a very definite—manner to develop:
On any question that arises, ask the mental self—get the answer, yes or no. Rest on that. Do not act immediately (if you would develop the intuitive influences). Then, in meditation or prayer, when looking within self, ask—is this yes or no? The answer is intuitive development. On the same question, to be sure, see?
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Understanding the connection between spiritual growth and intuitive development is important. When Carol Ann Liaros was directing the Project Blind Awareness program, she would have the program volunteers arrive a half hour early to form a circle and meditate on raising the vibrations within the room in which the program met. According to Carol Ann, “When the blind arrived, their energy fields would immediately be raised to a higher vibration. The results of our efforts were verified over and over again by the feelings of love that emanated from the participants.”
As one means of testing the vibration of color Carol Ann Liaros and the volunteers of Project Blind Awareness devised a study working with local blind associations and Professor Douglas Dean, an electrochemist and parapsychologist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Twenty blind participants were recruited and put through one hundred color selection trials both before and after they had undergone twenty hours of Project Blind Awareness training. During these seasons, the blind participants were asked to run their hands over various colored sheets while the following questions were asked:
a) Did the colored sheets feel the same or different?
b) Could the blind individual differentiate between black and white?
c) Could the blind individual differentiate between red and blue?
d) Could the blind individual differentiate between a set of black and white sheets and a set of red and blue?
Because each individual participated in one hundred color selection trials, and because the laws of chance would entail a fifty-fifty “guess” on items a-c, and a 25 percent “guess” on item d, just by chance the following collective accuracy score would occur:
True enough, after the first one hundred color selection trials and prior to undertaking the intuitive training, the blind participants scored within the range of chance, as follows:
Over the next seven weeks the participants were led through a series of exercises for both relaxation and intuitive development. At the end of the training a number of the participants reported being able to “see” in a way they could not quite verbalize or even totally understand. Some reported the ability to distinguish colors from across the room. Others said that they could perceive the outline of objects in a room. When asked to point to where they were perceiving color—as it could not have been visually—they usually pointed to their foreheads. Many of the subjects reported an increase in mobility because they began to “just know” where objects were in a room.
One man reported that he could walk down the street without a cane because he could “see” the plate glass windows, lamp posts, and more. Another woman stated that she was able to pick out her clothes from her closet because she could “tell the difference” in colors by running her hands over the clothing at a distance of several inches. Another woman described her new abilities, as follows: “An awareness of my own energy field is developing and I feel as though I really see myself: I see my hands working, I see my body, I see images and shadows, and seem to be able to almost see what is in a room. It seems that I really see it, although I can’t, as I am totally blind. Last Sunday I saw my first aura. A friend was talking with me when suddenly I saw her aura and was so surprised that I did not hear what she was saying. She noticed that I was not listening and said that my eyes got larger and larger until she knew that something was going on. I interrupted her and said, ‘I can see your aura.’ It was a white light, hazy and flickering, which encircled her head.”
In an interesting incident, one of the blind participants was scanning the aura of her volunteer and was commenting about heat, coolness, and other descriptions as she scanned. When she progressed to the feet and passed her hand over one part of the left foot, she reported, “Oh, it feels very cool here.” Much to the blind woman’s shock, her volunteer replied, “Yes! That’s right. I had a toe removed several years ago!” A similar experience was noted in a sixty-two-year-old blind student who became astonished when she scanned the aura of her volunteer and noticed how cold it felt in the torso area. The volunteer told her that she had undergone a hysterectomy!
Carol Ann Liaros had her own experience with the blind participants that she describes, as follows:
All of the lights were off in the room where the group met. I was standing up against a white wall for an exercise in which I was encouraging the blind participants to practice “seeing” my aura. (Many were having experiences of seeing through their foreheads.) Several comments were made by participants about the colors when suddenly many in the group declared that they saw red in my aura way up high to my left. I couldn’t understand why so many of them were seeing red. I certainly wasn’t feeling angry or mad, and red is often the color of anger in the aura.
Later, the lights were turned on and we were on our break. I happened to look up at the wall where so many of them had indicated that they could see red in my aura, and I laughed. There was an EXIT sign there. It was not an illuminated sign, but painted red on the wall, and I had not seen it when the lights were out!
From a research point of view, perhaps the next results were the most amazing. After the seven-week period of training, participants again took the one hundred color selection trials; and this time their scores measured far beyond the laws of chance:
Participant scores after 20 hours of Project Blind Awareness training5:
In the period of more than forty years that Carol Ann Liaros has been leading intuition training exercises, many very interesting experiences have occurred with participants (both sighted and blind). Stories like these suggest that color and vibration are somehow quantifiable for those who have firsthand experience and knowledge with intuitive perception:
• Bobby was a nine-year-old blind child with no light perception. His lack of sight had been discovered a couple of months after his birth. A participant in the Junior Project Blind Awareness program, one of the exercises geared for children was to have them lie on large colored sheets (squares, approximately three feet long on each side) and “feel” the vibration of the color. The sheets contained colors from the following colors: red, yellow, green, blue, white, and black.
• Each child was encouraged to lie down on a colored sheet and to stretch out his or her entire body, enabling the body to feel the color’s vibration. They were encouraged to feel the color with their hands, elbows, nose, bottom of feet, and so forth, and then describe the color to their volunteer. (All of the volunteers in the youth program were school teachers.) The children were told that with practice they should be able to recognize the various colors by the physical sensation they were experiencing. Bobby was doing fine with the colors until he lay down on the color black. As soon as he was on the ground, he immediately jumped to his feet and said, “I don’t like that color! It reminds me of my father’s funeral.”
• Sam was a blind adult whose eyes had been removed because of cancer. After taking some ESP classes and working with his intuition, he described the ability to see auras through the middle of his forehead. One of the talents
