You are probably one of the largest deceivers I had ran into so far. Here
is what the research REALLY is...
The legititimate research is by controlling the variable factors such as:
1) conductivity
2) pressure
3) humidity
4) frequency of discharge
5) duration
Kirlian photography has been shown to be useful for some types of nonde-
strucitve testing "reason unknown". As technologists we believe they will
be related to overall quantum distributions of energy...
NOT METAPHYSICAL HOCUS POCUS: KARMA, SPIRITS, AND MIRACLES!
Then christians wonder why technolgists are hardline??? Think about it!!!
As far as your logic is concerned... I'll employ Occam's Razor :)
Best Wishes,
William - N6RKY
John M. Lynch wrote:
>
> Despite William Wetzel's claims, I doubt that KP is something that any
> believer in the scientific "method", evolutionist, creationist, YEC or
> whatever, can really give much credence to. Following is from
> http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/btcarrol/skeptic/kirlian.html
> - part of a hypertext dictionary of skepticism. We see a veritable
> cornucopia of gleck (to steal a phrase from Jonathan Marks) -
> parapsychology, accupuncture, Uri Geller, bioenergy, astral bodies, etc ...
> just the sort of thing that usually has Henry Morris and co in conniptions,
> aligning "New Ageism" with "evolutionism."
>
> -john
>
> In 1939, Semyon Kirlian, a Russian, discovered by
> accident that if an object on a photographic plate is
> subjected to a high-voltage electric field, an image is
> created on the plate. The image looks like a colored halo
> or corona discharge. This image is said to be a physical manifestation of
> the spiritual aura or "life force" which allegedly surrounds each living
> thing.
>
> Allegedly, this special method of "photographing" objects is a gateway
> to the paranormal world of auras. Actually, what is recorded is due to
> quite natural phenomena such as pressure, electrical grounding,
> humidity and temperature. Changes in moisture (which may reflect
> changes in emotions), barometric pressure, and voltage, among other
> things, will produce different 'auras'.
>
> Living things (like the commonly photographed
> fingers) 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]
>
> There have even been claims of Kirlian photography being able to
> capture "phantom limbs", e.g., when a leaf is placed on the plate and
> then torn in half and "photographed", the whole leaf shows up in the
> picture. This is not due to paranormal forces, however, but to residues
> left from the initial impression made by the whole leaf or to fraud.
>
> Parapsychologist Thelma Moss popularized Kirlian
> photography as diagnostic medical tool with her
> books The Body Electric (1979) and The
> Probability of the Impossible (1983). She was
> convinced that the Kirlian process was an open door
> to the "bioenergy" of the astral body. Moss came to UCLA in mid-life
> and earned a doctorate in psychology. She experimented with and
> praised the effects of LSD and was in and out of therapy for a variety
> of psychological problems, but managed to overcome her personal
> travails and become a professor at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute.
> Her studies focused on paranormal topics, such as auras, levitation and
> ghosts. One of her favorite subjects at UCLA was Uri Geller, whom
> she "photographed" several times. She even made several trips to the
> Soviet Union to consult with her paranormal colleagues. Moss died in
> 1997 at the age of 78.
>
> Moss paved the way for other parapsychologists to speculate that
> Kirlian "photography" was parapsychology's Rosetta stone. They
> would now be able to understand such things as acupuncture, chi,
> orgone energy, telepathy, etc., as well as diagnose and cure whatever
> ails us. For example, Bio-Electrography claims to be
>
> ...a method of investigation for biological objects,
> based on the interpretation of the corona-discharge
> image obtained during exposure to a high-frequency,
> high-voltage electromagnetic field which is recorded
> either on photopaper or by modern video recording
> equipment. Its main use is as a fast, inexpensive and
> relatively non-invasive means for the diagnostic
> evaluation of physiological and psychological states.
>
> The reliability of diagnosing illnesses by photographing auras is not very
> high, however. Bio-Electrography should not be confused with
> Esogetic Colorpuncture, Peter Mandel's therapy, which unites
> acupuncture and Kirlian photography.
>
> None of these Kirlian methods of diagnosis should be confused with
> other types of medical photography, e.g., roentgen-ray computed
> tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, single photon/positron
> emission computed tomography and other useful types of medical
> imaging, none of which have anything to do with auras.
-- William A. Wetzel tapr-id# 7738 icq-uin# 13983514 http://home.pacbell.net/n6rky http://www.qsl.net/n6rky mailto:n6rky@pacbell.net mailto:n6rky@qsl.net