If you know something about them, or you've met someone trying to sell this bull****, maybe you can help me out. A woman I know has become convinced that she has an aura and that there are parasites plaguing her that come from other peoples' bad auras (or something close to that).

That wouldn't bother me so much, but she met a guy - supposedly an older guy who knows a lot about this sort of thing - who offers to help her with this. She said he had some sort of discs that he put on her body and that she could "feel" the effects of whatever this was. According to this guy, this is parasites leaving her body.

I want to know what exactly he did so I can show her some sort of proof this isn't real. Somebody help me out here.

I already know where this thread is going...

TO MEXICO!

Say hi to Gold for me!

As far as the topic: Don't bother trying to prove to her anything. She's... got issues apparently anyway.

Oh, she's a hippy.

I'm sorry, thats incurable. Unless you shoot them in the head.

On second thought, I apologize if I seem overly harsh towards some peoples' beliefs, but I'm pissed off at the moment because there is more to that story than what I'm telling. Trust me, this guy is not on the level.

I didn't think you sounded harsh, it's just that any thread using the word "belief" always ends up a particular way.

If she buys into his crap, then clearly she doesn't have enough mental capacity to warrant further effort. If she wants to be an idiot then it's her own problem.

Yeah, but if it was your friend, you wouldn't just give up on them.

So no one knows what this thing with the discs is called?

hehe... I had a girl break up with me once, cause her mom said I had a "blue" aura... Oddly enough, there's nothing wrong with a blue aura. It just means I like deep, meaningful relationships. *shrug*

Nope, but I'd wager $100 that they have magnets in them.

See, magnets can do anything. Heal injuries, cure cancer, fix constipation. Especially "RARE EARTH" magnets, not because they're stronger (which they are; rare earth magnets are quite powerful), but because they're "rare" and "earth" and that means they have special powers.

Oh, if you wear magnetic rings on your fingers, it will realign your bio-electric field and you will live forever.

Auras eh? Are you sure they aren't pharamones? Usually when I see a red one, I know its a friend. When I see a blue one, its either cowering in the corner or trying to gun me down with a pulse rifle. If I see a green one, I know I better stay away or he'll blow himself up. I like biting the heads off the blue ones. Mmmmm tasty.

It's called homeopathy.

take her to a good massuese and then ask her which she'd prefer, more magnets, or more massage.

Er, not really. But homeopathy is equally unscientifically grounded.

are you sure it's New Age and not Scientologist? because the beleive in the parisite thing too, but hey if she is not moving to Clearwater and is not going broke for the plate remidy thing, then it is New Age. I wish I had some good advice for you but I don't really other than what you are doing.