Aura Goggles
January 10th, 2007
If you, like me, have trouble seeing auras, it could be because they don’t exist. Or, maybe, we’re just not trying hard enough. Luckily, as with so many areas in life, there is someone willing to sell us a solution. Step forward Wendy L. Lambert, creator and distributor of AURA GOGGLES.

Wow! Who knew that the technology needed to visualise a person’s energy field thing could be reduced down to a strip of card and plastic? And it doesn’t need batteries or anything! Wendy sure is clever.
A few years ago I purchased a pair of aura goggles and had success in increasing my aura viewing abilities. Then I discovered an indigo filter that, when held to the eye, allowed me to see auras just as the aura goggles did.
Clearly Wendy’s been doing some serious R&D. She also hatched the cunning marketing strategy to sell the glasses with a nonsense pamphlet an instruction manual, the result of which was that:
“Aura Glasses: You Can see Auras” rapidly became a best seller in Canada at first printing in 1996 (over 2,000 copies sold in the first year), and can now be found around the world.
At a guess, I’d say with bestsellers in Canada typically selling several million copies, either there is a very steep dropoff outside the top ten, or Wendy is guilty of some serious hyperbole. But what do I know? The market in gimmicky New Age books boasting free aura goggles can’t be that crowded.
The Aura Goggles (and associated book) can be yours for just USD$24.95. Frankly, that a little much for me to pay just to find out what exactly these are. I’m gonna stick my neck out and say Wendy L. Lambert’s Aura Goggles are in fact no more than a piece of card with some holographic film stuck to it. You know, the kind you used to wear as a kid which covered everything with trippy rainbows. Unless Wendy is willing to send me a free sample, or explain the technology behind the Aura Goggles, I’ll stick with HoloSpex, sold at a fraction of the price and with none of the bullshit.
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Ray Girvan | January 11th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
The description - an “indigo filter” - suggests strongly to me what they might be: Congo Blue theatrical gel. This is an indigo-blue lighting filter that has a strong dip in mid-range transmission; it lets through blue and red/infrared, but nothing much between. Since these frequencies have different focal lengths in the eye, you’ll get freaky focus and depth effects - chromostereopsis - when you look at something white.
2. Frank the SciencePunk | January 11th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Thanks Ray! ^ ^
3. Matt | September 22nd, 2007 at 9:02 am
As far as book items go a best seller can be considered in the hundreds of thousands. Compared to population it can be a relatively small amount of sales.
4. Ray Girvan | November 25th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Belay the previous guess. A few more sites are actually saying what’s in Aura Googles: “pinacyanole bromide” filters. Pinacyanole is a blue dye used as a histological stain and (a.k.a. Sensitol Red) a moderately obsolete component in colour photography that increases the sensitivity of photographic emulsions to the red / infrared end of the spectrum. I can’t find anything open-access that gives its transmission characteristics.
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