introduction
ing, depicting others’ feelings, desires, and personality traits. Some of the shapes were geometric and indicated thoughts and beliefs. Others were actually animate and described spirits and entities. I gauged others’ needs and potential actions against these colors and forms, becoming an “energy codependent” at an early age. If Mom was red, I would hightail it to my room, assured that her anger would erupt soon. If my sister took on a strange cast of yellow-brown, I covered my tracks; I was about to be tattled on. As I matured, I realized that there was a set of colors that appeared consistently, person to person.The hip area is occupied by red; the stomach is yellow. Most people have glowing halos of white (okay, more than a few exhibit a lackluster gray) shining around their heads. Bands of energy, starting with red and pulsing outward to a clear white, emanate from the skin. It wasn’t until I was in my early twenties that I figured out I was perceiving an actual system, one that had been well documented for thousands of years in various cultures around the world. I was seeing subtle energies and the energetic anatomy. Primarily, I was able to perceive the chakras and auric field. Chakras are energy organs that transfer psychic information into physical energy and back again. From childhood onward, I could perceive twelve of these energy centers in and around the body. Each performed a different set of tasks, and I grew fascinated with the insights I gleaned
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