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Original post: ChaosTech

A while back I posted a thread about how auras are merely percieved, and not objectively real. I explained that with a type of auto-hypnosis exersize (programming as we technomages refer to it), involving taking a bunch of colors, and ascribing your own meaning to them, and "loading" them into your subconscious (psyche), you could begin seeing auras having the colors of the meanings you ascribed to them, not what someone else has done. Granted most of the "traditional" meanings are based off of the different sizes of the wavelengths of the colors of natural additive light, and so the lower vibrations being more "bad," and the higher more "good," or lower more earthy (less energetic), and the higher more heavenly (more energetic). Most use this system, as the traditional word aura, implies light, and so additive color, but this is totally optional.

The reason is that as I theorized before, auras have nothing to do with light, and everything to do with mental processes. Some scientists seem to agree;
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=5619

Though, being a magician, I know better, than to purely think auric sight, is merely the brain interpreting subconsciously recieved (material body) signals as this above article proposes. Granted I do believe this is part of it, and alot of so called "psychic abilities," are very mundane and physical abilities, though abnormal obviously. On the other hand though many, like telekinesis, remote telepathy/empathy, (remote, as I do admit, that alot of telepathy/empathy where people are physically present to another, is probably just the result of becoming sensitive to the subtile body language of another, but obviously only a part of this ability can be dismissed as such), remote viewing, etc, are impossible to be described as some purely physical (mundane) feat.


Anyway though, the whole idea of a "subtile energy field," which surrounds a human body, is indeed true, though perhaps not to the extent alot of new age metaphysical theory, suggests. The energy around a human body, is quite natural (mundane, measurable via instruments), and has little to do with anything psychic. On the other hand, auras as a visually interpreted way of reading others, using definately hidden (unknown), and so occult, abilities, seems more likely the case for auric sight. It also explains why my technique, I posted before, of coming up with your own meanings for colors, and after programming your mind with them, auras actually appearing in the new color system, works.

All in all, I just found this article, and thought "holy shit, that explains it perfectly," and so thought I would share with you all the possible reasons for why my technique I posted before works.

Also as a side note, one thing the article left out which science itself knows via it's discoveries in neuroscience, is that an ability like auric sight (as aspect of Synaesthesia on the physical side, psychic on the psychological side), is that not only those born with the ability possess and can possess this ability. The reason being that through conditioning methods (techniques for developing auric sight), the neuro processes can be rewired in anybody. The result being Synaesthesia, weither auric sight, other forms of visual psychism (clairvoyance), clairaudience (healing information), clairsentience (feeling information, i.e. "energy"), etc, is available to us all (as most of us, magicians/psions already know ). Just as well it shows why carefully exersized ritualised drug use, can be a valid form of spiritual/psychic/magickal development (though this is optional and unneeded, and I don't go this route myself, though I respect others who do). Just as well, it shows how drug use for entertainment use (in most cases, especially with the hard types), is not only dangerous, but beyond stupid to another whole dimension.


To me if this is true, this is just one step further to empirical science and occultism blending together, to show that everything from the world of physis (physical), to the world of psyche (spiritual, mystic, magickal, etc), is interlinked, inseperateable, and in essence all holy (one). There is no mundane, it's all magickal, I tell ya, from the cell to the servitor.

Original post: ChaosTech

Also this "debunks" the skeptic's arguements, that "auras are just after images," "they are just dellusions from folks who want to believe," "there is no evidence at all to show any kind of subtile energy body around people to the degree believers claim," etc.

Even if all the above are true, they debunk nothing, infact just confirm how magickal the imagination is, and how more it is than just a cognitive mundane process for viewing neuro information visually.

Original post: cryptobliss

[QUOTE=ChaosTech]
Even if all the above are true, they debunk nothing, infact just confirm how magickal the imagination is, and how more it is than just a cognitive mundane process for viewing neuro information visually.[/QUOTE]
Indeed, this is the knowledge of the chaotes, that the magickal rabbit hole goes much deeper than those making dogmatic statements about auras being physical and such know. You can make dogmatic statements about many things and have them work...you can 'load a lot of different software' to use your terms, even things that aren't 'passed down from the ancients' or whatever other qualifiers these dogmatic mages use.
I totally agree with magick and science being one. This does not mean using wierd pseudoscience, but looking at things rationally and drawing from both. If your explanation for a magick phenomenon is totally scientifically impossible, its probably a bad explanation. Such is the case with people who assume a material non-mental universe and then try to ascribe magickal properties to it. It don't work.

Original post: ChaosTech

Also, I wanted to say, on a quantom level, even the remote psionic abilities can be explained, though this is delving into very sketchy territory, so I didn't go there.

For me the cosmos is a giant information system, with both new and old bits of data springing in and out of the Void, which is All. Quantom science has suggested this theory, but it's actually very very old (In the beginning was the void (Chaos, Tao, etc), and creation happened by a first word (Thought, Math, Logos, etc).

All stimuli, from the physical to the psychological, and everything inbetween, is indeed merely recieving and transmitting data. I think this is hard for people to accept as it makes one feel like we are all just robots, or something. This is not the case at all though, as to mistake spirit for the form it takes (both conceptual (mathematical), as well as the result (aetherial/material), is folly, and is what is being done here.

Magick, like a car, can be used relatively safely and effectively without understanding the how's and why's. But although few if any human beings understand much of the workings of magick, to a definitive level (read: not faith (hoping) or theory (guessing)), we should try to understand as much as possible, if we desire to that is. As so much more can be done, when one becomes a mechanic of anything, magickial or otherwise.

But also, like all knowlege, this can be used to better each of us as individuals and as a species (elevate human consciousness) creating both a more harmonious yet free species/individual, or worsen us (lower human consciousness), destroying both ourselves and our environments, creating a more restricted disharmonious species/individual, on every level.

Many of the great spiritual truths of old, are not false, merely out of date. Humanity could live in a virtual utopia, all it takes is less ignorance and more wisdom. The choice is, and has always been ours, both as individuals and as a species. Do what thou will, the only "law" of the universe is this, as it's the law of choice, and so change, sentient existence, and so consciousness.

This is all just an illusion of finiteness, designed to allow the I that is us all and everything, to experience our/itself. Monkeys are stupid, humans don't have to be. If all is experience, for experience, by experience, because of experience, etc, then why not aim for having good experiences (meaning those that benefit everyone)? Perhaps this is impossible as a species, and only available to the few individuals who find this realization, and become it, but giving up, is rediculas. In the age of nukes, if the monkeys start flinging poo to much, and the big red button is pushed, all of us, enlightened and ignorant alike, are toast (well except for a handful of super-masters, if the stories of old are true, and they still even exist here). What a waste, when such glorious possible futures await.


But anyway this is getting way off topic. I hope everyone enjoys the liberation I (tried to) gave above concerning auras. As one person said, "it's all in our minds, though our minds are infinately bigger than our heads."