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Kirlian photography is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. It is named after Semyon Kirlian, who, in 1939 accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate is connected to a high-voltage source, an image is produced on the photographic plate.[1]
Personally, I think the images kind of speak for themselves.
Keep going to find the quote which applies here:
Originally posted by CynicalDrivel
Energy pathways. Not the energy in the food itself.
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Kirlian photography is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. It is named after Semyon Kirlian, who, in 1939 accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate is connected to a high-voltage source, an image is produced on the photographic plate.[1]
Pressure and moisture content are some key variables affecting the images. Pressure has nothing to do with the food quality, but moisture content does. When I harvest food from my garden, the moisture content is the highest, and as it sits around it starts to dry out.
Kirlian photography has been the subject of mainstream scientific research, parapsychology research and art. To a large extent, It has been co-opted by promoters of pseudoscience and paranormal health claims in books, magazines, workshops, and web sites....
Kirlian's experiments did not provide evidence for an energy field other than the electric fields produced by chemical processes, and the streaming process of coronal discharges.[4]
The coronal discharges identified as Kirlian auras are the result of stochastic electric ionization processes, and are greatly affected by many factors, including the voltage and frequency of the stimulus, the pressure with which a person or object touches the imaging surface, the local humidity around the object being imaged, how well grounded the person or object is, and other local factors affecting the conductivity of the person or object being imaged. Oils, sweat, bacteria, and other ionizing contaminants found on living tissues can also affect the resulting images.
Kirlian photography (aka corona discharge photography or spark electrography has been shown to demonstrate an
electrochemical image of pre- and post adjustment with definite change in image. Past research in this field, correlating homeopathic and acupuncture response has been documented. Terry Tobin, Ph.D. who was director of research at the former Pasadena College of Chiropractic, did direct some early chiropractic investigation of "The Effect of Spinal Manipulation on Energy Fields in the Fingers as Assessed by Kirlian Photography" as reported in Chiropractic USA, April, l983. Further research evaluating chiropractic response with this modality needs to be done. The potential of Kirlian photographic assessment in chiropractic could be phenomenal. It may be possible to image living tissue with this modality and show post-treatment response of life force before and after the chiropractic adjustment. ....
Life force can be conceptualized through the energetic body model. The Germans have been doing research into this and have shown the treatment effect of homeopathy with pre- and post-treatment photography demonatrating that before treatment the image is aberrant; after treatment, the Kirlian studies demonstrate nomality. Dr. M. K. Gaikin, a Leningrad surgeon who studied acupuncture in China, was the first to propose Kirlian photography as a means of demonstrating vital energetics.
This aura machine isn't Kirlian photography. you put your hand on a sensor which measures skin conductivity and temperature, then the machine makes pretty colors. It's totally different.
Originally posted by Unity_99
If it was only the things quoted that affected Kirlian Photography, then why would reiki affect the colors and field so much?
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Why is it that what is real and extremely interesting, is downplayed, put into disreputable fields of study.
The actual limitations posted in these articles don't exist and in fact, the fields and color very much relate to health, and other factors.
Originally posted by Wertdagf
reply to post by Arbitrageur
Good job on completly debunking this nonsense. Its obvious this has to do with electrical conductivity... moisture being the key component.
I love the smell of a good ATS smackdown in the morning.edit on 9-9-2012 by Wertdagf because: (no reason given)
Research with Kirlian pbctography has been performed by very reputable scientists. It's application to clinical sciences is still very much in in infancy. In the book High Voltage Photography, author H.S. Dakin concluded: ".... in special cases there are apparent correlations betweem the shapes and intensity of high voltage photographic images and physiological conditions." An article by Leonard Konikiewicz in The Journal of Biological Photographic Association stated:" ... now that we have identified the driving force behind corona modulation, the application of Kirlian techniques may become a valuable diagnostic dimension in some clinical applications."
Kirlian photography has been researched for application to diagnostics in cancer. Human bresat tumor biopsies performed by Glen Rhine, Phd, at St Bartholomew's Hospital--in London in 1985 showed that there is a difference between malignant breast tissue and normal biopsy tissue. In Greece, Kirlian color photography has been shown to be a useful tool in diagnosis of psychopathology. Omura's research published in l978 in the International Journal of Accupuncture and Electrotherapeutics Research related to a "snowflake" appearance pattern which was disease related to gout and rheumatoid arthritis. The article, "An Image Intensification Technique of Motion Picture Kirlian Photography," authored by Gary Pooke and Paul Sparks is fascinating. These gentlemen were researchers at the U S Naval postgraduate school in the Man/Machine Systems Design Lab in Monterey, California. Their conclusion on Kirlian photography was "It is the author's belief that the technique described here is another step for that verification, in addition, to it's possible uses in Psychology, medicine, agriculture, art and industry"
Later research has found that the human body has a biophysical field around it composed of morphogenic fields, defined by cell biologists as the fields which switch genes on and off and control cell development. They determine whether a cell will become a skin cell or an eye cell, for instance.
US military intelligence evaluated the Kirlian effect:
‘...the Soviets seem preoccupied with the search for the energy that carries or facilitates telepathy transmission. Is it electromagnetic or not? The search for this unknown energy has led the Soviets to Kirlian photography; named after its inventors Semyon and Valentina Kirlian. The Kirlians developed a technique of photographing with a high-frequency electrical field involving a specially constructed high-frequency spark generator, tuned up and down between 75,000 and 200,000 electrical oscillations per second. Their first photographs showed turquoise and reddish-yellow patterns of flares coming out of specific channels within leaves. A magnified picture of a finger showed craters of light and flares’
By the 1960s research on bioluminescence revealed by Kirlian photography was going on in many Soviet universities. Perfected techniques of photographing the play of high-frequency currents on humans, plants and animals, as well as on inanimate matter have set the Soviets on some striking discoveries about the energetical nature of man. "Bio-plasma” is a term coined by the Soviets for bioluminescent phenomena or energy. Scientists at the Kazakh State University at Alma-ata have found illnesses tend to show up in advance as a disordered play of flares from the "bio-plasma" long before they manifest in the physical body.