Capturing the Aura : Integrating Science, Technology and Metaphysics

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Summary: "Capturing the Aura", a work of art.
Review: Bravo! This book is perhaps the most important work on auras to date. The book contains the works of leading scientists, educators, and psi researchers. According to the book's introduction: "You are not alone... As you will see, perhaps feel, through this book, many people (i.e. scientists, inventors, scholars, and lay individuals) already spend considerable time exploring consciousness through different avenues. Using skills, talents, and innovative technology, these dedicated "searchers" explore the correlation between personal and collective consciousness and diverse phenomena such as quantum physics, wormholes, multi-dimensions, chakra sounds, electronics, and metaphysics. Often, initially motivated by curiosity, these individuals soon turn their avocations into lifelong passions. At a time in history when the world is overshadowed by wars, natural disasters, and uncertainty, the sun continues shining for everyone who dares go beyond the visual linearity of mundane situations and accepts the potentiality that Creation is motivated by Love and a supreme universal intelligence. This intelligence is part of mankind, as mankind is a part of the God energy and auric fields of the Cosmos. This work offers an opportunity for the reader to become a part of something bigger and more perfect than he/she could ever imagine - a world, a dimension, and universe intermingled with energy fields, magnetic forces, and unimaginable electromagnetic vibrations of light and sound. Capturing the Aura will introduce you into a new Era where humans are invited to use their creativity, love, passion, and mental ability constructively in making a better world from themselves and humanity as a whole. Let us, therefore, keep an open mind and heart in sharing a vision of a better potentiality. A potentiality which we each must activate through the reading of our Cosmic blueprint - life itself.

Rating:
Summary: "Capturing the Aura", a work of art.
Review: Bravo! This book is perhaps the most important work on auras to date. The book contains the works of leading scientists, educators, and psi researchers. According to the book's introduction: "You are not alone... As you will see, perhaps feel, through this book, many people (i.e. scientists, inventors, scholars, and lay individuals) already spend considerable time exploring consciousness through different avenues. Using skills, talents, and innovative technology, these dedicated "searchers" explore the correlation between personal and collective consciousness and diverse phenomena such as quantum physics, wormholes, multi-dimensions, chakra sounds, electronics, and metaphysics. Often, initially motivated by curiosity, these individuals soon turn their avocations into lifelong passions. At a time in history when the world is overshadowed by wars, natural disasters, and uncertainty, the sun continues shining for everyone who dares go beyond the visual linearity of mundane situations and accepts the potentiality that Creation is motivated by Love and a supreme universal intelligence. This intelligence is part of mankind, as mankind is a part of the God energy and auric fields of the Cosmos. This work offers an opportunity for the reader to become a part of something bigger and more perfect than he/she could ever imagine - a world, a dimension, and universe intermingled with energy fields, magnetic forces, and unimaginable electromagnetic vibrations of light and sound. Capturing the Aura will introduce you into a new Era where humans are invited to use their creativity, love, passion, and mental ability constructively in making a better world from themselves and humanity as a whole. Let us, therefore, keep an open mind and heart in sharing a vision of a better potentiality. A potentiality which we each must activate through the reading of our Cosmic blueprint - life itself.

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Summary: Mapping the Human Aura
Review: Contributing author Julia Melges Jablonski writes in CAPTURING THE AURA, "Traditional science typically stands at the edge of the known world and tries to move into new territory using 'maps' of the already-conquered territory as guides. This scientific approach tends to blind them to the potential scope of the vast unknown territory ahead. Non-traditional researchers, inventors, and thinkers, on the other hand, tend to use a 'plane' to fly into the wilderness and then work their way back, and in the process, they create the maps for the less daring to follow after them."

Our knowledge of the human aura, subtle energy bodies, nadis, chakras, and acupuncture meridians has historically resided primarily with those guides we entrust to inform us: energy healers, shamans, lightworkers, mystics, priests, and others. Only in relatively recent years has modern-day technology allowed everyday people to begin to view the aura in much the same way that these spiritual masters have been seeing it for years. CAPTURING THE AURA describes a variety of imaging techniques, such as kirlian photography, full-body imaging, and interactive imaging, as well as providing useful information about auric sight, breath techniques, qi, and the emotions that accompany various auric colors.

What I love most about CAPTURING THE AURA is the way the contributing authors each share their own areas of experience after they've "flown their planes into the wilderness and worked their way back" -- thereby providing readers with invaluable maps we can put together into a bigger picture. This book contains one of the best compilations of modern-day knowledge concerning seeing and understanding the human aura with contributions from: C.E. Lindgren, Blythe Arakawa, Jacques Beauchamp, Robert Bruce, Fritjof Capra, Guy Coggins, Ruby K. Corder, Janice Dye, Gerald Owen Grow, Arnold Keyserling, Ralph Losey, William T. McClellan, Rosalee Elizabeth McCurdy, Susana Madden, Andrine Morse, Buryl Payne, Margo von Phul, Chip Weston, and Richard Bernard Wigley.

Rating:
Summary: Mapping the Human Aura
Review: Contributing author Julia Melges Jablonski writes in CAPTURING THE AURA, "Traditional science typically stands at the edge of the known world and tries to move into new territory using 'maps' of the already-conquered territory as guides. This scientific approach tends to blind them to the potential scope of the vast unknown territory ahead. Non-traditional researchers, inventors, and thinkers, on the other hand, tend to use a 'plane' to fly into the wilderness and then work their way back, and in the process, they create the maps for the less daring to follow after them."

Our knowledge of the human aura, subtle energy bodies, nadis, chakras, and acupuncture meridians has historically resided primarily with those guides we entrust to inform us: energy healers, shamans, lightworkers, mystics, priests, and others. Only in relatively recent years has modern-day technology allowed everyday people to begin to view the aura in much the same way that these spiritual masters have been seeing it for years. CAPTURING THE AURA describes a variety of imaging techniques, such as kirlian photography, full-body imaging, and interactive imaging, as well as providing useful information about auric sight, breath techniques, qi, and the emotions that accompany various auric colors.

What I love most about CAPTURING THE AURA is the way the contributing authors each share their own areas of experience after they've "flown their planes into the wilderness and worked their way back" -- thereby providing readers with invaluable maps we can put together into a bigger picture. This book contains one of the best compilations of modern-day knowledge concerning seeing and understanding the human aura with contributions from: C.E. Lindgren, Blythe Arakawa, Jacques Beauchamp, Robert Bruce, Fritjof Capra, Guy Coggins, Ruby K. Corder, Janice Dye, Gerald Owen Grow, Arnold Keyserling, Ralph Losey, William T. McClellan, Rosalee Elizabeth McCurdy, Susana Madden, Andrine Morse, Buryl Payne, Margo von Phul, Chip Weston, and Richard Bernard Wigley.

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Summary: Auras, Energy Medicine and Science
Review: In writing this short review, I will rely to a great degree on the opinions of other scholars in the field and from time to time interject my own feelings and comments as they relate to my own personal `adventures' in Energy Medicine. Energy Medicine is extremely diverse and affects the lives of countless individuals throughout the United States.

Even the fields of medicine, psychology and physics are bombarded by new and unusual theories, some which have their roots in New Thought, Eastern Mysticism or Eastern Religion.

In this review it is in NOT my intention to `throw the baby out with the bath water' and condemn everything which some people have branded as being Energy Medicine. Rather I will attempt to reveal what I consider to be the most important aspects of this book which attempts to combine Science, Technology and Metaphysics.

In fact I took my first course in parapsychology in graduate school at the University of Mississippi in 1976. On and off for the next 20 years, I would evaluate data or someone else's research using statistical methodology. Although there are many noted psychologists and physicist in the field of Energy Medicine and parapsychology, much of the outstanding results are, according to many, merely the results of poor research design and or subject /experimenter fraud.

Perhaps the best way to sum up my opinion is to quote noted psychologist Dr. Susan Blackmore: "I found no psychic phenomena - only wishful thinking, self-deception, experimental error and, occasionally, fraud. I became a skeptic."

In the mid-1990s, I did extensive volunteer work for a local hospice and served as a Protestant lay minister. During this period, I was asked by a fellow colleague (psychologist) to edit two books on the use of Auras and Energy Medicine in healing. My two works, Aura Awareness and Capturing the Aura: Integrating Science, Technology and Metaphysics, presented a historical, sociological and psychological review of alternative medicine and healing.

Although written in 1997, Capturing the Aura did not appear in print until 2000. By this time, my opinions, based on my scientific views had changed greatly. By 1998, I considered many concepts relating to energy medicine to be quackery and useless. Although some concepts like clinical hypnotherapy, biofeedback and acupuncture could be useful, most others served little purpose and at times only help to delay proper medical treatment.

Although Capturing the Aura sold extensively and appears in over 300 outlets on the Internet, only several chapters are extremely well written and provide beneficial material. However, many scholars (university professors) have told me that the book, Capturing the Aura is one of only five books on the topic which set a benchmark for auric research.

There has over time been some criticism relating to the chapters on aura photography. I also believe that these chapters serve a useless purpose and describe what I now consider to be an unscientific procedure. However, the chapters on Human Energy (Wigley), The New Physics (Capra), The Chakras (McClellan), Psychophysics (Jablonski), Acupuncture Therapy (McCurdy), Alternative Energy (Grow)and the section on Mechanics (Bruce) make the work extremely useful and indeed serve as an important work on auric research and energy medicine.


Dr. Carl Edwin Lindgren, DEd
Professor and Writer


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Summary: Less then 1 star
Review: Poor poor and did I mention this book was poorly written? Never ceases to amaze me how certain new age flim flamers decide to make science prove certain things such as auras...science cant even prove relativity how could it prove auras? Im not saying Auras dont exist...Im just saying they cant be captured by a camera lens. Give me a break, anyone who has ever studied photography will know the lens is not some 4th-5th dimensional viewing that sees into the spiritual realm...if that was the case each picture we took would be full of guides and angels and devas and auras of trees and people....yet you go to these "aura camera" and they put you in a lower lit area...almost with a black tint or shade and they take you picture and out comes you with an aura...Con job and that pretty much sums the content of this book. Dont bother buying it unless you are masochistic.

Rating:
Summary: Less then 1 star
Review: Poor poor and did I mention this book was poorly written? Never ceases to amaze me how certain new age flim flamers decide to make science prove certain things such as auras...science cant even prove relativity how could it prove auras? Im not saying Auras dont exist...Im just saying they cant be captured by a camera lens. Give me a break, anyone who has ever studied photography will know the lens is not some 4th-5th dimensional viewing that sees into the spiritual realm...if that was the case each picture we took would be full of guides and angels and devas and auras of trees and people....yet you go to these "aura camera" and they put you in a lower lit area...almost with a black tint or shade and they take you picture and out comes you with an aura...Con job and that pretty much sums the content of this book. Dont bother buying it unless you are masochistic.