Questions & Answers
Some Questions Answered by Paul

Often, I am sent emails and letters asking questions on psycho-spiritual issues. Whilst it is not possible to answer all of them in detail, we try to help where we can, especially where it relates to a matter arising from one of my books, or is likely to be of interest to many other students and seekers.

What is the Human Aura?
What is usually referred to as The Human Aura is actually a series of layers that are the subtle and invisible part of the Human Personality and Human Spirit.

The Personality – the you and me we all know and love! – consists of the physical body, the energy or etheric body, the astral or emotional body and the concrete mental body.

The abstract or higher mental body is the outer aspect of the soul or individual spiritual self which envelops the spiritual light or core of human consciousness.

In simple terms, the aura can only be perceived by the inner or ‘third’ eye, which functions through the pineal gland located in the centre of the skull, although the energy, or etheric body which supplies us with vitality and maintains physical health, can also be sensed by the nervous system under the surface of the skin.

The energy or etheric body, the focus of all true healing activity, interpenetrates the physical body and radiates a little beyond its surface. It has many features, but generally appears to the inner eye as a smoky grey / blue sheath in which the physical body resides. It is the final imprint of the soul in the material world, attracting physical matter to create our physical selves. It is effectively still three dimensional in nature.

The Astral or Emotional Body is the brightly coloured field observed from the inner eye. It pulses and moves, containing every type of coloured light.

The Mental Body, less commonly seen by clairvoyants and psychics, is also brightly coloured in a more ‘metallic’ light. As the emotional body processes feelings and desires, so the mental body deals with concrete thoughts, both the conscious and subconscious. These two bodies appear to radiate someway beyond the edge of the physical body and are extremely interdependent.

The light or electricity of the spirit connects through the soul, and its higher mental field, to the personality and can direct and inspire us (when we listen – as in meditation, reflection and so on). The lower layers of the aura act like windows, allowing the light of the soul to radiate downwards to the world of matter, albeit with less and less clarity at each level as it does so.

The aura is full of phenomena – thought forms, symbols, the spheres of light from discarnate entities and the chakras, or psychic centres – vortices that link the various bodies of the aura to the nerves, glands and organs of the physical body.

Everyone and everything has an auric field – animals, flowers, trees, minerals, even buildings and cities – and the planet itself.

For more detailed information, peruse my book ‘Auras & Colours’ – details available on this web site.

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What is Astral Travel?
This describes a conscious activity ‘out’ of the body (physical) that is experienced by many people occasionally and by others more often, even frequently. So called Astral Travel occurs when an individual consciously transfers his awareness from his physical body to his astral or emotional body – that bright coloured form that is a constituent part of the aura.

It is possible to develop this experience and many mediums and psychics function this way, using the information and visions gained whilst traveling astrally to inform their client. The astral plane, as it is usually called, is the plane our conscious self rises to temporarily in sleep and permanently at death.

Spontaneous astral projections often occur when we are under emotional stress, or when we are in crisis of some kind. Individuals often have such experiences during hospital surgery, after the death of a loved one, or when extremely emotionally exhausted or pressured.

My own brother-in-law, whilst traveling as a commuter on a busy train to London in the rush hour, suddenly found himself sitting up on the luggage rack, looking down at the carriage and the rest of the train. Such busy, stressful travel was hardly his favourite pastime, and he briefly escaped from the crowded physical rail carriage before returning to his normal physical body.

In such situations, we nearly always experience a ‘rising up’ sensation and find the usual physical boundaries, such as walls, ceilings etc, have somehow become transparent and we are able to move beyond them and continue to see through them.

Some ‘near death’ experiences come into this category, as when I was struck by lightning as a young man, and briefly rose out of my physical body, able to look down on it, lying on the ground beneath.

In astral travel, we can move around the planet and even beyond the earth’s atmosphere so long as we then maintain fear free expansive thinking. Usually, the demands and obligations of our physical life pull us back into physical consciousness.

In sleep, we all experience astral travel, our dreams being a memory of this, although often this recall is muddled and interwoven with negative thought forms that literally float around in the lower reaches of the astral plane.

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Haunting
I am often asked to look at a haunting in a house that is causing concern to the occupants. Sometimes, the events reveal that earlier, but now dead, tenants of the property (or even of a building or property that formerly existed on the site) still mentally visit it and a sensitive individual currently living there may pick this up and even amplify it through their own psychic and emotional forces.

This can account for flashing lights, general electrical anomalies, apparitions, noises, perfumes, telekinesis – objects moving around apparently unaided and even physical manifestations, called apports.

This kind of visit is usually quite harmless and friendly and can only manifest through the mediumistic / psychic energy of a present resident. Children and adolescents, along with pregnant women and emotionally stressed individuals can often provide this energy. So too, can a natural psychic or others either permanently or temporarily generating a lot of emotional force in the property. Anxiety, deep shock and grief from bereavement or other factors can be triggers, hence why so many people feel aware of the presence of departed loved ones soon after their death, an experience that usually fades with time.

Such visitations from what we would call spiritual entities, can also be strengthened when the property is built on a significant part of the earth’s electro-magnetic field, such as a ley-line.

Buildings and areas that are heavily emotionally charged by their usage also attract visits from entities – churches, old abbeys, theatres, war-time airfields, battle grounds, old schools, castle dungeons, hospitals and so on. The build up of strong emotional forces over the years acts as a fuel that entities can draw upon to manifest their presence. But there always has to be a medium – someone on the earth who ‘grounds’ the phenomenon and acts as a bridge between the physical and astral worlds, albeit often unwittingly.

Such entities or visitors can be communicated with by an experienced medium and the reasons for their visit and connection ascertained and understood.

A ghost, however, is rather different. Such manifestations are energistic memories, trapped in a particular location. Their behaviour tends to be repetitive – all witnesses report the same visions, sounds etc – and they tend to walk or manifest in exactly the same manner every time. They will repeat the same words and are rather like a stuck recording, playing over and over again. Again, a good psychic or medium would quickly deduce this.

Very rarely, there may genuinely be a trapped soul, the subject of what is often termed Rescue Mediumship. These are usually souls who died in accidents, tragedies or who are murdered, died quickly or perished in terror. They may well not believe or accept that they have passed onto a higher plane and feel closer to the earth than higher realms.

In such cases, the help of a good psychic or medium, with good healing abilities should be sought to clear the problem and release the soul.

In all the above cases, expert, experienced help should be sought. Well-meaning amateurs and many clergy, often make matters worse, as I have often found when visiting homes, and even in one case, a church where the local ‘deliverance’ ministers had merely fuelled the problem despite their well intended efforts.

** Further information and understanding can be gained by reading ‘Auras & Colours’ available from this site.

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