ISABELLE was one of the winners of our last contest in 2014, “What did you learn about deeper perception in 2014?”

Her choice was to have me read the aura of Teal Swan. Here is the gist of what ISABELLE wrote me when claiming her prize:

I choose Teal Swan for aura reading. Teal Swan is to me a fascinating person.

She seems like from a another dimension and has a true wisdom to share (for me) – it’s a never ending flood.

I am especially curious to read about her Root Chakra and her Third Eye Chakra.

Teal Swan has stated before that she finds it hard to be grounded, which I very much understand.

Also I am curious about spiritual addiction. Can a person who channels so much ‘naturally’ really be suffering from a spiritual addiction?

Oh, and I would appreciate it if you would use your Spiritual Snapshot selection of chakra databanks.

Prepare for an aura reading of Teal Swan

Blog-Buddies, my preparation is simple. Sure, I have skills of Stage Three Energetic Literacy, and I’ll use them to read the photo that ISABELLE suggested when claiming her contest prize.

Also I’ll be using a selection of the Spiritual Snapshot chakra databanks that I developed for this type of aura reading.

Apart from reading some of the words at this part of Teal Swan’s blog, I know nothing about her at all. Not what she does. Nor how she does it.

Here is a saved version of this glamorous, sweet aura photograph of Teal Swan, just in case she later changes what displays at her blog.

• For aura reading practice, Blog-Buddies, use one of these photo links to research her aura on your own before you read my findings.
• Perhaps in the COMMENTS section below, some of you will share what you do know about the inspiring work of Teal Swan.
• Definitely in a final section at today’s article I will make some comments in response to ISABELLE’s initial request for this aura reading.

1. Aura Reading Databank at the Throat Chakra for Verbal Integrity

80 feet. At the time of this photo, Teal Swan is just buzzing with charisma and charm. In her case, this supports integrity.

Teal Swan is uncommonly perceptive and can communicate her wisdom persuasively.

2. Aura Reading Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra for Power Integrity

4 feet. Teal Swan struggles a bit with the gap between what she knows and belives versus following through in everyday actions. It’s a poignant and very human problem, common as well.

No malice or sneakiness is present. Perhaps Teal Swan is just growing into her personal vision. The words and ideas of this vision might inspire ISABELLE or others in powerful ways that make it possible for them to deliver real-life results, even if Teal Swan is (at the time of this photograph) more of a wayshower.

3. Aura Reading Databank at the Root Chakra for Financial Integrity

Aha! a Root Chakra Databank, right, ISABELLE?

18 feet. Teal Swan has a great relationship with money, neither greedy nor grasping nor indifferent. Her personal integrity around financial life is an inspiration.

4. Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra for Emotional Giving

80 miles. Really a sweet one, this Teal Swan! She loves people. She loves her message.

In her role as a World Server, Teal Swan is a big and authentic giver.

5. Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra for Emotional Receiving

80 miles. Teal Swan has a tremendous confidence in what she is doing. On that basis, in her role as a World Server (as when taking this publicity photograph), Teal Swan receives a personal high from receiving emotionally. Sweet!

6. Aura Reading Databank at the Root Chakra for Making Contact with Objective Reality

Yo, ISABELLA. Another Root Chakra databank.

3 inches. Real life, rather than the ideals in which Teal Swan believes so fervently? This is an ongoing discontinuity.

I wouldn’t call it a struggle, because — as is often the case when everyday reality conflicts with an idealist’s vision — scant attention is paid to the part that doesn’t fit with what’s cherished.

7. Aura Reading Databank at the Third Eye Chakra for Living with Honor

2 inches. This chakra databank is quite similar to many others at the time of this photo. Teal Swan has a hard-won relationship with highest inspiration.

Seems to me, her connection to Spiritual Source is secondary at this phase in her personal development. Instead Teal Swan is learning what she can do with her human-based inspiration.

This can be a very powerful way to evolve, very human. And it brings the advantage of a sort of bedrock certainty.

Of course, it can be confusing in human terms, having this human-sourced version of spiritually “Living with Honor.”

So the size and quality of this chakra databank are just lovely for Teal Swan and those who would be attracted to her as a teacher or healer.

However, there would also be some people for whom this version of honor and truth would not represent a step forward but, rather, seem quite irrelevant.

As my former guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi used to say, “Knowledge is structured in consciousness.”

8. Aura Reading Databank at the High Heart Chakra for Soul Thrill (Expressing Her Soul in Everyday Life)

18 feet. Dazzling and just superb. Teal Swan is expressing herself as a person, growing fast, helping her people… having the time of her life.

The charisma leaping out of this chakra databank is quite similar to what she has at the Throat Chakra Databank for Verbal Integrity.

In short, Teal Swan has so much leadership to offer her people. Just lovely, ISABELLE.

Some useful ideas about reading auras of people with whom you might study, etc.

Point-by-point, Blog-Buddies, consider:

1. When somebody has a true wisdom to share, and it helps you like a never-ending flood.

Go for it. Just use aura reading as a smart New Age consumer to appreciate the source. Hey, just what we did in today’s aura reading!

2. Reading entire chakras? You can do better.

ISABELLE was especially curious to read about Teal Swan’s Root Chakra and her Third Eye Chakra.

Back when I wrote “Aura Reading Through All Your Senses,” that’s how I thought, too. However, that book was written more than 20 years ago, and the field of energetic literacy has evolved a great deal since then.

Today you’re really missing out if you don’t know about chakra databanks. Here are some FAQs that can supplement all the rest of this article. For a whole book that teaches you how to read chakra databanks, check out “Read People Deeper.” Because reading chakra databanks is so much more accurate and interesting than simply generalizing about an entire chakra.

3. About the ideal of “Grounding”

ISABELLE referred to being “grounded.” It was for this reason she was curious to compare Root Chakra and Third Eye Chakra.

Just as it is obsolete to just read entire chakras, you can do so much better than the notion of balancing Root Chakra and Third Eye Chakra.

If you’re using a technique of energy medicine like Reiki or Eden Energy Medicine, sure. Because energy medicine treats the physical aspect of mind-body-spirit like a machine and fixes it.

However, in my experience, energy medicine techniques to not help people significantly to move towards Enlightenment. The techniques can fix, and heal, which is a big deal.

The idea of “Grounding” isn’t just about making the physical energy machine work better; this can be a very important part of a person’s path of personal development. Unless your goal is energy healing of the physical body, it will help you a whole lot more to move forward in human-based spirituality, rather than seeking chakra balancing.

Consider, for instance, that I found Teal Swan to be doing very well in her Root Chakra Databank for Financial Integrity, while her Root Chakra Databank for Connecting to Physical Reality was pretty stuck.

That’s precisely the combo that might appeal to some of her followers. While others might not find it helpful, because they are in a phase of development that emphasizes connecting powerfully to what people say and do in everyday life.

One reason why I took “Empowered by Empathy” out of print is that it contains some obsolete ideas about “Grounding.” So I’m hardly in a position to criticize someone for going through a phase of learning where this is a big ideal. From my perspective now, it’s limiting and unhelpful, but that is now. And my particular version of reality, truth, etc.

4. Concern over spiritual addiction

Since we live in The Age of Energy, spiritual addiction is a really big deal. ISABELLE was smart to ask about this.

Specifically, I would like to respond to this question:

“Can a person who channels so much ‘naturally’ really be suffering from a spiritual addiction?”

ISABELLE, anybody — and I do mean anybody — can move into spiritual addiction quite easily, at least during this new phase of The Age of Energy.

As for channeling, use that word with care. Because channeling often pops people right into spiritual addiction. Especially beware anyone who channels “Higher energies” or “Beings from a more evolved world” or spirits. Such folks are at risk for extreme spiritual addiction. Practitioners of RES have learned how to facilitate this type of healing session, which is quite advanced and not something to attempt on your own.

You are best protected by living in human-based spirituality and strictly avoiding contact with anyone who offers you things like attunements, energy upgrades, higher frequencies, teaming up with superior energies to become a superior type of person, etc. My advice? Don’t hang around to find out if that person describes the attunements as superior, etc. Leave and leave for good.

In short, ISABELLE’s question was really smart.

Given what I found at the Third Eye Chakra databank in today’s aura reading, seems to me that the lack of connection to Spiritual Source outside of herself provides a protection against spiritual addiction. For now. That advice just given is meant for use on an ongoing basis. All of us are evolving super-quickly now. Energetically life on earth is tricker than any other times you have lived through so far in this lifetime.

An Olympic gold medalist — competing as a man — and a decathlete, no less — Bruce Jenner is transitioning into becoming a woman. Official news has finally gone public, as with this cover from People Magazine for the February 16, 2015 issue.

Bruce Jenner has come out to family and friends, then the public. Well, today it’s time to give this courageous individual her due. Today’s blog post may be the first aura reading anywhere, comparing key elements of a transgendered person’s his-then-her personality at a subconscious level (a.k.a. chakra databanks).

Done by using before-and-after photographs. I’ll be using the skill set of energetic literacy that many of you regular readers have developed (and that I have had the honor of teaching you).

The photo at the top of this post will represent Bruce Jenner currently, emphasizing a female gender identity. Click here for a larger version of Bruce Jenner’s aura photo and here for a smaller, saved version of Bruce Jenner’s aura photograph, adorning People Magazine.

For a photo of Bruce Jenner strongly in his identity as a man, I’ll use this image from 2011.

Here’s a link, aura readers, to open this Bruce Jenner aura photograph as I used it today. And here is a smaller saved version, aura and all, of Bruce Jenner.

Aura readers, do your explorations before reading my experiences of the chakra databanks below. Because your assessments count, and you’ll read those auras more clearly if not influenced by my findings.

Root Chakra Databank for Connecting to Physical Reality

Bruce Jenner identifying as male

80 feet. Extraordinarily athletic. Minutely aware of physical sensations while interacting with the environment.

A masculine edge to these perceptions emphasizes Bruce Jenner’s sense of personal mastery over the environment. He doesn’t just have a “Can do” attitude about his physical coordination and strength. Bruce Jenner has a masterful way of relating to the physical environment, as if able to win any athletic contest that presents itself.

Simultaneously, STUFF in this chakra databank (and elsewhere in his aura) suggests big struggles over being a Highly Sensitive Person. The problem isn’t his degree of neurophysiological noticing every little thing. Rather, he feels fussy. STUFF is configured along themes like “Why do I, as this big strong man, get so very upset by tiny little things? That’s more what a woman would do. Something must be wrong with me.”

Bruce Jenner identifying as female

8 feet. At the time of this photo Bruce Jenner is relatively new to all the hormonal and other physical changes, and identity changes. This is a honeymoon phase in his exploration of transgendered fixes for what ails him.

Right now he is living in a whole new world, one where he can be bathed in emotions. Where his sensitivity is allowed and allowable. Where, finally, finally! he can give up having to support the old butch persona that had grown so wearisome to him.

Belly Chakra Databank for Sex Appeal

Bruce Jenner identifying as male

40 feet. Sex is a big deal to this celebrity. He has grown used to receiving a great deal of attention due to his sex appeal, attractiveness, fame, etc. Yet something about this feels wrong, persistently annoying.

Bruce Jenner identifying as female

Two inches. Under construction.

Belly Chakra Databank for Sex Drive

Bruce Jenner identifying as male

20 miles. He can’t get enough. Even when satisfied in the moment, nothing really changes. This lack of fulfillment is both confusing and upsetting and addictive.

Bruce Jenner identifying as female

90 miles. Aggressively female, as if becoming the champion for women who are too shy to get what they want.

One particular note of female sexiness stands out among the thousands of possible components. Reading this chakra databank at this time, while she is still transitioning into a female identity, I wonder what will happen over time related to the Belly Chakra Databank for Sex Drive and other related chakra databanks.

Will Bruce Jenner specialize in this aggressively feminine quality to his sex drive? Or is this just how, as a dedicated and competitive athlete, he is getting started — settling into this different sort of sex drive as someone who is establishing a sexual identity in a female body?

Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Self-Esteem

Bruce Jenner identifying as male

14 inches. “So why aren’t I happy?” Bruce Jenner has grown accustomed to blaming himself because he’s not as happy as, supposedly, he “should” be.

Bruce Jenner identifying as female

7 inches. This chakra databank is quite a mess at this time. Evidently there are some strongly held beliefs, at the conscious level, for Bruce Jenner. They involve his gender identity.

Based on what shows up in this chakra databank, Bruce Jenner has built up a rather elaborate interpretation for his difficulties with his emotional self-esteem, with repercussions that go clear through to his subconscious mind.

Unfortunately, these beliefs are — from my perspective reading auras — not truth. Clearly these beliefs are part of his sacred path, using free will and striving for personal development.

However, with this chakra databank (and probably many others) Bruce Jenner is more troubled than ever. Emotional and energetic consequences that are flowing from this “Solution” to his ongoing lack of self-esteem, self-acceptance, etc.

Recognizing one’s true gender preference and acting on it can be a wonderful, liberating alignment for a soul. Or it can become a fascinating detour, blaming one aspect of life for different types of STUFF —  such as frozen blocks that are triggered in a sexual context.

Here I see a role for energetic literacy and the healing techniques of energy spirituality to help people fathom the strong need, and internal risks, of emphasizing transgender identity.

Third Eye Chakra Databank for Connection to Spiritual Source

Bruce Jenner identifying as male

1 inch. There is a longstanding habit of feeling spiritually bad, in the sense of not belonging religiously. Bruce Jenner has pretty much given up on being a “Going to Heaven” kind of person. He feels stuck in the ability to connect to Spiritual Source and, evidently, hasn’t given much thought to this for years.

Bruce Jenner identifying as female

4 inches. Numbness and denial now characterize this chakra databank. The larger size, in this case, does not constitute improvement particularly.

Picture a vaseline-like blob of inner numbness added to this under-functioning chakra databank. Bruce wasn’t feeling that great spiritually before. Now he’s numb.

To me, this confirms what I noticed in the previous chakra databank. For good reasons, and not to negate his magnificent spiritual journey, many faulty cognitions have begun to shape Bruce Jenner’s inner life. The consequences may have just begun to proliferate as he is still just transitioning into the new gender identity… and not yet fully established as female.

High Heart Chakra Databank for Soul Thrill (Expressing that individual’s human soul)

Bruce Jenner identifying as male

2 inches. Having this chakra databank shut down is way common, as many of you Blog-Buddies know. I’d estimate that only 1 out of 300 people lives with this chakra databank functioning properly, although anybody could.

Bruce Jenner’s version involves energetic sub-routines where he has subconscious habits of seeking soul thrill through fame, or sex, or enjoying this magnificently deft physical body.

Bruce Jenner identifying as female

1/8 inch. Shut down. It is very bold of Bruce Jenner to go public about his gender identity while he is going through such a difficult time, personally. I wonder if he believes that popular support or (dare I say it?) increased fame can carry him into greater security.

It’s a nightmare within this chakra databank at the time of this photograph. No amount of crowd approval can fix this, either, in my opinion.

Conclusion

Sexuality is one of the sacred mysteries of human life, especially in societies where people are given the freedom to explore their desires… even, now, having the option of gender reassignment surgery.

Reasons for this choice are tremendously varied.

In Bruce Jenner’s case, I wonder how happy he will be after the novelty of the gender reassignment has worn off. Despite what the headline proclaims on the People Magazine cover story.

With all respect — and I do have great respect for him, as well as knowing that each person’s journey in life is always sacred (and ultimately deeply educational, no matter what) — sometimes a person has configurations of subconscious STUFF, like an itch that he or she cannot scratch.

An idea comes up in the conscious mind that “The answer to all my problems is being transgendered.”

Subsequently subjective experiences rearrange themselves accordingly to the conscious mind. Everything becomes about THAT.

For many, gender reassignment surgery could really be The Answer. But for many perhaps it is not. Rather, this is an educational experiment along the way.

Recently we shared an aura reading of the New Age teacher Teal Swan. It was in response to a contest prize for Isabelle. My original aura reading is here. And then Isabelle’s luscious follow-up guest post is here.

Additional feedback has come from Blog-Buddy JEM. Of course, this is not meant as a pile-on. Usually I avoid doing aura reading research at this blog about spiritual teachers, healers, etc. On the other hand, it is important to bring discernment.

You, Smart New Age Consumer, have the self-authority to decide for yourself what rings true. You may know I wrote a whole book to alert spiritual seekers to a dead end, the Romance of the Astral. And another book for protecting yourself also brings a very post-New Age perspective to The Romance of the Astral.

No previous guest post at this blog has gone into such vivid detail about that, The Romance of the Astral: Illusions, confusions, distractions for a sincere seeker of God.

Get ready for a passionate essay, folks, heartfelt and (to me) powerfully true.

As usual with guest posts, I add headings and links and minor edits. The voice below belongs 100% to perceptive JEM.

Deeper perception about the appeal of Teal Swan

When I saw Teal Swan’s photo, in the thread where Rose was reading Teal, I saw a massively bright, beautiful-looking realm of energy, HUUUUUGE, coming out of her upper body.

It was astral but high-vibe in astral terms and looked heavenly.

That energy would subconsciously trick a lot of energetically illiterate people, they would think Teal was really evolved and connected.

However, I also saw and registered quite a few things that seriously gave me the heebie-jeebies. I felt my aura begin to shrink back from her and I saw awful little bits and bobs begin to make their way toward me from her fields, so I got away and did what I knew how to do energetically to protect myself.

Note: I have not been trained to do any Rosetree readings of auras. I just see things for some reason, always have. Since studying with her, I have learned about energy hygiene and Technique Time. I can turn it ON and OFF now.

I don’t think this is part of gaining skills with the system of Empath Empowerment(R). I think that having more control over when I read auras or not is something different.

So with the kind of energetic literacy I do have available now, I turned aura reading ON for the photo of Teal in that blog post to see if what I saw matched Rose’s evaluation. For fun. (Blog-Buddies, I am not reading all of your photos here at the blog.)

Spiritual addiction? I choose to avoid that, thank you.

I don’t know how to be frank without sounding mean, but I wouldn’t go near Teal’s work with a 50-foot stick. Teal sure is a beautiful being but something has gone askew for now.

Meanwhile, I’ve just had the most bothersome conversation with someone who is spiritually addicted.

After telling me at length about all the signs the Universe has sent him lately in the form of:

• Losing jobs
• People smiling at him
• Or not smiling at him (He feels this is not about them and their moods but all about him personally)
• His car continually breaking down
• The Universe showing him numbers like 11:11 etc.

Getting freaky yet?

Next my friend casually advised me that he’s started smoking dope “for spiritual reasons.”

As we continued talking he let me know that

1. He was outside
2. In his underwear
3. Performing chi exercises
4. And connecting with plant spirits.

Can’t the guy have a human conversation without playing with energy? You couldn’t write better comedy. I have the right to laugh because I’ve been like that and worse.

Blog-Buddies, let’s continue with Part Two of this Guest Post tomorrow. Already there’s a lot of controversial commenting here. Any reactions so far?

Let’s complete this guest post by JEM, begun in yesterday’s article, An Alarming New Age Conversation. A guest post by JEM.  She recounts a rather extreme version of what is happening to some New Agers since The Shift into The Age of Energy. Still, I wonder, have you Blog-Buddies had similar conversations with people in spiritual addiction?

If so, did you say anything back other than the usual spiritually correct encouragement? Such as:  “How lovely. You are absolutely perfect in every way.”

• Do you know proud New Agers who are also down to earth and interact well with those who don’t share their beliefs? Or some who are more like Mr. New Age Movement?
• Same with members of organized religions. Are you finding more extremists now than in years before? Or are these folks adapting beautifully to the higher vibes on earth right now?
• Do you know some empaths who consider themselves psychic empaths or intuitive empaths and have likewise jumped off the deep end? Or are those empaths getting skills and living well, rather than freaky?

Please comment below with your experiences. Now, you go, JEM!

My dear friend’s identity had shifted into “Mr. New Age Movement”

In effect, I was not having a conversation with this wonderful young man, who I love and admire so much. I was having a conversation with Mr. New Age Movement, as typical New Age beliefs have been programmed into him. Seems to me, the New Age movement has hijacked him.

If Spiritual Addiction were an archetypal force with its own personality, beliefs, opinions and approaches, it would have been just like the conversation I had with my friend.

Alarming? Painful? Infuriating? Yes, yes, yes. However that conversation was valuable because my memory has been refreshed — in detail — about how damaging and ridiculous a spiritually-addicted person’s programmed consciousness is.

In retrospect some of the things Mr. New Age Movement told me during our conversation were interesting. I’m going to summarize the rest of that conversation for you.

Willing to reconsider the much hyped Law of Attraction beliefs?

I told him Mr. New Age Movement about spiritual addiction as I understand it from Rose’s book about making more money.

I told him how The Secret and Abraham-Hicks influence our systems.

Mr. New Age Movement said he understood and resonated with those concepts.

• I told him about chakras and the chakra databanks of a spiritually addicted person, then went on to describe the chakra databanks of the likes of Bill Gates.
• I talked to him about the importance of our humanity and the physical world.
• I talked to him about analyzing and monitoring ourselves constantly rather than just living.
• I told him about the Three Worlds, and how so much of the astral is subconscious.
• I even told him I had grave concerns that he had taken up dope smoking because of the auric implications.
• I told him it would be a shame to contaminate himself now when he’s come so far.

Mellow agreement without actually listening

The New Age Movement replied that I was being fearful and paranoid.

Good move! Any budding initiate who has a moment of sanity and questions something, is met with profound “YOU’RE BEING FEARFUL, NEGATIVE AND PARANOID!!” judgments.

That’s a great cult-like way to erode self authority, objective thought and rationality. The premise is that everything everywhere is sweetness and light and that we are energetically invincible as a birthright.

I told Mr. New Age Movement that if he truly believes the astral is real, then being mindful of what he does is the same as being mindful if he was walking down a city street at 3:am. It’s not paranoid, it’s just sensible reality. I suggested that if I saw him about to put his hand in a fire and said “Look out!” he wouldn’t consider me fearful, but pragmatic.

Protecting himself energetically, according to Mr. New Age Movement

The New Age Movement went on to tell me, through my friend’s voice, that really all we have to do is just trust what feels good to us.

Then it said that he is now firmly lodged in Observer Consciousness. So when he is getting stoned, or doing any energy work, he is protected.

I suggested that if Observing Consciousness had really taken over — As if that’s desirable! — he might not require marijuana to relax or connect.

Mr. New Age Movement retorted that that was my judgment, my truth.

The premise is there is not a set of actual truths, all is subjective. Anyone who disagrees with you is being “Judgmental.”

To me, Observer Consciousness is a force like gravity. It always acts the same, like gravity does. It certainly has to filter through STUFF, and that can make for unique experiences.

The New Age Movement said, via my friend, that nowadays he would not pick up any STUFF. Because he communicates with all astral energy that approaches him and strikes deals with it.

He sometimes tells things they can share his space but can’t invade.

So polite, so civilized!

And gosh, he must be SUPERCONSCIOUS to have the capacity to notice every single astral event, particularly those that take a splitsplitsplitsplitsplitsplit second!

Damaging belief: if we have a little bit of awareness of energy, we must have all the necessary awareness. If we think we can control some aspects, supposedly, we must automatically be fully safe.

Substance abuse combined with spiritual addiction

Mr. New Age Movement also said his intuition told him to smoke dope.

I once knew a professional psychic whose guides told her to drink six cans of Jim Beam a night. Eventually she began drinking alcoholically but “It was alright”, according to her, “Because it was all her guides’ idea.”

Damaging premise: trust your intuition no matter what. Don’t question.

This teamed with a dearth of skills to actually access real intuition sure can result in people believing their spirits are recommending they take drugs.

I got quite frustrated during this convo. Mainly because I care about this guy and can see how his mindset is really hindering him.

All his friends are like him. They all reinforce each other. That equates to dozens of seriously gifted people, enslaved and ineffective.

This is epidemic. It may be just a phase for humanity, however I feel compelled that we must spread the word.

Isabelle will be noticing the wonderful differences of overcoming spiritual addiction. I want that for all of us. Because floating around in spiritual addiction will not really change the world. Ironically, isn’t that often the mission of many New Agers?

Today a sweet email came from my friend “JOE”. Tucked inside several paragraphs was this:

“I also wanted to mention about your new picture. I saw the change but wasn’t sure what to say. I like the smile but there seems to be a lot of fatigue in it, to me. That may be off-base but it surprised me you’d put a picture of yourself up that wasn’t your usual vibrant self, even if it was a lovely scarf.   ;-)”

That courage, and tact, from my friend make me love him more than ever.

I’m glad JOE spoke up. It occurred to me that some of you Blog-Buddies may have had a similar reaction. Two others of you commented, on blog or off, since I recently changed out the old photo that was here, a photograph taken so loooooooooong ago, in 2013.

What do you think when you compare that small blog-sized version with….

What do YOU see?

If you’re a skilled empath or using Stage Three Energetic Literacy, you might use some of your Technique Time to compare some of my chakra databanks.

Not to brag, but big changes. Big improvement.

Because after crossing the threshold into Enlightenment, that happens to all of us. We have an opportunity to keep evolving, and if we take it, we’ll grow enormously.

What else might you see?

Possibly you’ll see that the new photo was a homemade one, with barely any makeup and whatever the lighting happened to be in my pink office that day.

Whereas the older picture was from a professional photo session with Mindy Moore, of Northern Virginia. For that set of photographs, I was even wearing false eyelashes (for the first, and hopefully last, time in my life). Euwwwww, how I hate doing fake. Even if socially it might win me pretty points.

Having thought about the “tired” aspect in my friend’s comment, I’m pretty sure he was seeing “older.”

Well, yes, in that new photograph I’m very close to 67 years old. A fact.

Aren’t we used to seeing images of women “freshened up” through cosmetic surgery? Men, too.

When I saw “Birdman,” one of the biggest shocks to me — in a very shocking movie, indeed (great, although in many ways truly revolting) — was to see traces of cosmetic surgery for the first time in my life.

Did you see that movie? (When I begin this year’s Aura Reading Film Criticism for Oscar nominees, I’m starting with Keaton.)

In that movie, many camera shots made it super-easy to spot the triple row of facelift scars by Michael Keaton’s ears. I’d never seen that before, although I guess I had heard that scars could be seen there. Now I can appreciate that covering up those scars might be one of the jobs of hairdressers to the stars and the affluent.

About looking older, it happens in chunks, sometimes nothing and other times leaps and bounds. In my novel for empaths, I wrote about that a bit. Only then the poignant comments were written by a woman who was merely in her fifties.

Any of you Blog-Buddies about my age can recognize that, absent having “work” done, faces show our age.

Am I crazy about that, from a vanity perspective? Nope.

As a face reader, I don’t mind.

Still, I get that society, media, and all have taught us to read “older” as “tireder.” Also as “look away.” Women of my age often become socially invisible, for instance. And especially if we dare to let our hair turn grey.

Admittedly the choice to buy those good looks, if we can, is immensely personal. I don’t make it my business to decide for others. However, one of the reasons I am not a big fan of Hay House Publishing is that, evidently it is required that all their femal authors past a certain age must get a lot of cosmetic surgery.

Not that there is anything morally wrong with a healer or writer doing that, necessarily. Getting cosmetic surgery is a very personal choice. With my values, however, it seems odd that a leader in mind-body-spirit would need to lie about her appearance. My reaction, “If there is any profession in the world where vanity surgery isn’t necessary today, surely it is helping people as a spiritual leader or teacher or healer or writer in mind-body-spirit.”

What’s left? Garbage collector?

Why I changed my photo anyway

It seemed honest, here at my blog.

This is a very personal blog, and when I take big steps forward in my evolution, I think it’s only fair to let my aura show, loud and clear. 

From time to time, I’d like to continue to let that face show. As it evolves. However old I seem to be because… I am really that old.

By contrast, with the Empath Empowerment(R) Books, my new series of books for empaths, the photo on the cover is ancient history. Taken in Japan maybe in 2008. When I would have been just 60.

For that cover, I’m willing to let that prettier, pre-Enlightenment photograph show.

The purpose of a book cover is to entice, not to push people’s buttons that would render me socially invisible. (Laughing)

Ah, living here at Earth School when I have this thing about integrity…. Plus I’m blogging about deeper perception, not lookin’ good.

Makes life more complicated sometimes. For us all.

Yet I relish it, don’t you?

My motto: Gotta love Earth School.

Energetic literacy research as film criticism — here it starts for Academy Awards in 2015.

Did you know? World-class actors are able to do something few humans can.

Sometimes an Oscar nominee will change so deep down, when creating a role, that the transformation shows subconsciously and energetically. One chakra databank after another is altered.

Usually chakra databanks tell the truth. So it’s really fascinating to find which actor succeeds that deeply.

Even the best actors don’t always do this. I have an annual custom of comparing auras of top-nominated actors with their auras in roles. It’s a way to investigate the depth of acting.

Okay, it’s also just plain fascinating.

This blog post will tell you more about my method of using energetic literacy for aura reading film criticism. To learn more about the sequence of research I’ll use this year on some of the most interesting Academy Award nominees, see this Aura Reading Film Critique blog post.

Blog-Buddies, read along with me, using the photos supplied here — the same ones I used as a basis for aura reading research. Or, if you simply saw the movie — which was way more jarring than I had expected from reviews read in advance — comment away, please.

Get ready for today’s Aura Reading Movie Review

The Film: “Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”

The Movie Trailer

Plot Summary from the Oscar’s Official Website:

Best known to the public as Birdman, the superhero he once played in a series of films, Riggan Thomson hopes to reestablish himself as a serious actor by mounting his own dramatic production on Broadway. With his self-doubt hindering the project, Thomson also finds himself threatened by the presence of a high-profile, egotistical movie star in his cast..

In one interview, Michael Keaton described how exhausting it was playing Birdman: “One emotion to another in 12 seconds.” (For starters.)

Here are the photos we’ll use for today’s

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as himself

• The large-pixel version, easy for you to use for aura reading Michael Keaton on a separate screen. (This photo was taken in 2015, unlike the public domain photograph of Michael Keaton in 2002.)
• The dependable aura reading photo for Michael Keaton as himself.

Reading his aura as Birdman

• The large-pixel version, easy for you to use for aura reading Birdman on a separate screen.
• The dependable aura reading photo for Michael Keaton as Birdman.

Now let the Aura Reading Movie Review begin. Turn off you cell, please. Turn off you cell, please. Would you please turn off that mobile phone?!!!!!

Aura Reading Databank at the Root Chakra for Connecting to Physical Reality

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Michael

40 feet. Skeptical, verging on nihilistic. At the time of this photograph, Michael Keaton is a powerful guy but not a happy man. “Life sucks” could be his motto, even as he is a minute observer of life’s physicality.

This noticing comes with a habitual revulsion, then a bit of insouciant humor slapped on to make his world view somewhat more palatable to others.

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Birdman

To the moon. Yep, there’s the mental health problem.

In this expanded state, Michael Keaton’s character isn’t like somebody with a spiritual addiction related to lifestyle, nor like someone suffering an extreme spiritual addiction with that virus-like sort of problem that happens to many people. Nor is this consciousness like somebody stoned on marijuana or heroin or cocaine.

Also it’s not like someone with such a degree of autism that he would be considered “low functioning.”

And it’s not like someone who is developmentally delayed in an extreme manner because of identifying more with big space than one small human body.

Every one of those ways of living shows up differently with Stage Three Energetic Literacy. I ought to know, doing over 1,000 session hours a year where — more likely than not — I will do some aura reading or a Skilled Empath Merge.

This version of way-expanded “Connection to Physical Reality” is related to a mental health problem. If Birdman came to me with this kind of jazz going on, I would tell him something nice and true about his aura. And then I would say something like this, “There is an imbalance in your system right now. You know that I’m not a mental health professional, and so I don’t have the skills to help you today.  I recommend you go to a psychiatrist and describe how you’re doing. I suspect there is some medication that can help you. Later, when you have stabilized, I may be able to help you. We can make a new appointment if you like. ”

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Earned the hard way, I’d say!

Aura Reading Databank at the Belly Chakra for Sex Appeal

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Michael

Fills the room plus five inches. Michael has adjusted to having this off-the-charts sex appeal.

Especially at this chakra databank, it is clear that he comes in on the ray of Shiva. The man is a destroyer of illusion. He changes people through qualities like contempt, irony, coldness alternating in surprising ways with caring.

Not that Michael Keaton settles for the easy cliche of being a sexy Bad Boy. This Belly Chakra Databank for Sex Appeal broadcasts a nice guy who happens to carry the energetic equivalent of a semi-automatic weapon that happens to shoot sometimes.

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Birdman

1/8 inch. At this time the sex appeal is shut down so completely, the man would be impotent. If he tried getting frisky.

He is unlikely to try.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Birdman couldn’t be more different from the rather frisky actor.

Aura Reading Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra for Sharing Power in Relationships

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Michael

18 feet. What initial impact does Michael Keaton make in relationships, when power is an issue? According to my experience reading his aura, Michael Keaton aims to settle things politiely as a nice guy. Yet the agenda is to settle things his way. With all respect, Michael Keaton doesn’t share power well. And if he doesn’t get his way, one is treated to the sort of long-time movie star, prima donna guy expectation that this important person Michael Keaton will definitely get his way.

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Birdman

Out to the moon. Power isn’t even possible in human ways. Birdman is so identified with astral life that he uses energetic power, like telekinesis, to solve problems or express himself.

Interestingly, the movie shows this a lot. Even in the trailer. But the intensity of this as an experience with consciousness didn’t come home to me until I researched this chakra databank.

We’re so used to seeing special effects and dismissing them, aren’t we? And this movie is loaded with special effects about telekinesis. (Incidentally I don’t recommend telekinesis or psychokinesis as a regular practice.)

What’s so extraordinary about Michael Keaton’s performance is that he moves himself to a state of consciousness from which telekinesis would be done… and not by a psychic who is psychologically stable but by a man with a mental health problem.

Chakra Databank Change Points: 1

A recklessly, totally go-for-it, immersion performance by Michael Keaton!

Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra for Emotional Self-Awareness

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Michael

18 feet. A strong sense of entitlement backs up awareness of emotions for Michael Keaton at the time of this photo. If he feels a certain way, that’s the right way to feel.

Seldom do I encounter this kind of self-assurance at this chakra databank. It’s more common for folks to feel vulnerable. Not this guy, not at the subconscious level where chakra databanks broadcast their energetic truth.

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Birdman

Out to the moon. Upset, but the human-level emotional discomfort is minimized because it’s such a small fraction compared to the large astral component to Birdman’s sense of identity. It’s like a casserole made of frosting and then topped with a bit of sour meat.

Chakra Databank Change Points: 1

Another totally consistent change, all the way down to the subconscious level, masterfully done by Michael Keaton.

Aura Reading Databank at the Throat Chakra for Verbal Integrity

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Michael

18 feet. You bet Michael Keaton speaks his truth. Occasionally he may soften it with a disingenous statement meant to convey humility. However, it’s accompanied with a sort of energetic wink.

So he wins.

When people hear his straight talking, and he’s smashing illusions rather directly — Michael Keaton wins.

When he softens the straight talk and people don’t get that he’s smashing illusions — again Michael Keaton wins, because he’s long-term disgruntled and disgusted to such an extent that it’s easy for him to place “fools” into the illusion category along with so much else in life.

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Birdman

4 inches. Stuck. Verbally constipated, as though he has left unsaid so many things that he doees not even know where to start expressing his point of view now.

This is a very human kind of suffering. Out of touch with reality as the character is otherwise, in this scene he feels such pressure to defend himself humanly. And he simply can’t.

Chakra Databank Change Points: 1

A poignant, true construction of character within the plot of the movie. The energetic changes that Michael Keaton has chosen are tremendously sophisticated and masterfully done.

Aura Reading Databank at the High Chakra for Soul Thrill (Expressing his soul in very human ways)

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Michael

90 miles. Filled with Divine blessing, too.

Being a stereotypical “Nice guy” isn’t the only role a soul can have in a human lifetime. Seems to me, Michael Keaton is a sweet and courageous guy, way complicated, who happens to play the role of Destroyer of Ignorance. He gives this the performance of a lifetime.

Reading Michael Keaton’s aura as Birdman

2 inches. Pretty freaky, pretty ugly, very distorted. Think El Greco mixed with Goya.

Birdman’s relationship to his own human soul is horribly awry, a kind of progressive crippling caused by mental illness.

Chakra Databank Change Points: 1

Revolting though this change to the soul thrill chakra databank is, Michael Keaton has made an amazingly brave and intelligent artistic choice.

Conclusion, with total Chakra Databank Change Points

At 6 out of 6 Chakra Databank CHANGE Points, Michael Keaton has done an edgy performance with totally commitment and daring.

Do I recommend this movie? Not really. And I had no idea from all the lavish praise (well deserved) that the film was a psychological horror movie — despite all the humor and cleverness and dazzle of the performances, the unusual directing, etc.

When I write “Avoid it,” that’s because my idea of entertainment does not include immersion into people’s decent into psychosis, however well done. Just my taste, of course.

Glamorous French actress Marion Cotillard may not have taken a pay cut to play “Sandra” in her Oscar-nominated role. Yet word is that her performance as an impoverished factory worker was absolutely convincing.

Let’s explore with some aura reading research on the previous Oscar winner for Best Actress. (You’ll find more background about aura reading movie reviews at the end of today’s article.)

Get ready for today’s Aura Reading Movie Review

The Film: “Two Days, One Night” 

The Movie Trailer: I haven’t seen it (or the movie itself) but YOU can.

Plot Summary from the Oscar’s Official Website:

As Sandra, Marion Cotillard portrays a factory worker who has two days to convince her colleagues to forgo their bonuses so that she can keep her job. Of course, the best part happens when she sings some happy tunes made famous by Edith Piaf.  Oops, that was Cotillard’s last role, for which she won Academy Award as Best Actress.  Joke about the Piaf songs. (And also a joke about the “happy tunes” part.)

Here are the photos we’ll use:

Aura reading photo of Marion Cotillard as herself, the daughter of an actor, playwright, and director.

And a smaller, saved version of the Marion Cotillard aura photo.

Aura reading photo of Marion Cotillard as Sandra

And a smaller, saved version of the Marion Cotillard aura photo as Sandra.

Aura Reading Databank at the Root Chakra for Connecting to Physical Reality

Reading Marion Cotillard’s aura as herself

Fills the room plus 17 inches. Exceptional dazzle, charisma, making heads swivel and jaws drop and knees knock together.

Between the beauty and sex appeal, Marion Cotillard doesn’t live on the same earth as you or me.

It’s not that she’s conceited. Living this way is all she knows. Judging by this chakra databank, Marion Cotillard has made a remarkably good adjustment to having folks treat her like a goddess.

Reading Marion’s aura as Sandra

Fills the room plus 3 feet. Ripped with sexual charisma, femininity, beauty. Self-consciously aware of being exceptionally gorgeous, sexy, desireable.

A very French version of all this, bien sur.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 0

Non, non. Not really much change. Needless to say, all the surface-type components of acting may be swell.

Aura Reading Databank at the Belly Chakra for Sex Appeal

Reading Marion Cotillard’s aura as herself

25 miles. Serene in her exceptional sexiness and the effect that it has on others.

Reading Marion’s aura as Sandra

Out to the moon. The powerful sexual chemistry will impact just about anyone in the viewing audience, regardless of gender and sexual persuasion.

One in the audience becomes sexually aware, maybe self-conscious, maybe drooling.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 0

Projecting an extra-strong sex appeal while being filmed — does that count as a change to a chakra databank? No, because the quality has not been altered, merely the intensity.

Aura Reading Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra for Sharing Power in Relationships

Reading Marion Cotillard’s aura as herself

50 feet. Sweet as creme brulee on the surface, but tough if challenged. Quite imperious.

Marion Cotillard is very used to having her way.

Reading Marion’s aura as Sandra

6 inches. Which kind of power is the specialty of Marion Cotillard’s character? Seductive, feminine energy, pulling the viewer towards the screen rather than responding to a powerhouse performance.

An enticing allure is added in the scene from which our photo is taken: A delicate sadness and fear, subtly done, yet discernable.

Marion Cotillard is strongly projecting one note, one mood, and doing this with great finesse. This emotional projection doesn’t really change how she shares power, although the projected mood of distress is to be found in her Solar Plexus Chakra Databank for Sharing Power in Relationships.

Undeniably, though, something is being projected all the way through to the level of this subconscious energy packet, or tube, one of The Nadis. And so, at last, this aura reading movie critic can confer…

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1/2

Not much of a change, but at least something was altered a bit.

Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra for Emotional Self-Awareness

Reading Marion Cotillard’s aura as herself

40 feet. Thoroughly self-involved, yet she does it so well. And there’s a feminine quality to it, as though “All this paying attention to my feelings, oh, I cannot help myself. This is part of my allure as a woman. I am here to be adorable to you, so please forgive me if I must notice every nuance of my emotions.”

Reading Marion’s aura as Sandra

4 inches. Affect is flat, with a miserable fear kept in denial.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Well done, Marion Cotillard!

Aura Reading Databank at the Throat Chakra for Verbal Integrity

Reading Marion Cotillard’s aura as herself

15 feet. Self-conscious mastery of what she says and how that makes her perceived by others.

Plenty of STUFF in this chakra databank converges with habit and training as an actress. Bottom line: At the time of this photo, the woman knows how to act when she speaks. But she doesn’t know how to relax, just be herself, and talk.

Whether she tells the truth or not, she can sell what she says as though it were true.

Persuasiveness aligns with beauty (with Marion Cotillard, subconsciously, it’s always about beauty). With that powerful gift, like a Midas touch for being believed, whatever Marion Cotillard says is relative. Truth is relative. And people will, most likely, believe it.

Again it’s worth saying in today’s aura reading. Marion Cotillard’s way of living may seem human enough, similar enough to your way of living. Really she is having an extraordinary lifetime. Between the beauty and charisma, the professional success and her world-class fame, adding outrageous persuasiveness… very little about Marion Cotillard’s day-to-day doings really resembles anything like the quality of life for “Little people” like you, Blog-Buddies, and me.

Reading Marion ‘s aura as Sandra

80 miles. Marion Cotillard’s character projects big truth-telling ability, believeability. It’s beautifully wrapped up with exceptional charisma — not just the size of this chakra databank but also the quality.

Tucked within the chakra databank, and easily missed if you aren’t yet quite experienced with Stage 3 Energetic Literacy, there is a faint six inches of hopelessness and courage, bound up together. Maybe 5% strength, compared to the actress’s usual projection of believability.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1/4

Nice try, kid. Let’s acknowledge accordingly.

Aura Reading Databank at the High Chakra for Soul Thrill

Reading Marion Cotillard’s aura as herself

Fills the room. There she is, being photographed gorgeously at the Cannes Film Festival. On top of her game. On top of the world. The most beautiful woman anywhere near.

Sweetly, and with a sort of humility, Marion Cotillard feels so very happy to be living her life right now.

As usual, she isn’t stuck up about her charisma, beauty, sex appeal, impact on others. At a soul  level, this is exactly the life she planned and prepared for. And earned.

Gently and serenely, Marion Cotillard is having such a wonderful time.

Reading Marion ‘s aura as Sandra

Fills the room. A born ham, evidently, Marion Cotillard’s character adores being in front of the cameras. She sparkles and shines, with a feeling of Divine blessing.

Perhaps odd in the role being depicted, yet who wouldn’t pay good money for a movie ticket to bask in that glorious bit of auric modeling?

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 0

Knowingly or not, audiences will gladly pay good money to bask in the auric modeling of someone who is that happy with her lot. And when that person is also charismatic, sexy, and gorgeous, what a sweet experience that is.

Conclusion, with Total Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1 3/4 out of 6

Energetically, this isn’t a great performance. On the surface, of course, Marion Cotillard’s performance could be absolutely masterful.

Even so, many an Oscar has been given to a gorgeous young hottie who changes just a bit aurically but mostly projects what always, always sells: Sex, sex appeal, beauty, charisma.

We humans like to play hide-and-seek with earth’s illusions. We love to see somebody projected the sort of mixture that Marion Cotillard does in this role:

• Suffering (a bit)
• A kind of suffering familiar to just plain folks
• Yet all along there is that star quality, dazzle, je ne sais quoi of personal awesomeness

Since we identify with those we see on the screen, what does that auric modeling do? It brings us hope, that’s what.

Maybe within our suffering, we can feel radiant, special, oh-so lovely and loveable.

In our chakra databanks, of course we are.

Blog-Buddies, you may not have been nominated this year for an Academy Award in any category. Yet, I assure you. You have 50 chakra databanks within every major chakra. Your subchakras have loads of chakra databanks, too. And every one of them is packed very nicely with a lifelong gift of your soul.

You have, I assure you, already been awarded. Lavishly.

 World-class actors are able to do something few humans can

Sometimes an Oscar nominee will change so deep down, when creating a role, that the transformation shows subconsciously and energetically. One chakra databank after another is altered.

Usually chakra databanks tell the truth. So it’s really fascinating to find which actor succeeds that deeply.

Even the best actors don’t always do this. I have an annual custom of comparing auras of top-nominated actors with their auras in roles. It’s a way to investigate the depth of acting.

This blog post will tell you more about my method of using energetic literacy for aura reading film criticism. To learn more about the sequence of research I’ll use this year on some of the most interesting Academy Award nominees, see this Aura Reading Film Critique blog post.

Patricia Arquette has played a medium on TV for years, winning prestigious acting awards. Many film critics expect her to win big with her role in “Boyhood” as well.

Let’s explore with some aura reading movie research. (You’ll find more background about aura reading movie reviews at the end of today’s article.)

Get ready for today’s Aura Reading Movie Review

The Film: “Boyhood”

The Movie Trailer: I haven’t seen it (or the movie itself) but YOU can.

Plot Summary from the Oscar’s Official Website — The premise is fascinating:

Over the course of 12 years, a young boy named Mason experiences the joys and difficulties of childhood. The child of divorced parents, both of whom are facing their own set of challenges, Mason, along with his sister Samantha, learns to navigate through a world in which the strengths and frailties of the adults around him have a profound impact on his own life.

Patricia Arquette portrays Olivia Evans, a divorced mother struggling to make a life for herself and her two children.

Here are the photos we’ll use:

Aura reading photo of Patricial Arquette as herself.

Note: I don’t recommend that you open up this larger photo or do aura reading on the actress, period, as there does seem to be quite a degree of involvement with astral frequencies. Still, the choice is always up to you, Blog-Buddies.

And here is a smaller, saved version of the Patricia Arquette aura photo.

Aura reading photo of Patricia Arquette as Olivia.

And a smaller, saved version of the Patricia Arquette aura photo as Olivia.

Aura Reading Databank at the Root Chakra for Connecting to Physical Reality

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as herself

90 miles. Juicy and sensuous and sexy. Purposely pushing her sex appeal and sensuality in the way that born performers can (at least during the kind of publicity opportunity when this photograph was taken).

Extremely confident about her ability to navigate human reality and social situations;  full-bodied in her courageous way of being fully present in the moment. Patricia Arquette’s ability to focus is strong… as she interacts with her favorite slice of objective reality.

As a technical point, I  will note that there is quite a degree of spiritual addiction, as with many public figures today such as Oprah Winfrey.

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as Olivia

18 feet. Emotionally based, even in her connection to objective reality. Fragile, knowingly vulnerable in a psychologically self-analyzing way. Inwardly aware of her highly emotional nature. And interpreting this as a problem at the subconscious level where chakra databanks store information.

Patricia Arquette’s character Olivia has a richly complicated inner life, at times dominated by pain.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Patricia Arquette has created a character who is significantly different from her regular identity. It’s a very different mix of strengths and interests.

Aura Reading Databank at the Belly Chakra for Sex Appeal

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as herself

90 miles. Once again, Patricia Arquette is projecting a role while in this photo shoot. Still, however far from normal is the morphing of her chakra databanks, this auric modeling is what I must read here. I’m not going to scour the Internet for paparrazzi photos taken without her consent, where Patricia Arquette is simply being herself.

That said, her sex appeal is huge, with an aura-level shout-out to viewers that she is a person of great interest who would respond enthusiastically to them.

Patricia Arquette doesn’t have strong innate sex appeal so much as the sex appeal of somebody who has learned one of the great secrets of sexiness:

If you’re willing to engage sexually, if you pay lots of attention to the sexual side of life, if you show others that you’re interested… sexual attention will be yours.

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as Olivia

40 feet. A hard-to-get quality is built into these 40 feet: Olivia’s distinctive style of sex appeal. Usually she’s not terribly aware of sex, nor of sexual attention being paid to her. Until enough physical attention is paid to flip her switch. And then she turns hot-hot-hot.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Artfully chosen, beautifully rendered. The greatest actors are able to design a role, then embody it all the way down to varied and consistent displays on the subconscious level of chakra databanks. Well, there goes Patricia Arquette!

Aura Reading Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra for Sharing Power in Relationships

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as herself

49 miles. The woman seems much tougher than she is. Such personal vulnerability is peeking out from within this chakra databank. Yet most of that “Sharing Power in Relationships” chakra databank is well defended, armored, giving the impression of “Don’t mess with Patricia Arquette because she will give you a fight you’ll remember.”

A significant amount of rage is stuck at this chakra databank as well.

Hey, Blog-Buddies, you try to gain fame as an A-list actress. Especially if, deep down, you’re a sweet and vulnerable artist. See how long you would stay open to everyone, pliantly willing to do as they say.

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as Olivia

40 feet. Can sheer stubbornness count as power? Sure does, for Olivia. Whatever battles are being fought, she refuses to give up.

This isn’t a fancy, heroic out-in-front-of-others kind of leadership. More a very human fortitude, private and inescapable for her. Olivia will not back down.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1/2

Olivia’s version isn’t too different from business as usual for Patricia Arquette. Some tweaking has been achieved; hence the 1/2 Chakra Change Point.

Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra for Emotional Self-Awareness

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as herself

80 miles. Very aware of human emotions. Able to pick and choose what will be projected to others for her purposes.

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as Olivia

5 feet. In the scene where this photograph is taken, Olivia is pretty much ignoring her emotional experiences. However, something interesting is happening in the background: a keen and perceptive intelligence about emotions of other people in her life. This is the direction towards which her emotional awareness is pointing.

Technical point: Those of you Blog-Buddies who know a lot about energetic literacy can appreciate that the character has quite an energetic subroutine going on here. This rerouting of self-awareness towards awareness of others is just the kind of thing that is sometimes the focus of Vibrational Re-Positioning(R), a healing centerpiece in some sessions of Rosetree Energy Spirituality.

Introducing this idea, if it is new to you, what is an energetic subroutine?

Sometimes a person has subconscious habits that impact chakra databanks. We have hundreds of these chakra databanks, each one subconsciously helping us to deal with the many demands on us, emotionally and spiritually. Like bugs in our subconscious software. Energetic subroutines can always, always, always be healed.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Patricia Arquette has great versatility available to her, bolstered by her skill at acting.

Aura Reading Databank at the Throat Chakra for Verbal Integrity

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as herself

Fills the room. “I will be whatever you want me to be in order to be effective.”

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as Olivia

18 miles. Emotionally courageous at speaking the truth, even if it’s tough. At this chakra databank Olivia has her grit.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

This is a very focused, effective portrayal of a character.

Aura Reading Databank at the High Chakra for Soul Thrill

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as herself

1/8 inch. At this time in her life, Patricia Arquette’s sense of self is very much about her connection to astral energies. Her individual soul has taken a back seat.

However, she was not always this way, as at the time in the other photograph used in today’s aura reading research, the photo of Olivia.

“Boyhood” was made over a 12-year period, after all.

Reading Patricia Arquette’s aura as Olivia

85 feet. Being a truth speaker, standing up for integrity, is what thrills Olivia’s soul. Speaking truth is the leading edge for her evolution in this lifetime.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Conclusion, with total Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 5 1/2

The powerful performance by Patricia Arquette is all the more poignant to me because 12 years ago we weren’t yet in the Age of Aquarius. What I call “Spiritual Addiction” and “Extreme Spiritual Addiction” were not yet widespread problems.

Now it is up to us to observe this when we do, then move on, emphasizing our human lives.

In any age, the Age of Faith or the Age of Energy, it is a rare talent to win so many Chakra Change Points.  A beautiful acting job was done by Patricia Arquette.

 World-class actors are able to do something few humans can

Sometimes an Oscar nominee will change so deep down, when creating a role, that the transformation shows subconsciously and energetically. One chakra databank after another is altered.

Usually chakra databanks tell the truth. So it’s really fascinating to find which actor succeeds that deeply.

Even the best actors don’t always do this. I have an annual custom of comparing auras of top-nominated actors with their auras in roles. It’s a way to investigate the depth of acting.

This blog post will tell you more about my method of using energetic literacy for aura reading film criticism. To learn more about the sequence of research I’ll use this year on some of the most interesting Academy Award nominees, see this Aura Reading Film Critique blog post.

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Veneration. Usually the word is applied to saints. Veneration is also how people treat theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the subject of this year’s nominee for Best Movie, “The Theory of Everything.”

Hawking gave his blessing and even allowed his voice to be used for this film.

In our next blog post with an aura reading movie review, I will be assessing Eddie Redmayne’s lauded performance as Hawking. Today I thought we could have the treat of learning about Stephen Hawking himself, that special kind of inside information that doesn’t come from science but from the art of using Stage Three Energetic Literacy.

What’s unusual about today’s aura reading?

I’ll be researching each of Stephen Hawking’s chakra databanks two ways.

• As usual, you will learn about the business end of the chakra databank: How that person is doing at the time of the photograph used for the aura reading. This is astral-level information, ever changing.
• In addition, I will research the “Gift of the soul” part of each chakra databank. Like Stephen Hawking, you have a magnificent, very individual gift within you for every single aspect of life related to chakra databanks.

In personal sessions I seldom read more than one or two of these gifts, because clients benefit more from learning about their growth areas and how either aura healing or choices that thrill the soul can improve the functioning of chakra databanks.

For someone so venerated, though, I wanted us to all have a good wallow in the specialness of the uniquely courageous Stephen Hawking.

Join me, aura readers

And skilled empaths, join in as well, even for doing Skilled Empath Merge.

Caution: Empaths, use energetic literacy here only if you are skilled. Otherwise it isn’t smart to do either empath merge or aura reading on someone with significant health problems.

Why not smart? Two words: Imported STUFF.

(Learn all about how to stop Imported Stuff from The Empowered Empath OR The Empowered Empath–Quick & Easy OR Become The Most Important Person in the Room OR my upcoming annual Empath Empowerment Workshop.)

The photo I will use for this aura reading of Stephen Hawking is like that at the top of today’s post, only larger.

Here is a smaller, saved version of this aura reading photo of Stephen Hawking 

Aura Reading Databank at the Root Chakra for Connecting to Physical Reality

Divine-Level Gift of His Soul

Inquisitive, curious, impatient and demanding when it comes to results that work here on earth. That’s Stephen Hawking.

Astral-Level How the Chakra Databank Is Doing

24 feet. On overlay of pain and frustration bring a certain gritty, griminess to Stephen Hawking’s experience at this chakra databank. This is just a given for him, and I won’t be surprised if I find this at other chakra databanks as well.

In addition, at this particular chakra databank I encounter Stephen Hawking’s delight and sense of adventure. Also, for Stephen Hawking more than most people (including those whose religion or belief system recommends trying to live this way): Thoughts are things.

For Stephen Hawking here’s the most interesting nuance. The bits and bytes of information about life on earth are sought, then appreciated in a pattern-seeking manner.

Aura Reading Databank at the Belly Chakra for Sex Appeal

Yes, chakra databanks about sex are worth reading in someone with major health problems. These chakra databanks are part of a person’s wiring energetically.

The same goes for the value in reading sex-related chakra databanks in a renunciate. For someone who seeks Enlightenment or proclaims Enlightenment in a reunciate sort of lifestyle, abstaining from sex doesn’t mean that the chakra databanks of this type are doing well.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta is an excellent example. Saintly? Yes. Enlightened? No. Doing well with her chakra databanks related to sex? Definitely not. Noted with all respect for her magnificent lifetime.

Divine-Level Gift of His Soul

Stephen Hawking’s joy and curiosity and playfulness show in this chakra databank about sex appeal.

Astral-Level How the Chakra Databank Is Doing

Out to the moon. This chakra databank has an etherial, Divinely-graced quality. In letting go of his attachment to physical life in so many ways, this chakra databank reveals Stephen Hawking’s connection to The Cosmic Beloved.

Aura Reading Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra for Sharing Power in Relationships

Divine-Level Gift of His Soul

Enjoys the intellectual challenge of compromise. And evidently the spirit of concilliation matters as much to Stephen Hawking as winning X or Y when there has been conflict.

Astral-Level How the Chakra Databank Is Doing

1 foot. Hard, encrusted anger, rage, powerlessness are stuck in this under-functioning chakra databank. A man can be a massively good sport yet still be human, right?

All  the veneration in the world won’t give Stephen Hawking a normally functioning body or the sort of relationship power that healthy adults take for granted.

Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra for Emotional Self-Awareness

Divine-Level Gift of His Soul

In this chakra databank gift I find a highly unusual gift of the soul. Stephen Hawking’s relationship to human emotions, including his own emotional self-awareness, has a far more abstract quality than I usually find.

Consider, emotions are part of the illusions of Earth School. Souls don’t necessarily have emotions, either in a heavenly realm between incarnations nor when incarnating in other life forms on other planets.

So Stephen Hawking’s quality of emotional self-awareness is a kind of theoretical paying attention, along the order of “Isn’t that interesting?” And not that he’s intellectualizing about his emotions. It’s more a quality of observing causation and dynamics. This is a pristine gift of the soul, not (to use a technical term familiar to some of you Blog-Buddies) an energetic subroutine.

Astral-Level How the Chakra Databank Is Doing

50 feet. At the time of this photo, there is a tranquilized quality to this chakra databank.

I really can’t tell whether what’s going on here is one of the following or more than one of them or something else:

• The byproduct of medications being used to keep Stephen Hawking functioning
• An energetic accommodation that has been made so that Stephen Hawking can handle the chronic, extreme frustrations of daily life
• A Divine gift, buffering the anguish and horror of living in his physical body as it now exists
• A Divine gift as part of the special dispensation that has allowed this man to continue to live so long after contracting the brutal, terminal illness

Aura Reading Databank at the Throat Chakra for Verbal Integrity

Divine-Level Gift of His Soul

Stephen Hawking’s crystal-clear intellect is powered by a blunt, outspoken way to speaking the truth, regardless of social politics.

Astral-Level How the Chakra Databank is Doing

15 feet. Mostly the quality of Stephen Hawking’s verbal integrity is pristine and delightful.

Unfortunately the size and quality of the chakra databank also are impacted by all that he has learned NOT to say. I won’t suggest that the man never complains. Yet there is a tremendous locked-down quality in this chakra databank, related to how much complaining Stephen Hawking does not allow himself to do.

It works, by force of will.

Yet the way of accommodating to this wise choice does show in a clenched up speaking of truth. Just imagine if every other sentence coming out of his speaking machine were to say things like, “I feel so terrible right now.”

Aura Reading Databank at the High Chakra for Soul Thrill

Divine-Level Gift of His Soul

Stephen Hawking expresses his soul through fun. Having fun matters so much to him, whether it happens through intellectual pursuits or his relationships or any other choices available to him for enjoying himself.

Astral-Level How the Chakra Databank Is Doing

15 feet. Stephen Hawking is doing better than most in the Soul Expression Department.

Still, he’s used to feeling really bad physically. It’s a lot like being caged in a jail cell, where people can visit and he has been given every possible privilege.

So a workaround version of soul thrill does show. So human. So courageous. So very beautiful.

Conclusion

When you began today’s aura reading of Stephen Hawking, were you expecting to encounter a cardboard saint? The truth, at the astral and subconscious level, has been far more complex. Although, to me, no less inspiring.

Eddie Redmayne has already won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actor’s Guild award for his performance in “The Theory of Everything.” In short, Eddie has almost WON everything. And not just theoretically.

• Here is an interview where Eddie Redmayne explained how he assembled a team to convey the progressive physical deterioration of Hawking’s health.
• And here Eddie Redmayne speaks of the movie as a love story, because love was the most important aspect of the movie for him.
• And here is some aura reading research I did recently about Stephen Hawking, subject of this biopic.

Let’s explore his performance with some aura reading research. (You’ll find more background about aura reading movie reviews at the end of today’s article.)

Get ready for today’s Aura Reading Movie Review

The Film: “The Theory of Everything”

The Movie Trailer: I haven’t seen it (or the movie itself) but YOU can.

Plot Summary from the Academy’s Official Website

Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking, a brilliant young cosmologist who learns that he is suffering from a progressive motor neuron disease.

Here are the photos we’ll use

Aura reading photo of Eddie Redmayne as himself.

And a smaller, saved version of the Eddie Redmayne aura photo.

Aura reading photo of Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking.

And a smaller, saved version of the aura photo of Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking.

Aura Reading Databank at the Root Chakra for Connecting to Physical Reality

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as himself

18 feet. Eddie Redmayne’s nervous system is very refined. He’s an intellectual fellow who may have suffered in life in ways related to his being an extremely Highly Sensitive Person, yet he has had a pretty fantastically good life so far. I’d rate him as one of the most balanced auras I’ve ever encountered for such a big-time actor.

The quality of his connection to physical reality is like a fine cloth of highest quality silk. And he has an instinct for noticing refinement in his physical surroundings as well.

This is significant especially because, even at his young age, Eddie Redmayne has learned how to make his extreme sensitivity work for him.

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as Stephen Hawking

3 inches. A smashed connection to physical reality. Energetically crippled in a way that brings a gap between thought or desire and moving the physical body.

And the disease process is ever-hungry, insatiable in its destructive intent.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Absolutely uncanny-style amazing!

Aura Reading Databank at the Belly Chakra for Sex Appeal

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as himself

25 feet. Eddie Redmayne loves to act but he really doesn’t love to flaunt his sexiness, thank you very much.

A certain natural exhuberance is there. He’s not doing a thing to oomph it up. He’s just wearing his suit and posing for a photo, not aiming to make fans swoon.

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as Stephen Hawking

1/8 inch. Sex appeal has become irrelevant. There is only survival.

Moreover, the survival of the body is a Herculean struggle, both physically and emotionally. Emotionally Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking is holding tightly to patterning within the body that allows it to hold together and still work as well as it can.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Huge acting job. Stunning.

Aura Reading Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra for Sharing Power in Relationships

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as himself

24 feet. This boy has been brought up to have such good manners. Even at a subconscious level he’s committed to “Share nicely” and so forth.

Several dings and dents show here. As a young person he’s still smarting a bit from all the authority figures who forced him into the mold of “Nice gentleman.” He has been shaped by his upbringing more than most actors. Eddie Redmayne wants to be a good boy, to please people. He doesn’t try too hard. He just tries with a deep commitment.

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as Stephen Hawking

90 feet. Intellectual force and also anger are keeping him going right now. His power is used for survival, for fighting the disease.

In this phase of the disease process, Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking is fighting as hard as he can to appear normal, and to keep functioning. He has a kind of fiction within himself subconsciously that for so long as he can appear normal and do normal things, he will survive.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

I’m not sure which is the more extraordinary achievement.

• Is it the chakra-databank-level transformation of Eddie Redmayne?
• Or is it how he is relatively sane, comfortable with his huge talent, and (given his profession) exceptionally secure and non-pushy in the ego department.

Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra for Emotional Self-Awareness

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as himself

15 feet. When he lets himself go there, into emotional self-awareness, Eddie Redmayne notices plenty. That includes two of his (many) gifts as an empath: Emotional Oneness and Emotional Intuition.

One interesting vulerability shows here: It feels uncomfortable to Eddie Redmayne to feel or portray extreme anger towards other people.

I will be surpised if he takes such a role, at least if he remains as he is at the time of this photo. (I don’t mean yelling at other people because he feels so bad inwardly, which may well happen a lot in this movie — which I haven’t seen. I mean playing the role of someone who feels hatred and nastiness.)

If I were Eddie Redmayne’s agent or friend or Mom, I would warn him against taking such a role. It might upset him significantly, throw him off kilter.

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as Stephen Hawking

80 feet. Emotional conflict is extensive. Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking alternates, energetically and subconsciously, between horror, rage, and denial.

He is also appalled to be having such human emotions, as somebody who isn’t habitually wired to feel emotions in the usual human way. The distress is new and humbling, on top of all the physical newnesses and humiliations.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

An immensely gutsy, hard-won Chakra Databank Change Point. Yet again.

Aura Reading Databank at the Throat Chakra for Verbal Integrity

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as himself

9 inches. The man hides a lot.

The dynamic that Eddie Redmayne has at the time of this photo is a rather sweet version not-great verbal integrity.

He cares so much what others think of him. He wants so much to be a good guy, and be perceived as a good guy. So he evidently does quite a job of self-censorship.

So don’t think the Catholic sin of commission here. This lack of integrity is more the sin of omission.

And for all I can tell, it’s all or mostly subconscious. Neither conscious nor voluntary.

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as Stephen Hawking

2 inches. There’s a trace of the usual chakra databank functioning, then what is going on with him at the time of this photograph.

Eddie Redmayne, as Stephen Hawking, is used to considering himself quite a genius. And thus he feels no obligation to tell versions of “truth” that other people would have as a requirement.

That’s business as usual for him.

As for what’s going on most strongly in this clamped-down chakra databank, Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking is suppressing the truth as much as he can. Because if he let out words or sounds to convey the agony of his experience, he would feel like less a man than he already feels.

This character is a very proud man, in the sense of dignity. Not haughtiness.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Although Eddie Redmayne may have drawn on his own inner STUFF related to not speaking up, the context and character of the verbal withhold — wow! entirely different.

Aura Reading Databank at the High Chakra for Soul Thrill

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as himself

Fills the room. Eddie Redmayne feels so very fortunate, exceedingly grateful, to be just where he is and doing precisely what he is doing.

Reading Eddie Redmayne’s aura as Stephen Hawking

80 miles. Eddie Redmayne can’t suppress the tremendous joy he feels right now, a kind of transcendent freedom, to enter into an experience so totally.

And have that experience be so totally different from his reality.

It’s as though he is singing, over and over, “Thank you, God. Thank you so much.”

And all his otherwise marvellous acting cannot suppress this.

Awwwwwww, is that sweet or what?

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 0

And I, for one, love him for it.

Conclusion, with total Chakra Databank CHANGE Points

 World-class actors are able to do something few humans can

Sometimes an Oscar nominee will change so deep down, when creating a role, that the transformation shows subconsciously and energetically. One chakra databank after another is altered.

Usually chakra databanks tell the truth. So it’s really fascinating to find which actor succeeds that deeply.

Even the best actors don’t always do this. I have an annual custom of comparing auras of top-nominated actors with their auras in roles. It’s a way to investigate the depth of acting.

This blog post will tell you more about my method of using energetic literacy for aura reading film criticism. To learn more about the sequence of research I’ll use this year on some of the most interesting Academy Award nominees, see this Aura Reading Film Critique blog post.

Julianne Moore had no trouble remembering her lines, evidently, when portraying Alice, a woman whose cognitive abilities weren’t working so well. Meanwhile the buzz around Oscars 2015 is that people are remembering her. Julianne Moore’s performance was memorable to such an extent that she is likely to win this Sunday night.

Let’s explore Julianne Moore’s performance with some aura reading research. (You’ll find more background about aura reading movie reviews at the end of today’s article.)

Let me encourage you, right from the start. Today’s energetic literacy research won’t be as upsetting as you might expect.

Get ready for today’s Aura Reading Movie Review

The Film: “Still Alice” The Movie Trailer: I haven’t seen it (or the movie itself) but YOU can. Plot Summary from the Academy’s Official Website

As Alice Howland, Julianne Moore plays a college professor who learns that she is suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Here are the photos we’ll use:

• Aura reading photo of Julianne Moore’s aura as herself
• And a smaller, saved version of the Julianne Moore aura photo.
• Aura reading photo of Julianne Moore as Alice.
• And a smaller, saved version of the aura photo of Julianne Moore as Alice.

And, having done this article already — except for putting on some finishing touches — I can invite you’all to do aura reading on this performance and pair of photographs. (Unless the entire topic of Alzheimer’s terrifies you. Which is understandable, nothing to kick yourself over. Still, I do encourage you to read through this aura reading movie review. Becaue you may get a different kind of kick out of it.)

Aura Reading Databank at the Root Chakra for Connecting to Physical Reality

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as herself

29 miles. Julianne Moore is turning the sex appeal way up. She’s focusing hard at being and looking a certain way. Connecting to physical reality, for her, means connecting to her AUDIENCE. This is a publicity opportunity, a photo shoot.

She knows how to do this.

For the moment, connecting to physical reality isn’t about particular individuals or physical objects. She is the center of her world, while working. And she works really, really hard to do a good job to compel others to pay her the right kind of attention.

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as Alice

10 feet. Very focused. Julianne Moore is intensely controlled right now, in a technical way, as an actress. Working hard to get her face and emotions and voice all right, while still being able to remember her lines.

Really, that is a familiar paradox for performers, isn’t it? How to cry on cue while still hitting your marks.

Or, in this case, how to convey mental blank while doing precisely what your role demands.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 0

The hard work is being done, for sure. Yet Julianne Moore doesn’t have the kind of talent that allows her to change all the way through to the level of chakra databanks, at least not able to do it in a terrifying role like this.

I applaud her courage in taking this part and doing such a detailed performance, working her emotions, conveying terror.

Still there is not the slightest change at the energetic and subconscious level of this chakra databan. Let’s see if others change more as we continue this aura reading movie review.

Aura Reading Databank at the Belly Chakra for Sex Appeal

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as herself

80 miles. Julianne Moore isn’t just beautiful. She has had years to practice how to send out different qualities of sex appeal.

On this occasion, she clearly aims to be taken seriously and lauded for her intelligence.

Think “Sexy librarian” maybe.

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as Alice

3 miles. Luscious. Dainty. Adorably sexy.

For Julianne Moore, it would be pretty hard to turn off this big-deal gift of sex appeal. She’s used to turning it ON stronger while in the spotlight, not OFF.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 0

Oscars often go to a woman who plays a role of being a victim, especially a beautiful actress who is physically or psychologically crippled.

And then, in the role, that actress keeps her sex appeal turned way up.

It’s a surefire recipe for success, including the winner last year for Best Actress, Lupita Nyongo.

Aura Reading Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra for Sharing Power in Relationships

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as herself

20 feet. Steely. Julianne Moore is used to getting her way. She doesn’t like to bring out the diva. But if challenged, she sure will.

Usually she gets better results with being pleasant, charming, charismatic.

At the time of this photo op, though, Julianne Moore is turning up her forcefulness. Hence what shows in the chakra databank about “Don’t you mess with me. I’m tough.”

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as Alice

15 feet. Spunky and used to getting her way. Yet Julianne Moore  is working very hard to act.

It’s as though she is muttering commands to herself subconsciously, in this chakra databank and others:

“Be a sympathetic victim. Act helpless. They will love you for that.”

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 0

No change has taken place. This is a classic example of “Trying to act without succeeding at the energetic level.”

Relatively few people on earth can pull off acting to that degree.

It just happens that aura reading movie reviews seek that out. To most in the movie’s audience, a movie is entirely about SHOW business. Right on the surface of life.

Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra for Emotional Self-Awareness

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as herself

45 feet. Julianne Moore is a warm and loving person. She cares about the people in her life. Emotions around this are emphasized in this chakra databank, especially at the time of this photograph.

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as Alice

50 feet. Julianne Moore has to keep reminding herself that this is just a role. She can handle this.

All the while, like a schmear of cream cheese on a toasted bagel, she is acting scared.

Her self-reassurance is like the bagel itself. Plus her usual working very hard, technically, to manage all the parts of how to move and speak and build drama into the scene.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 0

Aura Reading Databank at the Throat Chakra for Verbal Integrity

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as herself

80 miles. Julianne Moore is a natural charmer. Now she is pushing it, pushing it.

Julianne Moore wants so very much to be taken seriously as an actress.

The chakra databank is large in size because of the projecting her personality, not because she is more honest verbally than most people. Nope, she relates more like a charmer, with a practiced ability to show her sweet side.

A blunt truth will be spoken, when this is in her interest.

Otherwise she provides a cordial, sociable kind of hiding. Sweet, really.

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as Alice

8 inches. As an actress, Julianne Moore is talking herself down. Moderating how loudly she speaks, while still getting the words across clearly. Julianne Moore is trying so hard, in this scene, to convey the emotions of a quietly hopeless, frightened woman.

As usual, there is nothing about this character being portrayed that is anything different from Julianne Moore’s business as usual, working extremely hard technically to deliver a performance that will win her acclaim.

She wants so much to be taken seriously as an actress; in this chakra databank, as in all the others I’ve read here, Julianne Moore is trying so earnestly.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 0

The cream cheese on this acting bagel has, perhaps, been given a shake of cinnamon.

Aura Reading Databank at the High Chakra for Soul Thrill

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as herself

18 feet. At this point in her career, Julianne Moore is a deeply ambitious woman. Driven.

She wants to take her career to the next level.

So at the time of this photo, she is somewhat joyful, getting this degree of attention, being an A-lister in the most competitive industry on the planet.

Yet she can’t quite enjoy it so much as she aims to use her degree of success and fame to launch the rocket of her career to go even higher.

Reading Julianne Moore’s aura as Alice

2 inches. Julianne Moore isn’t having much fun as a soul. She’s working so hard.

Until this moment, I never realized that she could be so intensely self-critical. Aw, Julianne Moore is working so hard to do well. Not just for the art (because she isn’t an artist so much as a beauty). No, she’s a naturally popular person who is seeking acclaim.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points:0

What’s the difference, for acting, when soul thrill shows? The type of work is dharma.

Dharma means the sort of work that we have natural talent for. It comes relatively easily to us. We learn pretty well, and even when there are problems, it is a delight to overcome them.

Julianne Moore is a natural performer, a beauty, charming, and — I suspect –pretty darned sane for a professional actress. Yet, with all respect, acting isn’t necessarily Julianne Moore’s dharma. (It isn’t necessarily dharma for many a famous actor, actually.)

Conclusion, with total Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 0 out of 6

With all respect to Julianne Moore, she is not a natural actress. Yet she is still determined to have an A-list acting career.

She’s really gorgeous, with huge sex appeal. And she’s very willing to develop as an actress. Seems to me, Julianne Moore tries extremely hard and focuses intensely. Which cannot make up for the lack of gift-of-the-soul-type acting talent.

Julianne Moore reminds me of Elizabeth Taylor, actually. Except that Elizabeth Taylor didn’t try nearly as hard or focus so intensely, far as I can recall from doing aura reading research about her.

Definitely I remember seeing an interview where she said something like, “I always wanted to be a good actress. I have worked as hard as I could to become a good actress.”

Yet that isn’t why millions loved Elizabeth Taylor.

Likewise I have a great fondness for Julianne Moore. She was such a delight to watch in “30 Rock.”

Maybe she will even win an Oscar this time, as she is favored to do. Couldn’t happen to a nicer person….

World-class actors are able to do something few humans can

Sometimes an Oscar nominee will change so deep down, when creating a role, that transformation shows subconsciously and energetically. One chakra databank after another is altered.

Usually chakra databanks tell the truth. So it’s really fascinating to find which actor succeeds that deeply.

Even the best actors don’t always do this. I have an annual custom of comparing auras of top-nominated actors with their auras in roles. It’s a way to investigate the depth of acting.

This blog post will tell you more about my method of using energetic literacy for aura reading film criticism. To learn more about the sequence of research I’ll use this year on some of the most interesting Academy Award nominees, see this Aura Reading Film Critique blog post.

Blog-Buddies, I’m really looking forward to this research. The amazing Edward Norton plays an over-the-top role with his usual flair in “Birdman.” Let’s give him an aura-level close-up.

Get ready for today’s Aura Reading Movie Review

The Film: “Birdman”

The Movie Trailer: Watching the actual movie is really way less fun than you might think from this trailer. Beware! (Although Norton’s performance was absolutely delicious.)

Plot Summary from the Academy’s Official Website

Edward Norton plays Mike, an egotistical movie star who is cast in a Broadway play opposite a faded actor desperate for a comeback.

Here are the photos we’ll use

Aura reading photo of Edward Norton as himself.

And a smaller, saved version of the  Edward Norton aura photo.

Aura reading photo of Edward Norton as Mike.

And a smaller, saved version of the aura photo of J.K. Simmons as Mike.

Aura Reading Databank at the Root Chakra for Connecting to Physical Reality

Reading  Edward Norton’s aura as himself

5 miles. Sensuous and earthy, fun-loving. A very physical intelligence informs how Edward Norton relates to life around him.

He’s comfortable with his charisma, emotionally warm, and exceptionally uninhibited about putting on different personalities as a performer.

Reading Edward Norton’s aura as Mike

Fills the room plus two inches. Intense charisma mingled with conceited and all-encompassing egoism.

Mostly lives in his head and his prejudices.

Arrogance and edgy obnoxiousness lightly shade the huge energy presence as he makes contact with reality.

This is a man who is used to having physical reality respond to him, more than the other way around (the plight of us humans, in the majority, who interact as best we can with our given surroundings and relationships).

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Interestingly, Edward Norton was able to keep his intense charisma lively. Yet he has distorted it, along with many other changes that make him aurically unrecognizable in his role as Mike.

Aura Reading Databank at the Belly Chakra for Sex Appeal

Reading Edward Norton’s aura as himself

Fills the room. Appeals to men and also to women.

Shyness in life has largely been overcome by this ultra-sensitive empath. Yet he still hides a bit behind his sex appeal.

Seems to me, Edward Norton uses his sexual charisma and personality charisma like a test for potential relationships. By now, of course, this is exaggerated by his A-list fame.

As a result, Edward Norton has the luxury of observing how people respond.

Watching those potential friends gives him a chance to draw back from the interaction, decide if he likes what he sees, and only then open up to the next stage of closeness in his relationship.

Reading Edward Norton’s as Mike

Fills the room plus two inches. Edward Norton’s is a molecular empath who has a gift for shaking people up sexually, along with all the other ways that molecular empaths  tend to have high-impact auric modeling.

Edward Norton’s character adds charisma and a pushy sense of dominance in personal relationships. He uses his sexiness as a weapon, knowing that sheer sex appeal can cause people to find him intensely attractive, even irresistible. This gives him power to manipulate.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Once again, Edward Norton has taken a very individual personal style at a chakra databank, then torqued and twisted it with an entirely different intent. And, thus, he has produced a very different result. This acting creation is so brilliantly rendered as a satire.

Aura Reading Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra for Sharing Power in Relationships

Reading Edward Norton’s aura as himself

Fills the room plus 2 inches. Laid back and collaborative, Edward Norton has a secret weapon if power dynamics turn nasty. He is so much smarter than most people. He also has tremendous sophistication in his reading of social dynamics.

No wonder he can afford to avoid appearing pushy.

Reading Edward Norton’s aura as Mike

6 inches. “Anal retentive” comes to mind as a description. Which might be the first time in my entire life I have used that Freudian jargon.

Edward Norton’s character is stingy about sharing, refuses to let go, couldn’t be more controlling in his interpersonal relationships. Plus he is way too egoistical to consider sharing.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

So far, this is my favorite transformation of Edward Norton’s for this film, as usual it was done all the way down to the level of a chakra databank.

Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra for Emotional Self-Awareness

Reading Edward Norton’s aura as himself

27 feet. Edward Norton can turn it off or on, being interested in his emotions. At the time of this photo, he is paying light attention.

My sense is that he can become strongly and intuitive self-aware emotionally when it suits him, as when analyzing a role in order to craft who he will be.

It’s quite refreshing to read this chakra databank in a professional actor. More commonly I encounter either a self-absorbed observer of emotions or someone quite shut down (unless purposely playing a role). Three cheers for the mental health of Edward Norton at the time of this photograph!

Reading Edward Norton’s aura as Mike

Out to the moon. Full of vanity and self-indulgence. It’s as though the main work in life for Mike is endlessly embroidering the nuances of his precious emotional life. Wow! Revolting yet superb, as a way to be when portraying this character!

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points

Aura Reading Databank at the Throat Chakra for Verbal Integrity

Reading Edward Norton’s aura as himself

Out to the moon. A long-standing energetic subroutine distorts the functioning of this chakra databank.

If you know much about energetic literacy, Blog-Buddies, you know that about 2/3 of a person’s chakra databanks are about being human (including the Throat Chakra Databank for Verbal Integrity).

While 1/3 of a person’s chakra databanks are helping out as a World Server.

For Edward Norton, at the time of this photo, he aims to help humanity by telling the truth. It’s a lovely ideal. Yet the experiment may eventually lose its charm for him.

Certainly it won’t bring him to a higher state of consciousness (in my opinion as an Enlightenment Coach). And it may be throwing some of his personal relationships way out of whack.

A bit like what would happen if you invited the Delphic Oracle over to your apartment for tea and cookies.

Reading Edward Norton’s aura as Mike

40 feet. Piercing perceptiveness and a commitment to be a truth speaker. A little edge is added, with sarcasm, a sense of vast personal superiority, and incessant egoism.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 3/4

I’m not awarding a full point because the chakra databank change is to add a little edge, a telling change of emphasis. Yet this has been superbly done, I’ll acknowledge.

Aura Reading Databank at the High Chakra for Soul Thrill

Reading Edward Norton’s aura as himself

To the moon. In this publicity photograph, Edward Norton is deeply and humbly grateful to have this stellar career. It’s a a spiritual calling to him, and he cares passionately about bringing truth into this world.

Reading Edward Norton’s aura as Mike

Fills the room plus 2 inches. It tickles Edward Norton to fearlessly project such conceit, being obnoxious beyond belief.

It’s so refreshing to him. He also feels a commitment to helping his viewers. Tucked into this chakra databank is a powerful sense of spiritual service, connection to the Divine, as he helps to free up fear of egoism for his viewers through the satirical nature of his role in this film.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

What a glorious actor! No matter it is such fun to watch him on screen in a comedic role.

Conclusion, with total Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 5 3/4

The deft satrical edge that Edward Norton delivered in this role was all the more remarkable given the un-subtle, bullying lines that the character Mike delivered.

At a subconscious level, Edward Norton’s performance was even more delicious than the obvious zest in his screen role.

World-class actors are able to do something few humans can

Sometimes an Oscar nominee will change so deep down, when creating a role, that the transformation shows subconsciously and energetically. One chakra databank after another is altered.

Usually chakra databanks tell the truth. So it’s really fascinating to find which actor succeeds that deeply.

Even the best actors don’t always do this. I have an annual custom of comparing auras of top-nominated actors with their auras in roles. It’s a way to investigate the depth of acting.

This blog post will tell you more about my method of using energetic literacy for aura reading film criticism. To learn more about the sequence of research I’ll use this year on some of the most interesting Academy Award nominees, see this Aura Reading Film Critique blog post.

Blog-Buddies, I’m really looking forward to this last Aura Reading Movie Review before the Academy Awards in 2015. Benedict Cumberbatch has played many a brainy role, but this has to be the brainiest one yet. Alan Turing, designer of The Turing Test, which I had known about and admired as a mind-boggling achievement. And now, I learn, Turing was also a huge war hero. Wow!

Get ready for today’s Aura Reading Movie Review

The Film: “The Imitation Game”

The Movie Trailer: Here’s the trailer.

Plot Summary from the Academy’s Official Website

Benedict Cumberbatch portrays Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician working on a top secret project to crack the Nazis’ encryption code.

Here are the photos we’ll use

Aura reading photo of Benedict Cumberbatch as himself.

And a smaller, saved version of the  Benedict Cumberbatch aura photo.

Aura reading photo of Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan

And a smaller, saved version of the aura photo of Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan.

Aura Reading Databank at the Root Chakra for Connecting to Physical Reality

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as himself

18 feet. Quite full of himself, but in the nicest possible way. A rather genteel way, because he is a man of refinement, of intellect, a benevolent aristocrat.

So, at the time of this photograph, Benedict Cumberbatch’s way of connecting to people and things is a sort of doing them a favour.

(I’m laughing. Are you, yet? Partly my laughter involves surprise. In this incarnation, I can’t imagine personally having ever felt this way. Finally, finally I understand what it could be like to live the concept of “noblesse oblige.”)

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as Alan Turing

15 feet. Inflamed with anger and a righteous frustration. Can scarcely contain the intense emotions going through him; it’s hard for him to notice anything at all about objective reality around him. Not at the time of this photo still from the movie.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Benedict Cumberbatch’s is not having a time of comfortable noblesse oblige, nor is he responding in the manner of someone who feels as though, basically, he has it made.

Well done, dude!

Aura Reading Databank at the Belly Chakra for Sex Appeal

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as himself

20 miles. His masterful, super-duper sex appeal is particularly effective on gay men and older women.

In addition to the sex appeal, charisma is readily available for Benedict Cumberbatch to switch on and off.

He purposely  makes heads turn, or plays at going sexually incognito. Apparently this has become a game for him. And already he has become a bit jaded and cynical about this.

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as Alan

40 feet. At the time of this photo, Benedict Cumberbatch’s character feels tormented about every aspect of his sexuality. It’s a long-term upset state, replete with worry and confusion, often hidden and stuck in denial.

Yet at the time of this scene, the torment is raw and screaming. Evidently in this scene Alan Turing in that trauma zone that humans recognize as such, and his sexual circuits feel like part of what is going so terribly wrong in his life.

Note: Not having seen the movie, I don’t know what the context is for this screen shot. Maybe some of you Blog-Buddies can see it and, thus, can supply context. I’d appreciate that. I’m curious.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

A profound alteration has been achieved. I’m beginning to find the Alan Turing character a whole lot more likeable than Benedict Cumberbatch.

Now there’s a mixed blessing for an actor.

Aura Reading Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra for Sharing Power in Relationships

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as himself

40 miles. The polite yet vainglorious ego walks in the door long before the rest of Benedict Cumberbatch’s personality, I suspect.

And with his current degree of stardom, the man may already have become quite insufferable. Particularly if someone doesn’t leap to anticipate his desires or obsequiously give him his way, down to the tiniest detail.

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as Alan

80 feet. Ordinarily this character has a very collaborative style around sharing power. “The Team” means a great deal to him.

At the time of this photo, Benedict Cumberbatch’s character feels bewildered, torn in his loyalties, and craving support from his Team.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

A brilliant creation, complex and (evidently) profoundly fictional.

Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra for Emotional Self-Awareness

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as himself

40 feet. Personal emotions are very important to Benedict Cumberbatch. Mostly they are very important because they belong to HIM.

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as Alan

18 feet. A passionate cry of the heart is related to the drama in this particular scene. Seems to me, what’s happening here is not typical of Benedict Cumberbatch’s character but more a response during a crisis, and that response is passionate rage at injustice.

Undertones include frustration (perhaps at his not being able to finish his work?) and fear, physical fear.

Hey, even without having seen the movie, looking at this photograph one can figure out that he is being manhandled by two-against-one.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Another sophisticated choice for a role, executed superbly.

Aura Reading Databank at the Throat Chakra for Verbal Integrity

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as himself

5 inches. The man can make anyone believe anything. He knows it, too.

At the time of this photo, this dependable persuasiveness results in a general disinclination for Benedict Cumberbatch to inconvenience himself…  with having to tell simple truths the way other people must do.

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as Alan

5 inches. Rage is what he would express right now, if he could speak, and right then his integrity might be just fine.

However, layered into Benedict Cumberbatch’s character is a long-term habit of holding back.

Also it feels to me that, although at the time of this photo he is experiencing a passionate response to his situation, ordinarily his communicatio is quite different: A much more in-the-intellect experience of living, then speaking. In this scene, he is being jolted into stronger emotional connection to life than usual.

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 1

Once more, the transformation is magnificent. The actor himself, maybe not so much. At least at the time of the photo used for today’s aura reading research.

Aura Reading Databank at the High Chakra for Soul Thrill

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as himself

3 inches. Could it be? At this time in his life, Benedict Cumberbatch doesn’t feel fully alive unless he is acting.

Aw, having big, big talent like this isn’t easy to integrate into a human life. Especially when the big talent goes with A-list fame.

I do hope he blooms. Often majorly talented people do become well adjusted late bloomers. Doing so can be harder for them, that’s all.

Reading Benedict Cumberbatch’s aura as Alan

14 miles. Oh, Benedict Cumberbatch, you are such a ham! Inwardly you’re all aglow, as in “I’m giving such a fine performance. And I really believe in the motivation of this character.” (Laughing.)

So human!

Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 0

Sweet, in a way, are these contrasting shifts to this chakra databank. Still both are 100% about Benedict Cumberbatch. So no chakra change points for him this time.

Conclusion, with total Chakra Databank CHANGE Points: 5 out of 6

What a fascinating combination of characteristics show up at chakra-databank-level for this mega-talented actor.

And really, his arrogance is so understandable. Between the Cambridge University education, the early rise to stardom, and all that talent to integrate, it’s not surprising to find the Whopper-sized ego.

Indeed, that big ego can help Benedict Cumberbatch to become a much bigger star than the equally talented actor we have already researched this year for his role in “The Theory of Everything.”

Yes, I’m comparing Cumberbatch to the sweet, far less tormented (and maybe less memorable) Eddie Redmayne.

Besides, can you really expect the man to have a sense of humor when he has gone through life with the name “Benedict Cumberbatch”?

World-class actors are able to do something few humans can

Sometimes an Oscar nominee will change so deep down, when creating a role, that the transformation shows subconsciously and energetically. One chakra databank after another is altered.

Usually chakra databanks tell the truth. So it’s really fascinating to find which actor succeeds that deeply.

Even the best actors don’t always do this. I have an annual custom of comparing auras of top-nominated actors with their auras in roles. It’s a way to investigate the depth of acting.

This blog post will tell you more about my method of using energetic literacy for aura reading film criticism. To learn more about the sequence of research I’ll use this year on some of the most interesting Academy Award nominees, see this Aura Reading Film Critique blog post.

Books by Rose Rosetree come in more formats than ever — print, eBook for an e-reader, tablet-ready versions at the iTunes store.

I’m no expert on all those technologies, just competent enough to get the books formatted properly.

However, I do have an insider’s perspective — a teacher’s perspective — on what these books can deliver. And how to get the most from them. So here come my Top 10 tips that will be particularly helpful for you as a reader of any of my nonfiction books.

1. Start with a quick, light skim-read.

Read that book like a novel, pleasure reading.

Skim-read for adventure, self-authority. Read like a beginner, even a dilettante… for now anyway.

New ideas will bounce out at you.

A funny thing about my career as a writer. I’ve been ahead of the field.

• Sometimes I have even started the field. Co-creation with Divine help simply took me there. As with the first books for empaths. The only books still (since 2006) about cutting cords of attachment.
• Sometimes I have worked with a field that has existed for thousands of years and brought in knowledge for this Age of Aquarius. As with the books on aura reading and face reading.
• And sometimes I have written within a topic area that seemed to belong to New Age, then added a post-New-Age sensibility. As with the books on Power of Command and success.

Well, enjoy that boing-boing-boing from the newness. Ideas that you may never have seen elsewhere. Ideas to shake you up. Read the whole book that way, just for starters.

2. Skip all techniques… at first

For a spiritual teacher and emotional healer like me, every technique is a powerful thing, not to be taken lightly.

Sure, techniques are written in ordinary words — like the paragraphs that come before and after. What else do you expect, Archangel Gabriel to show up like a character in a video game, blowing trumpets to get your attention?

You are the one who must pay attention. This is self-learning, through a book. You alone are the one who will choose how to enter into that special sacred chamber of knowledge.

Receiving a special, sacred experience won’t be terribly difficult, actually. For starters, recognize that reading any technique in one of my books is potentially a big deal.

Prepare by exploring the context. Get acclimated before you move into techniques. So that’s why I urge you….

Your first read-through any one of my books, skip every technique.

Since I typeset most of these books, I made that part easy. TECHNIQUE headings are obvious. Soon as you see that TECHNIQUE heading, skip over that. And if there’s a Question & Answer section that follows, skip over that, too. Proceed to the next heading.

3. Expect shallow results as a beginner.

Enjoy the results of your skim-read. Only don’t stop there.

Let that skim-read be just a fun first read, like a promising first date.

4. Second read-through, go deeper.

Now you get to go through each chapter as an intermediate reader. Whatever your comfortable pace, however much you choose to do in one day, take your sweet time and keep having fun.

Understand what you can. Please, avoid scrunching up your forehead and making yourself oh-so-serious or, even, miserable.

There will be no quiz. Promise.

Automatically you will go deeper, no special effort required, just because you did an easy, sloppy job.

5. After the first read-through, do every technique. No cheating.

Do that technique exactly as taught.

• Neither compare it to other techniques…
• Nor mix in extra things
• Nor take anything away.

And never, ever worry about what you’re “supposed” to experience. You can’t be doing a technique, full-out, and also be monitoring yourself.

Note: Some of my books have WORKAROUNDS, either instead of techniques (Magnetize Money with Energetic Literacy) or as supplements to techniques (The Empowered Empath and The Empowered Empath Quick & Easy). These are more informal. First do that workaround as described. Later, after you get the knack, feel free to adapt that workaround.

6. After each technique, congratulate yourself.

The only way to get better is to start from where you are now.

Like climbing up rungs on a ladder, you start where you are and progress from there. Progress is cumulative, too.

7. The nature of Energy Spirituality techniques is to deepen.

Accept that. So many other good things in life improve with practice. Like:

• Cooking
• Playing music
• Kissing

So why content yourself with a “Been there, done that” approach?

Give each book a chance. You paid for it, didn’t you?

8. Dialog with me as you read

Write in margins or make notes on your e-reader. That’s a way to give yourself a mini-workshop, you know?

Any one of these nonfiction books is a workshop between covers. Or whatever the electronic equivalent of that would be.

Participating will help you to grow.

And, funnily enough, today’s Washington Post has a fascinating story about learning better with print books, more than ebooks. I found this article while working on today’s blog post.

According to that article:

Researchers say readers remember the location of information simply by page and text layout — that, say, the key piece of dialogue was on that page early in the book with that one long paragraph and a smudge on the corner. Researchers think this plays a key role in comprehension.

But that is more difficult on screens, primarily because the time we devote to reading online is usually spent scanning and skimming, with few places (or little time) for mental markers. Baron cites research showing readers spend a little more than one minute on Web pages, and only 16 percent of people read word-by-word. That behavior can bleed into reading patterns when trying to tackle even lengthier texts on-screen.

“I don’t absorb as much,” one student told Baron. Another said, “It’s harder to keep your place online.”

9. Use this blog as a book reader’s resource

After you have read any of my books, ask your questions of general interest. Where to post your comment? Check out the list of topics on the left-most column to find an appropriate post and then comment away.

• If your question or comment is appropriate for the blog, I’ll answer it.
• If not, I’ll end you a brief email, inviting you to discuss the topic as part of a personal session.
• Some folks are surprised that I take the time to do that. But every commenter here is important to me. I aim to treat you with respect.

So feel free to ask. What’s the worst that can happen?

Just so you know: A very high percentage of book-related questions asked at the blog receive an answer right at this blog. In fact this very post was inspired by an exchange with Blog-Buddy DONNA at Feeling disappointed in your life?

10. Cycle through after a month or a year

Multiple layers of expertise are built into the skill sets taught in my books. You really can pick up any one of them after a month or a year and discover a whole new level of depth.

It’s free! You already paid for your book and, I hope, got way more than your money’s worth. Now go for even more, because it can be there for you.

Discovering deeper layers of knowledge can be pretty exciting for you, helping you to (rightly) notice how far you have grown. And encouraging you that you can keep on growing, developing your talents, refining your skills, even moving forward on your path to Enlightenment.

How can you figure out which Energy Spirituality book to get next?

1. This article is must-reading for an empath if you wish to move forward in a much more powerful way than you can get from reading any website or blog or sets of tips and coping strategies.
2. Feel free to browse at detail pages for each book, a better way to shop than Amazon.com (in my opinion). You’ll find a generous supply of supplementary material. Just go onto The Official Rose Rosetree Website and click on any book title.
3. At my website you’ll also find Online Supplements for many titles as well — free and loaded with cool articles.
4. Wondering where to buy my eBooks or the hypnosis CD called “Your Happiness Project”? Then this post is for you.
5. Ask for any of my eBooks or print books at your local library. Did you know that libraries buy many eBooks because folks like you just ask? It’s true. Browsing an eBook from your local library is a great way to decide for yourself what will be a keeper, a book of your own.
6. For a limited time longer, most of my books are most easily purchased through the shopping cart at my main website or by calling the tollfree number 800-345-6665. You’ll get personal service, personal accountability. Only the new books for empaths, and the CD for “Your Happiness Project” are not available through this tollfree number, which works in the U.S. and Canada.

Really, how could I choose just a Top 10 List for this topic. Isn’t show biz competitive enough?

Aura reading movie reviews are a very specialized form of cinematic criticism. Instead of a maximum of two thumbs up for a top review, there ought to be something about pinkies. Or whatever is the most refined part of the hand for gesturing.

So here’s background

This blog post will tell you more about my method of using energetic literacy for aura reading film criticism.

To learn more about the sequence of research I’ll use this year on some of the most interesting Academy Award nominees, see this Aura Reading Film Critique blog post.

And now here is a first-name alphabetical list of movie performances where I did this sort of aura reading. (You’ll also find articles on actors and other celebrities here.)

If you should stumble across an aura reading movie review that I missed when compiling this article, please comment below. I’ll fix! And I’ll thank.

1. Aura Reading Movie Review Starring Anne Hathaway on 2-18-2013
2. Annette Bening, Aura Reading #1 for 2011 Oscar Nominees on 2-18-2011
3. Aura reading movie review starring Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Imitation Game” on 2-22-15
4. Aura Reading Movie Review Starring Bradley Cooper on 2-22-13
5. Carey Mulligan, Aura Reading of Oscar Nominee #3 of 10 on 2-27-2010
6. Aura Reading Movie Review for Best Actress Oscar Nominee Cate Blanchett on 2-13-14
7. Colin Firth, Aura Reading #10 for Oscar Nominees on 2-21-2011
8. Colin Firth, Oscar Nominee #8 of 10 on 3-3-2010
9. Aura Reading Movie Review Starring Daniel Day-Lewis on 2-20-2013
10. Aura Reading Movie Review Starring Denzel Washington on 2-13-2013
11. Aura reading movie review starring Eddie Redmayne in “The Theory of Everything” on 2-19-2015
12. Aura reading movie review starring Edward Norton in “Birdman” on 2-21-2015
13. Gabourey Sidibe, Aura Reading of Oscar Nominee #4 of 10 on 2-28-2010
14. George Clooney, Aura Reading of Oscar Nominee #7 of 10 on 3-3-2010
15. Helen Mirren, Aura Reading of Oscar Nominee #2 of 10 on 2-27-2010
16. James Franco, Aura Reading #9 for 2011 Oscar Nominees on 2-27-2011
17. Javier Bardem, Aura Reading #6 for 2011 Oscar Nominees on 2-23-2011
18. Jeff Bridges, Aura Reading #7 for 2011 Oscar Nominees on 2-24-2012
19. Jeff Bridges, Aura Reading of Oscar Nominee #7 of 10 on 3-1-2010
20. Jennifer Lawrence, Aura Reading #3 for 2011 Oscar Nominees on 2-20-2011
21. Jeremy Renner, Aura Reading of Oscar Nominee #10 of 10 on 3-6-2010
22. Jesse Eisenberg, Aura Reading #8 for 2011 Oscar Nominees on 2-25-2011
23. Aura reading movie review starring Julianne Moore in “Still Alice” on 2-20-15
24. Fall in Love with Leonardo DiCaprio, an Aura Reading Movie Review for this Oscar Nominee in 2014 on 3-3-14
25. Oscar Nominee Lupita Nyong’o. Aura Reading Movie Review just in time for tonight’s Academy Awards broadcast on 3-2-2014
26. Aura reading movie review starring Marion Cotillard in “Two Days, One Night” on 2-14-2015
27. Skilled Empath Merge with Academy Award Winner Matthew McConaughey on 3-29-2014
28. Meryl Streep, Aura Reading of Oscar Nominee #5 of 10 on 2-28-2010
29. Aura reading movie reviews begin with Oscar nominee Michael Keaton in “Birdman” on 2-9-2015
30. Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, Aura Reading the Oscar Nominated Role on 2-22-2012
31. Michelle Williams, Aura Reading #5 for 2011 Oscar Nominees on 2-23-2011
32. Morgan Freeman, Aura Reading of Oscar Nominee #9 of 10 on 3-4-2010
33. Nicole Kidman, Aura Reading #2 for 2011 Oscar Nominees on 2-19-2011
34. Aura Reading Movie Review of Naomi Watts on 2-21-13
35. Natalie Portman, Aura Reading #3 for 2011 Oscar Nominees on 2-22-2011
36. Aura reading movie review starring Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood” on 2-16-15
37. Cuteness Aura Reading of Quvenzhané Wallis on 2-25-13
38. Sandra Bullock — Aura Reading of Oscar Nominee #1 of 10 2-26-2010

With this year’s movie awards behind all of us, and snow swirling around some of us, does there seem to be a distinct lack of glamour in your life?

Maybe that’s a good thing.

Today let’s consider why you can help your life bigtime by NOT falling for a certain type of glamour.

“The Romance of the Astral” means what?

If you’ve heard that term “The Romance of the Astral,” you’re way ahead of many in New Age. Who live for it.

To start explaining, here are some basic spiritual facts of life that can help you to avoid getting sidetracked on your path of personal development.

1. Vibrationally, life on earth has always included three worlds

There are human frequencies, our objective and subjective realites

There is the Divine frequency

And then there’s the largest and most diverse group of vibrational frequencies, which is astral (a.k.a. psychic)

2. Where’s the glamour?

Divine experiences, peak experiences, are THE BEST, the ultimate best.

However, this isn’t glamour. It’s joy and peace and Perfection Everywhere Now.

What about human experiences. They’re magnificent, especially for children. Or if you’re in love. For every human being, the glorious freshness may awe you or bore you (like a bad rhyme: awe/bore?) (;-))

For example, how glamorous is the bit of snow around here in Northern Virginia.

• Wrecked my precious plans for a play date with someone I love.
• Yet so sweetly, slowly falling.
• Soon I will have to shovel the driveway.
• Though I love watching for the little fox footprints in snow. Often they decorate my front yard. Fox footprints in snow are my little treasure hunt.

You get the idea. Already, this very day, Blog-Buddies, before you began to read this blog post…

haven’t you already experienced mixtures of delight and repugnance? Not exactly big glamour. Simply human.

3. Astral frequencies are what provide glamour

At any level, within the huge range of vibrational frequences that count as astral, behold! Astral includes incarnated creation at all worlds that are vibrationally higher than Earth School. Plus it is hidden within our world.

Our beloved world — dense-intense, and purposely designed to run at a very heavy low-life set of vibrational frequences — so that spiritual evolution can proceed here so powerfully.

Glamour of various sorts, oh yes! The quality of the glamour depends on the vibrational frequency within earth we encounter, whichever version of astral:

• Low astral, like beer commercials
• Mid astral, like spirit guides finding you a parking space
• High astral, like seductively supernal trips on heroin or cocaine

By definition, astral is flashy, glamourous. Yes, even more than the fabled casinos at Las Vegas, astral frequencies contain the flashiest vibrations. Hence the term “astral flash.”

Preferring the astral is what it means to fall for The Romance of the Astral. Certain people have had that problem throughout human history. But as a way of life…. for millions of people… now that’s new.

And it’s very much related to the recent and energetically historic Shift into The Age of Aquarius.

Vibrationally what has happened, moving into The Age of Aquarius?

External drama wasn’t the point. So, no, people didn’t die on 12/21/12, when that New Age clicked in (a.k.a. “The Age of Aquarius” or “The Age of Energy”).

Things began to change during the amp-up to The Age of Aquarius, over the last 30 years. It may well take us 30 years into this new age before human beings have grown comfortable with what has changed.

And, oh yes, that energetic change has been huge. Not physical, the change has been vibrational.

It has brought a new flexibility to human consciousness.

During The Piscean Age, the three worlds were quite separate. If you lived as a fairly normal human being, what happened during your waking hours? Your awareness was plonked firmly in human vibrational frequences.

Perhaps you might have done some prayers. Or there was a peak experience, a Divine gift. Back in the day, after considerable dedication, people contacted the Divine or the astral. But that was unusual.

Big religious ceremonies and religious authorities held high status back then. For most humans extra support from religious experts seemed needed, so sturdy were the barriers between human and astral and Divine. Sure certain mystics slipped through. They were big, glorious exceptions, earth’s spiritual heroes.

Which big vibrational change impacts you right now?

It has become super-easy to move into astral frequencies.

We humans do it often without thinking “The Romance of the Astral.” We trip away, without consciously meaning to.

And when we position our awareness there, what happens?

• If we’re empaths — until we gain skills of Empath Empowerment – we’re perpetually traipsing around other people’s auras by doing unskilled empath merge. We pick up that nasty Imported STUFF. (You know, some of that STUFF that can always, always, always be healed. So no repining, fellow empaths. Just get yourself skills.)
• Whether we’re empaths or not, we’re at risk for spiritual addiction.

Just yesterday, I helped my client JOE to identify a very subtle, bad habit he had while talking to people: pausing and going into deep introspection. Not used to answering a simple question with a simple human answer. (Except that now he has discovered, hello! He can do that just fine. Hooray, that JOE learns fast!)

In the Age of Aquarius, millions of people have moved into spiritual addiction. Or extreme spiritual addiction.

To avoid this, it helps to limit your daily Technique Time to just 20 minutes. (For tips, check this out: Balance Your Life Energetically and Heal Spiritual Addiction, Top 10 List)

It also helps to understand about The Romance of the Astral. And then just say “Buh-bye.”

Because falling in love with the astral limits one’s life in so many ways. For example:

• Becoming obnoxious to everybody who doesn’t share the lifestyle
• Making less money
• Attracting stuck spirits (ghosts) 
• Slowing down spiritual evolution

So the next time somebody brags to you about chatting with “Archangel Mikey” about which brand of vitamins to buy, take a deep breath.

Don’t compare yourself. Don’t believe that the one who brags is living from a superior level of consciousness.

Avoid the temptation to share your friend’s involvement in The Romance of the Astral. It leads to a spirial of spiritual addiction that can result in truly bizarre behavior.

Know for yourself, although it might not be polite to burst your friend’s bubble, archangels do not pick out a person’s food supplements. They do not deal with (pardon my mentioning it) relatively small in the scheme of things — human details — like our shopping trips.

In decades leading up to The Age of Aquarius, it’s not surprising that popular interest has grown in angels. With the thinning of the veil between human and astral, contact with angels has become way more accessible.While celestial glamour can make a spiritual seeker feel oh-so-special.

Sadly, anyone who believes that Divine Beings have nothing better to do than micromanage human lives, does not yet know about the three worlds.

Every spirit does not just come from The Other Side. Beings in bodies of light are either astral or Divine, not necessarily Divine. As for the ones who do shopping for you? They are astral.

Neither God nor Divine Beings like Jesus, Kwan Yin, and Archangel Michael… will encourage you to outsource your life to them.

And it’s quite another thing to cross the threshold into Enlightenment and enjoy a more concentrated Divine presence as your sense of identity.

As dealing with The Romance of the Astral — shouted from the rooftops by Hay House radio, etc. — here’s my advice: Choose being human. It’s fun. Spiritually it’s also good for you.

Fascinated by Justin Bieber? I wouldn’t go that far. But intrigued, maybe.

Last year he topped Forbes’ list of the highest-earning celebrities under 30. No stranger to scandal, in recent years, he has agreed to pay $80,000 to a former neighbor after egging his house and apprently has punched a paparazzo in Paris. Gets around, this kid!

Truth be told, I’m more familiar with a naughty pleasure, Kate McKinnon’s imitations of the superstar on “Saturday Night Live.” That’s all the Justin Bieber I have witnessed for years. Rather than, for instance, following him on Twitter (where he has 56.6 million followers). No malice intended toward the young singer. Just about anything Kate McKinnon does on “Saturday Night Live” makes me laugh really hard.

Yet the guy is still pulling in the moolah, and so I’ll lead off with Justin Bieber while pursuing our latest theme of wondering, “What makes some people tick?”.

The big-deal singer just had a birthday, March 1. Making him just 21. Think you could have handled all that celebrity any better than he has?

Personally, all I can say in response is “There but for the grace of God go I.”

These days you can’t read Justin Bieber’s aura without acknowledging the impact of so much fame and wealth, and at such a young age.

So this will be a comparison aura reading

Here is the aura photo from 2009 that I will be using for this exercise in energetic literacy, same one as at the top of today’s post.

And here is a saved copy of Justin Bieber’s aura photo

Of course, once you develop good skills at aura reading, any photo is an aura photo.

Here is the comparison aura photograph I will be using, a mug shot taken by the police in 2014…

In case you want to do some aura reading on your own, it’s useful to open up the comparison photo as well.

Here is the aura photo from 2014 that I will be using for insights into Justin Bieber

And here is a saved copy of Justin Bieber’s aura photo after he was picked up by the police and photographed.

Also, aura readers, whether you are using energetic literacy on your own or simply reading what follows, let’s drink a cup of kindness along with today’s aura reading.

Root Chakra Databank for Connecting to Physical Reality

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2009

19 feet. Self-conscious about being photographed for a publicity shot (and, by extension, about his fast-growing fame). Eager, so eager, for all the attention.

It’s a crazy big adventure, and already Justin Bieber is beginning to connect to Fame more than to mere physical reality, at moments like this anyway.

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2014

Out to the moon. Is this guy ever under the influence!

Substance(s) of some sort may be related to his arrest. I haven’t scoured the Internet for why Justin Bieber was arrested this time. I wanted to read his aura straight up, as it were.

The problem isn’t just that this guy is stoned. He feels so much more comfortable being stoned.

He can’t stand living in ordinary reality.

It makes him happy to pose for this mug shot, as if playing his secret trick: “Now you see me, now you don’t.”

Solar Plexus Chakra Databank for Self-Confidence

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2009

6 inches. He’s working the way people assume without seeing the real him, “Fake it ’till you make it.”

Already Justin Bieber has learned, evidently, that it doesn’t matter much to outsiders if inside he feels wormy and squirmy. He’s not even having to hide the discomfort. All that’s needed is his adding a great big smile right on top of the inner mess. That’s all people notice, it seems to him.

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2014

Out to the moon. There is no need for self-confidence. Because there is no sense of human self.

Justin Bieber is high, feeling good, feeling no pain, free.

Nothing can overwhelm him now.

He’s past trying NOT to feel peculiar about his strange, public life. One of the benefits of being high like this is that he can stop pretending to be normal. Where he is now in his consciousness, it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks about him. The police, the public, anybody.

Heart Chakra Databank for Emotionally-Based Self-Esteem

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2009

5 inches. Justin Bieber has a huge need for emotional support, for feeling cared about. He wants so much to be loved, to be important, and especially to have others pay attention to him.

Although I know next to nothing about Bieber’s childhood, I have read Pattie Mallette’s aura for this blog. Before being saved, Justin Bieber’s mother evidently had a pretty hard time. This could be related to the needs and drives that propelled her son to seek stardom. That’s conjecture, of course.

Mostly here in today’s aura reading, I’m just reading one chakra databank at a time, using the literacy skills.

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2014

5 inches. As if crying.

Alone. Desolate. So confused. Wishing he had another chance.

Not understanding what is happening to him.

Not feeling in control of his life or his mind or his feelings or his relationship to all those fans.

Terror is tucked away within the terrible sorrow and aloneness. And let’s not forget to mention the elephant in the room, as it were: feeling like a great big phony.

And, oh yes, by now Justin Bieber is totally at ease wearing a big, confident grin while he feels as though, inside, he’s practically dying. By now, this habit is well established.

Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Giving

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2009

2 inches. All he has to do is show up and be cute.

This chakra databank is at age for many a child, especially a male child. At the time of this aura photo, the kid is just 15 years old, you know.

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2014

Out to the moon. With a quality to the chakra databank of feeling contracted, as if withering on the vine.

Confusion about who he realy is — this goes so deeply into Justin Bieber’s subconscious mind. By now he is old enough and experienced enough to want to have healthy, normal emotional giving.

Yet he can’t. Instead Justin Bieber is trapped in this alternate emotional reality where fans feel as though he is giving, giving, giving. Yet he’s giving nothing. It’s so weird, scary, empty.

Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Receiving

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2009

25 feet.  At the time of this photograph, Justin Bieber is learning how to open up to the strangely personal, strangely impersonal love being directed at him.

By way of analogy, he has gone from semi-starvation to eating a really rich, ultra-gourmet diet. At this stage in his career, the portions of fame that Justin Bieber takes in are still pretty small. Small but heady.

If I might make another analogy, this emotional receiving satisfies him like having a beer or some other substance that instantly elevates him. As with alcohol, the fame and emotional feeding simply happen, almost inexplicably.

That’s his subconscious experience, anyway. As you long-term Blog-Buddies, know, chakra databanks reveal what makes a person tick subconsciously.

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2014

6 inches. By the time of this photograph, Justin Bieber feels so thoroughly bad about himself, so out of control behaviorally, so out of touch with people who could speak to him honestly, so trapped… amid all the adulation he feels emotionally empty.

It’s like a starving man who has been given so much to eat, he can’t stop. And that excess food just might kill him.

Receiving officially from all those fans, those millions of Twitter followers, making all that money? None of this reaches Justin Bieber where he craves emotional recognition for the person he is.

High Heart Chakra Databank for Soul Thrill (Expressing His Soul in Everyday Life)

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2009

2 inches. What’s happening in his life now, with all this fame, perks him up. Yet it doesn’t feel natural. It doesn’t feel quite right. It doesn’t exactly feel as though it is happening to him.

More like a surreal dream where good things are happening to a stranger. That sense of unreality is (already) quite strong. (And I write “already” because look where his career is at the time of this photograph… just getting started, really.)

Reading Justin Bieber’s aura in 2014

1/8 inch. Shut down.

Not only is soul expression totally shut down. It’s as though, at the time of this photograph, Justin Bieber is ready for the life to be ending already.

Reminds me of the Bill Murray character in the movie “Groundhog Day.” That part of the movie where Bill Murray’s character is desperate to die. So he does the most outrageous things possible to get out of the peculiar trap he is in. They never work. He’s so stuck in his “reality.”

Later in that movie this character triumphs and is released back into normal life.

I hope that Justin Bieber, in real life, does manage to find his way back into life — and may that be a life in which he can relax, be himself, and let that beautiful soul of his really shine.

Well I, for one, am so glad to be nearing completion of our 6-part series about how to deal with difficult people, with insight from reading people deeper. That series began here.

Important and practical? Sure. Yet the topic isn’t exactly pure joy.

And hey, today is our first day of spring (in this hemisphere) (that didn’t begin with an eclipse).

I could stand some inspiration, and maybe you can too. Besides, who doesn’t really, really like Tom Hanks? Beloved as the A-lister is, maybe he hasn’t always felt that comfortable being Tom. Not so comfortable as he clearly is now. Let’s find out.

BTW, you can skip right down to the end of this post for some background information. Otherwise it’s enough to know that I’ll compare Tom Hanks’s aura from two different photos, one when he was 33 and the other when he was 54.

Aura Reading Root Chakra Databank for Presence in the Room While Acting

Aura of Youngish Tom Hanks

2 feet. A lot of STUFF is related to feeling insecure and fighting back emotions like “overwhelm.”

Yet a gift of Tom’s soul makes him ready to send out a huge and charismatic aura presence on cue.

Only he’s just not using this gift at this moment. Although obviously posing, Tom Hanks’s aura is caught in this photo NOT on cue, his magnificence more like a large beach umbrella still folded up.

Aura of Tom Hanks in Enlightenment

25 miles. Joyful, powerful, smart, tender, distinctively playful. No active STUFF.

Aura Reading Root Chakra Databank for Making Money

Aura of Youngish Tom Hanks

11 inches. STUFF in this chakra databank keeps Tom consciously confused about money and a bit ambivalent about whether he really wants it, should have it, will have it in the future, etc.

Aura of Tom Hanks in Enlightenment

25 miles. Totally comfortable with money, enjoying it like anything else in life in a STUFF-free manner.

Money can be a means to an end. Flow in this chakra databank suggests that Mr. Hanks likes to use money in ways that will serve humanity, as well as having fun with his family and friends.

Aura Reading Belly Chakra Databank for Creativity

Aura of Youngish Tom Hanks

15 miles. The passion and delight of his actorly creativity is one of the driving forces in Tom Hanks’s life at this time.

Sheer delight helps him to perform despite his STUFF. Joy helps him persist in an outrageously demanding and competitive profession.

Aura of Tom Hanks in Enlightenment

Many ways of being creative have opened up for Tom Hanks since those earlier days. If you have followed his career at all, you know that by this time in his life acting is no longer the only big-deal thing that Tom Hanks does in the world. Back at his aura reading….

25 miles. Especially characteristic of Tom Hanks is a kind of POUNCE he does, via his intellect. He finds one detail at a time. Adjusts it. Fine-tunes. Then fixes or remove.

No STUFF clogs up this chakra databank, but that sure doesn’t mean his creative process has gone all soft, squishy, and simplistic.

Aura Reading Solar Plexus Chakra Databank for Solving Problems

Aura of Youngish Tom Hanks

11 inches. Tom Hanks can analyze problems in regular reality and solve them.

However, he really hates having to do so.

Instead he prefers to “save” intellectual analysis and creativity for “His art.”

To some degree, frustration in life (including problems that he hasn’t managed to solve) creates a desire for escape… into acting.

Aura of Tom Hanks in Enlightenment

25 miles. Thinking like an executive, Tom Hanks has learned to solve problems as part of a group, collaborating with others.

Of course, he also maintains well-developed circuits for solving problems on his own, in the manner he had done so many years before.

Despite the innate bliss that pervades this STUFF-free chakra databank (like all his other databanks), Tom Hanks can totally immerse himself in problems.

Like anyone in Householder Enlightenment, he is no disaffected observer. He has skin in the game, any game that he happens to be playing in life at any given time.

Tom Hanks cares passionately about making a difference… using his human ego-based ingenuity to come up with solutions. Meanwhile in the background, to whatever extent that he is consciously aware of it — or not– Tom Hanks actively co-creates with the Divine. That’s Enlightenment.

Aura Reading Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Stability

Aura of Youngish Tom Hanks

8 inches. Tom Hanks is a late bloomer in life, including emotionally. He’s still learning how to handle the extremely intense emotions that flow through him.

Partly the sometimes iffy stability is due to being a very, very talented but not yet skilled empath.

Partly it’s the intensity of his emotional responsiveness to life.

To convey how this chakra databank is doing at the time of this photograph, I’d compare what’s happening emotionally to Tom Hanks’s learning how to ride a really wild and powerful stallion.

At this point in his evolution, Tom Hanks at age 33 is sane. He is open to feeling his emotions. He is learning how to use emotional power when he acts. Although he sure ain’t comfortable with any of this, not yet.

Aura of Tom Hanks in Enlightenment

25 miles. Emotions continue to flow through Tom Hanks with an intensity that is unusual for a heterosexual male.

However, he is totally comfortable with those emotions, manages them with finesse. By now he has attained his own form of skill concerning which experiences he will favor, which not.

Aura Reading Third Eye Chakra Databank for Compassionate Awareness of His Human Life

Aura of Youngish Tom Hanks

4 inches. For many an actor, a motivating force is the desire to escape from a stuck-feeling human identity, especially when that aura is fraught with STUFF.

That’s exactly where Tom Hanks is at this point in his life. He’d rather pay attention to just about anyone else.

Aura of Tom Hanks in Enlightenment

25 miles. In a way, the life is complete and Tom Hanks knows it. Although there is still so much room for personal development:

• As a background, he lives in eternity along with living this human life.
• Every experience within himself brings a kind of fascination.
• STUFF-free, he has gained complete self-acceptance.
• Tom Hanks likes himself, respects himself, enjoys every inch of himself, and explores every aspect of himself as the distinctive person he is. Through good moods and bad.

Summing up Today’s Sample of Energetic Literacy

Now that’s a role to play in life, right? Being himself, and being himself to such a degree that he has crossed the threshold into Enlightenment!

With each passing year, I find more and more people drawing closer to that state of consciousness. It’s your birthright, too.

Whatever your spiritual path or religion, whichever techniques are used for permanently healing STUFF, the evolutionary destination is the same.

At this time of “Gray Slime” you may be aware of problems more than triumphs, STUFF more than gifts. Well, keep your perspective. In terms of personal development, Blog-Buddies, you’re probably doing way, way better than you know.

Want to read more about Tom Hanks at this blog?

Face Reading, How Enlightened Tom Hanks Changed

Face Reading of Enlightened Tom Hanks, Part 2

And for my fellow fans of energetic literacy

This little bit here is nuts-and-boltsy. Are you, like me, interested in the juicy topic of exploring personal development from the inside with energetic literacy? Does that fascinate you as much as the great Tom Hanks himself?

Just for fun, you can check out the two photos I chose for this post.

• The first shows the Oscar-winning actor’s aura when he was just 33.
• Our second photo shows the joyful aura of Tom Hanks in Enlightenment at age 54.

Because, yes, years ago Tom Hanks’ personal development took him across the threshold into Enlightenment.

Now that a big global shift in consciousness has occurred, known as moving into the Age of Aquarius, it has become easier than before for that something good to happen. Living now, we’re more likely than ever before for regular people like us to move into that higher state of consciousness.

Which is why — as you may know, Blog-Buddies — one way that I use the skills of Energy Spirituality is by serving as an Enlightenment Coach. If you’re curious about Enlightenment, you can learn a whole bunch at Enlightenment Coaching for Householders, Top 10 List.

Reading today’s article, it will be helpful to know this much about Enlightenment: What is the main thing keeping a person from enjoying this everyday state of consciousness? Having STUFF stuck in his or her aura, stored emotional and energetic debris at the astral level, a level that corresponds to the subconscious mind.

Although this STUFF can be viewed in terms of type (the previous link was to an article about 15 different types of STUFF) you could also rate it on a scale from 1-10, with 10 as the most intense.

Before someone moves into Enlightenment, there is a grace of God moment when all the remaining STUFF is knocked down to a 1. For practical purposes, that counts as “No STUFF.” You’ll be reading more about “No STUFF” in today’s comparison aura reading.

And speaking of reading, what if you want to read Tom Hanks’ aura too?

• Whatever your current level of energetic literacy, you Blog-Buddies are invited to join me by doing your own comparison aura reading, using the same photos I will use here.
• I’d recommend the “Reading Auras from Photos” technique in Read People Deeper (Start on Page 35 with the paperback. Incidentally I’m working to have the eBook available soon.)
• Or substitute a Skilled Empath Merge, using the “Magic Picture” technique in Become the Most Important Person in the Room (Start on Page 201, if you’re reading the paperback rather than the eBook).
• Many of my students who want to use their lifelong talent for reading auras prefer to start with the 100+ techniques in my how-to, Aura Reading Through All Your Senses.

One way or another, it’s delightful to use energetic literacy skills to learn about Tom Hanks.

“Noooooooooooooooooooooo” I wanted to scream into my newspaper this morning.

I was reading the advice column by Carolyn Hax. Usually her columns is one of my favorite parts of The Washington Post. But today? Ouch!

Let’s play advice columnist today, Blog-Buddies. I’ll add my bit and then you can add your responses in the form of comments. Even if Carolyn doesn’t read any of them. (Sure, I will send her a link, but Carolyn Hax must receive about a zillion emails per day.)

Here was the original question from “Name Change”

“I’m in my 40s and heading to graduate school for a completely different career. I’ve always hated my first name — it sounds great for a child but does not transfer very well as a professional name. I’d like to change it as I embark on my new direction but I feel silly being my age and sounding like I’m having an identity crisis. Thoughts?”

Oh yes,, I sure have thoughts (as you’ll soon read). Carolyn Hax’s recommendations are one click away. Let’s just say here, she starts by asking “But do you like it otherwise?”

You know, apart from all the reasons given for having the temerity to change his very own name. Advice Seeker “Name Change” is asked to twirl and contort his mind around all the benefits he might enjoy by not changing a thing.

My perspective, as someone who nurtures personal identity

“Noooooooooooooooooooooo”

Name Change had me at “I’ve always hated my first name.”

Isn’t that rather important?

What on earth would outweigh sheer loathing, day after day, since infancy?

Okay, if you were named “Price Charles” and, at age 66 you still are hoping to become king some day… maybe then a gag-inducing monniker would be worthwhile. As in “Gag and bear it.”

Otherwise?

What’s so silly, for an adult, about changing one’s name at ANY age?

In our wacky society, it’s okay to celebrate mid-40’s by buying a hot red car.

It’s okay get a divorce. Or to marry. Even to marry someone young enough to be your child or grandchild.

In much of America (thank God) it’s okay, finally, to come out with one’s sexual identity. It’s okay to be transgendered.

Anywhere in the US, it’s okay to run off to the cosmetic surgeon and change face bits around.

It’s just fine, apparently, to facelift one’s self into a kind of living museum, commemorating one’s youthful face from so long ago.

(As someone who Tivos “Big Bang,” I regularly see ads for “Cougar Town,” complete with brief closeups of Courtney Cox. Sure, I loved watching this talented actress years ago in “Family Ties.” Maybe I could enjoy watching her now. Only not when her face is stretched so tight and hard, my mirror neurons ache just to look at her.)

So many things are okay socially in post-postmodern America. But apparently it’s downright shocking if a person considers changing his name?

Hello! I applaud any adult whose personal development is speeding along so rapidly that old somethings don’t work any more. That isn’t necessarily being fickle. These two words may apply here: Virtual reincarnation.

Of course, people can have very earthbound thinking, even Spiritual Shutdown reactions, related to changing one’s name.

• For instance, “You were born with a name. You must live with that name.”
• A common variation goes, “You must live with the name your parents given you… unless you are a woman who marries. Then you become the husband’s property. So you must take that last name.”
• Or “If you are a woman and you really love that husband, of course you will now take that husband’s last name.”

Assumptions worth questioning, right?

“The big hassle”

That is what Carolyn Hax called it, legally changing one’s  name: the big hassle.

Please, legally changing your name only a big hassle if you’re a convicted felon or you have major outstanding debts or otherwise you’re on the lam from the law.

Changing your name legally takes way less time and money compared to many other things that are considered okay, or lauded in mainstream society. Such as the flashy red car or the trips to the cosmetic surgeon.

Look, it’s no secret that I believe in Name Alignment, done with Thrill Your Soul Aura Reading Research.

Shakespeare famously wrote, in “Romeo and Juliet”:

“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet.”

Well, hello. The Bard was talking about a flower. Not a person. If a rose had feelings, it might not like being known as a hippopotamus.

Why is Name Alignment Research so beneficial?

Aura reading at depth — full Stage Three Energetic Literacy — can tell you so much about who you are. With Name Alignment Research, we explore what is the impact of the name you were given at birth.

Then you can use your free will to research names that might suit you better.

And I really mean much, much better.

As a facilitator of personal development, I’ve got to tell you that choosing a name that aligns with your soul — and other chakra databanks — is the single most important thing you can do to evolve big-time.

Here are examples from some Blog-Buddies who changed their names, following Name Alignment Research, and wrote about it here at the blog:

• 10 Ways My Life Changed After Name Alignment. A guest post by GEORGIA.
• How Name Alignment Research helped me, a guest post by Sophie
• Changing My Name after Name Alignment Research, a guest post by KYLIE
• Name Change Research, Kathryn’s Triumph and Guest Post

Even the Name Alignment PROCESS can help a person to grow spiritually

Doing Name Alignment Research carries no pressure that you must move forward immediately to legally change your name.

There’s no rush about changing your name afterwards. Just finding a great one helps you to evolve.

Sometimes conflicts come up. Worries or big fears.

Well, isn’t healing STUFF part of a person’s path to Enlightenment?

Healing those fears doesn’t obligate JOE or GLADYS or NAME CHANGE to legally change a name.

Some of my clients have waited for years, literally years, before making a name change legal. Some may never do the name changing part.

Life is complicated. And your sacred self-authority matters most about any choice you might, or might not, make with your legal name.

Just, please, let’s not disrespect that cry of a soul like, “I have always hated my name.”

Let’s not turn up the volume of “I feel silly because I wish to change my name” or “Other people may not like it when I take steps to make my life better.”

Changing your name doesn’t impact anyone as much as it is YOUR choice, YOUR free will, YOUR life.

Which is why I recommend that, in most cases, you don’t ask or tell anyone in advance of a name change.

Do the legal change to your name. Then announce. Because you have that right.

Soon as you start asking opinions, others can easily undermine your confidence in a choice that belongs only to you. Of course, that’s just my personal recommendation.

How to deal with anyone in your life who whines that they are so hurt, or otherwise traumatized, because of what you have done with your own personal name?

Here’s an idea. Write to Carolyn Hax for advice.