THE KIRLIAN EFFECT....ITS BEGINNINGS
The process of Kirlian photography was discovered in 1939 by Semyon Kirlian, a Russian electronic technician, after ten years in research and development of this process. Kirlian photography was not investigated in the United States until the 1970's. Thelma Moss, a UCLA psychologist, pioneered the technique in the United States.

Dr. V.M. Inyushin, a Soviet biologist at the State University at Kazakhastan who has studied the Kirlian process, states that the bioluminescence revealed in these photographs is BIOPLASMA, an energy body similar to the aura or astral body as defined in Yogic literature. Iyushin further believes that this bioplasmic energy body reflects both the psychological and physical health of human beings.

Kirlian photography is in its infancy, so there are many theories and speculations regarding interpretation. However, the photographic images are REAL, and offer tangible evidence of the pulsating charge and discharge of life's energies (vibrations).

COLORS AND KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Researchers have demonstrated that there is important meaning in the various colors captured in Kirlian photographs. Findings suggest that normal, healthy human subjects emanate "bluish-white coronal colors" that are clearly delineated. Additionally, a deep blue band, symmetrical in pattern and one-sixteenth to one- quarter inch wide, appears just beyond the outer boundary of the fingertips.

In persons who reported feeling tense, aroused, anxious, or emotionally excited the pattern is different. A red color is distinct and appears as a luminous red cloud or blotch just above the fingertips. These Kirlian photographs of emotionally excited subjects produced images with boundaries that consistently seem to dissolve.

One of the most controversial aspects of Kirlian research is the "phantom leaf effect", where intact images of an entire leaf appear after parts of the leaf have been cut away. This effect implies that the bioplasmic energy body (aura) exists in a separate reality which extends beyond the ordinary concepts of space and time.

A FINAL THOUGHT
The colorful Kirlian aura reflects the complex relationship of the frequencies of energy emitted by both the subject photographed and the field generated by the Kirlian apparatus. Yet, to determine the meaning of these vivid colors, even at this early stage, we cannot rely entirely on our rational-intellectual and analytical abilities.

We must, instead, balance these intellectual talents with our intuitive sensing. In the vast realm of the human mind, there are seemingly no limits....but Kirlian photography will extend the limits of our experiments and our experience.