be led to the next steps in fulfilling her own life’s work.
Although it was never explored in greater detail and no one among Cayce’s contemporaries asked for additional information on the subject, the readings also suggested that—in addition to the impact of colors upon individuals—each city actually possessed a unique vibration and hence a color with which it would be most in harmony. The concept occurred while Edgar Cayce was having a dream in which, while floating above the United States, he perceived himself peering down on various kinds of energies that seemed to be radiating from different areas of the country. He became aware of the fact that each of these energies was associated with different types of vibrations. In his dream, one area or city seemed to be radiating a vibration that was associated with health or healing, for example, while another seemed to be more closely aligned with commerce.4 (294-131) Cayce briefly referred to the fact that each city possessed a corresponding color in a reading given to a twenty-nine-year-old woman. While tuning into the time and location of her birth (New York City), the reading stated simply: “. . . And each city has its own color!” (1456-1) He further broadened this concept in a different reading when he stated that even the planets have a corresponding color: “. . . For it is not strange that music, color, vibration are all a part of the planets, just as the planets are a part—and a pattern—of the whole universe . . .” (5755-1)
This interconnectedness between color, music and vibration was mentioned again in a reading given to a twenty-three-year-old musician, who was told in part:
As there is the music of the spheres, there is indeed the music of the growing things in nature. There is then the music of nature itself! There is the music of the growth of the rose, of every plant that bears color, of every one that opens its blossom for the edification, for the sanctification even of the environs thereabout!
949-12
A further exploration of music, vibration, sound, and color (and their healing properties) was discussed in the reading for a forty-one-year-old osteopath, who was apparently drawn to music:
Yet music is a higher realm to the entity. And it may be found in the experience of the entity, as from those activities in the experience before this, that sounds, music and colors may have much to do with creating the proper vibrations about individuals that are mentally unbalanced, physically deficient or ill in body and mind; and may be used as helpful experiences . . .
1334-1
Perhaps one of the topics related to the human aura that is most unique to the Edgar Cayce information is his discussion of the “aurascope.” Although it was mentioned in only four readings given to the same individual (440-3, 440-6, 440-7, and 440-12), the possibilities for this device are quite fascinating. Essentially, the readings described the aurascope as a hand-held machine, a little larger than binoculars, that would make it possible to see the aura around other people. The readings on the aurascope were given to a twenty-three-year-old student and electrical engineer interested in vibrations and energy fields. Since from Cayce’s perspective, the aura is a vibrational energy field that emanates from all living things, the aurascope was basically a tool for measuring and seeing that energy.
According to the Cayce information, this machine would enable individuals with any degree of psychic ability to see another person’s aura and diagnose that individual’s physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. The following is how the readings discussed the theory behind the aurascope device and its ability to perceive vibrations and various colors (suggesting the health, well-being, state of mind, and more):
As suggested, the theory of the mechanical device is to determine not only the aura of individuals but to use same in the diagnoses of disorders in various portions of the body.
As is known, the body in action—or a live body—emanates from same the vibrations to which it as a body is vibrating, both physical and spiritual. Just as there is an aura when a string of a musical instrument is vibrated—the tone is produced by the vibration. In the body the tone is given off rather in the higher vibration, or the color. Hence this is a condition that exists with each physical body . . .
440-6
According to notations on file in the Cayce archives, over the years several individuals followed the instructions that were provided by the readings for creating an aurascope. Several prototypes have been created; however, no fully working model of this particular appliance has ever been produced.
Certainly Edgar Cayce himself was able to describe the aura while in his conscious state. In addition to his own experiences seeing the aura (see Appendix I—Auras), there are numerous examples of what he told individuals about their own auras. One of the best records of his conscious aura perception occurred during one of his Tuesday night Bible classes when he went around the room and described the auras that he saw for each of those present. His secretary, Gladys Davis, made note of all of his commentary. What follows is a selection of some of his descriptions:
To a thirty-six-year-old woman: “You have a great deal of violet, pink and white. The white means purity, always. Yours runs up and down, so you are rather temperamental. Everything to you must be very definite, must be very sure, with a basis that is sound.”
To a twenty-eight-year-old man: “You have a great deal of blue, a great deal of gray—because you easily become discouraged at times. You go very much up and down; you will fly off the handle or fly on the handle just about as easy.”
To a twenty-two-year-old woman: “You have a great deal of rose, and it becomes a very pretty aura. You judge most things by the material results that you get. I don’t mean that you haven’t any spirituality, but there is more of rose in your aura than the other colors. It changes, as rose would—or in coral—the changes sort of dash in and out. You smear it over, and then you streak it white and smear it over; then there’s a streak of blue and you smear it over. That’s the way you work.”
And, to a thirty-six-year-old man: “You have more violet in your aura than anyone in the room. Violet always indicates the seeker, the searcher for something. You have more of [violet] than gray, blue, opal, white or pink. A great deal of pink or coral in an individual’s aura indicates material-mindedness.”
(See Appendix II: Examples of Edgar Cayce’s Waking Aura Descriptions.)
Overall, the readings discussed color and auras as additional tools that could be used for better understanding the self. From Cayce’s perspective, both provide a pictorial representation of an individual’s energy, health, state of mind, thoughts, possibilities, and potentials. The aura contains information related to a person’s talents, weaknesses, karmic lessons, and past lives. In a very real sense it is a barometer of the whole person—a gauge of one’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual state of being. The Edgar Cayce readings declare that we are much more than a physical body and that we are connected to light, energy, color, and vibration. Perhaps the aura is an indicator of the nature of who we really are in ways that we have not yet dared to imagine.
2For a detailed discussion of the endocrine glands and the physiology of meditation, see Meditation and the Mind of Man by Herbert B. Puryear, PhD and Mark A. Thurston, PhD (Virginia Beach, VA: A.R.E. Press, 1983).
3For a detailed exploration of life seals and aura charts, see Soul Signs by Kevin J. Todeschi (Virginia Beach, VA: A.R.E. Press, 2003).
4For a discussion of Cayce and vibrations, see Edgar Cayce on Vibrations by Kevin J. Todeschi (Virginia Beach, VA: A.R.E. Press, 2007).
2 The Vibration of Color
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.