Subtle body
Wikipedia contributors · 2024 · Wikipedia
This source is used as context evidence across 2 linked claims and 2 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Overview of the 'subtle body' concept across Indian, Tibetan, Daoist, Western esoteric, and Theosophical traditions.
How this source is used on the map
Conceptual home for chakras, auras, prana / qi / ki, and aural-energy claims more generally.
Citation record
- Authors
- Wikipedia contributors
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Wikipedia
- Source type
- Secondary summary
- Map role
- context
- Credibility level
- secondary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- Not recorded
- PubMed
- Not recorded
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Linked claims
Direct tests have failed to detect aura perception. 'Aura photography' is heat or skin conductance.
A Vedic symbolic map of subtle anatomy. As a physical system, no evidence; as a symbolic map of attention and feeling, possibly useful.
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Includes the standard skeptical critique and the conflation with Kirlian photography.
Distinguishes the contemplative-symbolic original use from the modern 'physical energy organ' reading.
A compact, famous controlled test of human-energy-field perception, relevant to aura and energy-healing claims even though it targets therapeutic touch rather than Reiki specifically.