Aura is a Latin word meaning “Light” or “Glow of Light”. Websters College Dictionary defines the Aura as: "A light or radiance claimed to emanate from the body and to be visible to certain individuals with psychic or spiritual powers."

The aura is an energy field that surrounds and penetrates the body. This field has been officially recognized and measured in clinical laboratories. We know it is there. Many gifted people agree that seven distinct layers of the aura have been seen. Barbara Ann Brennan in her book “Hands of Light” has seen and worked with these energy bodies.

Most healers concentrate on working with the 7 auric layers. The 7 charkas and the 7 aura layers are in the realm of what is know as the physical body. As a Light Worker and student of Ascension I believe that there are more than seven layers. Our charkas and auras extend all the way to Source, God or All that is. This is a subject for those interested in advanced Metaphysics or Ascension. Anything past the 7 layers would be considered pure spirit.

For purposes of healing we will concentrate our study of a 7 Auric energy field. This is where the student of Reiki begins.

Physical Level
Etheric Double
1/4 to 2 inches from physical body
Chakra - Root
Properties - Physical
An energy twin to the physical body.
An illness will appear in the Etheric Twin before it enters the physical body.
Emotional Body
1 to 3 inches from physical body
Chakra - Sacral
Properties - The Mind
This layer generates emotions. These emotiona enter the Etheric Body, then the physical body. (Bad day at work -- a headache appears)

Emotions are stored in the Emotional Body. Emotions in the form of blockages can enter the physical body as disease. (cancer and other crital diseases)

Mental Body

3 to 8 inches from physical body

Chakra - Solar Plexus

Properties - The Mind

Rational thinking (lower mental). Most of us exist here in daily life.

Emotions are attached to thought forms in this body. (Our thougths create our reality.) These are what we call blockages.

Astral Level

Astral Body

1/2 to 1 foot from physical body

Chakra - Heart

This is the area of higher expression on a Physical, Emotional, and Mental Level.

Spiritual Level

Etheric Template

1 1/2 to 2 feet from the physical body

Chakra - Throat

This is the template for the Etheric Body. We work in the Etheric Template when the physical body shows disease.

Celestial Body

2 to 2 3/4 feet from the physical body

Chakra - Third Eye

Enlightenment and intuitive thought are housed here.

Causal Body

2 to 3 1/2 feet from the physical body

Chakra - Crown

Properties - Divine Source

Our filing cabinet for our energy field.

Our telegraph office to the higher self.