A matter of perception? Or is it marketing?

[tackdriver56]

One of my companions on our weekend getaway, has been studying auras. I generally consider this to be a load of crap. Oh sure, you  can learn guess a great deal of things about a person if you just watch them carefully for a while, judge their appearance based on eating habits, grooming and skin factors like color, wrinkles, etc.  But why not just

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[phantomwriter05]

Huh ...

I guess my mother taught me since I was six how to read people aura's

lol!

I'm a Psychic, who knew?!

Psychic by birth

[tackdriver56]

That's the way I figure it. You either trust yourself to see it, or you don't. I suppose it's possible for some money grubber to *train* you to do it, but only if it's that careful observation: bloodshot eyes, needle tracks, pills rattling in the pocket, faint odors of smoke or chemicals.

It was all I could do not to crank this woman up, and tell her that I've gone beyond peeking at auras... and moved on to tasting souls.

[roxybisquaint]

But why not just call it "careful observation'?

What fun would that be? Saying you can read people's auras is like saying you have a super power. It's way cooler! (Even if we all just roll our eyes at it.)

Super powers with social acceptability

[tackdriver56]

Sigh. It's true, it is like saying you've got super powers, or psychic powers. Reading people's aura's, or teaching others to do so, in North American culture is more socially acceptable, more benign, more likely to be explored and experimented with than anything more intimate. It's a fairly non-threatening way to make a buck from the gullible or adventurous.

As a business, "Soul Tasting" would be a mine-field ;-)