Light and Colors; Nature's Fine Forces Considered as Promoters of Health in All Conditions

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. COLORS AS PERCEIVED IN THE HUMAN ATMOSPHERE OR AURA. In mentioning the human atmosphere or aura, we are entrenching upon a subject which till recently was considered seriously only by professed Occultists and other classes of persons who were avowedly devoted to studies lying beyond the range of ordinary scientific investigation. The case is now altered, for since the publication of an important work entitled The Human Atmosphere, by Dr. Walter Kilner, a famous English physician and electrician, in 1911, and the production of a peculiarly prepared screen to aid observation, it has been conceded to a large extent among general students of anthropology that human bodies are surrounded by an atmosphere, more or less luminous and protectively potential according to their state of health, both mentally and physically. The human atmosphere, to use Dr. Kilner's term, surrounds the body at a greater or lesser distance, and is of firmer or looser consistency in accordance with the strength or weakness of its generator, for this atmosphere or aura is continually being generated by us all, and it proceeds from us as inevitably as our breath or perspiration emanates. With the simple fact of the existence of this auric belt we are not now specially concerned, as its mere existence may well be regarded as entirely proved, but as our special theme is variety of colors, regarded as indications of temperament, character and condition, we must go some distance beyond the rudiments of this subject and mention clairvoyant observations, which are necessarily outside the range of altogether commonplace perceptives. Far more persons are, however, clairvoyant to some considerable degree than is usually supposed, and a great many more could easily develop a fair amount of c...