By “projected energies” I mean the energies that we send out into the world. Granted, when seeing ourselves as masses of energy the distinctions between our internal and our external selves might be slightly arbitrary but, most of us are aware of our internal/external “boundaries” and we consider and treat ourselves and others with this “clarity”. So… if the chakra system is a way of describing our internal workings, auras are one way of describing our external makeup.