Aura

They have to do with something related to the perception of an aura. There is indeed affinity and correspondence between physical colors and auric (or aural, 'auroral') colors, in the sense that physical colors themselves have a moral and spiritual quality

Corbin establishes the aura as a mode of visionary apperception linking physical color to moral-spiritual states, providing a methodological basis for distinguishing suprasensory perception from hallucination in Sufi psychology.

Corbin, Henry, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, 1971thesis

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it is precisely by investing the beloved being with this aura, this dimension of transcendence, that the dialectic of love of Ibn ʿArabī, Rūzbehān, or Jalāluddīn Rūmī preserves itself from the idolatry which its ascetic critics were so ready to find in it

Corbin argues that the aura as transcendent dimension is the structural protection of Sufi love-mysticism against charges of idolatry, making it a theological as much as a perceptual category.

Corbin, Henry, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, 1969thesis

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The lines above from Huang-po touch on what I see as the paradoxical conflict that people experience in relation to auras. They are 'alwa[ys elusive and always present]'

McNiff frames the aura as a paradoxical expressive quality of things that resists direct pursuit yet is omnipresent — a therapeutic-artistic concept continuous with the Zen logic of non-grasping.

McNiff, Shaun, Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul, 2004thesis

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the zodiac is what astrologers-scientists call the 'magnetic field' of the Earth, what occultists call the 'aura of the Earth,' or the auric egg of the planetary Being

Rudhyar identifies the zodiac cosmologically with the Earth's aura, reframing a metaphysical occult concept through the language of field physics and depth-psychological symbolism.

Dane Rudhyar, The Astrology of Personality: A Re-formulation of Astrological Concepts and Ideals in Terms of Contemporary Psychology and Philosophy, 1936thesis

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it is in this aura — that is, in the connotations that by their nature blossom out of metaphors — that the deepest significance of the stories of Jesus' life and work are to be found

Campbell employs aura hermeneutically to denote the connotative penumbra of religious metaphor, arguing that scriptural meaning resides not in literal content but in this radiating symbolic field.

Campbell, Joseph, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor, 2001supporting

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moving out into the aura of the human being, and then you go on into the aura of the earth and then the aura of God

Russell records Hillman's concentric model of aura as an expanding field of relatedness moving outward from person to earth to the divine, situating the concept within archetypal psychology's attention to ensouled matter.

Russell, Dick, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, 2023supporting

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Any of the very human experiences of the world, from romantic relationships and hero worship to political affiliations and identification with a sports team can also be 'sacralized' — that is, invested with a spiritual, even supernatural, aura

Pargament uses aura in a sociological-psychological register to describe the process by which ordinary objects or relationships are invested with supernatural significance, touching on the sacralizing function of the psyche.

Pargament, Kenneth I, The psychology of religion and coping theory, research,, 2001aside

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