Hands of Light – Guide to Healing - Soul Circles

49 HANDS OF LIGHT
right palm about one inch closer to your left
palm. Feel the tingling on the back of your left
hand as the edge of your energy field touches it.
The energy Held of your right hand went right
through your left hand!
Now, take your hands apart again and hold
them at a distance of about seven inches. Point
your right index finger at the palm of your left
hand, making sure the fingertip is about one
half to one inch away from the palm. Now, draw
circles on your palms. What do you feel? Does it
tickle? What is it?
With the light dim in the room, hold your
hand so that the tips of the fingers point toward
each other. Hold your hands in front of your
face at a distance of about two feet. Make sure
there is a plain white wall for a background. Relax
your eyes and softly gaze at the space between
your fingertips, which should be about
one and a half inches apart. Do not look into
bright light. Let your eyes relax. What do you
see? Move your fingertips closer and then further
apart. What is happening in the space between
the fingers? What do you see around the
hand? Slowly move one hand up and the other
down so that different fingers are pointing to
each other. What has happened now? About
95% of the people who try this exercise do see
something. Everyone feels something. For the
answers to the above questions, refer to the end
of the chapter.
After you practice these exercises and the
ones in Chapter 9 on observing other people's
auras, you may begin to see the first few layers
of the aura as shown in Figure 7-1A. Later, after
you are used to seeing the lower layers, you can
practice the higher sense perception exercises as
described in Chapters 17, 18 and 19. With more
opening in your third eye (sixth chakra), you
will begin to see the higher levels of the aura.
(Figure 7-1B.)
Now that most of you have felt, seen and
experienced the lower levels of the aura, let us
go on to describe them.
The Anatomy of the Aura
There are many systems that people have cre-
ated from their observations to define the auric
field. All these systems divide the aura into layers
and define the layers by locations, color,
brightness, form, density, fluidity and function.
Each system is geared to the kind of work the
individual is "doing" with the aura. The two
systems most similar to mine are the ones used
by Jack Schwarz, which has more than seven
layers and is described in his book, Human Energy
Systems, and the system used by Rev. Rosalyn
Bruyere of the Healing Light Center in
Glendale, California. Her system is a sevenlayer
system, and is described in her book,
Wheels of Light, A Study of the Chakras.
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 layers, 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 inbetween
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 somewhat
governed by the standing light form, since
the fluid flows along the standing lines of light.
The standing forms of light are themselves scintillating,
as if they are composed of strings of
many tiny, rapidly blinking lights, 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 lay-