Too Much Asking Permission?
March 30th, 2008 by Rose Rosetree
“Before you do aura readings, do you ask permission?”
It’s a controversial topic. You can guess where I stand from the title of this post, but really I’m inviting discussion. What assumptions do YOU make, and why? Many folks have never questioned those assumptions.
However, many in the mind-body-spirit community have somehow acquired the notion that, of course, yes, you must ask permission before doing any kind of spiritual reading. Either you ask it verbally or, doing Reiki II-style dialogue with the subconscious, you must ask permission inwardly.
Context matters. If you do aura readings as a preparation for healing, of course you would need to ask permission. But the sort of aura readings most of us do aren’t for healing but, rather, for information. We’re learning about people as preparation to serve them in countless ways, or to date them, or to find out if they might be stoned, or to learn if they’re telling the truth.
Notice, these are topics of curiosity that are explored in other ways, too, and done without asking permission. It’s called self-preservation, not snooping.
Funny thing, though. What if you love reading body language? What if you believe you can just look in somebody’s eyes to learn “everything important”? What if you vibe out people with improvised intuitive readings? Do you stop then to ask permission? Probably not, no more than if you talked to a mutual friend to dish about someone of interest.
Yet none of these common strategies for learning the truth about people is as effective as doing your own aura readings. So why think you need explicit permission, just because you’re doing the usual human curiosity thing, only this time you’re doing it better?
THE GRAIN OF TRUTH
Some situations really do demand permission. It’s the grain of truth in the large potato salad container of strange suppositions about matters woo-woo.
Healing demands permission. So does telling people directly what you read in their auras. Say that you’re on a first date. You’ve just previewed that guy as a lover and learned that he isn’t really sure, deep down, whether he even likes girls. Shame is there, and denial, with more than a tad of self-loathing.
I read this on someone just last week. Only, of course, I wasn’t dating. It was part of a session for a client, “Beulah”; I was reading her boyfriend, “Victor.”
You may know that I need photos to read auras only for the brief aura reports that I offer as an introduction to my work. But if you’re in session with me, for Aura Transformation or Cutting Cords of Attachment, I can read the aura of anyone you have known, at any time.
That would include your boyfriend the first day you met or him, again, only that far less glamorous moment last February when he refused to kiss you. All the databanks, every memory — all the data is there, stored by your smart subconscious mind. Why not read it?
Did I have permission to tell him, call him up like a phone call from “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” only instead of asking for info., I’d tell “Victor” something he never wanted to hear?
Of course not. But I did I have the right to tell Beulah, his girlfriend, as part of HER confidential session? Sure. It explained a lot. It helped Beulah to understand a rejection for which she had blamed herself.
PUBLIC FIGURES
So, yes, I’m saying that you have the right to read anybody’s aura. You just don’t always have permission to tell.
If you’re riding a bus and happen to read the newspaper over somebody else’s shoulder, do you have to ask permission? Are you allowed to be perceptive about people, or practice reading faces without asking permission? How surfacey must relationships be before you dare to read people deeper?
Go ahead and read, I say. Just spare that person details unless he or she has given permission or… unless that person is a celebrity. Andy Warhol famously predicted that everyone in our post-modern age would have at least 15 minutes of fame. Make that everyone who posts a photo on My Space or stars in a video over U-Tube.
You can’t make yourself public and retract it afterwards. Once you put your photo out there, it can be read. Sure, I’d hesitate to read tabloid pictures, taken without permission. But basically anyone who posts a photo or runs for public office or agrees to be on a so-called “reality” show has given permission.
Read away, and sure, you can let those aura readings be public. (Though, of course, I wouldn’t recommend posting anything defamatory. Just because you read deeper doesn’t mean that you abandon common sense or good manners.)
HOLY COW
But what about the sacredness of auras? I think the keep-off quality people fear is a recognition of That. Secrets of the human energy field aren’t just any kind of knowing. Aura readings are deeper perception. Your insights do have a holy quality, just like the insights from reading faces or doing empathic merges, the skills I teach in any of my how-to books.
Still, if you read any of them, you’ll appreciate that there’s a preparation process for aura readings, turning your empathy OFF or turning any empathic gift ON. When you Get Big and set an intention, it doesn’t only protect you. (Which matters.) You’re also shifting into the realm of the sacred.
And, Blog-Buddies, that is the biggest reason I know why you always have permission to do aura readings. Do you want to make contact with God only in church on a Sunday? That Divine Presence is with you right now. It is tucked into everyone you meet, as if each of us were merely a collection of pockets. And within every one of those pockets, if you reach deep enough, you make contact with Divinity.
Sure, God is available at every level of life. Live on the surface and you can find God right there. But the deeper you go into people, the sweeter, and the same holds true for the sacred presence that you can find with everyday aura readings.
So I say, dare to be great. And tiny. Dare to be the tiniest of all, and slip in and out of that Hugest-Smallest presence. Get good at it. (And, before concluding this post, let me put in a gentle reminder that I’ll be offering my last Aura Reading Intensive of the year this April 11-13. Click here for information.)
Reading auras whenever and wherever you can, as part of a balanced life — won’t that be good for everyone who has the privilege of knowing you?
Dear Blog Buddies and Rose,
I am so glad that this piece on asking permission was posted, as I think it is a very important subject. I knew that asking permission concerning healing was necessary, but was conflicted about permission to read auras. Now it makes no sense at all and this post clarifies why that is the case. It is what one does with that information that requires the use of discernment. In fact, thinking that I needed to have permission to read anyone but a public figure/celebrity has really held me back from the learning process and I regret that now.
COLLEEN, a lot of people have that reaction. So many people have averted their awareness, out of the very best intentions, spiced with a little confusion, and then the result was being more careful than necessary.
When you consider all the good that we can do by using deeper perception, sharing our insights, and making this part of a balanced life… the “good” restraint does turn pretty silly, doesn’t it?
I don’t think there is anything wrong with reading auras. I never have. I feel like we “read” people all the time anyway and in much less accurate and often more spiteful ways - plenty of consultants try to read body language and facial expression, provide advice on what to wear and how to do your makeup and how to act, etc. We look at people’s clothing and outer appearance and we can already discern a lot about the person - or at least we think we can, e.g., socioeconomic status, fashion tastes, educational level, etc. It’s why these markers are the ones that are the most readily changed when actors play a role or “go into character.”
But these markers are so superficial as to be almost meaningless. I’ve read several educated black males write that people are scared of them when they aren’t wearing suits. That makes me sad. I’ve also read that salespeople “can tell” if someone is a rich client by what kind of shoes, watch, and handbag the person is wearing - I think that is sad and untrue, personally. For ecological reasons, I usually carry a nylon bag. It’s not because I’m too cheap to buy a more expensive one. And why should a salesperson ignore me or treat me worse if I’m wearing a sweat suit on my day off but still ready to plunk down some good money for an expensive interview suit?
We read people in so many other ways and judge in so many other ways - ways that are a lot less accurate.
And don’t we find information about people on the Internet anyway? We can easily look up where someone went to school and other aspects of a person’s resume and get that information verified.
Why is getting information through aura reading any different? And usually it’s information that is much more relevant and interesting and certainly less superficial than what makeup the person is wearing and what clothing, shoes, and handbag the person is wearing.