : There is a spiritual sphere surrounding every one, as well as a natural and corporal one.

In 1845, Baron Karl von Reichenbach (17881869), an Austrian scientist who discovered paraffin and creosote, described an energy that he called od , or odic force . He found that certain sensitive people were able to see a faint light emanating from the poles of a magnet. This led him to further experiments in darkened rooms using specially chosen subjects that he called sensitives . His test subjects reported seeing sparks, rays of light and flame-like energy emitted from fingertips, plants, animals, magnets and specific crystals. Despite the constant criticism his research provoked, Baron von Reichenbach continued researching and publishing his findings until his death.