Everyone Has a Halo.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 25, 22 June 1910, Page 56

Everyone Has a Halo.

What is the colour of your halo? The question is perfectly serious. Dr. Talmage Doren, a well-known American educationalist and teacher,, has set the world a-talking by declaring that every human being is equipped with an “aura ” or “ halo,” which radiates in every direction from his body for two or three feet, and is usually drab in colour. It is a sort of manifestation, apparently of the subjective mind, and in the opinion of savants who have studied the question, to say nothing of clairvoyants and photographers, and hundreds .’ of-other people, it would be as rash,"'Dr. Doren contends, to deny the existence of the halo, as, for example, to impugn Harvey’s theory of the circulation of the blood. The aura, said Dr. Doren, who has been extensively commented upon, though usually drab - coloured, may take on al’ the hues of the rainbow, depending on a person’s condition and the state of his emotions. The variety of these colours is more extensive and beautiful than in the case of any bird of paradise. Sadness may bring a purple halo, jealousy a green, and anger a red appearance of the aura. Dr. Doren declares that they will ultimately reveal to physicians the most important symptoms upon which they can base their diagnosis of physical or mental trouble. The halos are so powerful that two persons with unmatched ones cannot sit beside each .other comfortably in a railway carriage. Often on his way to New York, he said, he has had to change his seat because he happened to get beside a halo entirely unlike his own. The preacher advised everybody to change seats in such circumstances. He referred to the harmony of two perfectly matched halos, and said that most of the troubles of married life grow out of the fact that the aurae of husband and wife do not match. He rejoiced to know that serious attention is being given now by learned men to a subject the study of which must confer great benefits upon mankind.