Aura Development Through Life

Incarnation is not something that happens at birth and is finished. It is an organic soul movement in which higher, finer vibrations are continually radiated downward through the finer auric bodies into the more dense ones, and finally into the physical body. Each major stage of life corresponds with new and higher vibrations and the activation of different chakras.

The life pattern is held in the seventh layer of the aura — the ketheric template. It is a dynamic template, constantly changing as the individual makes free-will choices. As growth takes place, the individual opens their ability to sustain higher levels of vibration, availing themselves of ever greater expanded realities.

According to Eva Pierrakos, the incarnating soul meets with spirit guides to plan the coming lifetime. They consider:

• • The personal task — what the soul needs to learn (e.g., leadership, trust, self-love)
• • The world task — the gift the soul brings to the world
• • What karma needs to be met and dealt with
• • What negative belief systems need to be cleared through experience

Parents are chosen who will provide the needed environmental and physical experience. These choices determine the mixture of energies that will form the physical vehicle.

At conception, an energetic link forms between the soul and the fertilized egg. An etheric womb also forms, protecting the incoming soul from outer influences other than those of the mother.

As the body grows, the soul slowly begins to feel the "drag" of the physical. At one point — the quickening — the soul suddenly becomes aware of this connection: a strong flash of conscious energy down into the forming body. Then consciousness is lost again, only to reawaken bit by bit.

At birth, the soul loses its protective etheric womb and is for the first time subjected to environmental influences. It is alone in the sea of energy. The greater fields of the heavenly bodies also influence the soul's new field at the moment of birth.

A new note is sounded, added to the existing symphony of life.

The baby sleeps frequently — the soul occupies its higher energy bodies, leaving the physical and etheric bodies disengaged to do the work of body building.

Key observations of the baby's aura:

• • The crown chakra is very wide open — the soul struggles to squeeze into the tiny body
• • The root chakra looks like a narrow funnel — still developing its connection to earth
• • Other chakras look like shallow Chinese tea cups with a narrow line back to the spine
• • The general field is amorphous, formless, bluish-gray
• • In their higher bodies, babies appear as spirits about twelve feet tall

The incoming soul often enters and leaves through the crown chakra while working on opening the root chakra to grow roots into the physical plane.

The child's field is entirely open and vulnerable. There is no protective film over the chakras to screen out incoming psychic influences. The child senses everything happening between parents — whether things are "in the open" or not.

At around age seven, a protective screen forms over the chakra openings, filtering out much of the incoming influence. This is near the dawning of reason. The child feels safer because in their auric bodies, they really are.

As the second chakra develops, the child's emotional life enriches. The child weaves fantasy worlds, begins to feel like a separate person from the mother. Colors of red-orange and rosy-pink appear in the aura — the child is learning to relate and love.

Personal objects become ways of defining individuation. When a toy is grabbed from a child's hand, it tears the etheric field and causes pain — both physical and emotional. The child sends amoeba-like projections of etheric field around treasured objects.

The third chakra develops, adding yellow (mental energy) to the aura. Deep teleological urges emerge — the child becomes the Indian chief, the princess, Wonder Woman. These archetypal forms reveal the soul's longing and relate to the world task.

The first three centers — physical, emotional, and mental — are now working together to express the first phase of the soul's incarnation.

Large changes occur through the body and energy field. More green is added (heart chakra opening). The pituitary (third eye) is activated. Beautiful rosefills the field as eros and love emerge.

The individual now repeats all developmental stages — but with a difference. The first stages were self-centered ("me, my daddy, my mommy"). Now it becomes an "I-thou" relationship. The "I" doesn't exist alone — welfare depends on balancing actions with the "not-I."

At one moment the person is a child, at another an adult. The entire field is disrupted and rebalanced repeatedly.

By the end of adolescence, the chakras and energy pattern are set. In maturity, the "I-thou" expands to include family, then the group. The heart opens to love not just the mate and children, but humanity. A beautiful lilac color appears in the aura.

As the third eye opens to higher vibrations, one begins to see the unity of all things and the unique preciousness of each individual soul within that unity.

Higher vibration rates are added to the energy bodies. Hair turns white as white light increases affinity with the spirit world. Lower earthly energy decreases, replaced by finer energies having more to do with spirit.

When these natural processes are understood and allowed to unfold, serenity and love fill the personal life. The solar plexus chakra becomes more harmonious.

At death, a luminous ray flashes out the top of the head as the person leaves through the crown chakra — the "tunnel experience." The soul is met by deceased friends and spirit guides. The whole life passes by for review.

In the days before death from long-term illness, Brennan observed:

• • The lower three bodies break up as opalescent cloudy blobs
• • The lower three chakras break up, with long threads of energy from the solar plexus
• • The upper four chakras become wide open holes — no shield over them
• • The person spends most time out of the body, with spirit guides
• • Azrael (the angel of death) guards the gate

"The only thing that dies is death. You have already died, in forgetting who you are. Those parts of you that have been forgotten are walled off from reality, and you have come into incarnation to retrieve them."

Death is transition into light. The wall of illusion dissolves when you are ready to move on. You maintain the essence of self beyond body, beyond incarnation.

From Chapter 8:

1. What major developments are happening in your aura at your current life stage?
2. How does your childhood experience still show in your energy field today?
3. What is your relationship to death — your own and others'?