THE HUMAN AURA

ridicule, or of being thought "strange." In addition to these people, one can find here and there individuals who are well-developed, clear-sighted, or truly clairvoyant: having the ability to perceive things or events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact. Their powers of psychic perception are as highly developed as the ordinary senses of the average person. Furthermore, the reports of these people—though they may be far apart in time and space—have always agreed on the main points of psychic phenomena, particularly regarding the human aura.

Through highly developed clairvoyant vision, every human being is seen as surrounded by an egg-shaped aura two or three feet deep. It is more dense and thick in the area nearest the body, and then gradually becomes more tenuous: thin, weak, or slight and indistinct as the distance from the body increases. Through psychic perception, the aura is seen as a luminous cloud—a phosphorescent: glowing with light without heat, like a firefly or certain minerals flame—deep and dense around the center and then gradually shading into indistinctness toward the edges.

In fact, as all developed occultists: students of hidden or supernatural mysteries know, the aura actually extends much further than even the best clairvoyant vision can perceive. Its psychic influence is detectable at quite a distance in many cases. In this respect, it is like any