Natural and Macrobiotic Medicine: A group of methods that encompasses acupuncture, astrological diagnosis, aura and vibrational diagnosis, consciousness and thought diagnosis, environmental diagnosis, herbal medicine, macrobiotic palm healing, meridian diagnosis, prayer, pressure diagnosis, shiatsu massage, and spiritual diagnosis.

(See also: Natural and Macrobiotic Medicine, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

psychospiritual therapy: Educational method that includes aura balancing, guided imagery, meditation, and philosophical discussion. Its goal is integration of body, mind, and spirit, which leads to personal mastery.

(See also: Psychospiritual therapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

sin: Intentional transgression of divine law. Akin to the Latin sons, "guilty."

Hinduism does not view sin as a crime against God, but as an act against dharma - moral order - and one's own self. It is thought natural, if unfortunate, that young souls act wrongly, for they are living in nescience, avidya, the darkness of ignorance.

Sin is an adharmic course of action which automatically brings negative consequences. The term sin carries a double meaning, as do its Sanskrit equivalents:

1)    a wrongful act,

2)    the negative consequences resulting from a wrongful act.

In Sanskrit the wrongful act is known by several terms, including pataka (from pat, "to fall") papa, enas, kilbisha, adharma, anrita and rina (transgress, in the sense of omission).

The residue of sin is called papa, sometimes conceived of as a sticky, astral substance which can be dissolved through penance (prayashchitta), austerity (tapas) and good deeds (sukritya). This astral substance can be psychically seen within the inner, subconscious aura of the individual. Note that papa is also accrued through unknowing or unintentional transgressions of dharma, as in the term aparadha (offense, fault, mistake).

inherent sin or original sin: A doctrine of Semitic faiths whereby each soul is born in sin as a result of Adam's disobedience in the Garden of Eden. Sometimes mistakenly compared to the Saiva Siddhanta concept of the three malas, especially anava.

See: pasha.

mortal sin: According to some theologies, sins so grave that they can never be expiated and which cause the soul to be condemned to suffer eternally in hell. In Hinduism, there are no such concepts as inherent sin or mortal sin.

See: aura, evil, karma, papa.

(See also: Sin, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

crystal healing (crystal therapeutics, crystal therapy, crystal work): Multiform use of crystals (especially quartz crystals) and gemstones to treat such conditions as blindness, bursitis, cancer, depression, forgetfulness, tension headaches, hemorrhages, indigestion, insomnia, Parkinson's disease, rheumatism, and thrombosis.

Its principle is that crystals draw light and color into the body's aura and thus raise its frequency and allow the emergence of lower frequency energies, which are healthful. Crystal healing sometimes is adjunctive to, or a form of: acupressure, aura balancing, chakra healing, color therapy, pendular diagnosis, prayer, and self-healing.

(See also: Crystal healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Nimbus (Latin) A cloud, a luminous atmosphere surrounding a high adept or deity when appearing on earth. In Oriental and Christian art the representations of deities or saints have a nimbus surrounding the head. Equivalent to aureole, glory, aura, halo, and the feathers on the head and down the spine of American Indian chiefs.

Any being in a state of high spiritual and intellectual ecstasy is surrounded with a glory or brilliant, coruscating aura, which at times can even be perceived by the physical eye; sometimes this nimbus or glory surrounds the head more particularly, and at other times it surrounds the entire body. It is shot through with colors coruscating and flashing brilliantly in a most beautiful fashion, because the vital aura which surrounds every animate being in times of spiritual ecstasy is stimulated to unusual activity, and thus surrounds the being with splendor.

The sun in the heavens is a cosmic example, for the floods of sunlight which it pours forth are the vital aura, nimbus, or glory surrounding the solar heart. The adoption of the nimbus surrounding the heads or entire bodies of the Christian saints was a clear case of borrowing from the Orient, because from time immemorial the nimbus has been used there to signify spiritual ecstasy, as exemplified in large numbers of Buddhist images.

(See also: Nimbus, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

A Dream Dictionary including dreams about:

Archbishop, Architect, Arm, Aroma, Arrested, Arrow, Art Gallery, Ascend, Asceticism, Ashes, Asia, Asp, Asparagus, Ass , Assassin, Assistance, Astral, Asylum, Atlas, Atonement , Attic, Attorney, Auction, Augur, August , Aunt, Aura, Author, Automobile, Autumn, Awake, Axe

For more dream interpretation, see: Dream Dictionary

For more about dreams, see: Dreams.

aurasomatherapy: Developed by London-born clairvoyant Vicky Wall. It is a variation of color therapy and a form of aura balancing and chakra healing.

(See also: Aurasomatherapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Tharana (Sanskrit). "Mesmerism", or rather self.induced trance or self-hypnotisation ; an action in India, which is of magical character and a kind of exorcism. Lit., "to brush or sweep away" (evil influences, tharnhan meaning a broom, and tharnhan, a duster); driving away the bad bhuts (bad aura and bad spirits) through the mesmeriser’s beneficent will.

(See also: Tharana, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Tharana [probably Hindustani; cf Pali tharana strewing, spreading; Sanskrit starana from the verbal root stri to strew, scatter]

Self-induced trance or self-hypnosis; "an action in India, which is of magical character and a kind of exorcism. Lit., 'to brush or sweep away' (evil influences, tharhn meaning a broom, and tharnhan, a duster); driving away the bad bhuts (bad aura and bad spirits) through the mesmeriser's beneficent will" (TG 327).

(See also: Tharana, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)

MAGIC CIRCLE

The purpose of the circle drawn around the magician is to keep him separated from both mundane and demonic forces. One's magical aura is normally extended far into everyday life, but in the particularly vulnerable state of invocation, one's concentration is much too inner-directed and narrow to be able to protect oneself if the circumference is too large. Moreover, there are some cautious magicians who insist on coverage above and below them, as well.

(See also: MAGIC CIRCLE, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

Shaman Stone Healing: Form of spiritual healing and aura balancing developed by ( channeled to) and practiced by psychic Anju Tenbu Myodo (the Japanese word anju means nun), who also developed Ten Jin Do. Shaman Stone Healing includes hand reflexology and psychic palmistry. Its theory posits psychic meridians.

(See also: Shaman Stone Healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Health Kinesiology (HK, HK system): An energy modality created by psychologist Jimmy Scott, Ph.D. HK is an offshoot of applied kinesiology. Its theory posits the Five Elements (Five Phases), a material layer of the aura, a meridian system, and reflex points for the Five Elements in the area of the navel. Corrective treatments may include crystals, gems, magnets, and homeopathic remedies.

(See also: Health Kinesiology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Gray

Gray is a rather depressing color; some mystics believe it to be the color of the aura of a prison. Some sources believe it to indicate a slow period in the dreamer’s life, when he or she is merely “marking time.”

Source: Astrocenter, http://astrocenter.astrology.msn.com/msn/DreamDictionary.aspx

(See also: Dream Archives, Meaning of Dreams, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Dream Dictionary - Gray, Meaning of Dreams about Gray, Dream Interpretation Gray)

Auric Egg or Envelope The source of the human aura, taking its name from its shape. It ranges from the divine to the astral-physical, and is the seat of all the monadic, spiritual, intellectual, mental, passional, and vital energies and faculties. In its essence it is eternal and endures throughout the pralayas as well as during the manvantaras.

"Every being or thing throughout the universe, and indeed the universe itself, has, or rather is, its own auric egg. Its primal substance is the akasa . . .

"The auric egg originates in the monad which is its heart or core, and from which, when manifestation begins, it emanates forth in streams of vital effluvia. On the different planes which the auric egg traverses as a pillar of light, from the atmic to the physical, each such auric or pranic effluvium is a principle or element, commonly reckoned in man as seven in number.

When the auric egg is viewed on any one plane of the human constitution, we discover that this plane or 'layer' not only corresponds to, but actually is, one of the unfolded six principles of man; it would appear to be ovoid or somewhat egg-shaped in outline, and to be a more or less dense, extremely brilliant, central portion surrounded by an enormously active interworking cloud of pranic currents. . . .

"These immensely active and interworking clouds or vital effluvia are actually the pranas of the auric egg on any one plane expressing themselves as auras" (FSO 427).

(See also: Auric Egg, Envelope, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Animal Magnetism. While official science calls it a "supposed" agent, and utterly rejects its actuality, the teeming millions of antiquity and of the now living Asiatic nations, Occultists, Theosophists, Spiritualists, and Mystics of every kind and description proclaim it as a well established fact. Animal magnetism is a fluid, an emanation.

Some people can emit it for curative purposes through their eyes and the tips of their fingers, while the rest of all creatures, mankind, animals and even every inanimate object, emanate it either as an aura, or a varying light, and that whether consciously or not. When acted upon by Contact: with a patient or by the will of a human operator it is called "Mesmerism" (q.v.).

(See also: Animal Magnetism, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

ASTRAL LIGHT

(HPB calls it "astral fluid"). In Hinduism this is an invisible aura surrounding the earth and is the life-energy of the cosmos itself. It acts as a storehouse for all the energies of the cosmos and contains (eternal?) "holograms" of everything that transpires (or has transpired?) on the physical or astral planes.

Others refer to it as the "cosmic switchboard" or the "collective unconscious" that connects all individual minds to Mind, or Omniscience. The magician operates within it always inside a consecrated bubble so as not to be influenced or harmed by its infinite cross-currents.

Is is so fluid and tenuous that the slightest act of the will or imagination can cause it to bend in the magician's desired direction.

(See also: ASTRAL LIGHT, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

psychic healing (psi healing, psychic therapy): Therapeutic technique that involves the channeling of psychic energy or spiritual power through the healer and into the patient. sources of such energy include oneself, God, and spirits. Common accompaniments to psychic healing include aura analysis, the laying on of hands, prayer, and massage.

The word psi refers to:

(a)   the ability to become directly (nonsensorially) aware of past, present, and/or future events outside the body;

(b)  psychokinesis; and

(c)   phenomena ascribed to such abilities.

(See also: Psychic healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

didgeridoo vibrational healing: Group of techniques, of Australian aboriginal origin, promoted by the Emerging Light Center of Queens, in New York City. It helps to remove blocks. Its theory posits spiritual centers and a personal spiritual being with a reachable core.

A didgeridoo (also spelled didjeridu) is a hornlike wind instrument, generally three feet long, of hollowed, petrified eucalyptus bark. Aborigines use it to produce a sound that effects healing on an energetic or spiritual level. This sound expands one's aura.

(See also: Didgeridoo vibrational healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Mediator An agent who stands or goes between, specifically one who acts as the conscious agent or intermediary of special spiritual power and knowledge.

Most often applied to highly-evolved characters who mediate, not only between superhuman spiritual entities and ordinary men, but who also themselves consciously unite their own spiritual nature with their merely human souls. Such people attain to this lofty state by the great sanctity and wisdom of their lives, aided by frequent interior ecstatic contemplation. They radiate a pure and beneficent atmosphere which invites, and is congenial to, exalted spiritual beings of the solar system.

Evil entities of the astral realms cannot endure their clean and highly magnetic aura, nor are they able to continue obsessing other unfortunate persons if the mediator be present and will their departure, or even approaches the sufferer.

This powerful spiritual self-consciousness of the individual who is a mediator reaching upwards to superior spiritual realms, is in sharpest possible contrast with the passive, unconscious, weak-willed medium who, through ignorance or folly, becomes the agent for the use of any astral entity that may be attracted to the entranced body. Apollonius, Iamblichus, Plotinus, and Porphyry are examples of mediators: "but if the temple is defiled by the admission of an evil passion, thought or desire, the mediator falls into the sphere of sorcery. The door is opened; the pure spirits retire and the evil ones rush in. This is still mediatorship, evil as it is; the sorcerer, like the pure magician, forms his own aura and subjects to his will congenial inferior spirits" (IU 1:487).

(See also: Mediator, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Magnetization Influences which one person may exercise on another akin to mesmerism whether of a gross physical nature, to which the term animal magnetism is applied, or of a loftier nature, the action of mind upon mind.

Metallic magnetism is itself one manifestation of subtle natural forces, of which personal magnetism is another manifestation.

Magnetism, whether diffuse or localized or in the form of animal magnetism, is an emanation from the beings which produce it from their own inner vital power, and hence magnetism is a fluid. Those who are especially endowed with the faculty of arousing it in themselves and projecting it, mainly through the tips of the fingers or the eyes, can use it for either corrective, or for evil and destructive, purposes; while all other beings, even inanimate objects, possess it but do not emanate it willfully or consciously. It flows forth from them as an aura, usually unconsciously.

Thus magnetism has an auric efflux or fluid, which finds its foundation in the vitality or pranic sources of the beings or things from which it flows.

(See also: Magnetization, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Uchnicha, also Buddhochnicha (Sanskrit). Explained as "a protuberance on Buddha’s cranium, forming a hair-tuft ". This curious description is given by the Orientalists, varied by another which states that Uchnicha was "originally a conical or flame-shaped hair tuft on the crown of a Buddha, in later ages represented as a fleshy excrescence on the skull itself ". This ought to read quite the reverse; for esoteric philosophy would say: Originally an orb with the third eye in it, which degenerated later in the human race into a fleshy protuberance, to disappear gradually, leaving in its place but an occasional flame- coloured aura, perceived only through clairvoyance, and when the exuberance of spiritual energy causes the (now concealed) "third eye to radiate its superfluous magnetic power. At this period of our racial development, it is of course the "Buddhas" or Initiates alone who enjoy in full the faculty of the "third eye" , as it is more or less atrophied in everyone else.

(See also: Uchnicha, Buddhochnicha, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Mercury

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