Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jean-Louis de Biasi, author of several books, including the new Mysteries of the Aura. What is the point to see if you can feel? This energy work seems to be all over the internet. Whether I teach Hatha yoga, offer a session of yoga Nidra, a guided meditation, or a ritual practice, eventually the question of energy will be involved. I am sure you have practiced rituals, meditations, energy work, or all sort of exercises giving you the opportunity to feel the energies. You have sometimes felt the decrease of your personal energy. Another time, you may have felt the strengthening of your energy after walking or running in nature. Maybe you have

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jean-Louis de Biasi, author of several books, including the new Mysteries of the Aura. For hundreds of years, the aura has been described, depicted, and painted all over the world. Kirlian's photographs and, more recently, computers have been used to take photos or detect the energy surrounding our physical body. In my book Mysteries of the Aura, I relate the history of these modern fascinating inventions. They seem to validate the ancient representations we can see in the Eastern and Western religious artworks. Most of them present a halo surrounding one's head. Other examples show the whole body submerged in a flame or, during the

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Jean-Louis de Biasi, author of several books, including the new Mysteries of the Aura. There are countless writings about the aura. At a young age, I began reading about these wonderful and mysterious bodies of light surrounding our physical body. I found stories and descriptions from all over the world. Sometimes the descriptions were slightly different. However, almost all seemed to agree on the existence of a different dimension invisible to our physical perception and manifested as a light. At the time, I was practicing daily pranayama, meditation, and energy work. Then, I started to intensively explore the astral vision by direct

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Deborah Lipp, author of several books, including Tarot Interactions, Magical Power for Beginners, and the new Bending the Binary. It's impossible to be in the occult for any length of time without hearing about Hermetics, but understanding it is a whole different cauldron of fish. There are good reasons for this, including pseudo-history, loose use of the term by popular authors, and downright fraud. Let's see if we can straighten out a bit of the mess. To quote noted Hermeticist Sam Block: "Hermeticism…is a blend of Egyptian religion and spirituality with Greek philosophy."1 The core text is the Hermetica, a vast set of writings