I was fifteen years old at my best friend’s house, she had her family over for dinner. I was munching unassumingly on a salad, when the older man sitting across the table looked at me and said, “ I can see people’s Auras.”

Coming from your typical American family, I had no idea what Auras were so of course I had to ask,” What are Auras?” He told me Auras are an energy field that radiates from the different chakras or energy centers from within a person and then surround each person with what some can see as a visible color halo. If you focus enough you can see this halo of these colors a few inches from the person’s body. Kind of like if you would squint your eyes when someone is in front of you their outline would double. I asked him how he began seeing these colored energy emissions? He said that he had gone to visit his brother one night, his brother was into taking heavy drugs. When he had arrived at the front door of his brother’s house his brother hallucinating that he was a robber, accidentally shot him from a few inches away with a shotgun. His torso was immediately torn to pieces, he fell to the ground and went into shock where he blacked out. He said he remembers ascending into the afterlife but that is a story for another time. After a journey through the spirit kingdom, he was told by a white omnipresent being that his time wasn’t done on Earth and sent back into his earthly body.

Just like a river, spiritual information is constantly flowing by.  Sometimes sensitive people naturally reach out and touch these rivers of information.

Sometimes these abilities are also related to radio waves where we tune ourselves to pick up different frequencies.  This information is received by our higher or psychic senses and we typically are more dominant in one or two of these senses.

Some people who naturally tap into these senses can be a bit overwhelmed by it at first.   It takes time and practice but it can become a controlled and even fun experience over time.

We have five main senses; sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.  We also have psychic senses.  Typically we align these with our 5 basic senses because it makes them easier to understand and to train.  We also add in a 6th sense into the psychic sense list because there is a higher sense of intuition that is important when studying psychic abilities.