What Color Is Your Aura?: Personality Spectrums for Understanding and Growth [Paperback]

Barbara Bowers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 1989

Auras are the colored bands of light that surround everyone's body. What Color Is Your Aura? is the only book available that will tell readers what color their aura is and what it reveals about their personality, emotions, talents and potential.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Gallery Books (December 15, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671707639
• ISBN-13: 978-0671707637
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #435,059 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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52 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Creates Misunderstanding, January 29, 2005

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This review is from: What Color Is Your Aura?: Personality Spectrums for Understanding and Growth (Paperback)

I had a very strong reaction to this book because I see auras, have had mentors who see auras and more, and have read a lot of existing literature on the subject. And I can definitely say that not only are the colors of an individual's aura tremendously exaggerated in importance, there is NOT one core color that remains the same for an individual during all of life!

The aura is made of many colors that shift and flow, but it is also made of specific layers, and shades of light and dark, and other structures that join it...this complex energetic structure is over-simplified by this book.

Furthermore, pigeonholing people by a question-test longer but not more sophisticated than those found in teen magazines is just not acceptable. People do not have a core 'personality band' with a set color.

Please read other books and become well informed - read Barbara Brennan, Hands of Light; read Warren Grossman, To Be Healed By The Earth; read Mark Rich, Energetic Anatomy; read Donna Eden, Energy Medicine. All of these books are written by seers who resisted the temptation to create a pat, easily marketable 'which type am I' system, instead respecting the wondrous complexity and astounding variety that emerges when you view the human aura, as varied and unique as humans themselves.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bowers has caught the essence of human personality., July 23, 1997

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This review is from: What Color Is Your Aura?: Personality Spectrums for Understanding and Growth (Paperback)

Within the guise of New Age awareness, Bower's book is more of a personality test based largely on the aura colors she has always seen. During my first year of college, a close friend gave the aura test to me and helped me discover more about myself than any other source. Never before has a book, let alone a personality test, transcribed so much of my inner self. She is the first to allow for the "jack-of-all-trades" personality that normal personality test's just shove off as diverse. She also notices a new color, Indigo, that has a special role in this modern world. By exploring spiritual, emotional, financial, and other areas of each color's life, Bowers has caught the essence of human personality. Even though we are all have one main color, everyone should read all the color's descriptions, for they describe anyone you will encounter and will help you motivate/ cope with other people. Other friends that have read her book have cried because they finally felt understood. Personally, I have never felt so centered and finally know how to articulate my strengths, my weaknesses, and above all, my gifts.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maps The 14 Auric Colors and Personality Patterns, October 28, 2003

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This review is from: What Color Is Your Aura?: Personality Spectrums for Understanding and Growth (Paperback)

Dr. Barbara Bowers was a lady who had an amazing gift of discerning the slightest difference between hues and colors. She also could see auras. In her book "What Color Is Your Aura?", she catalogues humanity into that correlates with their aura color: 14 distinct personality patterns: red, orange, magenta, yellow, physical tan, mental tan, green, nurturing tan, loving tan, blue, violet, lavender, crystal and indigo. Her book also contains an in-depth questionnaire to determine your predominant personality type and aura.

Bowers explains each of the 14 colors and how each approaches physical reality, their mental attitudes, emotional makeup, social style, compatibility with the other 13 colors, personal power and leadership style, financial choices, career options, and spirituality. It's an informative manual on 14 distinct personality patterns that can aid in career searches, understanding mate compatibility, relationships, finding life purpose, and so on.

In many ways, this book was a precursor to the ANSIR® personality system. (Bowers and Seich were planning on collaborating before Bowers' untimely death.) What Color Is Your Aura? is a fascinating trip into auras, energy, and personality patternsand--aiding you in seeing yourself and others with fresh, and more compassionate, eyes.