on seeing auras

Long before I actually was able to discern the human energy field, I was fascinated by the idea of seeing auras. The amazing thing about it is that literally anyone can do it. Kind of like singing. I think there are different levels of inherent talent, if you will, but just about any human being can open their mouth and sing out a note, even if it doesn't sound amazing. Once you understand how the mind's eye works, you can see lots of things.

Aura via Kirlian photography. Image here.

The Basics

The way I see auras is not with the physical eyes, but the spiritual eyes. Okay, and sometimes with the physical eyes. But mostly just the spiritual eyes. Because of the nature of spiritual vision, you don't need to be physically present with someone to see their aura. Also, you can view a person's aura over time--like check in with it from a year ago, or ten years ago, and see what it looked like then. This is true for all energetic vision, auric or otherwise.

Layers of energy

The human energy field is very, very layered. For me, I only tend to see one layer at a time--either the layer that just comes into my mind through a flash of insight, or else the layer I ask to see. For example, in my healing work, when it comes to auras, I tend to not even look at colors or anything like that. I look for holes. What comes up is kind of a sense of knowing where the auric holes are, but I don't end up noting any colors or shapes involved. If people ask about their aura's colors, I have to look another time with the specific intention of observing colors. So when I do aura work on people, I usually don't end up with a clear image of the entirety of the aura. Just if there were holes or not, or where the holes were.

Looking for colors

Auric layers. Image here.

First off, you'll want to do the exercise I posted here. Observe your own third eye and make sure it is open. If it's not open, you can make an executive decision to open it. Just decide that it will be open now and tweak the symbolism around it until it is the way that you want. This may not last for long, but it may last long enough for you to view a human aura.

Secondly, you'll want to gently call up the idea of the person whose colors you want to view. Don't try too hard. Just think of the person and see if you feel the ideas of any particular colors coming into view. For example, you might think of a person and get the idea of mostly spring green and a splash of purple. If you think about where the purple is, you might see it over the third eye. Or you might get the idea of seven colors, earthy in tone. Focusing more deeply you might get a sense of ceramic reds, mustardy yellows, dark greens, etc. Then you would set the intention to know where each color is centralized to.

These colors may come more as ideas than as precise sight, if that makes sense. The trick is to take those hunches seriously. I wouldn't expect to see these images in your mind the same way you see things with your eyes open; it's more of a perception of the ideas of color.

Muscle testing on aura color vision

As it turns out, your own subconscious mind registers other people's auric coloration without your conscious input. So you can also just muscle test as yourself on what other people's colors are.

The thing to be careful of here is filters. Muscle test to find out if you are wearing any sort of covering over your spiritual eyes, such as blindfolds or glasses. You might find rose-colored glasses, just like the cliche, or another color, that interferes with your ability to see another person's coloration clearly. A blindfold will keep your vision dark. To remove those things, you can just decide to remove them and then muscle test until you test positive that they are gone.

Rose colored glasses. Image here.

Some energetic glasses are good--they can contribute to clearer seeing. So if you have clarity-enhancing energetic glasses on that are not interfering with color observations, you can keep them!

Conclusion

"Seeing" auras is something that everyone can do--we just have to maybe change the understanding of what it means to "see." You can double-check your hunches through muscle testing.

I am planning an online class on perceiving the human energy field. More details later.

Explaining arclines

In my work, I deal with arclines a lot. This post is meant to explain them a little bit more.

The arcline is the part of your spirit that's depicted in art as the halo. Basically your spirit or energy is made up of a ton of different layers. Ezekiel 1:20 talks about how "the spirit is in the wheels," or the chakras. But beyond the chakras, we have the aura, the energy field (which is different from the aura), the arcline, the meridians. Each organ of the body has its own energy field. Even the aura has twelve layers. There are many energetic parts to our souls.

Jesus with visible arcline.

The arcline's function is to protect us. When it shatters, tears, or rips, unclean spirits of all types and negative energy can enter our space.

I first read about the arcline in There Is No Death: The Extraordinary True Experience of Sarah LaNelle Menet, where Menet saw it in a near-death experience. I don't think she used the term "arcline," but that is clearly what she saw. Visions of Glory: One Man's Astonishing Account of the Last Days by John Pontius also describes an arcline rupturing. Both of them are LDS. I haven't finished it yet, but Autobiography of a Yogi apparently also explains this, and Progressive Prophetess has written a tiny bit about it.

The example given in Visions of Glory involves a pornography addict who acts out in the night, and when he reaches a pinnacle of lust, his arcline rips apart, and all the evil spirits who are in the room egging him on jump into him. Well--they fight for the chance to be in him. Dead people spirits have a harder time, so typically if they even get in at all, they are ousted by evil spirits. All of them just want to be inside a body.

Once they're in, unclean spirits have an easier time of whispering thoughts to the person whose space they're enjoying. If you have an unclean spirit, a lot of times it's not clear that the thoughts they whisper are not your thoughts. The more you entertain their thoughts, the more your brain changes as a result.

So I've had a lot of cases where issues were being caused by unclean spirits, but just casting them out doesn't undo all their damage. Negative spiritual presence and a client following that entity's thoughts can lead a brain to actually structurally change. So even after unclean spirits are gone and the arcline is fixed, you still need to work on fixing the brain in the bad guys' wakes.

The arcline is affected by drugs--not all of them, but all illegal drugs, as far as I'm aware, and some prescription ones, as well as alcohol and excess caffeine. And then also trauma--whether it's abuse of any kind, or whatever a person registers as trauma. If a broken fingernail is traumatic to you, that's enough to break it.

My understanding is that the arcline can heal naturally--it rips without people knowing and it can heal without people knowing. The fastest way to fix it is through prayer; this is how I fix it in my work. I literally just pray for it to be fixed and then ask to be a witness to its healing.

The next fastest way is scripture study, but it has to be in tandem with prayer. This is not necessarily scripture study and prayer with arcline recovery in mind; just praying and reading the scriptures is enough to heal the arcline, from what I understand. But the practice has to be consistent. And constantly doing things like drinking, engaging in anything that breaks the law of chastity--or even just constantly being traumatized--that kind of stuff will keep ripping open your arcline, so even if you are studying scripture daily, if you're also engaging in those things, it won't keep you protected.
I'm not sure that fasting and scripture study automatically fixes the arcline, but from what I understand, arcline health can be a side effect.


Fasting will also repair the arcline naturally. This is my understanding based on praying about it--I haven't really seen/heard any evidence on this but when I asked I got a yes. People don't need to fast for an intact arcline--it's a sometimes side effect of fasting with pure, real intent.

Next up is meditation, and here is the meditation to rebuild the arcline:




Hope that clears up some things about the arcline. Ask questions in the comments! 

forgiveness, standards, and spiritual membranes

Everything is energy. Everything is vibration; it's just that some things vibrate at a higher speed than others. All matter is simply energy at varying levels of density.

Cell walls and biofields are semi-permeable, to allow nutrients in and waste out.

The biofield, the energetic boundary around the body, is a semi-permeable membrane. It allows energy in and out. The body has semi-permeable membranes too--the mucus membranes in particular, such as those of the nose or mouth or eyeballs. Even the skin is semi-permeable. These physical semi-permeable membranes also allow energy in and out. This energy can be tangible, such as the energy that makes up the chair you are sitting on, or the food you are eating, or intangible, such as the thoughts sent in your direction or the thoughts you are thinking yourself.

A rendition of a human surrounded by the biofield.

I have been learning over the course of months that it is the semi-permeable nature of our various energetic/spiritual membranes and physical bodily membranes that makes it so important to guard our inputs. Our energetic inputs, in the form of thoughts and so forth, as I blogged earlier, but also our more physical inputs: the things we hear, the things we see, the things we wear, the things we eat. Everything we interact with interacts with our semi-permeable membranes and some of that energy--sometimes much of it or even all of it--can end up absorbed into our body or our energetic system.

To put it another way: everything we interact with leaves a physical change in our physical and subtle bodies.

The scriptural case for the literal recording of events in our bodies

Consider 2 Corinthians 3:3, which contains the imagery of Christian discipleship being "written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God" on the "fleshy tables of the heart."

The human heart.

This corresponds with Mosiah 13:11, in which Abinadi claims that he "perceives" that the commandments of God are "not written in your hearts" (referring to the hearts of the wicked priests of King Noah). This scripture stands out to me because this is exactly how I would describe the sensation I have experienced, of perceiving what is and is not a part of someone's energetic or even physical body.

In Jeremiah 31:33, Jeremiah explains that in the last days, the Lord would introduce a new covenant, and that the Lord would "put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts."

There are plenty more scriptures in all the Standard Works that agree at least literally with this idea of things being written on our hearts. The obvious implication is that the things we do and think and are become a literal part of our flesh that can be read.

The case for caution in energetic and material inputs

In my research, I discovered a common warning that comes along with frequent use of theta brain states: theta states often result in spontaneous manifestations of the things a person thinks about. As I have been spending more and more of my time in a waking theta state, I've felt much more aware of how many things have the opportunity to permeate my semi-permeable membranes, both spiritual and physical. I've been more and more discerning in my choices of environments and thought patterns because I don't want to accidentally manifest something horrible in my life just because I saw something about it on TV or something.

Image here.

PS, when we're doing it right, prayer can put the brain in a theta state. The more time you spend praying, like really praying (not that half-hearted stuff we kind of emit right before dinnertime sometimes when we're very hungry), the more likely you are to manifest the things you pray for or about. This includes the negative things we pray about--the things we don't want to happen. This is why it is important to frame prayers from a place of gratitude and humble requests of what we do want.

This ability to manifest anything that is floating around in our systems adds a level of seriousness to the things we surround ourselves with:

The music we listen to in the car.

The TV shows we watch at night.

The words we speak and hear throughout the day.

The books we read.

The pictures we see.

The food we eat.

The clothes we wear.

The thoughts we think.

The people or things we allow to touch our private parts.

Every thing we interact with or allow near--or especially in--our biofield or body has the opportunity to permeate our semi-permeable membranes and lodge there, causing good if it's a good thing or bad if it's a bad thing. Remember how the scriptures said that righteousness and discipleship can be written on the heart? So can sin.

Darkness, sin, and the importance of forgiveness

It is becoming increasingly clear to me that sin isn't just our actively negative actions against others--it's also our choice, conscious or subconscious, to not forgive those who have sinned against us. Consider D&C 64:9-10 (emphasis mine):

 9 Wherefore, I say unto you, that ye ought to ^aforgive one another; for he that ^bforgiveth not his brother his trespasses standeth condemned before the Lord; for there remaineth in him the greater sin.

 10 I, the Lord, will ^aforgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to ^bforgive all men.

Picture from here.

Unforgiveness allows sin to remain literally "in" us, according to a plain-and-precious literal reading of this scripture. It is my observation that unforgiveness remains etched in our bodies, in the form of darkness and "spiritual burlap" that can only be removed by the act of conscious, out-loud, for-real forgiving.

Sometimes our unforgiveness isn't malicious; it's just not a priority. It just doesn't seem important. For example, when was the last time you consciously, verbally forgave a public official you disagreed with for his negative public policies that affect your life?

When was the last time you verbally forgave a nurse for keeping you waiting at the doctor's office?

When was the last time you verbally forgave a driver for cutting you off on your way to work?

Not just shook these things off and decided to let them go, but actually, consciously decided to forgive the perpetrator for their minor wrongs? (UPDATE: Note, when I say "verbally forgave," I do mean out loud, but not necessarily when the person who wronged you is physically present!)

So many times, these minor offenses, or offenses that don't seem aimed personally at us, can just slip under our radars as things we just need to let go. But it appears to me that in reality, these issues are still trespasses, they still cause a negative energetic shift in our bodies and spirits, and they still require our conscious, chosen forgiveness, or else in us there lies the greater sin.

Note that phrasing. It is not necessarily that we are the bigger or worse sinners; it is that there is sin lying in us. The sins which affect us, though perpetrated by others, no matter how small they are, somehow may remain "in" us, according to a literal read of the scripture.

The negative energy generated by these offenses can stick with us and affect us, even if they seem minor to us and not even a big enough deal to forgive. Even a minor trespass requires our forgiveness, if it affects us negatively in any way. Even a little bit of negative, or dark, or unclean energy is too much to keep with us: no unclean thing can enter the kingdom of heaven. 

Living at this level of consciousness and forgiveness does require a lot of energy (ha, ha). But literally. It does. I am definitely not a master at it yet because it does require a lot. It requires a very high level of consciousness and mindfulness to go through each day aware of every thing, good and bad, that enters the biofield--and then, not just be aware, but consciously forgive with love the trespasses that cause darkness in our space. (Side note: forgiveness doesn't mean accepting sin; it means accepting another of God's children, who has sinned. It is not saying that sin is okay, because sin is never okay. It is saying that you accept the sinner despite the sin.)

The good thing is, the more we forgive, the more energy we have floating around us to help us forgive even more.

Protecting the biofield against darkness

I've been pondering how it could be that Jesus or the prophets could live with their energy basically intact despite psychic attacks of negativity on their biofields. Just think of the hate and negativity spewed every day toward our beloved Father in Heaven and His Son Jesus Christ. Even otherwise good people openly and vilely abuse Their names and accuse Them of all sorts of false and horrible things. And yet, despite such attacks of darkness, They remain completely and only and wholly Light.

Prophets have got to be the next level of being out there as far as light in biofields goes, but of course, many prophets over history didn't keep their energies intact; think of David, who succumbed to sin, or the Brother of Jared, who forgot to pray for literal years. Clearly even big-P Prophets do not always operate at a high level of consciousness regarding their biofields.

Image here.

But it seems to me that when a person's inner soul is righteous enough, they generate enough light that their inner light prevents any darkness from entering their space. Instead of the biofield acting as a mere membrane for them, it is more like the glass of a light bulb, allowing the light of their righteousness to shine out, with no possibility of darkness entering. Consider John's description of God:

1 John 1:5

5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

God's person, and Jesus's person, is light, with no darkness at all. This is the promise given to us if we will keep the commandments:

• Doctrine and Covenants 88:67 And if your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things.

Just look at that! I had to bold the whole thing! I couldn't even help myself! What a promise! If we can keep our eyes single to God's glory, what do we get?

- whole bodies filled with light
- no darkness in us
- full comprehension of all things

What an amazing promise!

Fascinatingly, my observations have been that health, emotional, spiritual, and physical, registers as literal light emanating from a person, while disease of an emotional, physical, or spiritual nature registers as darkness. It seems to me that complete personal righteousness leads not just to full comprehension of all things and a very radiant Self, but also to complete health.

Image here.

Conclusion

So, to bring this full circle:

We have to guard our semi-permeable membranes.

We have to understand that the guidelines in For The Strength of Youth are more than just cute ideas: they are relevant, they are important, they pertain directly to the cleanliness and light of our spirits and our eternal salvation.

Watching a rated-R movie fills our spaces with darkness and our bodies with darkness as images seep into us through our biofields and our semi-permeable eyeball tissue.

Listening to impure music allows the darkness of it to enter our bodies through the ear canal.

Eating food or using substances prohibited by the Lord's Law of Health, or Word of Wisdom, fills our literal bodies with darkness--it's actually worse than that because the things we ingest are the building blocks for our bodies... it's not just that we eat bad things and have darkness as a result; our bodies are made of darkness as a result.

Image here.

Participating in sexual activity with anyone (including the self) outside of marriage fills us with darkness; it's actually worse than that because sexual contact of any kind outside marriage, from what I have observed, creates distorted etheric cords with the other person or even the self (in the case of self-abuse). These fracture our souls and further drain us of light.

Dishonesty stains us with darkness.

On the other hand, things For The Strength of Youth encourages, such as honesty, service, self-reliance, chastity, tithing, and so forth, actually fill us with and maintain inner light and peace.

 The Gospel is not easy, but it is simple. My recent life experiences have led me to conclude that the scriptures are much plainer than they appear to be: much of what can be mistaken for metaphor is actually literally true, if you have the eyes to see it.