The Strange Physics of Presence: Demystifying Your Auric Field

Let’s keep it moving along here. Ain’t no sto… no let me not do that and get a copyright strike or something. So far, we have talked about the Physical, Etheric, and Astral Fields. This is sometimes called “bodies” as in Etheric or Astral bodies. In my opinion and based on my experiences, the most commonly known and confusing of the energy fields is this last one, the Aura. 

The Aura comes up a lot in all sorts of practices across the globe. It has been described by both modern and ancient people. The confusion around the Aura is because of how many times it has been described from the millions of perceptions that have experienced it. And here I am adding to this mosaic of voices. 

Because of that, I want to keep the Auric Field much simpler in description and explanation than I did with the Etheric and Astral Fields. 

The first thing to know is that the “Aura” is a piece of the Auric Field. This should seem slightly familiar as we just discussed how Astral Energy, the Astral Field, and Astral Planes are each different parts of a grand whole. The Aura itself is the energy band that reaches out the furthest from the Physical Body. The Auric Field is that band of energy, your Astral Field, your Etheric Field, and your Physical Body. The Auric Field is the ever-shifting oscillating “storm” of energy surrounding you.

The purpose of the Auric Field is to encapsulate all that is you. Everything that defines you as who you are. Even the things you don’t yet know or realize about yourself. It’s story time, long ago in my teenage years I taught myself meditation by sitting out in the woods and staring at a tree. I picked a single tree and would go out to the woods every single day and focus on that one tree for as long as I could. I would then go and write whatever I observed about the tree. I taught myself an expansive meditation technique doing this. 

At first, I would write what I considered mundane superficial observations like the shapes of the bark or the colors of the bark with the moss and lichens. The more time I spent with the tree the more my observations evolved to counting its leaves and the blades of grass around the base. I noticed how many individual and distinct species of birds would land on the tree's branches. I found myself whistling the birds’ songs which drove my family slightly crazy because my reproduction was good enough to make them think there were actual birds in the house. I learned about the different insects that called the tree home. I began to differentiate between bird nests and squirrel nests in how they were constructed. I learned the aroma of the tree itself despite not having flowers. I listened to the ways the tree creaked in the wind and could pinpoint which limb was making the sound. I would accurately predict which limb was next to fall off. I learned so much about the tree just by opening my awareness little by little each day.

One day, as I was sitting there, I noticed something completely new. I saw this brilliant light but it was weird because the sky was overcast. I realized the light was coming from the tree itself. It radiated out in a beautiful golden hue. I saw a bird land on the tree and start singing. After a moment it flitted away and I saw the same golden light within the bird. The light did not surround the bird but came from inside of it. It was as if the bird had eaten the golden light and I saw it pass through its digestive tract. I later realized it was just carried in its heart. I learned at that moment what an aura looked like and the power it holds. I dove deeper from that moment into my “secret studies” whenever I could get near a library. 

I wanted to know more about it, but the information was scarce and generic. Why did the bird carry away some of the aura after it landed on the tree? Nothing I read explained what I had seen. Everything said the Aura was just this light that denoted a person or thing’s “personality.” But I knew I had seen something more. I recalled how I had felt that day, how I was breathing, and everything. I tried to recreate the experience with other trees and even some of the farm animals we were raising. It came much easier with each instance and the more I practiced it. Before long I was swimming in a sea of colors that went against everything conventional sight said was logical. And I started to notice the exchanges more frequently. I revisited the original tree and opened up to see the golden light again. It was still there just as before, but this time I was ready. And a tiny bird flew into one of the branches and I noticed this bluish color emanating from it. I watched as a small bit moved from its body into the limb it perched on. As it moved into the limb a tiny bit of golden light from the tree moved into the bird. But I watched the blue from the bird as it moved deeper into the trunk until it was obscured completely by the golden light.

I had learned to see and watch the Aura of the two but witnessed the energetic exchange instead. I came to understand and respect the tree not just as a singular entity but as a world of its own. I realized that it was so much more than just simply a tree. I realized the woods it was in was a universe AND another world. Microcosms into Macrocosms. I started to see how the Auric Field encapsulates all that we define ourselves by and all that others define us by. The Auric field is the marriage of your perspective of self and others’ perceptions of you. The information is processed faster than we can probably ever hope to imagine. But when you enter the Auric field of another being, whether that is a person, place, or thing, there is always a small energy exchange of some kind. The vast majority of these are passive and benign. It is just a simple exchange because you were meant to pass by that specific stranger while walking on the sidewalk. You weren’t meant to form a relationship with them, but you each had some small token of energy to pass along to each other. 

This is how the Auric Field differs from the Astral and Etheric. It takes the information being processed by the Astral, Etheric, and Physical bodies and leads/directs them towards the best opportunity for that. Let me clarify, sometimes you end up in some pretty rough situations because of this. This is because the Auric Field is not going to lead you to the easiest “perfect” situation. It leads you to the “best” situation for you at that time. Sometimes that means there is something for you to learn and grow from and that what is best is more easily understood as “necessary.” The Auric Field is the one that connects the most with the will of the universe. It is the translator between you and the World at large. We do not fully comprehend the ways of the World; just as a tree cannot comprehend human suffering. 

Our mental capacity is a much lower form of thought than the thoughts of something so vast and complex within its simplicity. There are things we conceptualize that do not exist at those higher levels. Or at the very least, they do not exist in the same form we have tried to rationalize them to be. 

But this is already getting longer than I wanted and cosmic vs human energy values is a whole topic in itself, so I want to get to the part of the auric field I want to relay. The Auric Field is…weird. Not in the way that it is incomprehensible, but in just the way it works. Because it operates on that higher level, it does things we tend to think would be counterintuitive to its function. The auric field is about your presence in the world. This is the field that people talk about when they use phrases like, “You light up a room when you walk in.” Your presence is important in making connections and forming communities with people. And communities aren’t exactly these huge grandiose things either. They can be smaller or slightly larger. But we tend to think communities have to grow in size continuously. They don’t think of small local churches and how they last for a long time vs. super churches which rise and fall rather quickly and usually from scandals or corruption. The other thing is we believe communities are formed of like-minded individuals all following one creed or belief. That’s a type of community but it's more borderline the beginning of a cult. Once someone else’s presence overpowers the collective presence of the group and appoints themselves the “leader” congrats you have a devoted cult.

The Auric Field is not being considered when these sheep herd communities form. The Auric Field, again working from that higher level, will attempt to partner you with people with similar ideals but different methods, practices, or beliefs. A healthy community thrives on diversity and being able to learn from each other. Each member’s presence will be equal to the rest of the community and if an individual begins to wane the others will recognize this and work to bolster that individual back up. The Auric Field is the energetic way of experiencing, “Keep your circle of friends tight.”

But there is another way the Auric Field is weird. Again it is about presence, you would think a person who has a grand presence would have a huge expansive Aura. It is more opposite though. A person who can turn heads by walking into a room will have a tightly retracted aura. It becomes compressed as close to their body as possible. Whereas a person who does not want to be noticed or is shy will have an overly expanded auric field. It is the reverse of what we would expect but the more I learned about the Auric field the more it made sense. 

An expanded auric field is less potent in what information it can gather because it will get copious amounts of information at one time. It will not be well equipped to direct a person to what they need because of this. When talking about presence, this means the person with an expanded auric field will have less overall presence than their surrounding environment. Causing them to blend in and camouflage with the people, trees, and even buildings around them. 

A compressed auric field is also less potent in gathering information because it cannot reach out and intuit what is being offered for the needs of its person. The auric field begins to burn brightly attracting the interest of others so that the presence of the person is more readily seen. This will bring people toward the Auric Field where it can then obtain the information it needs. The difference here is that the person wants to be noticed but may think they already know what’s best for themselves from a mental standing. These people might have a large amount of “friends” but only a select few who have any influence when they speak with them. 

Think of it like the Sun when you go outside on a bright cloudless day. You know it is daytime because everything is lit up. The light you see all around is still sunlight but in a less concentrated degree. We are so used to this that we dismiss the Sun as an afterthought and take the light we are seeing for granted. On the flip side, if you think about the Sun and try to look at it you can hurt your eyes and potentially become blinded from its brightness. The Sun has a presence all its own. It does not care if it is or is not noticed, it simply exists and does its job as intended. A person with a balanced Auric Field can produce the same effect. They can be noticed when they walk into a room while simultaneously moving through the different “cliques” of people. People are aware of them and who they are, but there are still only a select few who legitimately know them. And those who try to get to know them better can find themselves overwhelmed by their presence when they focus their full attention on this person. 

Everyone knows a person like this. It's that person who you know, you want to know better, but you find they are a little intense for you at times so you need them but in doses. They carry a certain quality though so you don’t want to do without them. It is different than the intensity of someone who is always dragging people down though. That kind of intensity is a tightly compacted Auric Field of someone wanting to be noticed either to unload their grief or baggage on someone else. The kind I am referring to is someone who you know knows things like how to achieve or create solutions as examples. But they are self-contained and passionate in their varied expertise. They aren’t afraid of sharing their information with anyone who asks, but when you ask you get a lot of information. It sounds a lot like confidence but it is deeper than that. Because they also aren’t afraid of being challenged and admitting when they are wrong. They are not “sure of” themselves but more “assured of” themselves or unperturbed by others. People who embody the ideal of, “it is what it is,” and whose presence exudes an unshakeable grounding. 

A balanced and healthy Auric Field puts a person in this state of being where they become like chameleons. Which is a good thing. Yes keep your circle tight, but don’t be afraid of letting others in. You never know when someone can drop a bit of insight that you need at that exact moment. If you only focus on your tight circle, eventually you grow tired of each other because growth can stagnate. By having a chameleon state for your Auric Field you gain external information that you can then bring back to your community. You can all discuss and digest this information then form new applications from your individual experiences.

The best way to test your Auric Field isn’t by “trying to see your Aura’s color and intensity.” That is surprisingly easy to do but colors mean different things to different people so it becomes ambiguous in meaning. Instead, try to become more aware of your presence. How do people react to you being around? How readily do people listen when you have something to say? Who do you take note of? Who do you notice is “just there existing?” Who do you gravitate towards and pay attention to when they speak?

The more aware you become of your surroundings the more you learn how to balance your own Auric Field. I encourage testing the limits of this energy field as well. The Auric Field is your Presence and it is controlled by your Awareness. Back in Foundations, I talked about letting your body talk and paying attention to your physical senses. The physical senses are all contributors to your awareness. While the Auric Field processes at a higher level, we still come back to the body as the controller or handler of the Auric Field. See it comes full circle back to the Physical Body as an energetic field. This is why I stressed how important it is and why we should not be dismissive of it. 

At this point, that is as far as I want to expound on the Auric Field and energy fields in general. After this post, I believe it is a good time to start talking about history. We touched on community in this post and community plays a large part in historical events that have led us to where we are now. We are going to start looking at sociological concepts, anthropological information, and so much more. If you felt challenged in your views over the energy posts…I apologize in advance cause history is not going to get any easier for you. 

Until then, thank you as always for reading. I wish you only the best as you begin to open your awareness to receive only what you need in your endeavors. Have a great day!