Kirlian Photography And Auras
In 1939 a man named Semyon Kirlian found that if an electrically charged object is left sitting on a photographic plate, an image of the small electrical discharges around the edge of the object is recorded. Kirlian connected the record of the electrical discharges around living things like plants with the theory that all living things have an aura.
If you don’t know what an aura is, according to Wikipedia, “In parapsychology and many forms of spiritual practice, an aura is a field of subtle, luminous radiation supposedly surrounding a person or object (like the halo or aureola of religious art) that some people are claimed to be capable of observing by means of their third eye. The depiction of such an aura in religious art usually connotes a person of particular power or holiness.
According to the literature of Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and Archeosophy, each color of the aura has a precise meaning, indicating a precise emotional state.” Aura (paranormal) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSkeptics interpret the ability to see auras as the result of stress or fatigue.
Some people think that Kirlian photography shows us the life force flowing through all living things and that it could be used to diagnose illness. But it is not working out that way.
“Living things…are moist. When the electricity enters the living object, it produces an area of gas ionization around the photographed object, assuming moisture is present on the object. This moisture is transferred from the subject to the emulsion surface of the photographic film and causes an alternation of the electric charge pattern on the film. If a photograph is taken in a vacuum, where no ionized gas is present, no Kirlian image appears. If the Kirlian image were due to some paranormal fundamental living energy field, it should not disappear in a simple vacuum (Hines 2003).” The Skeptic’s Dictionary
Here is a video on auras that presents some of the evidence from both sides of the debate over auras: