A word which is today greatly misunderstood by the majority of people showing a serious interest in the paranormal is 'AURA,' literally meaning 'subtle atmosphere.' We often say 'She has an aura of happiness,' or 'this house has an aura of peace,' without actually understanding its true meaning. The word aura is, in fact, far more than a descriptive term. It is a scientific fact - a metaphysical phenomenon. The aura is best described in scientific terms as a vaporous mass of electro magnetic particles surrounding both animate and inanimate objects. However, the aura surrounding the human form differs in more ways than one to that surrounding inanimate matter, in as much as the human aura represents the degree of life and consciousness present. Life is still present in inanimate things, albeit at a lower level, and this is apparent in the aura surrounding it, which is dull and lifeless.
A husband and wife team from Krasnodar on the Black Sea, Semyon and Valentina Kirlian developed a camera capable of photographing the Aura around the hands. Although a crude apparatus, the Kirlians camera was an innovation and an inspiration to others working in the same field. The Kirlians discovered that the radiations of energy visible in their monochrome photographs corresponded with the seventy points in Chinese Acupuncture, which meant disease could be detected in the aura long before it became apparent in the body. The aura was referred to as the Human Bioluminescence, a sort of a blueprint of the human health. In the 1930s Dr Kilner, a Radiologist at St Thomas's Hospital in London, developed a technique that enabled the aura to be seen and a diagnosis of disease easily made. His method was a coal tar dye injected between two pieces of glass. When the patient stood in front of a bright light, the Kilner Screen, as it was called, made the aura visible. Where disease was present, the aura would be fragmented and dark in appearance.

Today, the aura camera has greatly improved, and photographs can now be made in colour and of the whole body. Kodak, one of the makers of the camera, have also included computerised imaging which produces a full print out of information relating to the person's aura.
The Halo of tradition, painted by medieval artists around the heads of saints was a symbolic representation of the aura, and symbolised Divinity or exalted state.
The multi-coloured feathers in the native American Indian's Head dress was also a representation of the aura, and depicted his spirituality and position in the tribe.

A monk's tonsure (shaven head) was done to expose that part of the aura to God and the Cosmos, with the belief it would cleanse and raise the consciousness.

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