Jay Alfred: The Auras of Galaxies: Science observes that galaxies are surrounded by massive halos of dark matter. Curiously a similar observation was made by a Hindu mystic, half a century ago. He too saw halos around galaxies – but they were anything but dark or invisible. He says:"The divine dispersion of rays poured from an eternal Source, blazing into galaxies, transfigured with ineffable auras." - Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946. The term "aura" is frequently used in metaphysics to mean a colored radiation emanating from an object. Spherical halos around saints, as depicted in certain paintings, are considered auras around the head region. What were invisible halos to scientists appeared as a colorful aura around the galaxies to this saint, as he observed them half a century ago. Was he seeing what our scientific instruments could not see – the dark matter counterparts of these galaxies? Paramahansa Yogananda also observed in 1946 that the "astral luminaries resemble the aurora borealis". Based on plasma metaphysics, it is easy to see that the aura is generated in a similar process as the aurora.

The Aurora
Kristian Birkeland put forward the auroral theory which is now widely accepted by scientists. According to him, electrically charged particles ejected from sunspots are captured by Earth’s magnetic field and directed along the field’s lines into the polar regions. The charged particles follow spiral or helical tracks about the lines of force. The incoming particles excite the atoms and molecules in the air and ionize them – stripping them into their non-neutral constituents. This results in the colorful displays that are associated with auroras.

Birkeland used a simple device to prove his theory – he placed a sphere containing an electromagnet inside a large vacuum chamber, which represented the space around the Earth and its magnetic field. He then shot clouds of electrons toward this simulated Earth to produce a light phenomenon that looked like the aurora. This configuration is exactly the same as in a subtle body, as explained below.

Anatomy of the Subtle Body
According to plasma metaphysics, the subtle body is a body of magnetic plasma (or "magma"). It sits inside an ovoid which has a plasma "auric" sheath around it (equivalent to the sphere in the Birkeland device) and contains a magnetized central channel (equivalent to the electromagnet in the Birkeland device).

How is the Aura generated?
The aura that is radiated by a subtle body is generated by a procedure not unlike the one that generates the aurora borealis. There is a tendency for charged particles to follow magnetic lines of force. The energetic charged super particles (identified as "qi", "prana" or "kundalini" particles) rush towards the various nodes of the chakras (which contain intense magnetic fields) at very high speeds. They spiral around helical paths just before they are absorbed by the chakras near the head and feet (the "poles") and other chakras around the body. While doing so, they generate a light phenomenon in the subtle bodies – very much like that of the aurora borealis. Anyone who compares the Kirlian images (or representations) of human auras (or who can actually see them) with the aurora borealis will no doubt find a strong resemblance.



However, while the aurora is a natural plasma light show comprising standard particles (i.e. particles described in the physicists' "Standard Model") – the aura is a natural plasma light show of super (i.e. supersymmetric) particles!

Conclusion
The electromagnetic processes that give rise to the aurora borealis are the same as those which give rise to the human aura. If this is accepted, then it also confirms that subtle bodies are composed of a magnetic plasma of super particles - which is currently classified under dark matter.

© Copyright Jay Alfred 2007

Main reference: Alfred, Jay, ''Our Invisible Bodies: Scientific Evidence for Subtle Bodies'', Trafford Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-412-06326-4.
http://www.amazon.com/Our-Invisible-Bodies...e/dp/1412063264

holy crap, that picture of northern borealis is familiar, I think that cabin is on my lake.

I find all this a bit hard to swallow....

Plasma metaphysics is not a subject that you will be able to understand immediately without having some grounding in traditional metaphysics and modern physics. The conclusions are based on modern experimental evidence that confirm traditional metaphysical theories. In fact the statement quoted would not be surprising to any metaphysicist – although modern scientific terms like "Birkeland" used in plasma physics may need to be explained. The term "auric sheath" is used extensively in popular metaphysics (just type the word into a search engine like Yahoo or Google and see what you find). The notion of "central channels" within subtle bodies can be found in Hindu metaphysical and religious literature and Chinese acupuncture literature more than two thousand years old and numerous other sources. The modern subtle energy healer, Barbara Brennan, a former NASA engineer, describes it in her book "Hands of Light" as they are the most important channels in subtle energy healing. Plasma metaphysics provides a framework to understand traditional metaphysics against the background of modern physics – in particular plasma and dark matter physics. If you are interested to know how the author arrived at the anatomical model of the subtle body, as quoted above, the author's book Our Invisible Bodies (see link above) is highly recommended. This book is unique because it does not merely describe the anatomy of the subtle body, like a hundred other books you can find in a bookstore, but proposes a self-consistent theory based on plasma physics that explains (in detail) over several chapters why and how the structures within our high energy subtle bodies (including the central channels and the auric sheath) form and how they operate.

wow....the Aura pics. are amazing! I've never seen an Aura pic. before! : O