Various alternative therapies in vogue eg. Allopathy, Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Unani, Naturopathy, Acupuncture, Acupressure, Yoga, Magnetic healing, Reiki and many other methods (132 on record) are in process of establishing themselves scientifically in the world. In spite of all the controversies in ways and modes of treatment, there is relief palliation, suppression of some time cure, why so ? It means some hidden principle should be there by which all different methods giving benefit to mankind. This secret is nothing but balance of Bioenergy.

What is Bioenergy ? 

The time tested quote by famous writer and philosopher Dr. Johnson, "Preservation of health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues, we can be no longer useful when not well", in recent times has attracted due attention. Individuals have started trying different modes of activities and therapies to maintain their health. In the last couple of decades, diseases like coronary diseases, cancer and many other chronic diseases are increasing. Deterioration in overall health status has generated an enthusiasm to find out various new means and modes to facilitate individuals to preserve health. 

Ayurveda, the indigenous science, also lays emphasis on self-healing tendency provided by nature. Ayurveda, the science of life, gave us the principle of panchmahabhuta or five elements - earth, water, fire, air and space. These five elements are present around in the environment in different proportions from different organs responsible for bodily functions. Another school is Naturopathy, which is complimentary to Ayurved or vice versa. In both the pathies, panchkarm is the basis. In Ayurveda, Vaman, Virechan, Swadan, Shehan and Basti are known as Panchkarma. In Naturopathy Kunjal, Shankh, Prachalini, Neti, Pranayam, Asan etc. detoxify the body. 

In Naturopathy, patients remain healthy till they follow their instructions of diet, yoga, and natural treatment of water and mud. As soon as the patient changes that routine, he develops the same problems again. It means Bioenergy remains unbalanced. 

In Homeopathy, by the action of potential drugs, we stimulate vital force, which in turn results in palliation, aggravation, discharge and cure. The main problem in Homeopathy is selection of a remedy. If medicine is right and potency is very high, it will result in aggravation. When potentised, Homeopathy balances bioenergy and patient gets relief. But when this imbalance of bioenergy is more unbalanced by homeopathy medicine, patient gets no relief and he gets aggravations with different sets of symptoms. This problem of selection of medicine and potency was solved for the first time by a French scientist Dr. Rene Naccachian. By different medicines (which were selected already by repatriations or basis of similium), he balanced the body energy of the patient, which resulted in relief, and cure of illness. 

In Allopathy, the treatment is based on pathological investigation like x-ray, sonography, CT scan, and other different tests; disease is decided and drugs are given, which give immediate relief to the patient. But due to side effects on other organ of the body, there is temporary relief. Here again Bioenergy does not get balanced and hence disease continues in one form or the other. 

According to Chinese Acupuncture and Acupressure theories, the energy in body channels called meridian, are discretely organized in microscopic ducts representing individual’s organ. The energy flow in it represents the functional status of that organ. An individual receives energy by food he eats, air he breaths, light he sees, vibrations he hears or feels, taste, though and two very important energies cosmic energy from space and telluric energy from earth he gets through chakras.

CHAKRAS

Meridians

Auras

Chakra

There are several ways to discern the state of the chakras. In the beginning, you will need to explore which practice is easiest and most useful for you.

The best way I have found to start sensing the states of the chakras is to use a pendulum. This device helps increase your sensitivities to the energy flow because it acts as an amplifier. The best pendulums I have found for this purpose are made of beechwood and are pear-shaped. They are one inch in diameter and one and a half inches long. Their energy field is diffused, and easily permeated. It is symmetrical around its vertical axis, which is important for this type of measurement. (Beechwood pendulums can be purchased from the Metaphysical Research Group, Archer’s Court, Stonestile Lane, Hasting, Sussex, England.)

If you have developed some sensitivity in your hands, or enjoy touching, you can practice sensing the energy flowing in and out of the chakras through feeling in them with your hands. This helps to get a sense of whether the energy is free flowing or clogged, weak or strong. You can do the same thing with an acupuncture point by simply placing your fingertip over it. In this type of sensing, you may even get certain physical feeling responses in your own body that give you the information you wish to know.

Eventually, after you develop your High Sense Perception to a greater degree, you may be able to simply look at the to see how they are spinning (regularly or irregularly) and what their colors are (dark and clogged, washed out and weak, or clear, bright and of a strong tone). You may also be able to see if, and specifically how they are disfigured. You may eventually be able to perceive them on each layer of the auric field.

THE SEVEN LAYERS OF THE AURIC FIELD

I have observed seven layers during my work as a counselor and a healer. At first I could only see the lower layers, which are the most dense and easiest to see. The longer I worked, the more layers I could perceive. The higher the layer, the more expanded my consciousness needed to be to perceive it. That is, in order to perceive the higher layer, like the fifth, sixth and seventh, I would have to enter into a meditative state, usually with eyes closed. After years of practice, I even began to see beyond the seventh layer, as I will discuss briefly at the end of this chapter.

My observations of the aura revealed to me an interesting dualistic field pattern. Every other layer of the field is highly structured, like standing waves of light patterns, while the layers in between appear to be composed of colored fluids in constant motion. These fluids flow through the form set by the shimmering standing light waves. The direction of flow is some what governed by the standing lines of light. The standing forms of light are composed of light, each blinking at a different rate. These standing light lines appear to have tiny charges moving along them.

Thus, the first, third, fifth and seventh layers all have a definite structure, while the second, fourth and sixth are composed of fluid-like substances that have no particular structure. They take on form by virtue of the fact that they flow through the structure of the odd layers, and thus somewhat take on the form of the structured layers. Each succeeding layer interpenetrates completely all the layers under it, including the physical body. Thus the emotional body extends beyond the etheric body and includes both the etheric and physical bodies. Actually, each body is not a ‘layer’ at all, although that is what we may perceive. It is, rather, more expansive then the other, more limited forms.

From the point of view of the scientist, each layer can be considered to be a level of higher vibrations, occupying the same space as the levels of vibration below it and extending beyond. In order to perceive each consecutive level, the observer must move up in consciousness to each new frequency level. Thus we have seven bodies all occupying the same space at the same time, each one extending out beyond the last, something we are not used to in ‘normal’ daily life. Many people erroneously assume that the aura is like an onion, where you can peel away consecutive layers. It is not so.

The structured layers contain all the forms that the physical body has, including internal organs, blood vessels etc., and additional forms that the physical body does not contain. There is a vertical flow of energy that pulsates up and down the field in the spinal cord. It extends out beyond the physical body above the head and below the coccyx. I call this the main vertical power current. There are swirling cone-shaped vortexes called Chakra in the field. Their tips point into the main vertical power current, and their open ends extend to the edge of the each layer of the field they are located in.

THE SEVEN LAYERS & THE SEVEN CHAKRAS OF THE AURIC FIELDS

Each layer appears different and has its own particular function. Each layer of the aura is associated with a chakra. That is, the first layer is associated with the first chakra, and the second with second chakra, and so on. These are general concepts and will get much more complicated as we delve more deeply into this subject. For now we will list them to give you a general overall view. The first layer of the field and the first chakra are associated with physical functioning and physical sensation – feeling physical pain are pleasure. The first layer is associated with automatic functioning of the body. The second layer and second chakra are in general associated with the emotional aspect of human beings. They are the vehicles through which we have our emotional life and feeling. The third layer is associated with our mental life, with linear thinking. The third chakra associated with linear thinking. The fourth level associated with heart chakra, the vehicle through which we love, not only our mates, but also humanity in general. The fourth chakra is the chakra that metabolizes the energy of love. The fifth level is the level associated with a higher will, more connected with the divine will. The fifth chakra is associated with the power of the world, speaking things into being, listening and taking responsibility for our actions. The sixth level and sixth chakra are associated celestial love. It is a love that extends beyond the human range of love and caring and encompasses all life. It makes the statement of caring and support for the protection and nurturing of all life. It holds all life forms as precious manifestations of God. The seventh layer and seventh chakras are associated with the higher mind, knowing and integration of our spiritual and physical makeup.  

Thus, there are specific locations within our energy system for the sensations, emotions, thoughts, memories and other non-physical experiences that we report to our doctor and therapists. Understanding how our physical symptoms are related to these locations will help us understanding the nature of different illness and also the nature of both health and disease. Thus the study of the aura can be a bridge between traditional medicine and our psychological concerns.

LOCATION OF THE SEVEN CHAKRAS

The Location of the seven chakras on the physical body shown in figure 7-2A corresponds to the major nerve plexuses of the physical body in that area of the body.

Dr. David Tansely, a radionics specialist, in his book Radionics and the Subtle Bodies of Man, states that the seven major chakras are formed at the points where the standing lines of light cross each other 21 times.

The 21 minor chakras are located at points where the energy strands cross 14 times. (See Figure 7-2B). They are in the following locations : one in front of ear, one above each breast, one where the clavicles meet, one in the palm of each hand, one on the sole of each foot, one just behind each eye, one related to each gonad, one near the liver, one connected with the stomach, two connected with the spleen, one behind each knee, one near the thymus gland, and one near the solar plexus. These chakras are only about three inches in diameter at one inch distance from the body. The two minor chakras located in the palms are very important in healing. Where the lines of energy cross seven times, even smaller vortices are created. There are many tiny force centers where these lines cross fewer times. Tansely respond to the acupuncture points of Chinese medicine.

Each major chakra on the front of the body is paired with its counterpart on the back of the body, and together they are considered to be the front and rear aspect of one chakra. The frontal aspects are related to the person's feelings, the rear ones to her or his will, and the three on the head to a person's mental processes. Chakras 1 and 7 may be considered to be paired if one wishes, because they are the open-ended points of the main vertical power current that runs up and down the spine into which all the chakras point.

The points or tips of the chakras, where they connect to the main power current, are called the roots or the hearts of the chakras. Within these hearts are seals which control exchange of energy between layers of the aura through that chakra. That is, each of the seven chakras has seven layers, each corresponding to the auric field. Each chakra looks different on each of these layers, as will be described in detail in the descriptions of each layer. In order for certain energy to flow from one layer to another through the chakra, it must pass through the seals in the roots of the chakras. Figure 7-4 shows the auric field with all seven interpenetrating layers, and all seven interpenerating layers of chakras.

Energy can be seen flowing into all of these chakras from the Universal Energy Field (Figure 7-3). Each swirling vortex of energy appears to suck or entrain energy from the UEF. They appear to function as do fluid vortexes we are familiar with, in water or in air such as whirlpools, cyclones, waterspouts and hurricanes. The open end of a normal chakra in the first layer of the aura is about six inches in diameter at a distance of one inch from the body.

FUNCTION OF THE SEVEN CHAKRAS

Each of these vortices exchanges energy with the UEF. Thus, when we speak of feeling ‘open’, that is literally true. All the major chakras, minor chakras, lesser chakras and acupuncture points are openings for energy to flow into and out of the aura. We are like sponges in the Energy Sea around us. Since this energy is always associated with a form of consciousness, we experience the energy we exchange in terms of seeing, hearing, feeling, sensing, intuiting or direct knowing.

Therefore, we can see that staying ‘open’ means two things. First, it means metabolizing a lot of energy from the universal field through all the chakras, large and small. Second, it means letting in, and in some way dealing with, all the consciousness that is associated with the energy that is flowing through us. That is not an easy task, and most of us cannot do it. There would simply be too much input. Psychological material related to each chakra is brought to consciousness by increasing one's energy flow. We therefore work in whatever growth process we are in to open each chakra slowly, so that we have time to process the personal material that is released and integrate the new information into our life.

It is important to open the chakras and increase our energy flow, because the more energy we let flow, the healthier we are. Illness in the systems is caused by an imbalance of energy or a blocking of the flow of energy. In other words, a lack of flow in the human energy system eventually leads to disease.

It also distorts our perceptions and dampens our feelings and thus interferes with a smooth experience of full life. We are not psychologically prepared, however, to stay open without working and developing our maturity and clarity.

Each of the five senses is associated with a chakra. Touching is associated with the first chakras; hearing, smelling and tasting with the fifth (or throat) chakra; and seeing with the sixth (or third eye) chakra. This is discussed in detail in the chapter on the perception.

The chakra of the auric body have three major functions :

1. To vitalize each auric body and thus the physical body.

2. To bring about the development of different aspects of self-consciousness. Each chakra is related to a specific psychological function. It deals with psychological effects of opening specific chakras in the etheric, emotional and mental bodies.

3. To transmit energy between the auric levels each auric layer has its own set of seven major chakras, each located in the same place on the physical body. Since each progressive layer exists in ever increasing octaves of frequency, this is possible. For example, for the fourth chakra there are really seven chakras, each of higher frequency band than the lower one. These chakras appear to be nested within each other like nesting glasses. Each chakra of each higher layer extends out farther in the auric field (to the edge of each auric layer) and is slightly broader than the one below it.  

Energy is transmitted from one layer to the next through passageways in the tips of the chakras. In most people, these passageways are sealed. They open as a result of spiritual purification work and thus the chakras become transmitters of energy from one layer to another. Each chakra in the etheric is directly connected to the same chakra in the next finer body that surrounds and interpenetrates it. The chakras in the emotional body are connected to those in the next finer body, the mental, etc. and so on for all seven layers.

In eastern esoteric literature, each of the chakra is seen as having a certain number of petals. On closer investigation, these petals appear to be small rotating vortices spinning at very high rates. Each vortex metabolizes an energy vibration that resonates at its particular spin frequency. The pelvic chakra, for example, has four small vortices and metabolizes four basic frequencies of energy, and so on for each of the other chakra. The colors observed in each chakra are related to the frequency of energy being metabolized at its particular rate.

Since the chakras serve to vitalize the body, they are related to any pathology in the body. The seven major chakras along the spine govern a particular area of the body. Each chakra is associated with an endocrine gland and major nerve plexus. The chakras absorb the universal or primary energy (ch'i, orgone, prana, etc.), break it up into component parts and then send it along energy rivers called naadis to the nervous system, the endocrine glands and then the blood to nourish the body.

THE NORMAL AURA

Major Chakras & the Area of the Body they Nourish