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:''For other meanings, see Aura (disambiguation).'' An Aura is an optics effect wherein gas or dust surrounding an object luminescence or reflects light from the object. The visual disturbance seen by about half of all migraine sufferers is also called an aura. Sufferers of repeated seizure (called epilepsy) often have a telltale sensation, often a strange light or unpleasant smell which comes before the actual seizure, called an aura. == Paranormal "Aura" == Some people report seeing colors associated with living beings, especially humans. This colored aura may be seen around the being or in the mind's eye (like something imagined). For example, the American psychic Edgar Cayce described having seen auras around people all his life and at first assuming that others could see them too. Some people believe that auras are a perception of energy fields that may also be sensed in other ways, perhaps biologically based electromagnetic fields (biophotonics) or the five Prana of pranic energy said to surround people according to Hindu cosmology. These people say auras reflect the spiritual and physical nature of a person (aura analysis). For example, a dark bluish to black area seen by psychics and medical intuitives surrounding the chest indicates lung cancer. Dr. Shafica Karagula has suggested that auras are one example of the "high sense perception" of some sensitive people. Another example would be that the Swedish inventor, scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg described how at times when he was in the presence of truth he felt a certain "cheering light," "joyful confirmatory brightness," and "a kind of mysterious radiation—I know not whence it proceeds." Yet another example would be synesthesia, such as the colors seen in music by people ranging from those with little musical ability to well-loved composers. Franz Liszt, when conducting, made remarks such as, "That is a deep violet, please, depend on it! Not so rose!" and "…gentlemen, a little bluer, if you please!" (More cases are described in the article on synesthesia.) Believers might say that auras are a synesthetic perception of information obtained paranormally, while skeptics have suggested that auras may reflect only information obtained through the known senses. (See the end of [http://skepdic.com/auras.html the entry in "The Skeptic's Dictionary"].) In 1908, Dr. Walter J. Kilner invented a method for viewing the human aura using colored screens made of thin, flat glass cells containing dicyanin dyes in alcohol solution. Dr. Kilner worked with his medical patients at London's St. Thomas' Hospital's X-ray department, and made a breakthrough discovery that most of us can see auras when we change the focus of our eyes. Kilner's reasoning for using dicyanin coal-tar dye was that it made observers short-sighted in order to improve their ability to see the ultra-violet spectrum radiation of the human energy field. Kilner's book, "The Human Aura," received a very positive review in Scientific American magazine in March 1922. These energy fields are sometimes claimed to be documented by a rare form of photography called Kirlian photography. However, these claims are vigorously denied by skeptics about paranormal activity. James Randi, for example, has for many years (as of 2004) offered one million US dollars to any person capable of repeatedly detecting auras, noone has yet succeeded, (though at least one has tried and failed). The task would involve the aura reader to stand on one side of a room with an opaque partition separating them from a number of slots which may contain either actual people or mannequins. All that would have to be done is that the aura reader would have to consistently be able to tell which were real people and which were not. == Figurative Meaning == Figuratively, an aura refers to the character of concepts/issues/phenomena surrounding a particular topic. eg: "The discussion had an aura of casualness". The Marxism cultural critic Walter Benjamin also used the term "aura" to refer to the feeling of awe created by unique or remarkable objects such as works of art or relics of the past. According to Benjamin older cultures can generate auras around particular objects of veneration, while capitalism culture has the opposite effect, causing the decay of the aura due to the proliferation of mass-production and reproduction technologies. == References == * Cayce, Edgar, ''Auras'', ARE Press, 2002, ISBN 0876040121. * Kilner, Walter J., ''The Human Aura'', Citadel Press, 1965, ISBN 0806505451. * Krippner, Stanley and Rubin, Daniel, ''The Kirlian Aura: Photographing the Galaxies of Life'', Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1974, ISBN 0385065744. * Larson, Cynthia Sue, ''Aura Advantage'', Adams Media, 2004, ISBN 1580629458. * Leadbeater, C.W., ''The Chakras'', Theosophical Publishing House, 1987, ISBN 0835604225. == See also == *chakra *kundalini *mana *medical intuitive *Odic force *prana *Qi *Qigong *synesthesia == External links == * [http://www.randi.org The Amazing Randi web site] * [http://skepdic.com/auras.html Auras in the "Skeptic's dictionary"] * [http://skepdic.com/kirlian.html Kirlian Photography in the "Skeptic's Dictionary"] Optics

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Removed from the article == Aura explanation == - - The aura means nothing more than the living being's electromagnetic field. It's presence has been proven long ago. The only problem is: there is no technology to measure it. - - Everything has an aura, even objects, since a material is both of nature: atomic and electromagnetic. Like photons. - - People, who can see auras, describe it as a mixture of colors. - 1. The existance of Aura in this sense has not been proved 2. Any electromagnetic field that the body is caperble of producing is detecterble using are current technology 3.the claim that everything has Aura is not backed by evidence. Also can the person claiming explain neutrons? 4.Some people who cliam to see Auras describe them as only being one colourUser:Geni 10:59, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC) if i'm not mistaken, isn't aura also the latin word for air? More occult information welcome? I understand the reasoning for taking out the above text, and agree with it. I think the criticism of James Randi should also be taken out of this page. If needed it could be added to a page on Randi, if one exists. My question, though, is this. I am one of those people that can see auras. I would like to add to the article some effects that I see which are also supported by other sources, such as multiple aura colors, auras around objects near a person but not in physical contact with them and various aura interconnections and after-image effects. It should be made clear that there is no scientific foundation for these observations, but it should be reported nonetheless. Also, in researching auras for my own reasons, I have run across information that may be helpful to others, such as aura color attributions, methods for learning to view auras, and their possible connection to what occultists term the "etheric body". However, I am new to wikipedia and don't know the conventions here. --User:Godshatter 08:17, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) :As someone with no official standing or connection with Wikipedia policy-making, I'm going to put in my two cents. I don't think you should describe your own experiences here—that's the ultimate "POV" material. If you want to share on the Web what you have to say about auras, you could make your own Web site. Then I think an "external link" with an NPOV title such as "Discussion of auras by a person who claims to see them" would be appropriate for Wikipedia. Incidentally, I also think you should claim Randi's prize. :-) —User:JerryFriedman 20:23, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Synesthesia == Is there any reason I shouldn't move the sentences about Liszt's, Beethoven's, and Schubert's synesthesia to synesthesia? —User:JerryFriedman 23:02, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) _____________________ The information is useful in both places (aura and synesthesia). The reference to musicians seeing colors while hearing music needs to remain in the aura section because it is one of the most common ways that non-psychic professionals will typically go on record as saying they are seeing colors. These colors appear in the form of auras, and they also typically accompany other sensory stimuli, so this reference indeed belongs both in the aura section and in the synesthesia section. —User:Cynthia_Sue_Larson 08:49, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) :Do the colors really appear in the form of auras? Mine don't—they appear in my "mind's eye" like things that I imagine, not around physical objects the way auras are described. But of course other synesthetes' experiences might be different from mine. If you have a reference to people who said they saw auras somehow (around the instruments?) instead of just saying that a certain note or timbre has a certain color, putting that in the article would make sense to me. Otherwise, I think the connection between synesthesia and auras needs to be explained. :One of the links in the article, [http://skepdic.com/auras.html Auras in the "Skeptic's dictionary"], ends with a speculation that at least some people who see auras may actually be experiencing synesthesia, seeing their knowledge about a person or object in another form. Is that the connection? —User:JerryFriedman 18:14, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) Auras are frequently seen in the mind's eye, and are often seen in a variety of different ways through what is known as high sense perception. High sense perception is the term coined by Dr. Shafica Karagula, and mentioned in Karagula's book "Breakthrough to Creativity." It describes the way information is often perceived by some sensitive people, including medical intuitives. Just as there are many ways that everyone sees auras, there also appear to be a number of different ways that people experience synesthesia, including some people seeing colors at the same time as they are experiencing a different sense. The connection between auras and synesthesia is thus based on the way that additional information is experienced by certain people. —User:Cynthia_Sue_Larson 08:56, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC) :Thanks for the answers. I tried to incorporate this information in a logical order and an NPOV way. I leave it to you to correct anything I misunderstood (if I did, no offense, I was just editing boldly), and to decide whether to add ''Breakthrough to Creativity'' to the references section. I really think, though, that this article needs only one example of synesthesia, if that. —User:JerryFriedman 17:05, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC) :I'll also leave it to you, or to anyone who knows, to correct the spelling of "dycanide" or "dicynanin". The y's are in different places. —User:JerryFriedman 17:23, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC) Thanks for doing such a beautiful job with your recent edits to the aura and synesthesia pages. They are both quite improved! I've just checked the spelling for "dicyanin" and will see the spelling is checked. —User:Cynthia_Sue_Larson 06:24, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) :Thank ''you''! I'm glad it worked out to be useful. —User:JerryFriedman 01:27, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==List of persons reported to be able to see auras== Just for references.--User:Jondel 02:13, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC) *Edgar Cayce

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