re krillean photography newsgroups m h a added followups set to most appropriate groups in apr unlv edu todamhyp charles unlv edu brian m huey writes i am looking for any information supplies that will allow do it yourselfers to take krillean pictures it s kirlian krillean pictures are portraits of tiny shrimp one might extrapolate here and say that this proves that every object within the universe as we know it has its own energy signature i think it s safe to say that anything that s not at degrees kelvin will have its own energy signature the interesting questions are what kind of energy and what it signifies i d check places like edmund scientific are they still in business or i wonder if you can find ex soviet union equipment for sale somewhere in the relcom hierarchy some expansion on kirlian photography from the credulous side stanway andrew alternative medicine a guide to natural therapies isbn new york viking penguin p p a not overly critical but still useful overview of alternative health therapies the russian engineer semyon kirlian and his wife valentina during the s using alternating currents of high frequency to illuminate their subjects they photographed them they found that if an object was a good conductor such as a metal the picture showed only its surface while the pictures of poor conductors showed the inner structure of the object even if it were optically opaque they found too that these high frequency pictures could distinguish between dead and living objects dead ones had a constant outline whilst living ones were subject to changes the object s life activity was also visible in highly variable colour patterns high frequency photography has now been practised for twenty years in the soviet union but only a few people in the west have taken it up seriously professor douglas dean in new york and professor philips at washington university in st louis have produced kirlian photographs and others have been produced in brazil austria and germany using kirlian photography it is possible to show an aura around people s fingers notably around those of healers who are concentrating on healing someone normally blue and white rays emanate from the fingers but when a subject becomes angry or excited the aura turns red and spotty the soviets are now using kirlian photography to diagnose diseases which cannot be diagnosed by any other method they argue that in most illnesses there is a preclinical stage during which the person isn t actually ill but is about to be they claim to be able to foretell a disease by photographing its preclinical phase but the most exciting phenomenon illustrated by kirlian photography is the phantom effect during high frequency photography of a leaf from which a part had been cut the photograph gave a complete picture of the leaf with the removed part showing up faintly this is extremely important because it backs up the experiences of psychics who can see the legs of amputees as if they were still there the important thing about the kirlian phantoms though is that the electromagnetic pattern can t possibly represent a secondary phenomenon or the field would vanish when the piece of leaf or leg vanished the energy grid contained in a living object must therefore be far more significant than the actual object itself kirlian photography has shown how water mentally charged by a healer has a much richer energy field around it than ordinary water from the incredulous side macrobert alan reality shopping a consumer s guide to new age hokum whole earth review autumn vnon p an excellent article providing common sense guidelines for evaluating paranormal claims and some of the author s favorite examples of hokum the crank usually works in isolation from everyone else in his field of study making grand discoveries in his basement many paranormal movements can be traced back to such people kirlian photography for instance if you pump high voltage electricity into anything it will emit glowing sparks common knowledge to electrical workers and hobbyists for a century it took a lone basement crank to declare that the sparks represent some sort of spiritual aura in fact kirlian photography was subjected to rigorous testing by physicists john o pehek harry j kyler and david l faust who reported their findings in the october issue of science their conclusion the variations observed in kirlian photographs are due solely to moisture on the surface of the body and not to mysterious auras or even necessarily to changes in mood or mental state nevertheless television shows magazines and books many by famous parapsychologists continue to promote kirlian photography as proof of the unknown peter kaminski kaminski netcom com
