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Science has demonstrated that color is basically our collective perception of the effects of wavelength and frequency. The Edgar Cayce material certainly agrees with this idea. The readings affirm that the various colors and tones we observe are associated with the way in which we perceive different rates of vibration. Going a step further, the Cayce material states that color is essentially the result of the manifested vibrations of spiritual energy. In fact, the readings detail the way in which personal spirituality impacts the aura, colors, and personal vibrations; and many readings explore the connection between spiritual growth, the evolution of personal vibration, and the specific colors associated with various levels of consciousness. From his own conscious state, Cayce described auras as follows:

An aura is an effect, not a cause. Every atom, every molecule, every group of atoms and molecules—however simple or complex, however large or small—tells the story of itself, its pattern, its purpose, through the vibrations which emanate from it. Colors are the perceptions of these vibrations by the human eye. As the souls of individuals travel through the realms of being, they shift and change their patterns as they use or abuse the opportunities presented to them. Thus at any time, in any world, a soul will give off through vibrations the story of itself and the condition in which it now exists. If another consciousness can apprehend those vibrations, and understand them, it will know the state of its fellow being, the plight he is in, or the progress he has made. (See Auras booklet, Appendix I)

In addition to his conscious perceptions regarding the aura, many of Edgar Cayce’s readings also describe this vibrational energy field in greater detail. There are also hundreds of readings that examine the connection between spiritual growth and consciousness development. When a group of Cayce’s contemporaries asked for readings on the process of psychic development, the readings suggested instead that the real goal should become one of spiritual development which would, in turn, facilitate intuitive development as a natural by-product. Two collections of these readings explore this premise in greater detail—the Study Group readings (known as the “262 series”) and the Prayer Group readings (known as the “281 series”). This material proposes that as individuals grow in consciousness, they raise their own personal vibration and are able to perceive higher states of intuitive or spiritual awareness. For example, when a forty-one-year-old member of the study group asked for a dream interpretation reading in which she saw the aura of herself and her sister, Cayce told her that the dream was “a glimpse of self-awakening.” (262-8) Her work with spiritual growth was facilitating her intuitive talents. Similarly, when a twenty-eight-year-old member of the prayer group had begun to frequently see flashes and shapes in her line of sight, Cayce informed her that she was seeing the “higher vibrations” and “spiritual forces” of higher levels of consciousness. He also stated that her growth in spiritual development was prompting the phenomenon of “beginning to see auras.” Connecting this to her own spiritual transformation, he added: “. . . As life, light, and love with understanding—is reflected in self, so may there be seen those of the same reflection from others.” (281-4)

As discussed previously the readings for the prayer group also explored the colors associated with each of the seven major spiritual centers or chakras, which Cayce correlated with seven endocrine glands in the physical body. Each of the colors may correspond with both a positive and a negative level of consciousness.

Cayce reminded the prayer group: “. . . vibration is the essence or the basis of color . . .” (281-30) and stated that the color and energetic vibration associated with each of these levels of awareness would come to consciousness through practices such as meditation. Various approaches to personal relaxation can also help to elicit intuitive experiences. The rationale is that relaxation can enable the individual to set aside the personality self and draw instead upon attributes of the real soul self, which remains in tune with higher levels of consciousness.

Ironically, Cayce once told a thirty-four-year-old female artist who was extremely intuitive that one of her greatest challenges was her vibration. It was so high that she often had a hard time trying to understand and empathize with others. He suggested lowering her own vibration “. . . sufficient to comprehend the needs of many . . .” through the use of her artwork. His recommendation was to attune to others and to create drawings that would utilize color and harmony depicting their daily activities and concerns in a way that would provide inspiration. Cayce advised that she “. . . become the colors as well as the forms depicted.” (2450-1) The premise in the readings is that an individual’s consciousness grows and expands, which enables that person to see higher states of consciousness. That development of consciousness allows an individual to better assist people displaying diverse levels of personal development.

When a twenty-seven-year-old man asked for more information on what an aura was as well as what the specific colors signified, Cayce replied that the aura was essentially the vibratory “emanation” that surrounded an individual and changed continually, based upon the influences, activities, and ideas with which the individual was involved. The reading went on to describe the man’s own aura and provided additional information for using both the intellectual mind and the intuitive mind working together as a means of developing his own psychic ability:

For the self, as we find . . . {the color is predominately} blue . . . and is that of a seeker; indicating the geniality, pleasantness, the abilities to often pour oil upon troubled waters and quietness ensues with the advent of the body-consciousness into associations of most every nature or kind, and these—consequently—are well, and well to be cultivated.

Aura changes, to be sure, to the temperament. Just as we may see, iron may be heated to hot; it also may be heated to white heat. The vibrations, see? (Q) Give detailed directions for developing the intuitive sense. (A) Trust more and more upon that which may be from within. Or, this is a very common—but a very definite—manner to develop:

On any question that arises, ask the mental self—get the answer, yes or no. Rest on that. Do not act immediately (if you would develop the intuitive influences). Then, in meditation or prayer, when looking within self, ask—is this yes or no? The answer is intuitive development. On the same question, to be sure, see?

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Understanding the connection between spiritual growth and intuitive development is important. When Carol Ann Liaros was directing the Project Blind Awareness program, she would have the program volunteers arrive a half hour early to form a circle and meditate on raising the vibrations within the room in which the program met. According to Carol Ann, “When the blind arrived, their energy fields would immediately be raised to a higher vibration. The results of our efforts were verified over and over again by the feelings of love that emanated from the participants.”

As one means of testing the vibration of color Carol Ann Liaros and the volunteers of Project Blind Awareness devised a study working with local blind associations and Professor Douglas Dean, an electrochemist and parapsychologist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Twenty blind participants were recruited and put through one hundred color selection trials both before and after they had undergone twenty hours of Project Blind Awareness training. During these seasons, the blind participants were asked to run their hands over various colored sheets while the following questions were asked:

a) Did the colored sheets feel the same or different?

b) Could the blind individual differentiate between black and white?

c) Could the blind individual differentiate between red and blue?

d) Could the blind individual differentiate between a set of black and white sheets and a set of red and blue?

Because each individual participated in one hundred color selection trials, and because the laws of chance would entail a fifty-fifty “guess” on items a-c, and a 25 percent “guess” on item d, just by chance the following collective accuracy score would occur:

True enough, after the first one hundred color selection trials and prior to undertaking the intuitive training, the blind participants scored within the range of chance, as follows:

Over the next seven weeks the participants were led through a series of exercises for both relaxation and intuitive development. At the end of the training a number of the participants reported being able to “see” in a way they could not quite verbalize or even totally understand. Some reported the ability to distinguish colors from across the room. Others said that they could perceive the outline of objects in a room. When asked to point to where they were perceiving color—as it could not have been visually—they usually pointed to their foreheads. Many of the subjects reported an increase in mobility because they began to “just know” where objects were in a room.

One man reported that he could walk down the street without a cane because he could “see” the plate glass windows, lamp posts, and more. Another woman stated that she was able to pick out her clothes from her closet because she could “tell the difference” in colors by running her hands over the clothing at a distance of several inches. Another woman described her new abilities, as follows: “An awareness of my own energy field is developing and I feel as though I really see myself: I see my hands working, I see my body, I see images and shadows, and seem to be able to almost see what is in a room. It seems that I really see it, although I can’t, as I am totally blind. Last Sunday I saw my first aura. A friend was talking with me when suddenly I saw her aura and was so surprised that I did not hear what she was saying. She noticed that I was not listening and said that my eyes got larger and larger until she knew that something was going on. I interrupted her and said, ‘I can see your aura.’ It was a white light, hazy and flickering, which encircled her head.”

In an interesting incident, one of the blind participants was scanning the aura of her volunteer and was commenting about heat, coolness, and other descriptions as she scanned. When she progressed to the feet and passed her hand over one part of the left foot, she reported, “Oh, it feels very cool here.” Much to the blind woman’s shock, her volunteer replied, “Yes! That’s right. I had a toe removed several years ago!” A similar experience was noted in a sixty-two-year-old blind student who became astonished when she scanned the aura of her volunteer and noticed how cold it felt in the torso area. The volunteer told her that she had undergone a hysterectomy!

Carol Ann Liaros had her own experience with the blind participants that she describes, as follows:

All of the lights were off in the room where the group met. I was standing up against a white wall for an exercise in which I was encouraging the blind participants to practice “seeing” my aura. (Many were having experiences of seeing through their foreheads.) Several comments were made by participants about the colors when suddenly many in the group declared that they saw red in my aura way up high to my left. I couldn’t understand why so many of them were seeing red. I certainly wasn’t feeling angry or mad, and red is often the color of anger in the aura.

Later, the lights were turned on and we were on our break. I happened to look up at the wall where so many of them had indicated that they could see red in my aura, and I laughed. There was an EXIT sign there. It was not an illuminated sign, but painted red on the wall, and I had not seen it when the lights were out!

From a research point of view, perhaps the next results were the most amazing. After the seven-week period of training, participants again took the one hundred color selection trials; and this time their scores measured far beyond the laws of chance:

Participant scores after 20 hours of Project Blind Awareness training⁵:

In the period of more than forty years that Carol Ann Liaros has been leading intuition training exercises, many very interesting experiences have occurred with participants (both sighted and blind). Stories like these suggest that color and vibration are somehow quantifiable for those who have firsthand experience and knowledge with intuitive perception:

• Bobby was a nine-year-old blind child with no light perception. His lack of sight had been discovered a couple of months after his birth. A participant in the Junior Project Blind Awareness program, one of the exercises geared for children was to have them lie on large colored sheets (squares, approximately three feet long on each side) and “feel” the vibration of the color. The sheets contained colors from the following colors: red, yellow, green, blue, white, and black.

• Each child was encouraged to lie down on a colored sheet and to stretch out his or her entire body, enabling the body to feel the color’s vibration. They were encouraged to feel the color with their hands, elbows, nose, bottom of feet, and so forth, and then describe the color to their volunteer. (All of the volunteers in the youth program were school teachers.) The children were told that with practice they should be able to recognize the various colors by the physical sensation they were experiencing. Bobby was doing fine with the colors until he lay down on the color black. As soon as he was on the ground, he immediately jumped to his feet and said, “I don’t like that color! It reminds me of my father’s funeral.”

• Sam was a blind adult whose eyes had been removed because of cancer. After taking some ESP classes and working with his intuition, he described the ability to see auras through the middle of his forehead. One of the talents he demonstrated was identifying dark spots in different people’s auras that accurately corresponded to areas of physical problems. During one of the classes, a young, sighted woman asked Sam to look at her aura and describe what he saw. He briefly described her aura and then hesitated, as though he was uncomfortable and ill-at-ease. When he was pressed to share what he was seeing, Sam replied, “I see two auras! Is she pregnant?” Interestingly enough, the young woman had just found out that she was about four weeks pregnant. When he was asked to specify whether the child was a boy or a girl, Sam leaned forward as if he was trying to see better and stated assuredly, “It’s a boy.” Several months later the woman delivered a beautiful baby boy.

• During one of the basic ESP classes that included experiencing the human aura, participants had taken turns having their auras described by the rest of the class. After the class had looked at the auras of four or five individuals, one of the students who was in his mid-twenties walked forward and stood up against the white wall. No one was able to see the man’s aura. Even Carol Ann was unable to see his aura. Carol Ann passed it off as: “everyone’s eyes are tired.” She was baffled as it was an experience she had not previously encountered. The reason for the group’s experience became clear when class started the following week. One of the students brought in a newspaper article about a young mailman that had been killed while delivering mail in the rural countryside in his small mail truck. The truck had somehow hit a cow, rolled over, and the mailman had died in the accident. The mailman had been the student in the class whose aura could not be seen! This experience is certainly reminiscent of something Edgar Cayce had to say about the human aura:

Where do the colors come from, and what makes them shift and change? Well, color seems to be a characteristic of the vibration of matter, and our souls seem to reflect it in this three-dimensional world through atomic patterns. We are patterns, and we project colors, which are there to those who can see them. Apparently the aura reflects the vibrations of the soul. When a person is marked for death the soul begins to withdraw and the aura naturally fades. (Authors’ emphasis; See Auras booklet, Appendix I)

On one occasion a twenty-nine-year-old businessman asked Edgar Cayce to describe the vibrations that emanated from the human aura. Cayce’s answer once again connected the aura with the effect of the vibration of an individual’s spiritual attunement and life experience. When the man asked specifically whether the vibrations of an aura were measurable in terms of frequency and wavelength (such as a light wave), Cayce responded: “May be compared to same, but of the spiritual radiation {emanation