About Auras

When most people think of auras, they imagine a certain “air” or personality trait about a person that they can’t quite put their finger on. For example, people might say that a person has a “magnetic” aura to describe someone that commands a room. This type of general understanding of the energy or “vibe” that people can emanate is widely accepted as a tangible character trait, but what if people could actually see or quantify the energy that emanates from people? How far-fetched is the concept of a physical aura that can be read by another human or machine? There is more science behind the concept of human auras than one might think.

When most people think of auras, they imagine a certain “air” or personality trait about a person that they can’t quite put their finger on. For example, people might say that a person has a “magnetic” aura to describe someone that commands a room. This type of general understanding of the energy or “vibe” that people can emanate is widely accepted as a tangible character trait, but what if people could actually see or quantify the energy that emanates from people? How far-fetched is the concept of a physical aura that can be read by another human or machine? There is more science behind the concept of human auras than one might think.

When thinking about auras in relation to traditional scientific study it is important to remember that in order to prove that something exists, there has to be an accepted scientific methodology to measure or quantify it. However, just because there is not a methodology to quantify something does not mean it does not exist.  For example, brainwaves have always existed, but were not discovered until 1929 when neurologist Hans Berger developed a technology and methodology for measuring them. While there currently is no scientifically accepted way to measure an Aura, there have been proven scientific advances and experiments that lend themselves to the conclusions that humans emanate energy outside of their body that can be a reflection of their physical and emotional state.

Humans create electricity and have the associated electrical and magnetic fields associated with these electrical currents as they move through the body. EKG’s measure the electrical impulses of the heart and EEG’s evaluate the electrical activity in the brain.  But what about energy fields that exist outside of the human body?

Human Energy Fields in Science:

Professor Harold Saxton Burr: The L-Field & Human Bio-electric Fields

Professor Harold Saxon Burr

The L-field is the electromagnetic field of any organism. And discovered by Yale Professor of Anatomy Harold Saxton Burr.  Burr’s work at Yale centered on bio-electric fields as having emergent, unexplained qualities and acting as a causal agent in development, healing, mood and health. Burr set up a series of experiments, later repeated by other researchers, which demonstrated some properties of these electro-Magnetic fields which he called Life-fields.

During his 40 year tenure as Professor of Medicine at Yale University Medical School, Dr Burr and his associates made thousands of measurements of electrostatic fields in humans, animal, and trees using the a vacuum tube voltmeter. The most important things about these experiments were that they were all reproducible with similar results. Some of the amazing findings from measuring human electromagnetic fields included:

Direct Effect of Emotion and Mood:

Based on over 30,000 measurements on human subjects, high L-fields equal feeling great and creative and low L-fields equate to feeling below par. Emotional stability or lack thereof can be determined with great accuracy by these measurements. The measurements are totally impersonal and reproducible. A controlled blind study on a number of mental patients confirmed that those whose behavior was markedly different by behavioral psychiatric evaluation showed similar deviations in L field measurements between the fingers of the right and left hand. In patients that healed, voltage gradients returned to normal.

Cancer Identification:

Cancer and other diseases were accurately predicted by measuring voltage gradients. In Bellevue Gyn. Hospital, there were 102 cases where the voltage gradient between the cervix and abdomen had a significant shift in voltage gradient. Surgical confirmation of malignancy was found in over 95%of the cases long before any other test showed sign of disease. Likewise the voltage gradient accurately predicted the degree of healing in other diseases and provided an accurate measure of appropriateness of release from the hospital.

Determining Ovulation in Women:

Ovulation is preceded by a steady voltage rise in the human electromagnetic field followed by an immediate drop when the egg is released. Professor Burr’s work has demonstrated some of the potential associated with being able to quantify and understand how human energy fields work. So the question of whether or not auras are real is not a question of whether or not human energy fields exist, it is only a question of how they can be seen.