It’s time we see ourselves as a spirit composed of energetic layers. In this episode, we explore the concept of the aura that surrounds our physical body and the seven primary energy bodies that make up that aura. Today we’ll learn the characteristics and functions of each layer of our spiritual aura, from the etheric body to the causal body. The aura is an electromagnetic field that surrounds our physical body and is composed of seven layers, each representing a different level of energy and corresponding with a specific primary chakra. The main takeaway is that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, and our energetic form continues beyond physical death.
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Spirit Beings Of Energy: Unveiling Your Aura And Chakras
Look at your body. What do you see? Do you think that’s everything you are, or do you think there’s more to you than what your senses are telling you, specifically your eyes? I think it’s possible that you’re more than what your physical senses are letting you know. If so, how do you think that’s all related to our conscious mind and the existence of spirit? If you’re interested in learning the answers to all these questions, stay tuned to this episode.
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Most people see our bodies as the dominant being or the dominant thing. They think of it as the primary outer circle with our soul as our energy or the small inner circle and our spirit as essentially the spark. Think of it as a tiny inside circle inside of us. Yet the reality is in fact reversed. Our spirit is our dominant being. Picture that as our primary and controlling outer circle, and that is followed by our soul. It’s a smaller inner circle and lastly, is our physical body, which is a tiny aspect of our being compared to all the broader, all-encompassing spirit, which is on the outside.
The Aura
Also, our aura, or our energy field is an electromagnetic field that emanates from and surrounds our entire physical body. The aura is composed of seven primary energy bodies that each represent a different level of energy, and they correspond with a specific primary chakra. Each chakra is a portal of energy. It’s a spinning portal of energy that is aligned vertically up and down your spine. Think of it going from above your head all the way down to between your hips and it’s a vertical line. They each have different colors and they each have different levels of energy.
Now, your aura as an energy field is always on. Whether you’re aware of it or you’re not aware of it, it’s always on. You can’t turn it off. It’s energy. You can’t turn off energy, can you? For example, when you meet somebody for the first time or you’re shaking their hands, don’t you have a feeling about that other person? It might be subtle, but you might have a feeling whether it’s good, bad, or indifferent. You don’t have to be anything special. You just have a sense of whether you like that person. Whether that’s visual or otherwise, you get a certain “vibe” from that other person.
Your aura, an energy field that surrounds you whether you're aware of it or not, is always on. Share on XYou could feel an immediate liking, an attraction perhaps, or conversely, you could feel a quick and immediate discomfort of that person. The feelings that you’re picking up are the auric energy field interacting with the other person’s auric energy field, and you’re sensing their energy. Again, whether that’s positive energy or negative energy, it’s your aura connecting with their aura and you’re picking up the different energies.
Now, each of our energy bodies that are together composing our entire aura is very much like concentric layers. One within the other that interpenetrates each other due to the unique vibrational frequency of each one. It’s very much like the Russian nesting dolls that I spoke about several episodes ago for the spirit world which is seven concentric circles. The first three layers are related to the physical body. The second three layers are related to the spiritual body and the last layer is the connection with the Divine Source, the Great Spirit, God, or whatever name you want to attach to it. It’s the highest energy that is possible.
While each energy is layered on top of the other, it also includes each of the single layers below it. For example, layer 7 is also part of layer 6 and layer 5, just as layer 6 is part of layer 5 and layer 4, etc. Each one is part of each of the layers below it. They’re all one if you will. This is true all the way to the core or all the way down to the basic physical body as you go all the way down from the outside, all the way to the inside. The inside is our physical body.
If you want to reverse the direction, you start with your physical body and you go all the way out. Your physical body might be level 0, and then you go to levels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc. Now, amazingly, that whole format replicates the layering in the afterlife as well since the afterlife is composed of multiple concentric layers within each other. We spoke about that in this entire show.
That whole same format exists throughout all of existence. It includes the energies that are all around matter, whether it’s alive or not. It’s every universal sphere from the planets to the stars, etc. That same energy state, that same format, the same levels 1 through 7, it’s happening over and over again. It’s a repeating format of everything in existence. It just has different vibration states.
Something like that is too consistent and structured to have come into existence randomly. There has to be some intelligence behind it. There has to be some way that this came about. I’ll refer to it as a refined organization. How did it happen? I don’t know who or what created it but that is not something that was ever random. Randomness does not happen in such a perfect order.
Etheric Body
Let’s look at the different layers. The first layer is called the etheric body. That layer is about 0.25 inch to maybe 2 inches away from your physical body. Think of your physical body as being layer zero, the core, or the basis. That’s where everything starts and then you go out 0.25 inch all the way out to maybe 2 inches away from your body and you’ve got that etheric body. That energy body resonates at something that is near twenty cycles per minute. It’s perceived to be a blue-gray color on the spectrum via Kirlian photography.
You can take photos of these different energy layers through special metallic photographs. The etheric body is an exact template of our physical body, and it holds the blueprints of our organs, our muscles, our tissues, and our bones. It’s a replica and it’s the perfect replication of everything that we are right now. With the depth of the physical body, that etheric body carries the other bodies away with it because remember, the etheric body is essentially the foundation, if you will. That etheric body carries the other six energy bodies away with it.
Emotional Body
Now, once the etheric body has dissolved, that’s when the physical body begins to decompose. The etheric body, if you want to think about it, is like the support. It carries the other bodies away. The physical body then decomposes as the etheric body begins to dissolve leaving the remaining six energy bodies. Now, the second energy body that is part of your aura is about 1 to 4 inches away from your body, and that’s called the emotional body.
The emotional body is a shape that remains in constant motion. Think of it as a layer around your body, if you will. It’s constantly moving. It’s constantly going and any disconnect or any imbalance in that second layer is going to have a pretty heavy impact on the first and the third layers because those are the first and third layers. Those two layers are on either side of it. If there’s an imbalance in that second layer, it’s going to affect the first layer and the third layer.
The emotional body is a shape that remains in constant motion. Share on XMental Body
Now, speaking of the third layer. It’s called the mental body, and that’s about 3 or maybe 8 inches. It depends on the energy. It’s between 3 and 8 inches away from our physical body and that layer is often around the head as well as part of the shoulders. Think about it as a ring that is seen around the head and around the shoulders. Not to be confused with dandruff perhaps, but that’s where you’re going to see it. It has a thin line going all the way around the body, but it’s much thicker at the shoulders and at the head.
What you’ll see quite often in Kirlian photography are yellow hues. I can remember having an aura photograph taken of me and you could see the yellow hues around my head and my shoulders. You could see the yellow. Sometimes when we see paintings of saints, for example, we’ll see different colors of their halos. I think most of the saints and religious figures are white but mine was yellow. Mine was around the third layer. I think there was some orange, but it’s interesting.
If you haven’t gotten an aura photograph taken, you should. It’s something that’s fascinating to take a look at. Now, that third layer represents the beliefs and the power of understanding. It also represents the intellect and the thoughts. If you’re a person who’s intellectual, you’re thinking, or you’re searching for the power of meaning, what understanding is, and all of your beliefs, that’s essentially where it is centered.
Astral Body
The fourth layer is called the astral body and that’s about one foot away from our physical body. As the name implies, that’s the link between the physical and the spiritual bodies and that’s going to be something that takes the energy to the astral plane or the astral layer. It represents essentially the bridge between the spiritual realm and it’s also the doorway to the astral plane. That’s going to help you get to the astral plane and then beyond. It’s a step function so you get to one plane or level and then you get to the next one and so on and so forth.
The astral body is connected with our heart chakra. Our heart chakra is our fourth chakra. As the name implies, it’s in our heart area and that likewise is a bridge between the physical and the spiritual. All of our chakras that are below our heart from our root chakra to our sacral chakra to our solar plexus chakra, are the lower material physical chakras. The three chakras above our heart chakra are our spiritual chakras, such as our throat chakra, our brow chakra, or the third eye chakra.
The divine chakra, which is our spiritual chakra, is the white chakra. It’s the astral body that enables us to leave our physical body while we’re sleeping because I mentioned that it’s something you can do when you’re asleep. The body is at rest, but the spirit is departing the physical body and you’re going off to the astral plane, the spiritual plane, on a temporary visit, if you will.
Many people can also do this while they’re in deep meditation. You’ll hear about people having out-of-body experiences and that’s what’s happening. They’re in their astral body. They’re going to the spiritual plane, the astral plane temporarily because they’re still connected and they’re going off into a different realm, different state. That’s what they’re using and that’s what the connection is.
Now, while you’re alive in the physical, you’re still connected to your physical body and that connection is something that’s called the elastic spirit silver cord. It’s highly elastic, as the name would imply, that it allows you to go to a different plane. It’s so elastic, that it’ll stretch and allow you to get to that plane. Now, once the physical body dies at the time of physical death, then that cord is going to separate from the chakras upon which it’s connected, and that’s when the spirit leaves the body.
The astral body is a layer that basically represents the ability to interact with people. It also represents the ability to love. It represents kinship and also, like the heart chakra, it’s very healing. Now, as I mentioned, once the astral body has separated from our lower energy bodies, then our spiritual being or our soul has left for the spiritual realm. It’s going from the astral plane to our physical body. That’s when it goes to a higher level spiritual plane and spiritual realm.
The astral body is a layer that represents our ability to interact with people. It also represents our capacity for love. Share on XEtheric Temporal Body
The fifth layer is the etheric temporal body. That’s about 1 to 2 feet from our physical body. It’s five layers out, it’s up to two feet away from us, and it’s an entire template. This is a spiritual copy of our physical body, whereas we had the first layer being the actual template of our physical body. This is a spiritual copy as opposed to a physical copy. This is something that’s very unique to each person. It’s very much like fingerprints because each person has a different set of fingerprints.
This is something that creates your unique body so this is just as unique to each person as fingerprints are. Many people describe the fifth layer as a carbon copy of the physical body, yet it’s in the physical plane. It’s not in the material plane, like the first layer, which is carrying off these other layers. This is a carbon copy of the physical body, but it’s going into a spiritual realm, a spiritual existence, and a spiritual rate of vibration so it’s much higher.
This fifth layer connects with our throat chakra, which is our fifth chakra and represents clarity. It represents vibration and communication. We’re able to communicate with our throat, but it also represents clarity and the ability to hear things. For example, one of the psychic abilities that mediums have when they’re hearing sound from spirit, the clairaudience is based on the throat chakra. It’s the ability to hear high vibration sound from spirit and that’s communication.
The more developed this throat chakra, the more developed the vibration there, the stronger the connection and the ability to have good communication. You start hearing sounds on a clairaudient basis or a mental basis. We’re not using our physical ears. We’re using our mental or our psychic ears if you will.
Celestial Body
The sixth layer is called the celestial body and that’s up to 3 feet away from our physical body. Think about it as being six layers out and upwards of 3 feet or so from the body. It represents the connectivity between the physical and the spiritual mind. It’s often achieved with deep meditation. It’s connectivity. It’s a physical connection. It’s a spiritual mind and you get there with deep meditation. People say, “How do I get a spirit? How do I connect with a spirit?”
The celestial body represents the connectivity between the physical and the spiritual mind. It's often achieved with deep meditation. Share on XYou’re talking about meditation and that’s celestial. When you begin to think about the celestial plane or you think about the celestial heavens as we’ve talked about before, that’s quite often what happens. Think about the celestial layer, that’s the sixth layer, even in the different layers of the spirit realm. It’s the very same thing. Again, we’re seeing this repetition over and over again from 1 through 7.
Now, the celestial body, the sixth layer, especially in the aura, is going to be seen often as a bright shimmering opalescent color. It’s like a pearl color. It’s bright and shiny. It’s pearl-ish and that’s something that is often seen where you have many saints or religious figures were often seen with a halo. That halo is this celestial body with a white color around its head. That’s the celestial body. That’s that sixth layer.
Causal Body
It’s the spiritual mind. It’s the ability to connect the physical to the spiritual and even to the divine and that brings it to the seventh layer. The seventh layer is known as the causal body and that’s upwards of 5 feet away from the body. Some people have that layer reaching out to about 7 or maybe 8 feet, but typically it’ll reach upwards of around 5 feet away from the body. Think about your own body and look out anywhere from 5 to 7 feet away from your body. That’s how far away your aura is.
Your aura can reach upwards of 5 to 7 feet away from you. That’s why you can sense other people’s energy 5 to 7 feet away from you. In the very beginning of the episode I was talking about you go up to somebody and you sense their energy. They don’t have to be touching you. They can be 5 to 7 feet away and you’ll sense their energy. That’s the causal body. This layer is something that is very interesting. It’s shaped like an egg because this is the outside of your aura and everything else is on the inside. It looks like it’s gold in color.
This is something that gives you a sense of not only the shape but also the color. The layer that is the memory, the soul is layer seven. That’s where we’re getting the memory. That’s where we’re getting all the experiences. That’s where we’re getting something that I want to put as written down in a little book if you will. It’s the memory.
If you remember the old commercial. “Is it Live or is it Memorex?” This is where all that would be recorded and that’s something where the universe is connecting with the body. It’s the link to the Divine Source, Great Spirit, or whatever you want to refer to it as but that’s the link between the human and the divine, the physical and source. It makes it possible to become one with it.
Just like in the spirit realm, the seventh layer, seventh level, or seventh plane is one of the highest planes before you reach the celestial heavens. That’s the highest level. The main takeaway about all this is that you’re learning all about the energetic layers and it’s quite clear from it that our energetic form continues far past the stage that we now call the physical death because we’re energy.
After a human body experiences physical death, its energy remains. We’re just energy and energy can either be created or destroyed. The energy remains. It transfers its vibration. Do you want to compare it to a butterfly and do you want to compare it to even just having the caterpillar turning into a butterfly? It’s the same idea. Do you want to compare it to water melting and turning into ice, turning into steam, or turning into plasma? It’s the same idea. It’s just as Einstein said it would.
After a human body experiences physical death, its energy remains. Share on XThe states are changing. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change shape. The seven primary energetic layers represent that kind of energy and that energy’s carrying it into the spirit realms. We are energy and we’re just changing vibration, changing states, and entering a different existence in a different vibration. We’re not going anywhere. We’re staying in existence. We’re not going poof into nothing. We’re staying in an energetic state at a higher vibration.
I hope that’s all been helpful for you because, with a better understanding that we’re more than meets the eye, we’re more than looking at our body and saying, “Yeah, that’s me. That’s everything.” We can begin to understand that we truly are our spirit beings. If you know Wayne Dyer, he had a great quote and it is so apt. It fits this concept perfectly. He said, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
If you think about that, we are just a spirit coming down into human existence to learn human experiences, learn everything we possibly can from those experiences, and then go back to the spirit world. We go back home. We’re here on planet Earth for a very short time to learn all these different things from the brutal experience of human life and we go back. That’s what the spirit has been telling us for so long.
I hope you enjoyed the show. I hope this was something that was useful. I hope it was something that helped you change your perspective a little bit. If you want more detail about the show, some resources, and different things that go into not only the specific layers that we have in our aura, but also the chakras, where they are, how they work, what chakras are, and what the aura is, you can go to SpiritsBesideUs.com and that’ll have all the information and the resources.
Stay tuned for our next episode because we’re going to discuss what the signs of spirit are. Specifically, we’re going to have a great invitation and a discussion with Irene Weinberg. She is a celebrated author and host of her own podcast. She is the author of many books. She’s going to be a fantastic guest and I can’t wait to talk to her about her experiences with spirit and how they’ve been communicating with her. That’ll be fantastic.
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