Q: Cynthia, thank you for speaking with us today. I’ve had the opportunity to read all three of your books, and I can’t wait to tell my readers about them. First, let’s talk a little about you. You have an academic background in both physics and business, but now your work is focused on spiritual healing. You’re also involved with aura research. Can you tell me a little about how this came about? How did this shift in direction happen? Was it triggered by any one event in your life, or did it just seem “time”for things to open up for you at a certain point?

A: My big shift in direction began with my kundalini awakening in the autumn of 1994. My kundalini awakening was preceded by almost a full year of feeling like I’d overslept and really needed to wake up. I knew I was sleepwalking, and there was something I was not seeing clearly…but I didn’t know what it was or how to wake myself up. When I had my kundalini experience, I knew I was no longer sleepwalking! My life went from feeling completely ordinary to feeling like I was living through something quite extraordinary, as I felt I was in tune with subtle energies and spirits in much the same way I had been as a very young child. When I felt my kundalini rising, I felt so much energy flowing through me that I felt like I was running enough electrical current through me to power an entire city! I would awaken each night at 1:11, 2:22, 3:33, 4:44, and 5:55. This had never happened to be before, nor had many of the other unusual things that began to occur with startling regularity. Rather than abandoning either the ordinary or the extraordinary world views, I chose to walk between them and help others to do the same.

Q: Many people have told me over the years that they had to go through some sort of spiritual crisis before they were fully able to access their intuitive abilities. Sometimes, it can be a pretty scary process, because you don’t always know what’s going on. Did you find your own kundalini awakening disruptive to your everyday life? Did you learn any tips for handling this type of awakening experience? I guess I’m just thinking about readers who might be dealing with this in their lives now, wondering what your advice might be to them. How can they best stay balanced when they are going through a personal shift like this?

A: My kundalini awakening was quite disruptive in many ways, even though it was directed by my spirit guides. I could not keep my previous sleeping schedule, because I would awaken at regular intervals every night. I could not ignore psychokinetic activity, such as sticks and stones hitting my windows when there was no wind or any person or animal throwing things around outside. Before my kundalini experience, I hadn’t noticed lights and electrical equipment breaking down when I was nearby and feeling stressed, but since my kundalini experience, I need to consciously ground my energy in order to prevent equipment failures around me. I frequently experienced direct communications from spirit, to such a degree that I began to wonder if perhaps I was going crazy to be hearing voices and seeing things that I knew other people didn’t observe. I found out that shamans throughout history had experienced what I was experiencing, and that I was not crazy. What kept me feeling balanced through all these life changes has been a sense of the divine and making time each day to experience the essence of divine love through meditation and prayer.

Q: I think it’s great that you’ve been able to make the transition into what you’re doing now and fully embrace the process. Tell me about your website, http://realityshifters.com, and the message you are sharing with people there. You have a free monthly ezine that you also publish about reality shifts, right?

A: I started publishing RealityShifters News in October 1999, shortly after I set up the realityshifters.com web site. I knew I needed to share information about reality shifts because I consider them to be the source of synchronicity, the essence of energy healing, and extraordinarily common yet seldom discussed or described. Most people I talked to admitted that these shifts in reality were happening in their lives (such as keys disappearing, or socks vanishing), yet people didn’t know how to classify that sort of experience. The main message of both the RealityShifters News newsletter and the realityshifters web site is that our thoughts and feelings actually do change the physical world, and that we can create our best possible lives when we become conscious of the way our energy interacts with everything around us.

Q: When people start to open up spiritually, abilities that we would call “psychic”can suddenly blossom. You perceive lots of colors around people, don’t you? Are you able to see auras in your daily life, or do you have to be in a meditative state to do it?

A: I perceive a great deal of intuitive information, and it comes to me in a variety of ways. I love the term coined by Dr. Shafica Karagulla, "high sense perception," because it best describes the way I see not only things like auras, but I also frequently smell, hear, taste and feel information in addition to my ordinary senses. This additional information typically comes to me most readily when I’m in a meditative state and am directing my awareness in a focused way at a particular question or with specific intent, although less frequently, I am flooded with a variety of high sense perceptions.

Q: You’ve done some work with Aura Imaging Systems in California, helping develop technology to capture auras on film. Can you tell us a little about what kind of technology they are using? Is it a special kind of camera? And what kind of images are they managing to capture?

A: The engineers and scientists at Aura Imaging Systems are using a couple of different systems for translating galvanic skin response data into colorful visual displays. Both require special technology. One system is based on a Polaroid camera, and the other is a computer system called WinAura. The Polaroid system takes photos of a person’s head and shoulders, and the WinAura system is capable of showing the individual chakras, the head and shoulder aura, and also real-time moving images of auras as they change and the colors respond to the person’s thoughts and feelings. The WinAura system provides a fabulous demonstration of how energy workers can make changes to a person’s aura, and also for showing how two people respond to one another –showing the energy chemistry between them! I have a film clip on the main page of my realityshifters.com web site that shows the WinAura system in action.

Q: One thing I love about your book, Aura Advantage, is all of the scientific research you include. I had no idea that so much has been discovered in the areas of physics, medicine, and conventional science that seems to support what the mystics have been saying all along. Is there any one area of research going on now that excites you the most? Where can people find information on some of this cutting edge research? It doesn’t seem to appear much on the Web, although I’m always looking for it! Or maybe I’ve been looking in the wrong places!

A: I am delighted that the American Medical Association is funding research in the field of remote healing. There is a study currently underway that is analyzing Kirlian photographs before and after the subject receives energy healing treatments, but the final research results have not yet been published. As research is announced and posted on the Internet, I reference it in RealityShifters News, and all issues of the ezine are posted online on the realityshifters.com web site.

Q: Your book, Aura Advantage, is packed with exercises to help people to learn to sense their auric fields. You also teach readers how they can use their auras to create success, health, strength, and more. Do you feel that someone has to be particularly psychic to do this, or can anyone use the techniques in your book?

A: Anyone can utilize the power of their aura to achieve greater success in life! Just as all of us can feel the difference between a good and bad day, we can tell when we’re feeling energetically depleted or strong. The exercises in Aura Advantage are designed to be helpful for readers with all levels of experience in seeing and sensing auras…from beginners who’ve never seen an aura to people who’ve been seeing auras all their lives.

Q: You also write about the various auric colors and how a person's core personality and talents can be revealed through those colors. So someone might be an orange, green, indigo, etc. Do people’s auric fields ever have more than one color in them? Can they have a mix of several primary colors?

A: While some people’s auras are mostly one color, most people have auras that are a blend of two or more colors flowing together. Sometimes the colors stay separate and situated in the same place, and other times they move around as the person’s mood and thoughts change.

Q: I know that when I’m around people who are angry or upset, I get this really dense sensation, like there’s “ick”around that person. I don’t really see auras, though. It’s more of a visceral reaction. Have you found that the auric field changes color when someone is in a chaotic place emotionally? Can you perceive those changes?

A: People who are experiencing emotional chaos often have energy fields that are highly unpleasant to be around, either because the energy is swirling, stabbing outward, or hooking passers-by in. They also often have darker auras –auras with sections of dark gray, black or brown mixed in. The darker colors indicate a vulnerability to emotional and physical disease if they remain for more than a few days in the person’s auric field.

Q: Wow! So I guess I should pay attention when my instincts tell me to avoid being around a particular person. I think I also need to strengthen my own auric field so that I'm not as affected by the people around me. You teach readers how to do this in your book. You include many helpful meditations that people can use to strengthen their auric fields. I especially liked the “Best Possible Life Chakra Meditation,”where you visualize your perfect future self and connect with that energy. When I tried that one, I felt a lot of warmth and vitality coursing through me. I felt like I was reaching across time and probability to connect with my best self and tapping into the wisdom of that ideal me, if that makes sense! I also found that your “Exercise for Making Good Choices”really resonated for me. You lay out this simple technique for choosing between two things, whether they’re relationships, books to read, projects to work on, etc. I liked how you taught us to “dowse”in this way by just using the intelligence of the energy body to give us a clear answer. You also describe how people can learn to dowse by using wire coat hangers or a pendulum. What’s your personal favorite dowsing tool?

A: My favorite way to dowse is by sensing the energy fields of the choices I’m considering. The exercise in Aura Advantage provides readers with a way to do this that can be used wherever you go, since no special dowsing tools are required…just your own two hands!

Q: There are also many other great meditations in your book that give you tools for accessing abundance, releasing negative energies, and even magnetizing your ideal romantic situation. It seems like our auric fields are constantly sending out a field that either attracts or repels. Do you feel it’s important to do spiritual self-cleansing on a regular basis, to clear out the “goop”that gets in the way of our success? How can we best learn to release those self-sabotage patterns?

A: It is just as important to clear out your aura every day as it is to bathe and brush your teeth. Just as other people notice when you haven’t washed your hands or put on clean clothes, everyone is sensing your energy field. Perhaps most importantly, your health depends on keeping your aura clean!

Q: There’s so much great information in Aura Advantage, I recommend that people check it out for themselves. It’s published by Adams Media. I assume it’s available through bookstores and from Amazon.com? Is that right?

A: Aura Advantage can be ordered through any bookstore, and is available in all Barnes & Noble stores and through Amazon.com. Autographed copies of Aura Advantage and Karen Kimball & the Dream Weaver’s Web and Aura Healing Meditations are available through the realityshifters.com web site.

Q: We'll talk more about the Karen Kimball book in a moment, but first I want to mention that you have an e-Book that has just come out called Shine with the Aura of Success! This is available for purchase off of your website, http://realityshifters.com. I’ve read it, and I found that it’s a nice companion piece to Aura Advantage because it gets right to the concepts that you outline in that book and lays them out in a condensed form. But it also seems like it would be an excellent stand alone book if people want to jump right in and start working with their auric fields now. Do you see it as sort of a workbook to help readers apply the principles that you talk about in Aura Advantage? What would you say is the main difference between the two books?

A: Yes, the eBook is designed to be a booklet that gets right to the essence of what your aura can do for you. It’s meant to be fun to read so it provides a great deal of information very quickly, and it acts as a friendly companion to Aura Advantage, kind of like a workbook, but with a playful attitude.

Q: I think both books work well together, and it’s nice to have material available in these different formats. Speaking of different formats, I’d like to mention the other book you’ve written. It’s a young adult novel called Karen Kimball and the Dream Weaver’s Web, and it’s available through iUniverse.com. I just finished this book this week, and I had so much fun reading it! Tell us more about what inspired you to write this book.

A: I’ve read lots of children’s fantasy stories over the years, and when the Harry Potter books came out, I felt frustrated that there weren’t any books dealing with the kind of real magic I’ve experienced throughout my life. I wished for books about lucid dreaming, astral travel, animal communication, aura viewing and reality shifting that resonated with me as being real. Many of the things that have really happened to me that might seem too far out for non-fiction went into Karen Kimball & the Dream Weaver’s Web, including choosing between parallel realities and figuring out what to do with less-than-friendly spirits.

Q: That's great. I’ve found that there are so many young people out there who are having psychic experiences and their parents are, well, basically clueless about it! Your book is entertaining as an adventure novel, but it also lays out helpful tips for young people to start understanding their dreams and their intuition. And I have to say that as an "adult," I found myself learning some wonderful things from the book, too! Did you draw upon experiences in your own childhood while writing this book? Were you inspired by your own daughters and their experiences as well?

A: Exactly! There are many children who hear voices and see things and don’t feel comfortable talking about their experiences, yet they can really benefit from guidance. I wasn't able to talk to my parents about my psychic/metaphysical experiences growing up, so I know how lonely it can feel. In the book Karen Kimball, Karen is torn in three different directions about how to acknowledge her budding psychic skills, and this is similar to the core struggle that so many of us have growing up in a culture in which only the ordinary reality is accepted as reality. I based Karen Kimball upon metaphysical experiences I’ve had with spirits, animals, lucid dreaming and all sorts of other things, as well as things that happened with my daughters.

Q: Parents of sensitive pre-teens or young teens should definitely give this book to their children. It’s much better than Harry Potter, because it doesn’t just talk about “magic,”it teaches you how to access your own “magical”talents through the power of spiritual self-discovery. Let me clarify that you don’t teach kids witchcraft in this book! You lead the readers to understand dreaming, spiritual self-protection, and intuitive awareness in an accessible way. I especially liked how you wove in two Native American characters, Gil and Charlotte Shortgrass. As the story evolves, these characters teach Karen Kimball about the thread of life that connects all of us. Does the concept of the dream weaver’s web come from one specific native tradition, do you know? Where did you first come across the idea?

A: The character of Spider Woman is common to most all Native American stories. The vision of the dream weaver’s web is one that came to me in a vision when I was about five years old, when my spirit guides showed me the nature of my life work in relation to the web of consciousness. From this simple image I grasped the idea of how we collectively dream reality into existence, how we are all connected to one another, and how essentially, we are all as one.

Q: It’s a powerful concept, and I think it’s one that kids will quickly grasp. I mean, nowadays kids can instant message a friend living halfway around the world in the blink of an eye. The dream weaver’s web is kind of like the Cosmic Internet! Do you feel that this web, this interconnection that links us all, helps you when you do intuitive consultations with people? You work largely over the phone, right? Tell us more about the readings that you do for people.

A: I utilize the dream weaver’s web when I do intuitive consultations with people. Most of these consultations are done over the phone, since I have clients from as far away as Japan, Scotland, and England. Some people call just once for a one hour reading, and many have no idea what it is that they need to work on. They call because they feel stuck or because they seek help making their dreams come true. Before our session begins, I consult with spirit to find out what the big issues actually are for this person, so we can stay focused on the big issues and get right to the core of what most needs attention. This is especially helpful for people who don’t know where to start or don’t know how to summarize what’s going on in their life that needs most assistance. Many clients check in regularly every few weeks or couple of months, and some have sessions that are actually one-on-one energy classes.

Q: One last thing before we finish our discussion –I want to mention the meditation CD that you are also offering through your website. I listened to the first meditation, and I just loved the music playing behind your voice as you led listeners into this deeply relaxing, healing meditation. What are the three meditations on the CD designed to do?

A: The three meditations can be listened to sequentially for best effect and can be put on repeat for those who need to be re-energized. The first meditation provides the listener with an experience of divine love and healing energy. The second meditation brings the divine energy inside every cell in your body. The third meditation activates inner radiance so that you shine brightly, clearing out all destructive energies. The music was created through collaboration with a composer who understood my intention to provide deep levels of relaxation and energization.

Q: I have to tell you that I felt wonderful as I listened to the first meditation. I can’t wait to listen to the others! And the music was so pretty; I think I’m going to leave it on in my work space from time to time to add a serene energy to my work area.

A: Many people report feeling tremendously recharged when they leave the CD on continuously…in fact, it was designed to be put on repeat and left on to play over and over for those in need of healing.

Q: Cynthia, thanks so much for spending this time with us. Any last thoughts before we wrap things up? Are there any projects that you’re working on now that you’d like to mention?

A: You already talked about my new eBook called Shine with the Aura of Success! which is available through the realityshifters.com web site, and I’ve just written and presented a paper on the subject of healing relationships with parallel realities. I’ve also been working on a multi-media presentation of the art and history of auras. I’d love to publish a sequel to the first Karen Kimball book and also my book about reality shifts in the next couple of years.

Q: I wish you the best with all of your writing and with your wonderful website. And I'm sure my readers will want you to come back and do a second interview when your next book is out. Thanks again!

A: Thank you!

CYNTHIA SUE LARSON is a pioneer in the field of consciousness who helps people become masterful reality shifters by making the most of their auras. Larson is author of the books Aura Advantage: How the Colors in Your Aura Can Help You Attain What You Desire and Attract Success; Karen Kimball & the Dream Weaver’s Web; the eBook Shine with the Aura of Success! and the Aura Healing Meditations CD. Larson's free ezine, RealityShifters News, is read by international subscribers through her http://realityshifters.com website. Larson provides spiritual life coaching to help people develop their energy fields and best utilize their divine gifts.

The books Aura Advantage, Karen Kimball, Shine with the Aura of Success! and the Aura Healing Meditations CD are all available through the www.realityshifters.com web site and on Amazon.com. Aura Advantage is also available at Barnes & Noble bookstores everywhere.

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