Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Background Research: Kirlian phenomenon




In Asia, when people meet a person who looks a bit different or special they say, “you have an aura.” People say such an exclamation when people feel a tiny energy, which is invisible. The Kirlian photography is a high voltage, contact print technology that makes an aura visible and readable. It is named after Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, a Russian photographer, who in 1939 accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate is subjected to a strong electric field, an image is created on the plate.

One famous Kirlian phenomenon, the “phantom leaf,” cannot be explained by know physical laws-but it may be a fake. The experimnt is easy to perform; you take a Kirlian photograph of a leaf after cutting off a small portion. Phantom leaf photos from Soviet-era proponents showed the removed portion of the leaf appearing as a ghostly appartion, suggestig an ethereal “bio-plasma body” persisting where the physical leaf no longer existed.

I guess it is in terms of temperatures and humidity surrounding objects, but I am very interested in this magical phenomenon and I partly understand how auras work. This means auras remember thing’s existence even after they are disappeared. In order words, auras can help to communicate with other things even though they are not there. Now, I know there is no person who leaves no traces behind, and in this reason, I know something is always in the air. A trace is another name of aura.

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