No, it is not true. Auras don’t exist. I don’t see auras. But some people do say that they see auras, that is, they feel/intuit/see other people’s personalities/egos/suffering in a kind of direct way, which they cannot explain, but it feels absolutely real. Their experience is true to them, but they are not seeing other people’s auras, but rather the reflection of their own judgment of them. The perceived suffering of others is also but the reflection of their own pain.

People who had an awakening experience often report the ability to perceive others “directly”. They don’t, this is their delusion. What’s happening is something else.

Both your ego and the egos of the other people exist in the mind. The smaller your ego is, the smaller egos of other people appear to be and the closer you feel to the other people. At some point it can become so close that you may feel like you experience their emotions or even thoughts directly. This is an illusion, an extremely common one. In reality, you are experiencing your own perception of them, the image that you have constructed of them. Unfortunately, many people cling to that as a newfound spiritual ability and stay in this delusion for a very long time. Some never outgrow it. Sometimes they also describe it as “opening their third eye”.

This is all, as usual, just an egoic defense mechanism. There is, strictly speaking, only one ego in existence, and it’s you. So, all darkness you perceive in other people is your own darkness. But this fact is very hard, very painful to accept. So if, before awakening, you considered some person an asshole or secretly despised them, after awakening you become much more closely situated to your own emotions, perceptions and judgments associated with that person. They were unconscious before, now some of them became conscious. So when you get together with this person you may experience a lot of negativity, seemingly out of nowhere. But of course, ego doesn’t want to admit it’s yours, so the knee-jerk defense reaction is “Wow, this person carries so much negative energy! Such a dark aura!”. No, this is just make believe. It is your own hatred for this person you are experiencing, you just don’t want to admit it.

Which is why in spirituality the focus must always be on you. Sometimes after having a very profound spiritual experience (often times, psychedelically induced), people with very strong egos open their “third eye” and see egos/auras in everyone, utterly convinced that the “truth” about others has been revealed to them and they are now “embodying” it by “taking in” and “healing” their suffering. Because of their own fear of owning their emotions and perceptions, they end up being the most insufferable enlightened egos out there. They invariably end up trusting their own judgments over whatever others say about themselves (because they can now see!) and thus walk around hurting those they don’t like. They have elevated the perceptions of their ego into the absolute truth, and don’t consider anything that contradicts it. Such is the delusion of grandeur.

The perception of others only becomes accurate when it is completely cold. I see no auras, and no positive or negative energy in people. I see everyone exactly how they are at the current moment, and I sense or perceive absolutely nothing emotionally, bodily or otherwise about anyone, other than what they tell me directly or what facial expression they make. When absolutely nothing arises in you, regardless of what the other person says or how they behave, then your perception of them is accurate, before that it’s always skewed by your own judgment - that’s auras.

If you see beautiful auras, it’s your own beauty you’re seeing. If you see ugly auras, it’s your own ugliness you’re seeing. In either case, there is still more pain and suffering in you, and it’s not enlightenment, not yet. All egos must merge into wholeness in enlightenment. When your own ego disappears completely, all other egos disappear completely, and the closeness to other people becomes absolute. No auras, just infinite intimacy.