Advanced Studies of the Human Aura

by David Christoper Lewis

  By studying the way in which a spider weaves its web, we can learn something about how our own relationship with everyone and everything may best be formed. The spider effuses from within itself strands of a strong, silky substance with a tensile strength comparable to alloy steel. It first extends them between two points in a wide perimeter. It then continues to develop an outer grid, after which it weaves an amazing spiral structure within that is quite flexible and durable. Finally, it rests within the center of its creation, awaiting its food.

  To have meaningful and lasting relationships we can choose to draw from within ourselves our own true essence that creates a foundation for sharing our gifts of love with others. When we first understand our own divine nature and establish a connection with our Source, we can then expand our consciousness by establishing many conscious connections with others who resonate with us.

  Our family tree is also foundational within our web of life. It allows us to experience all that is essential for our soul growth and self-mastery. We typically find the most trying traces of our karma embedded in the dynamics of our relationships with our closest family members and co-workers. When we resolve our issues with them, we transmute ancient karmic threads and begin to weave new, golden-crystal threads within a beautiful new web of light through which we can give our best to the universe. In each lifetime, we thus experience both our karmic tree and our dharmic tree.

  The Tree of Life, as a symbol of our true reality and our own mystical path toward oneness, is also a type of web. Adepts ultimately come to realize that it is found within us. The tree appears as an important matrix in many religions—in Christianity in the Books of Genesis and Revelation, in the Bodhi tree of Buddhism, and in the banyan tree of Hinduism. In the Kabbalah of mystical Judaism, it is an explanation of the structure of the universe.

  We have our own inner tree, which is the superstructure of our being created in God’s own image and likeness—and it is beautiful! Our body temple resembles a tree. Some new age artists such as Mario Duguay, whose images appear in this book, often utilize the tree as a mystical symbol of our divine nature. Within our own being and the greater web of life, first our seed germinates, we then set deep roots within the earth, and finally, the trunk of our tree rises with its many branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits.

  Our web of life is greater than we may initially intuit because of the interconnectedness between ourselves and all those whom we have ever known and with whom we have interacted in all of our lifetimes. A salient Buddhist teaching states that during all of our incarnations upon Earth, we have given birth to every other being and every other being has given birth to us! This remarkable concept helps us dissolve all sense of separation and any feeling that others are less than or greater than we are!

  When we realize our true connected nature with all beings and see the web of life as an all-encompassing, scintillating mandala within which all created beings evolve in the universe, we can reintegrate with everyone through positive and loving relationships, using conscious and compassionate language. We can even communicate through the web, using its crystalline strands (like the spider’s web) to send our messages of light and love to everyone, near and far. Sometimes we feel that we’re walking through a labyrinthian maze rather than upon a clear path. Yet if we learn to move lightly like the spider, we can navigate speedily through it without getting stranded!

  Before we are born, our souls work out a plan for our lives with our sponsoring master(s) under the overarching guidance of an august spiritual body known as the Karmic Board. At each point on our path of initiation, we may encounter intersecting lines of force within the antahkarana of life that represent opportunities for the resolution of our karmic issues. When we choose to live in the light of love, mercy and forgiveness, there is a bursting forth of Spirit at these points of connection. And when we have grown enough to begin mastering each lesson, we move on to each succeeding initiation until we have woven a beautiful and glorious mandala of light! We then return to the center of pure beingness to live on the fruits of what we have given birth to through our many lives—conscious presence, awareness, creativity, beauty and joy.

  We impact the web of life throughout the universe, creating amazing vibrations and wave patterns of sound and light through the streams that issue from our hearts as we love; through our voices as we speak our truth; through our emotional bodies as we project feelings of peace and harmony from our solar plexi; and through our third eye as we visualize perfection and purity manifesting everywhere. As teachers from the Institute of HeartMath have shared, when we are vibrating in coherence (spiritual resonance) with others, amazing inter-dimensional and multidimensional frequencies move and expand through the web of life to reestablish harmony and balance everywhere.

  Lord Krishna, Gautama Buddha, Kuan Yin, Maitreya, Jesus, Mother Mary, Lao Tse, Confucius and many other masters created beautiful grids of light where they walked upon the Earth—where they spoke, taught, interceded, forgave, healed, and loved all life free. During every sharing of their mindful and heart-centered lives, there was a bursting forth of the spiritual fire from their hearts at that point of the great web of life. Miracles manifested and love was born anew. They raised the entire mandala of mankind by their sacred examples of godliness, mercy and forgiveness. And you can, too!

  What will we see when we have finished our work upon Earth? Will we have woven beautiful strands of spiritual light through our auras from our interactions with others that will allow the “firing of the grid” to occur for eons of time? If we could truly see all that we’ve done, I believe we’d be amazed at the connections that we’ve made and the effects that we’ve had upon the lives of others and upon the cosmos itself. When we have our life review, we will again realize how important it is to live consciously. For through our auras, thoughts and feelings we are constantly emanating waves of energy that impact so many lives.

  Try following the thread of one thought to see its effects upon life through your higher mind’s eye. Contemplate how one progressive idea, one kind word or one charitable act can impact so many lives, initiating all kinds of responses within neighborhoods, communities, cultures and worlds far beyond our imagination. We are responsible for every thought, feeling, word and deed, for they are living entities that work either for good or for something less around the world.

  As we bow to the light within each person we meet, even those whom we may initially attempt to avoid or analyze, we affirm or reaffirm their divinity. Avoiding gossip and speaking only good of others blesses life and engenders an aura of peace within and without. Focusing on the pure radiance of each one’s Higher Self brings peace into play all around us.

  Try to spend one twenty-four hour period speaking only of what you desire to create and not what you would avoid. When we are positive, harmonious and at peace with ourselves, we magnetize all the abundance we require.

  We co-create our own circle of life through our choices and interactions. By our free will, we can choose to engage or not to engage with others, to speak or to be silent and listen, to walk upon the web or to allow its mundane aspects to ensnare us. As we choose to emanate love, spiritual light flows from our hearts and our auras affecting the entire web of life, which gently trembles with a new breath of grace.

  RESTORING OUR

  ORIGINAL BLUEPRINT

  through Divine Thought

  I would let both love and thought draw me into

  presence of my larger Self....It was like a door opening

  and I would find myself in an expanded state of

  light and spaciousness .

  —David Spangler, Apprenticed to Spirit

  The original blueprint of our divine essence from ages past when we were created in the image and likeness of God 1 still exists within a higher level of our being. It is akin to what Emerson called the Over-soul. 2 This perfected ideation of our Godhood vibrates at a frequency beyond what most clairvoyants are able to see within the human aura, for it
exists within a more subtle auric emanation of our Solar Presence. Tapping into this blueprint and working decisively to bring it into fruition through our daily lives is our work of the ages.

  Through the coursing of our soul in its involutionary and evolutionary journey in many dimensions of being, we have gleaned self-mastery on the initiatic path of light, learning to access and then beautifully express the virtues of God. Each virtue is a fruit on our own tree of life and expresses one aspect of our original blueprint. In God’s amazing conceptualization of life in all its glory, it’s amazing to consider that each of us is different and that we each have a unique blueprint. And together, with all of our essences combined, we comprise the mandala of life as we experience it in our particular sector of the universe.

  When I was about fifteen, I read a book called The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. 3 The authors shared the dramatic scientific documentation by Cleve Backster that all plants have consciousness and feeling. Backster hooked up various plants to a polygraph machine to record their reactions when they were subjected to certain stimuli. He found that they reacted in much the same way that we do.

  Every living being has an auric field. The blueprint for a plant contains the seed ideation of what it is destined to grow, blossom and ripen into. If it is a seed-bearing plant, it gives birth to new plants, and the continuity of the species carries on.

  We, too, are constantly giving birth in a number of ways, especially through our thoughts. Various masters, including Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, have taught that thoughts are actually conscious entities, possessing a life or an essence of their own. That’s why William James and, later, Norman Vincent Peale, said, “Thoughts are things.” And in the Bible it says, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” 4

  When our thoughts are pure and beautiful, they are sealed by divine muses in ovoids of light and awareness, and they continue to vibrate and travel in space to grace the minds of mankind and the universe as a whole. When many minds consider and reflect on them, these “thought-beings” gather more energy unto themselves, transforming entire cultures, civilizations and worlds. Thoughts can be powerful planetary game-changers.

  The thoughts of ascended masters and divine beings are instantly precipitated as manifest realities in their dimension because of the purity of their motives and consciousness and because of the high frequency in which they are ideated. In fact, the rate of vibration of ascended beings’ thoughts can be hundreds, thousands and even millions of times greater than that of our thoughts. As a whole, humanity is still learning to refine its thought processes. So mastering this will require clothing our thoughts with the energy of our feelings and the substance of our physical labor to manifest them as tangible realities in our world.

  Our auric fields, which reflect what we are experiencing moment by moment, can be purified and made more sublime by our divinely inspired thoughts as our Solar Presence conceptualizes through our minds. Through this process, we begin to materialize the divine in our own worlds right where we are—“Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.” 5

  To enter the immortal realms of light, we must have a preponderance of holy intent with divine thoughts and feelings continuously flowing through our beings. Observe yourself throughout your day and notice where your thoughts lead you—because thoughts direct your consciousness. They deliver you and your soul essence either higher or lower. When your thoughts are vibrating at the Christic or Buddhic level, a natural energy flows through your auric field that is beautiful to behold.

  Those who have lesser thoughts have trouble manifesting what they require to live a bountiful life. This is because their consciousness does not allow all of the resources of heaven to be theirs in the moment, in the Now. If you have unfulfilled needs, one of the first things you can do is to observe your thoughts and the feelings that accompany your thoughts. Are they of grace and beauty, clothing you with essences of God-good? Or are they something less, full of a sense of your wants and needs and of lack? Raising your thoughts can change all that!

  Because we are conscious beings who have the gift of divine thought and co-creativity, we are completely responsible for everything in our world. Many people are not conscious that they are beautiful beings of light and require a bit of help to remember this eternal truth. They go through life unfulfilled because they aren’t taught these divine laws from an early age. Knowing what we know, we have to make the conscious choice to use this science of divine thought to recreate our world. We then begin to have downloaded into us new revelations of the Spirit—beautiful renditions of the music, artistry and culture of higher worlds—and we share our gifts with our brothers and sisters.

  Our purpose in being here is to bless the Earth with higher ideations. How do we do this? Meditation is key—focusing on the heart, through which divine thoughts flow. The heart is even more powerful energetically than the mind. In our meditation practice, we can allow heart vibrations from our Solar Presence to flow and feel the impulses and essences of our new life in Spirit. When we are heart-centered, we become a blessing, even as we are blessed. Oneness with our Source is reestablished; we live in a world of divine light.

  Saint Francis of Assisi was able to commune with elemental creatures in such a beautiful way because he mastered the science of stillness. He felt the innate beauty of all life—the sun, the moon, the stars, the plants, the nature spirits. He was able to attune to their essence, the flowering of their divine blueprint. Because he was one with life and with nature, nature revealed its secrets to him. The precious birds and other animals felt the nurturing energy of his heart. He developed a childlike spirit and, like Jesus, became a master of peace.

  You, too, will grow, evolve and learn what you are destined to become if you still your body temple in meditation. This takes practice and setting aside time to be in silence, away from the strife of the world, not allowing any vibration to disrupt that peaceful state. Going out into nature, or having a room in your home consecrated to the purpose of being one with God, will allow you to attune to the highest frequency of the mind of God. Thus, you will attune to the divine blueprint within you—your True Self—and bring untold blessings, miracles and joy into your life, your world, and the world around you.

  Enjoy your time of blessed stillness with your Solar Presence!

  Epilogue

  What would it be like to meet a shaman from Peru, that mystical equatorial South American country—home of Machu Picchu, the Nazca plateau and the western Amazon region? Some Judeo-Christian paradigms equate shamanism with pagan pantheism, though I feel both, when truly understood, are more like Hinduism, which accepts many deities (divine emanations) issuing from one universal Godhead or Creator, Brahma.

  In December of 2012, I planned to visit Peru’s sacred sites with a group of over seventy pilgrims, and our travel agent arranged for a shaman to guide us on our adventure. I had heard stories of interesting encounters and sacred experiences with shamans. Yet there was a slight inner resistance within me to launching into unfamiliar territory with a language and concepts I knew little about. I would have to trust the universe and our spiritual guide to share his path and what it had to offer those in our group, who were coming from all over the world to his home in the Andes heights.

  As it turned out, this shaman was the most humble, generous and loving guide of any we befriended on our pilgrimages around the world. Jorge Luis Delgado knew his stuff—the local geography, history, culture and numerous languages of his native peoples. He spoke our spiritual language as well. He accepted the ascended masters, and he stressed time and again that we are all “children of the sun.” In addition, he was a unique visionary and seer, acutely aware of our auras, the presence of the ascended masters and other sacred manifestations and blessings that were occurring in our midst at more subtle levels of light. This kind, self-effacing and humorous shaman was a successful businessman, owning four excellent hotels and a thriving travel business with contacts th
roughout Peru. He was a shining example of one who demonstrated practical spirituality, summoning the most ardent respect and support from all who knew him.

  On December 22, 2012, the last day of our pilgrimage, we gathered together on the shores of Lake Titicaca. That day, Jorge noted that our group had much more light in our auras than when we had first arrived in Lima, our starting point. I believe this was due to our spiritual work, including our prayers, devotions, meditations and ascended master releases of light. The various rituals he led us in and the teachings and revelations he shared were also very profound and moving.

  The title of Jorge’s book, Andean Awakening , really expresses the epitome of our experience in Peru. It was a spiritual awakening for all of us. We had come to the Andes, to the sacred valley of Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca, to commune with divine beings and witness the passing of certain mantles and the dawning of a new solar cycle or era. Early on, as we rode on a bus from Cusco around the Sacred Valley, we said prayers and sang songs from Vesta’s Solar Rosary , including the song to the prayer “I AM the Sun.” I gave my copy to Jorge so that he could follow along.

  Jorge could feel our love for the Sun behind the sun through this devotional song, and numerous times he brought up the parallels and synchronicities between our beliefs and his Incan traditions. He later shared some of the deeper mysteries of those traditions with their focus on Pachamama (Earth Mother) and other sacred deities. We learned from Jorge that the end of the Mayan calendar cycle (December 21, 2012) coincided with the onset of a new five-hundredyear Incan “day cycle,” a time of awakening and greater enlightenment. With the upcoming release of Advanced Studies of the Human Aura and its focus on learning how to develop a strong aura of solar radiance, I am grateful to Jorge for the fellowship we enjoyed during our nine days together and what will continue to unfold between us.

  My prayer is that you will also be inspired to help our Mother Earth and all her peoples in this continuing time of greater awakening by developing and expanding your own beautiful and radiant aura of light. Thank you for allowing me to enter your life with the message in this book. Bountiful blessings on your sacred journey!