by Robert Bruce (from The Astral Pulse Website)

23. How To See An Aura: (basic technique)

To see the aura, you have to be able to relax and concentrate, at the same time, and there is a trick to focusing your eyes in a special way.

* An aura must be gazed upon - not looked at *

Light:

First, you need plenty of good, soft light to train in, not dim, but good soft light. It is very important not to have any strong light shining or reflecting into your eyes. It is best to have light coming from behind and above you. If you have, say a window, flooding light into the room, in your field of view, while trying to see an aura, it will distract you and make an aura much more difficult to see. A hundred watt bulb, coming from above and behind you, is fine.

Step 1:

Get a book and cover it in bright, primary blue or red paper. Stand it upright, on a table, six or seven feet from you (about 2 metres). Experiment with the distance until you find what is just right for you, but the minimum distance should be no less than 4 feet (1.2 meters). Make sure you have a plain, fairly neutral background. Do not view it against a brightly colored wall, or garish wallpaper. If the wall color is wrong, hang a sheet of neutral colored paper or cloth on the wall, as a backdrop. A bed sheet, or some sheets of butcher's paper, taped to the wall, will do fine.

Notes:

A.The book is only a prop for the colored paper, i.e., it is the aura of the colored paper you are going to look at - not the aura of the book. Using a brick, covered in colored paper, would give the same result as would hanging a piece of colored paper on the wall.

B.The auras of the colors blue and red are, by far, the brightest and easiest to see.

C.The brightness and tone of a color's aura varies with the shade and tone of the color used, so use bright primary colors only.

D.You can use any brightly colored item for this: clothing, kitchen canisters, toys, or even tape squares of colored paper directly to a wall.

Step 2:

Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and relax. When you are calm, look at the book. Focus your eyes on nothing, a little to the side and just past it. This is as if you were gazing at, but not focusing on, the wall behind it.

The whole idea is to totally relax the focus of your eyes and view the subject with your peripheral, or side vision. By side vision, I mean just to the side of your normal focused area of sight (a couple of inches only) not out of the corner of your eye.

Gently hold that gaze and relax your eyes. Get used to that relaxed focus and try not to strain or tense your eyes or forehead while doing it. Concentrate! You need an intense, but very relaxed and steady gaze, similar to day- dreaming.

Blinking:

When you need to blink, do so, or it will cause your eyes to tense, burn and water. Blink normally and without changing focus, and DO NOT become preoccupied with it. Blinking will cause the aura you are viewing to disappear - for a second or two only - but it will reappear quickly - if you stay calm and hold a relaxed focus. Learning to hold your focus, while blinking normally, is an important part of learning to use auric sight.

Brow centre opening technique:

It is necessary to use some type of brow centre opening exercise, in order to stimulate your brow centre into a receptive mode. This allows you to receive the energy surrounding your subject - as auric sight. It is possible to see the aura of color without doing this, but it is very difficult to see a living aura, without first stimulating and opening your brow centre.

* Please pay very close attention to what follows! *

Remember what it is like to be very, very tired - totally exhausted? Remember what it feels like when you haven't slept for days, and can hardly keep your eyes open?

Remember what it feels like when your eyes keep trying to close on you? Remember what it is like to have to wrestle with your eyes to keep them open?

This causes a sensation, if you observe yourself closely, much like you are trying to lift a heavy, shadowy veil, from behind your eyes. When this happens, the muscles of your eyes are not responding very well, so the action becomes almost entirely mental.

Stop for a moment and remember what this feels like.

Wrestling to open tired eyes causes a strong mental opening action, at the site of the brow centre - thereby stimulating it.

How this works:

This mental opening action, focuses your bodily awareness at the site of your brow centre.

When your bodily awareness is focussed at one area of your body, and you manipulate that area with your mind, you stimulate your energy body in that area - in a dynamic way.

If this mental opening action is continued for long enough, and put enough mental effort into it, your brow centre (your third eye) will begin to open.

If you carry out this mental opening action, when you are relaxed, and have a subject in your field of view - and you are not looking directly at your subject - spontaneous auric sight will occur.

The mental opening action given here is similar, only much stronger and more effective than the normal, visualisation based, chakra opening techniques; taught by most other teachers of psychic development and energy work. Visualisation based energy work, on it's own, is weak and obtuse and very difficult to learn and use.

* Back to the colored book:

While you are gazing steadily, with a relaxed focus, at your blue or red covered book - recreate the same mental action, as described above. Shift your bodily awareness to the area between your eyes. Feel this area with your mind - concentrate all of your sense of feel, your bodily awareness, on this area.

Tip: Lightly scratch the skin directly between your eyes, and just above it, in the centre of your brow, with a fingernail. This will help you to zero in on that spot with your bodily awareness.

Shift your bodily awareness to the area between your eyes - concentrate on being aware of that area!

Mentally lift this whole area - as if you were trying to force your eyelids to open - but do not allow the muscles in this area to tense up or respond in any way (this is all mental).

Isolate the mental command that lifts your eyelids. Observe yourself closely. Imagine your eyes are very heavy, and let them close on you, and open them a few times. Observe which muscles you use to do this. Use this same muscle command - with your mind based bodily awareness, in that area - but without letting your eyelid muscles obey.

Do this over and over again - lifting, lifting, lifting - as if you were lifting a heavy shadow from behind your eyes .

Repeat this action, over and over, but do not allow yourself - or any muscles - to tense up or respond. This is a bit tricky to, start with, but easily mastered with a little practise.

This mental opening action is very important. It is the first step in learning how to control your brow centre and, later, the rest of your energy body - if you decide to progress to developing full clairvoyance and other psychic abilities.

In the early stages, it does not matter if you feel you are lifting too large an area over your brow. Even if you are lifting right across the whole front of your forehead - it will still have an opening effect on your brow centre. With practise, you will be able to narrow the focus of this mental opening action - to the brow centre area alone.

If you keep up this mental opening action, you will stimulate your brow centre - forcing it to become active. Your steady, relaxed focus, on your subject, will tune your brow centre into the energy given off by it. This energy will be passed along to the sight centre of your brain. There, it will be interpreted as a sight picture - a bright band of colored light.

Tip: When you have isolated this opening action, and can do it mentally, you will find one side of the veil behind your eyes easier to lift than the other - usually the right is easier. Basically, his feeling is caused by the two different hemispheres of your brain - one is much easier to use than the other. If this is a problem, use a clockwise swirling mental action, over the site of the brow centre, to stimulate it. By clockwise, I mean clockwise from the inside. Use the same mental muscle command we talked about above, as with opening tired eyes, but swirl it, as if you were mentally stirring that area with a pencil.

It is best to alternate between the main opening action, and this swirling action, when trying to activate your brow centre. The main opening action is still needed to tune your brow centre into an aura.

Note. Remember: all these energy stimulation exercises depend upon localised bodily awareness, specifically - localised surface awareness on the skin. You have to FEEL these mental actions happening, in order to make them effective.

Your first aura:

While you are doing all the above, patiently keep up your relaxed gaze, just to the side and past your subject. After a while (anything from a few seconds to several minutes - in the early stages) you will see a faint shimmering in the air, around the book. Then, you will see a pale, narrow band of light build up, close to the edge of the book. This is the books etheric aura.

*Stay relaxed!

*Don't change your focus - in any way!

*Don't look directly at it!

*Blink if you have to - it will come back quickly!

Soon, a bright-yellow aura (blue book) or bright-green aura (red book) will start building up, from the pale, etheric band around the book. If you change your focus, tense up, or look directly at it - the aura will vanish instantly.

The aura has to be observed with your peripheral, or side vision.

If something happens, and the aura disappears, don't worry. Continue observing it, calmly, and patiently and it will reappear.

In the early stages, the aura will tend to disappear quite a bit. This is quite normal. Keep at it and this will happen less and less, as you master the viewing technique.

Step 3:

Once you have completed the first steps, gather several books and wrap them, each in a different primary color. The brighter the color - the brighter the aura - and the easier it is to see. Study these colored books, one at a time, and write down the colors you see. Observe the books, two at a time, and watch how their auric colors affect each other.

Move them around, mix them, sit them on top of each other, observe them all in a row.

Step 4:

Get a pot plant, or some fresh flowers, and study their aura. The aura you will see around them is a living aura. Keep in mind the effects of the auric colors from the petals and leaves. The orange hue you will see, around the green parts of the plants stems and leaves, comes from the auric color of green - the same as with observing a green book. Some of the other colors, with flowers, will come from the colors of the petals.

You will see a more distinct etheric and a stronger shimmering, optical effect around the plant. Living auras are more subtle and, thus, a little harder to see, than a simple color's aura. With practise, though, the auras of plants will become much easier to see.

Step 5:

Observe the aura of a tree. Pick a good sized tree that you can view, highlighted against the sky. It is best to observe it with the sun behind you, early in the morning or late in the day. If the sun, or any strong reflection, is in your eyes, it will make this very difficult to do.

The shimmering around the tree will be much more imposing and intense, than with a small plant. The color of a tree's aura will also be influenced, not only by the colors of the leaves and bark, but also by the color of the sky itself. On a sunny day, a tree's aura will appear to be a shade of blue.

On a cloudy day, it will appear to be creamy-grey. Viewing distance: Experiment with this, as it depends upon the size of the tree. Make sure you can see the entire top of the tree in your field of view. You need to be, approximately, three times the height of the tree away from it, or more. A tree's aura can be huge, depending upon the size of the tree and how strong it is. At the top of the tree's aura you can sometimes see a fountaining effect, as if it's aura were slowly spraying up out of it. I am not sure what causes this, and I have not seen this with every tree I have observed. Some people say it is the tree's spirit, or a nature spirit living inside the tree, that causes it. Some trees do seem to have a kind of consciousness within them, so this may be true.

Step 6:

For the next step, use an animal, any animal: a dog, cat, kangaroo, camel, lion, tiger, elephant, etc, if you have access to one. Try and observe them when they are resting. Animal auras are not as colorful as human auras, but they are still very good practise. Keep in mind, that the color of the animals coat will affect the color of it's aura. Disease can be detected in the aura of an animal, the same as with a human subject. This makes observing them very good practise, for diagnosing the early signs of disease in an aura.  

Step 7:

Observe your own aura: This can be done outside, with the Sun behind you, or inside, against a neutral background. Hold your arm out and study your hand and forearm. You can also lay down and observe the aura of your feet and legs.

Step 8: A human subject:

In the beginning, it is best to observe the human aura in two stages:

Stage 1:

Have your subject wear a colorful shirt, dress or jumper - anything will do. Use any color but blue - do not use blue - as this will flood and hide the yellow of the intellect, the color most commonly seen around the head area. Make sure their upper neck area is bare. Observe their shoulder area, using the same setting and technique, as with the original book. You will see the color of the shirt easily, building up around their shoulder.

*Make sure you continue to do the mental opening action - with all these exercises. When the shirt's aura is clear around their shoulder area, shift your gaze slightly higher - so you are gazing past their bare neck area. Keep the shirt's aura in view - don't change what you are doing - and see what other colors you can pick up around their bare neck.

This exercise makes sure your eyes and brow centre are working together, as with the book. Do not focus directly on your subject's neck! All auras must be gazed at and observed with peripheral vision. You should begin to see a slightly different color, building up near the top of their shirts auric color - around their bare neck and head.

Now, shift your gaze slightly higher, so your line of sight is level with their head area. Keep your gaze relaxed and don't change anything. You should see some yellow around this area.

When you see a little, ask your subject to do some mental arithmetic, or think hard about something. See if their aura brightens when they do this.

Stage 2:

Get your volunteer to remove some of their upper clothing. Study a bare skin area, against a neutral background - the same as with the book. The upper arm and shoulder area is the best place to start your observation.

With bare skin, the first thing you will see is a slight shimmering effect, a fuzziness in the air near the skin.

Next, you will see the etheric aura build up from their skin. This looks like creamy, pale-blue smoke, clinging to their skin. This is quite distinct and normally about half an inch deep.

Hold your focus and the aura's main colors will begin to build up, and out, from the etheric aura. It will first appear as a narrow band of color, highlighting the edge of the etheric aura. This will appear and disappear, grow and shrink, quite a bit. This part is very frustrating, but keep at it and it will get easier. The color will slowly grow larger and become thicker and more well defined. Hold your focus and it will grow to several inches or more thick. The main aura may vanish and reappear many times, as I said, while it is building up. This is caused by blinking and minute shifts in your focus, and cannot be helped.

Tip:

The brightness of a person's aura has a lot to do with their mood and how they feel. If they feel happy and full of life, their aura will be much stronger, larger and brighter. Try playing their favourite music, or crack a few jokes and have a good laugh. This will help to energise their aura and make it easier for you to see it.  

24. Another letter:

Here is another email letter. It describes a very unusual first sighting of an aura:

Rick: "I want to relate to you an event yesterday that was kind of unusual. I was sitting in church, just staring at the choir, when I saw an incredible white light, sort of like a shadow, and three of the choir members had this white light shooting up to the ceiling and turning blue and green. It was like looking at a bright, multicolored X ray.

It was an awesome experience. I had a chill run down my spine and I thought "WOW!" and blinked - and it was gone.

Question: What the heck was that -- I assume it was an aura?"

Me: You were, by the sound of it, in a very relaxed state, and carried away, uplifted, by the spiritual singing of the choir. This must have stimulated your energy body and brow centre, causing spontaneous auric sight, making it possible for you to see the choir's aura, while it was flaring. What you have seen is the human aura flaring, in an excited state. This is a rare and truly beautiful sight. I have only ever seen this once myself. The flaring aura's of the choir would have been caused by a charged, devotional atmosphere in the church, and the hymn the choir were singing at the time. This must have stirred deep spiritual feelings and uplifted them. The white, changing to blue and green, rising auras you saw, came from their throat and heart chakras. These are higher spiritual colors and are affected by emotions of spirituality and love.  

25. Practise and time:

It takes practise to see the human aura, so don't be disappointed if you fail, or see very little the first few times you try. If you managed to see the aura of the original blue book, you CAN learn to see the human aura.

Using this training method stimulates the brow centre, which is responsible for all types of non-physical sight. With use, it will grow in strength and seeing auras will become progressively easier to do. It may take weeks, before you get your first, proper glimpse of the human aura, if you have poor natural ability for this - but with practise, as I did, you WILL eventually be able to see it. I suggest that you practise the mental opening and stimulation exercises, and observe auras for at least a few minutes every day. This will stimulate your brow centres development.  

26. Spontaneous auric sight:

You will find there will be days when auras are very difficult to see. You will also find there are days when auras just appear around people and objects, without any conscious effort on your part to see them. You will find this happening at odd times, when your brow centre is, for some reason, very active. You may be sitting down talking to someone, and all of a sudden you will see their aura, or the aura of their clothing, with no effort at all. Episodes of strong, spontaneous auric sight, will happen frequently, once you begin stimulating and developing your brow centre, through the practise of observing auras.

A letter showing this:

Eric: "I have been practising your method daily, for over a month now, but have not succeeded in seeing much of a human aura, until now. I can usually see the auras of colors and plants, and can see my own aura fine. Up until now, I have only been able to see the auras of color, the etheric and some patches of distortion around people, when I try and see their auras. Yesterday, I was working on my computer, and my girlfriend came into my room. She had just showered and was getting dressed. I just looked at her and "BOOM!!!" there was this huge aura all around her. It was really beautiful and solid looking. It was mostly green around her body with a yellow glow around her head. Oh - there were some red and orange patches around her hips and stomach. I was not trying to see her aura. I was trying to finish my work and was very tired, what with exams coming up the next week. It just appeared around her like magic. What happened, how could I see it without trying to? I tried the next day, but couldn't see it again. What happened?"

Me: Bravo Eric! You are doing extremely well. What you saw was the full living aura of your girlfriend. I take it she was naked when you saw it? This would have helped you to get a better view of it. This is spontaneous auric sight, caused by all the practise you have been doing - seeing auras. This will happen more frequently, from now on. It will just happen, from time to time, when your brow centre is very active, for some reason or other. This is a sign your brow centre is responding well to the exercises I gave you, and developing nicely. Your dreams should also increase in frequency and become much more vivid, with more lucid dreams etc. This is another sign of your brow centre developing.

This, above, is a good example of spontaneous auric sight. Eric was tired and relaxed, when it first happened - the perfect state for seeing auras. He had been practising auric sight exercises for several weeks. This had stimulated his brow centre, causing bouts of spontaneous auric sight to happen. Eric was lucky enough to have a naked subject for his first view of an aura, showing him the full human aura, with no interference from clothing etc. With Eric, this sort of thing happened every few weeks, for about a year. It then increased in frequency, happening about once a week, on average. Sometimes this only showed him a patch of color on someone, for a few seconds - at other times, he sees a full aura.

After Eric had this first bout of spontaneous auric sight, he found it much easier to see the human aura, when he tried. He still cannot see the whole aura - when he wants to - unless it happens spontaneously. He can now, though, see bands and patches of colors in peoples auras, that he could not see before.  

27. Close:

I have taught many people to see the aura using this, above, method. The fast results, in the early stages, help to build confidence and keep interest high. This ensures enough work and effort is put in to get the desired results - seeing the human aura.

Once you have seen your first aura, you have taken your first step into a much larger, and more colorful world. If you practise and graduate to seeing, even a glimpse, of the illusive human aura, then you are making very good progress indeed, and your brow centre is showing it's development - through your increased ability. The next step from this is to develop clairvoyance. This is the ability to see the more subtle energies in the world around you. These energies contain within them: karmic influences, life conditions, the results of past actions, and future events and probabilities - plus lots of other exciting and interesting stuff. This energy is seen, clairvoyantly, as metaphoric imagery, full of richly symbolic meaning. This is seen as anything from a simple still picture, to a full colored, motion picture quality, mind's eye vision.

28. Totally shameless plug:

Clairvoyance is a much more complex subject than auric sight. It is far too large and important a subject to do justice to, in a humble little article like this. Thus - I am currently writing a book on it, called: "THE CLAIRVOYANCE BOOK" which will - hopefully - be available sometime early in the coming new year.

"The Clairvoyance Book" covers the development and use of auric sight, in much more depth than this article does. It also covers the progressive development and understanding of clairvoyance. It contains many new and useful - and above all - practical and easy to do energy techniques. This begins with the simple use of the secondary energy system, to stimulate and energise the primary energy centres. It also teaches and explains more advanced energy work techniques.

* It has lots of useful tips, devices and ideas, for safely speeding up development - saving many years of development work - for the average person.

* It contains a simple new protocol, for the interpretation of metaphoric imagery and symbology - the raw stuff visions are made of.

* It contains many of my personal experiences and case histories - stories that highlight many different aspects of developing and using clairvoyance.

* It teaches a simple new technique for (R.V.C.) remote viewing clairvoyance.

* It also attempts to explain, simply and logically, just where clairvoyant visions come from and how this whole clairvoyance thing works - the mechanics of the whole process.

"The Clairvoyance Book"...a truly inspirational work:...(R.B.) If you would like to inquire about this book - or put in an advance order:

Please contact Paul Blakey at TEEHI (Twin Eagles Educational and Healing Institute) Box 2031, Sechelt, BC, VON 3AO, Canada.

Email: TEEHI@sunshine.net Fax: 604-885-6064

My new - World Wide Web Page - "THE ASTRAL PULSE" - is found at: (http://www.tower.com.au/~rsb/) This contains all the latest revisions of my current work, plus new articles, short stories and poetry of mine - posted as they are written. - Robert Bruce

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