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blue - are often visible, pouring out to envelop disciples or those in
need.
The aura represented a person's subtler bodies, the ones that
survive physical death, and were thus more real than the material
form, being sheaths that surrounded still subtler bodies. All emanate
from the soul. The outside shell of the flesh was entirely influenced
by vibrations flowing out from these other envelopes, not vice versa.
The physical manifestations of disease and of temperament originate
deep within those ever-subtler sheaths. They are to an individual
soul what the creation is to God.
As for Kirlian photography, no matter how hard he tried, Otis
was unable to explain to me in lay terms how a camera could be
adapted to photograph auras. I did grasp that it concerned
electromagnetics, but beyond that I understood as little as I do about
Stephen Hawking's account of what happens inside black holes.
Curiously enough, we seemed to have visited many of the same
ashrams. Dr. Otis considered Sathya Sai Baba the only god-man he'd
come across who appeared entirely genuine, and felt he merited much
further study. He'd shot superhigh-speed 16 mm film, he announced,
that proved Baba's materialisations were not sleight of hand or
trickery.
'Frame by frame ve examine dem. Derr frames are each fractions
of a second - understand? - so there iss not possibility of hand being
faster than eye.'
He'd even shot low angles revealing materialisations of japamalas
that showed, as the frames were studied one by one, the flash of
light like a hole into another dimension, from which the objects
gradually appeared. And several separate segments showed
vibhuti
ash materialisations - one clearly revealing a gap between Baba's
hand and the place the
vibhuti
poured from.
'It iss quite definitely transported from another dimension.' He
was convinced. 'Baba iss opening derr door to ziss dimension, but
he makeshow to say? - crack in time-space continuum with his
energy force yet this opening is not actually connected to his
physical body. Film shows quite clearly a distance between the hand
and the place where object appears.'
Had this news bothered the physics faculty back in Reykjavik?
