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    Aura Reading for Beginners: Develop Your Psychic Awareness for Health & Success
    Aura Reading for Beginners: Develop Your Psychic Awareness for Health & Success
    Aura Reading for Beginners: Develop Your Psychic Awareness for Health & Success
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    Aura Reading for Beginners: Develop Your Psychic Awareness for Health & Success

    By Richard Webster

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    Fully comprehend those around you by learning to read their aura, the energetic manifestation of the soul. Watch for a dirty red haze around those who have just lost their temper, or an expanded aura for those doing philanthropic deeds. Learn to see auras through the proven methods taught by Richard Webster in his psychic training classes, including exploring the chakra system and learning how to restore balance. Then, begin to imprint your desires into your aura to attract what you want in your life.These proven methods for seeing and reading auras will help you:

    • Interpret the meanings of colors in the aura
    • Find a career that is best suited for you
    • Relate better to the people in your life
    • Enjoy excellent health
    • Discover areas of your life that you need to work on
    • Imprint what you want in your future into your aura
    • Discover the signs of impending ill health, drug abuse, and pain
    • Change the state of your aura and stimulate specific chakras through music, crystals, color
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLlewellyn Worldwide
    Release dateOct 8, 2011
    ISBN9780738733685
    Aura Reading for Beginners: Develop Your Psychic Awareness for Health & Success
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    Richard Webster

    Richard Webster (New Zealand) is the bestselling author of more than one hundred books. Richard has appeared on several radio and television programs in the US and abroad, including guest spots on WMAQ-TV (Chicago), KTLA-TV (Los Angeles), and KSTW-TV (Seattle). He travels regularly, lecturing and conducting workshops on a variety of metaphysical subjects. His bestselling titles include Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians and Creative Visualization for Beginners. Learn more at Psychic.co.nz.

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    • 4/5
      Very much a how-to book, this manual is essentially a reference guide on how to feel for auras, interpret colours and find out about external influences (positive and negative)on our auras. Very accessible and easy to read, it does not pretend to give any scientific explanation other than that an aura is the radiating energy from each of us.
    • 2/5
      I feel like I've read the information in this book in many other beginner's Pagan books. If you are completely new to the metaphysical world then you will enjoy this book. If you are a seasoned practitioner, you will find no new or real aura reading specifics in this book.
    • 2/5
      I feel like I've read the information in this book in many other beginner's Pagan books. If you are completely new to the metaphysical world then you will enjoy this book. If you are a seasoned practitioner, you will find no new or real aura reading specifics in this book.
    • 4/5
      Very well-researched and informative, Aura Reading for Beginners is an excellent primer. It includes activities, exercises and tips, as well as a couple of examples of how to do an aura reading. Webster several times describes what colors mean within different areas of the aura, as well as includes an appendix of key words relating to each color, and this can get a little repetitive, but it is better to be too thorough than leave something out. This is a very subjective process, and Webster stresses that each individual needs to find his or her own interpretations, but gives some excellent jumping-off points. My only complaint is that most of the exercises, especially the initial ones need to be done with a partner and not on one's own. It's easy to see why that's necessary, but it can be very difficult to find someone one trusts enough to perform these exercises with who also has an interest in this subject matter and doesn't sabotage one's attempts with their cynicism. This is not a book to be read straight through, in fact I would recommend the reader completely master one technique prior to moving on to the next chapter. I didn't do it this way, and I wish I would have.

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    • 2/5
      I feel like I've read the information in this book in many other beginner's Pagan books. If you are completely new to the metaphysical world then you will enjoy this book. If you are a seasoned practitioner, you will find no new or real aura reading specifics in this book.

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    Aura Reading for Beginners - Richard Webster

    © Jason Fell

    About the Author

    Richard Webster (New Zealand) travels around the world every year lecturing and conducting workshops on psychic subjects. He has written many books, mainly on psychic subjects, and also writes monthly magazine columns. Richard is married with three children. His family is very supportive of his occupation, but his oldest son, after observing his father’s career, has decided to become an accountant.

    Llewellyn Publications

    Woodbury, Minnesota

    Copyright Information

    Aura Reading for Beginners © 1998 by Richard Webster.

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any matter whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications, except in the form of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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    Any unauthorized usage of the text without express written permission of the publisher is a violation of the author’s copyright and is illegal and punishable by law.

    First e-book edition © 2011

    E-book ISBN: 9780738733685

    Cover design: Adrienne Zimiga

    Cover art: Bill Ling/Verve/Digital Vision

    Interior illustrations: Jeannie Ferguson (pages xiii, 18, 20, 23, 25, 26, 30, 32–34, 76, 77, 104, 131) and Tom Grewe (pages 6–8, 12, 13, 19, 66 )

    Book design and editing: Michael Maupin

    Llewellyn Publications is an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.

    Llewellyn Publications does not participate in, endorse, or have any authority or responsibility concerning private business arrangements between our authors and the public.

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    For Eden, our first grandchild

    Contents

    Introduction

    One

    What Is the Aura?

    Two

    Feeling the Aura

    Three

    How to See Auras

    Four

    The Aura Colors

    Five

    The Chakras

    Six

    Interpreting the Colors

    Seven

    Health in the Aura

    Eight

    Self-Improvement & Your Aura

    Nine

    Aura Readings

    Conclusion

    Appendix A: Meanings of the Colors

    Appendix B: Keywords for the Chakras

    Notes

    Glossary

    Suggested Reading

    Introduction

    As a child I went to a church school. Every Thursday morning we attended a chapel service before school began. I was very interested in music and always positioned myself so that I could watch Mr. Carder, the organist. He also taught music and was one of the best teachers I ever had.

    One morning as I watched him playing Bach, I was amazed to see beautiful colors emanating from him and heading up towards the high, vaulted ceiling. I was fascinated by this sight and prodded the boy next to me.

    Look at the beautiful colors, I said.

    The boy looked, but saw nothing. I can’t remember what he said, but it was enough to stop me mentioning the colors to anyone else.

    From that time on, I saw colors around Mr. Carder almost every time he played. I simply took it for granted that the colors would be there, and did not think it strange that I never saw colors around anyone else, not even the school padre.

    Years later, after a lecture I gave, someone came up to me and suggested that the colors might have been reflections from the stained glass windows in the chapel. I thought it unlikely as I was familiar with the pretty patterns the windows made over the congregation on sunny mornings. Nevertheless, I went back to the chapel and checked. The organ was placed in such a position that it was impossible for the stained glass windows to reflect on the organist.

    What I had seen was my very first aura. I was fortunate in that I saw colors from the very start. Most people begin by seeing an almost colorless surround and only gradually do the colors appear. Because I was a child I simply took the aura for granted, despite the comments of the boy who was sitting next to me. I did not analyze it or even think about it very often. Occasionally, I would see the aura around Mr. Carder in class when he was playing the piano. However, it was never visible when he was teaching.

    A year or two later, he became my class teacher. His method of maintaining discipline in the class was to read to us every Friday afternoon if we had behaved during the week. The book he read was a favorite book from his own childhood, and he handled this old, battered book with reverence and love. The story was an exciting adventure, and our behavior in the classroom steadily improved, week by week, as it was much more fun to follow the latest installment of the story than it was to study mathematics. As he read, his aura would grow and surround him with brilliant colors.

    Once I became a teenager I occasionally noticed auras around other people, usually when they were talking enthusiastically about something that interested them. However, it was always something that occurred randomly. I never set out to see auras, but was also not surprised when I did see one.

    At the age of seventeen I attended a series of lectures at the Theosophical Society and discovered there was much more to the subject than I had previously realized. It surprised me to learn that most of the other attendees were working extremely hard to try to see something that I had been taking entirely for granted for half of my life. I wanted to interject and say that they were trying too hard, and should simply relax and let it happen, but was too shy and reserved.

    I still believe that the best way to learn to see auras is to do so in a relaxed and playful manner. If you attempt the task with grim determination, all the fun disappears and it becomes almost impossible to succeed.

    I had a striking example of this many years ago when I first began conducting psychic development classes. A lady in the class was desperate to see auras. Despite my admonition to have fun with the different exercises she would approach each one as if it were a matter of life and death. Her stress levels rose as different members of the class reported success and she could see nothing. She took the class notes home and left them in her living room. One evening her husband picked them up and read them. He had had a couple of drinks and thought it might be fun to try the exercises. His wife was skeptical as he had always expressed total disbelief in the subject. However, partly to humor him, she agreed and they did some of the exercises together. To her amazement, she discovered she could see auras easily. She was even more amazed that her husband could too. In fact, her husband was so frightened by the experience that it was many months before he would participate in any more experiments with her. The interesting thing about this story is that, in the class, this lady was determined to see auras, but couldn’t. At home, enjoying a fun experiment to humor her husband, she succeeded easily.

    In this book I have included all the exercises from my psychic development classes. If you practice them, in a spirit of fun, I am confident that you too will be able to see and interpret auras.

    People have been able to see auras since time began. Many ancient rock carvings and paintings show people wearing a strange type of headgear. The drawings from the Val Camonica region in Northern Italy are particularly striking. Some authorities say that this proves we had visitors from outer space in the distant past. This is possible, of course, but it is more likely to be a crude depiction of an aura, particularly as some of these drawings show what appear to be flames surrounding the head. The headdresses worn by Native American chiefs could well depict the aura. The Mayan priests also wore plumed headdresses.

    Holy people have been portrayed with luminous or golden auras from well before Christian times (see Figure A). These halos around the head have been found in ancient pictures from Egypt, India, Greece, and Italy and certainly depict auras. ¹

    Figure A. Halo in ancient pictures

    Auras are also mentioned in the sacred books of every civilization. It seems highly likely that Moses’ face was surrounded by a halo when he came down from the mountain. He did not know that the skin on his face was radiant after speaking with Yahweh. And when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, the skin on his face shone so much that they would not venture near him. ² Homer described the aura as being a luminous nebula derived from the divine essence, and so came to symbolize power. ³ Auras first appeared in Western writings some 2,600 years ago when the Pythagoreans began incorporating it in their teachings. ⁴

    People have considered the aura to be the true home of the life force since time began. The Hindus called this energy prana. In Polynesia, the Hunas called it mana. Paracelsus called it munis. Mesmer called it animal magnetism. ⁵ Baron von Reichenbach called it od, and today psychics call it the etheric force.

    Medieval saints and mystics were able to see four different types of aura: the Nimbus, the Halo, the Aureola, and the Glory. The first two surround the head, the Aureola surrounds the entire body and the Glory combines the other three into a single whole. ⁶ Obviously, saints and other holy people possess extremely powerful Nimbus and Halo auras, which were easily seen and portrayed by artists.

    Paracelsus (1493–1541), the famous Swiss philosopher-physician, was one of the first people in the West to write about the aura. After graduating from university he traveled around Europe, spending a great deal of time with gypsies and alchemists. He also learned as much as he could about herbalism, dentistry, and theosophy. During this period he learned the information that later appeared in his writings. Paracelsus believed that there was a vital force that radiates within and around living beings like a luminous sphere. ⁷ He regarded it as a magnetic influence that could be used to heal his patients. He was forced to resign his position as Professor of Medicine and Surgery in 1528 because his teachings were considered too unorthodox. Paracelsus died in 1541 from injuries he received after a servant of a physician who disagreed with his views pushed him from an upstairs window.

    Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), the physicist and mathematician, is best remembered for watching an apple fall to the ground. Thinking about this enabled him to create his three fundamental laws of mechanics, which led to the Law of Gravitation. However, he was a multitalented man who worked in many spheres. As a mathematician he invented infinitesimal calculus. In science he discovered the composition of white light. As a civil servant he was warden of the mint. In 1666, as a philosopher, he developed the concept of a force field or waves of force surrounding all living things. He was also the first person to pass white light through two prisms, which led to the laws of refraction and reflection. His waves of force, plus his interest in color and light, make him an early pioneer in aura research.

    Franz Mesmer (1734–1815), was a Viennese doctor who became fascinated with magnetism and used magnets to help cure his patients. He believed that a power similar to magnetism existed in the human body. He published his book Dissertation on the Discovery of Animal Magnetism in 1775 and began traveling widely to demonstrate his findings. Unfortunately, his theatrical approach and eccentricities antagonized the medical profession and, in 1784, a commission headed by Benjamin Franklin called him a quack and a charlatan.

    The next important name in the history of the aura is Baron Karl von Reichenbach (1788–1869), the discoverer of creosote. Reichenbach was

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