Aura

[Sirius]

Shakti sounds cool.  These things always has a tendency to follow me around, are there any side effects?

[UltraBudgie]

are there any side effects?

hopefully probably! shakti with capital-s as deity is religion and that isnt necessary for breathing exercise pranayama to awaken kundalini. later when energy flow prana goes through crown chakra sense of self connects to divine bhakti then perhaps you find shakti as avatar if you choose. shakti with lowercase-s is divine energy of change and flow in universe like you feel through nature with awareness breathing moving living. two aspects of god male/female (also called chit/sat or nirguna/saguna brahman): god transcendent is eternal unchanging aloof old man but god immanent ever-changing ever-new up close beautiful shakti.

God’s desire to become the many can also be understood from a quantum physical angle. As already stated, it is only through the presence of a conscious observer that a potentiality (in physics called a wave function) changes into the particle state and becomes what we experience as a concrete reality. Concrete reality (what is) crystallising out of simple potentiality (what could be) is the condition for the lila, the play of divine creativity, the process aspect of God, the Shakti. Without God becoming many, there is only the potential for the universe or, for example, our planet to become a concrete reality. What we call reality (sat) is, until then, only a probability or likelihood. Quantum physicists have pointed out that even complex objects like Earth are sustained in the particle state and, therefore, kept from returning to a wave function of probability only because, at any given time, some observers are always conscious of it rather than asleep. As a collective, which includes non-human lifeforms, we are an essential link in the process of the God immanent becoming Itself by crystallising as the material universe and multiplying Itself as a collective of conscious witnesses – us.

In his monumental text Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead introduced the term process to refer to God. Apart from the term cosmic intelligence or Shakti, I cannot think of any term more apt to describe the immanent aspect of the Divine. This aspect of the Divine has been chronically underexplored and under-described by all religions. Quite likely so because most religious authorities were males, and the male nature is more attracted to solid-state spirituality, including concepts such as consciousness, nirvana, emptiness and their human embodiment, the unmoved mover (who is always male). They all have in common that they are immutable and unchangeable, and they do not react to their surroundings in any way.

The term process, on the other hand, describes the dynamic aspect of God (Shakti), who is in constant flux, constantly evolves, and moves towards a dynamic equilibrium that continually recreates Itself without ever becoming static. For most male mystics, these ideas are hard to bear as they long for something that never changes, such as the transcendent aspect of the Divine, the pure consciousness. Both aspects of the Divine are real and vital to experience, integrate and understand. Our spirituality and religion during the last few thousand years have, however, suffered from the fact that process spirituality, Shaktism or Earth-based spirituality was always persecuted or at least pushed to the margins.

[Sirius]

hopefully probably! shakti with capital-s as deity is religion and that isnt necessary for breathing exercise pranayama to awaken kundalini. later when energy flow prana goes through crown chakra sense of self connects to divine bhakti then perhaps you find shakti as avatar if you choose. shakti with lowercase-s is divine energy of change and flow in universe like you feel through nature with awareness breathing moving living. two aspects of god male/female (also called chit/sat or nirguna/saguna brahman): god transcendent is eternal unchanging aloof old man but god immanent ever-changing ever-new up close beautiful shakti.

 

hmmm. I heard something about this last night, the root of the word matter is "mater" as in mother.  Matter is born as the wave function collapses.

The last time I messed with auroras clouds became very strange and trees started popping.

[Sirius]

Forgot I made a promise, something interesting happened here

I was looking at the OP thinking about aura's, breathing, love, centering and all the good stuff. In contemplation taking a breath I tilted my head back and woooooooshhh. As it turns out this is a method for OOBE and a whole host of other consciousness states and other effects

Currently there seems be a craze on redit around the method

This video popped back up

[ReturnofBroccoli]

What about people with scoliosis? Is their Chakra flow permanently fucked? How can their kundalini travel?

[Quantum12]

Forgot I made a promise, something interesting happened here

I was looking at the OP thinking about aura's, breathing, love, centering and all the good stuff. In contemplation taking a breath I tilted my head back and woooooooshhh. As it turns out this is a method for OOBE and a whole host of other consciousness states and other effects

Currently there seems be a craze on redit around the method

This video popped back up
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyJ1NyIjtxM]

Thank you for posting this.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

What color is your aura?

Never owned one. I got an ES instead, but it was this pretty metallic dark blue.  And in retrospect, I'm glad I did, because they discontinued Saturn the following year.

But I heard and read nothing but good things about it while it was in production.

As far as a new age aura, as associated with chakras, tantric stuff, and hippies...

I dont have synesthesia, nor a cross-wired brain that allows me to see those, so hell if I know. 

Purple! My aura is purple! And I have some hydroponic pot!


My brain shuts off when mind/body relies on metaphysical concepts like auras and chakras.

I can see them as nerve clusters or part of the body's endocrine system that run along the spine, but as far as the mystical energy fields and colors.... meh.

I think its more endorphin brain chemical related.. Like balancing yourself and releasing natural pleasure drugs that can feel like energy is running up your spine out the crown of your head.

 Placebo effect?

[Halfswede]

What about people with scoliosis? Is their Chakra flow permanently fucked? How can their kundalini travel?

In the simplest manner, that energy/matter is not constrained by this surface dimension of matter made of molecules. What's broken here, may not be broken there (and vice versa). Also, chakras are just part of one system of energy development. Many systems do not develop them but have other means.  Think of it like making a TV. You can make an OLED TV or a plasma TV, but you can't just start cobbling the parts of each together. It is the main reason each system tends to discredit the other. It's not so much about one being right or wrong, but at high levels it is just the mechanism to keep things from getting jumbled and useless.




-Falun Dafa Hao!

[Sirius]

What about people with scoliosis? Is their Chakra flow permanently fucked? How can their kundalini travel?

Still works. I'm pretty broken

[Sirius]

Never owned one. I got an ES instead, but it was this pretty metallic dark blue.  And in retrospect, I'm glad I did, because they discontinued Saturn the following year.

But I heard and read nothing but good things about it while it was in production.

As far as a new age aura, as associated with chakras, tantric stuff, and hippies...

I dont have synesthesia, nor a cross-wired brain that allows me to see those, so hell if I know. 

Purple! My aura is purple! And I have some hydroponic pot!


My brain shuts off when mind/body relies on metaphysical concepts like auras and chakras.

I can see them as nerve clusters or part of the body's endocrine system that run along the spine, but as far as the mystical energy fields and colors.... meh.

I think its more endorphin brain chemical related.. Like balancing yourself and releasing natural pleasure drugs that can feel like energy is running up your spine out the crown of your head.

 Placebo effect?

It's actually well studied, I can link something here and teach methods. You worry to much about the "how" stuff, most things in your life you have no clue how it works or how it's made. But you are fine. You learned to walk, eat, talk all that stuff without knowing fuckol about it so you know it doesn't really matter how it works, it will work if you do the things.

I don't see aura's all the time, it's distracting when I do see something around a person and generally don't want to and not good when I do. Plants are safe though, they look amazing and don't even have to do anything. Here is something you will enjoy, I see nothing in the dark. 

Meridians are interesting https://dao-world.org/2025/08/15/the-meridian-system/