Oh look it's philosophy post.
So this some how got on my brain today as I was working on an Aang painting for the lulz. I was musing to myself about the concept of auras and aural colors. Now my experiance with aural colors is quite limited; mostly delt with in passing with some friends or in rare cases discussed along with other topics of metaphysical origin. Here is my two cents on it.
Auras are obviously present in many living things duh. I believe it combiation of body electric radiation and raditation from qi/prana/lifeforce/whatever. In other words, it's an energy force field, it can recive and give energy and influnce others. Now aural colors and the color of your aura is something if an engmia. There are people that say your aura color is generate by your most dominant chakra point. So, red aural people are based on the root or muldrahara, yellow auras are from the manipura and blue auras are from the vishiuddha (and Katara would probably have orange aura and Aang violet or white :3). That is normally the general rule on aura colors. This has a good guide on auras and color and it's pretty interesting read.
Now the fact that auras have color is normally agreed upon both the reiki community and the new age/psychic community. However, I and someone else tend to disagree on this. Aura colors are nice rule to have when energy working with someone and they are of a ugly muddy red meaning that they are pretty fucking pissed about something. Or a woman might have two aural glows signifying that she is with child (some don't believe this, but there are those that do) these are great indicators and helpful hints. However nothing in this world is that simple.
I believe auras don't really have color. Instead aural readers can't really read auras so their brains compensate but turning the energy into wavelengths that can be interpreated as color. Because of this I believe aura colors can be any color you want it to be. This compensation is what I like to call "Psychic Sythesthesia" our bodies can't really comprehend the information so our minds turn into something else that can be read. This sometimes causes a lot of misinformation, because we can twist the date into anything we want. Not to say this happens to everyone, there are some readers who's Psychic Sythesthesia can help process information and put it our into something that folks can understand. It's like a doctor saying "Well your leg is broken.." instead of saying "You have minor close fracture of the fibula" saying your "Aura is brown" might be a metaphore to "Clean your shit up." I don't believe it is accurate information on the person's over-all aural input, meaning it's color really discribes your mood and psychic talent, but it makes a nifty social tool to give out information.
Other sensory relays such as sound and touch are also Psychic Sythesthesia when it comes to auras since it's again, information being re-routed into something the mind could comprehend. That being said, anyone that believes that auras could be read in that fashion really needs to take such encounters from the these people with a grain of salt. Is your aura really a lovely shade of opaleance indigo with pale pink streaks, or is the hippy new age guy just after your twenty? I've been told my aura is red, indigo, white or purple, why the inconsistancy? Maybe my aura really has no color that humans can detect purely, or maybe the people telling me this is trying to look "special" and "powerful? Who can say?
Now auras can be read, not with touch and texture smell and sight but with simply knowing. Real aura readers don't do this bullshit of how pretty your aura is they can already tell your in a bad mood or pregnant or got that new job, but not by looking at it's color but reading posture, mood, and understand human empathy. A good aura reader doesn't really read auras it just understand how humans act and more or less is good at understanding patterns. Eventually to sucker in the stupid moms with their indigo brats and how much they take care and open their chakras and only eat pure all natural foods, a good people reader will eventually use aura reading and colors and discriptions to get some extra cash. They can't see shit, but any Willow Sunnyface who wants to know how raidant their aura is will certiantly buy his bullshit.
It sounds like our favorite werewolf doesn't buy the concept of psychic powers. While I do believe humans and read and sense energy (I can) I don't believe aura reading is too accurate because of mental misinformation. The concept on mediums though might be vaild, but thats case to case. If there was an medium in a haunted house who said "oh someone is here" and an EMF machine confirms the presents of a grey presense (a ghost) then yes the medium read the echoing energy and or footprint of whomever and science confimed it. However not all mediums can be vaildated, it depends on circumstances though when it come to ghost hunting. Who is the medium, what tools are there and how accurate the information is without giving anything to the medium? Mediums tend to give a living face to the energy there and thats probably why I am attracted to them. Is the information based on Psychic Sythesthesia? That is something I really can say since the energy can be read by machines and confirmed not senstive people. Maybe it is another form of brain mistranslating like bad japanese monster movie.
Whatever the case is take things, with a grain of salt, I tend to be harsher and more skepical to psychic phenomenons since I am therian, and I hear this a lot from the communities. Eventually I start questioning to get facts straight. I questioned my identity for years, I am no stranger to rationality. I don't believe things in face value anymore. Therianthropy made me be honest and help me sort our truth from bullshit.
So I will end this by saying that
-People have amazing mental strength
-People are easily decived
-And Nothing is simple
Anne "the Bard" Cochran
