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Thursday, January 10, 2008

[vinnomot] Kirlian Aura Photography

From: "Virginia F. Raines"

Kirlian Aura Photography

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If you wander through a Psychic Fair, or a Mind/Body/Soul Festival, you will soon encounter Kirlian Photography. If you pay money, you'll get a colour photo of your aura.

The human body definitely gives off heat, smells and sounds - but what is this "aura"? Well, in the Land of New Age, every living creature (carrot, human or mosquito) supposedly has an aura that reflects the supernatural "energy field" that, we are told, permeates all life. After all, don't depictions of Jesus Christ and various saints show a spiritual "halo" surrounding the head?

But Science was troubled by the "aura" until 1911, when Dr. Walter J. Kilner claimed in his book, The Human Atmosphere, that he could see the human aura and use it to diagnose diseases. However, his diagnostic accuracy was pretty poor.

The next burst of interest happened with Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, an electrical technician in Krasnodar in Russia. In 1939, he noticed that if he touched high-voltage electronics in a darkened environment, a fuzzy, coloured glow extended around his body. He and his biologist wife, Valentina, spent years studying this strange phenomenon together, and in 1961, they published their results in the Russian Journal of Scientific and Applied Photography. They passed high-voltage high-frequency electricity through a test object, while it sat on photographic paper. The current was kept very low, to keep it relatively safe. Kirlian believed that he could photograph auras, and get important diagnostic health information about plants, animals and humans. In 1970, Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder published their book, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain - and that's when Kirlian Photography reached the West.

In the West, in the 1970s, in the afterglow of Flower Power, the interest in cosmic stuff like auras really took off.

So by the 1980s, James Randi (The Amazing Randi) was offering $US 100,000 to anybody who could prove they could see an aura. One psychic claimed that not only could she could see the auras of 20 people on a stage, she could even see these auras extending beyond their bodies. The people were then taken off stage, and 20 free-standing screens were put on the stage. Some of the screens had people behind them - and some did not. She claimed that she could see the auras of people extending quite a distance beyond people's bodies - but, in the test, she could not accurately choose which screens had people behind them.

So what does Kirlian photography really show? Is it the human "bioplasma energy field" or our "life energy"? Nope, it's plain old water.

The high-voltage high-frequency electricity has enough energy to rip the electrons off atoms. So the air around the object becomes ionized, and if the air contains any water, you get this lovely glow. The scientists call this glow a "corona plasma discharge" - but you can also think of it as "slow lightning". Luckily for the photographers, people in an excited state sweat more. The sweat turns into water vapour, which carries the high-voltage high-frequency electricity more easily through the air.

At least 22 factors influence the final image. These include the force and angle with which your hand is held against the metal touch plate, the atmospheric pressure, the voltage pulse rate and, of course, humidity. Indeed, Kirlian photographs of the same person, taken only minutes apart are so different (thanks to changes in water vapour levels) that they look like they came from different people. In fact, the Kirlian image disappears in a vacuum (where there's no water vapour) - but if it were due to a fundamental paranormal energy field, it should survive.

Some of the fair-ground Kirlian operators have taken the process one stage further. They get your image via a digital camera, and then add the pretty colours around your body's outline from an image manipulation program on a computer - and don't even do high-voltage, high-frequency electricity thingie. It's just the modern electronic version of sticking your face in a cardboard cutout of a famous person, and being photographed as that person.

In other words, Kirlian Photography is just a charlatan's magic trick. It uses fancy pseudo-scientific apparatus to trick people into believing that the operator has some kind of scientific credibility - and it is this, that helps transfer money into the operator's wallet.

© Karl S. Kruszelnicki Pty Ltd 2004.

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Virginia F. Raines"

Wolfram,

You *still* did not include information.

However, I could readily identify from the attached photo that it was some "aura" business so I was able to track it down quickly using the label words (blue green social heartful communicative).

http://www.auravisions.com/europe/english/default.shtml

http://auravisions.com/europe/deluxe_sample_report.pdf

First, that photo has been "photo-shopped" -- aura photos don't really come out exactly like that.

Second, aura business is just another one of the New Age promos.

Third, there is no "discipline" behind all these "explanations" about what the colors are supposed to mean, much less the supposed connection to "chakras".

Fourth, to assert that jews don't have auras is beyond ludicrous. NO, jews aren't "evil forces".

Here are some "real" examples

The Aura
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Each of us builds our own prison or our own palace.

Every conscious thought, every utterance of our lips, every interaction of ours with the world leaves its imprint upon an aura that surrounds each of us and stays with us wherever we go. All life, all blessing, all that is transmitted from Above must pass through that aura. Even if it be the greatest of blessings, the aura may distort it into ugly noise. Or it may resonate and amplify it even more.

An aura of beauty attracts beauty. An aura of love attracts love. An aura of life and joy attracts unbounded light.

Only you are the master of that aura. Only you have the permission and the power at any moment to transform your thoughts from the ugly to the beautiful, your words from bitter to sweet, your deeds from death to life.

And so too, your entire world.

A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe - words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman

Aura of a Reiki Master/Teacher

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