Word: kirlian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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America has been saturated in recent years by tales of the paranormal and claims of the pseudo scientists. The list seems endless: Uri Geller, the Bermuda Triangle, E.S.P., levitation, Jeane Dixon, Kirlian photography, the Loch Ness monster, psychic surgery, Immanuel Velikovsky, thinking ivy plants and now-again -flying saucers...
...help of ancient visitors from outer space. It stressed that no one has figured out how else the figures could have been created, though German Mathematician Maria Reiche has demonstrated that the Nazcans would have needed no outside help. Still another program showed pictures made by a process called Kirlian photography and explained that they showed the psychic "auras" of people and plants. Scientists have reported that the auras are a common electrical phenomenon called coronal discharge...
...Soon, Kirlians claimed that photographing a portion of a leaf, for example, would produce the aura of the entire leaf on film. Some psychics claim that in time the aura of a missing limb might be discernible with Kirlian photography. Today the process is an integral part of paranormal exploration...
...leading proponent of the art is U.C.L.A. Psychologist Thelma Moss, who has taken more Kirlian photographs and done more experimental work with them than anyone outside Russia...
...intended to specialize in parapsychology because of the glimpses of psychic phenomena I experienced during the LSD treatments. But I certainly don't feel the need to use drugs any more ... When you've gotten the message, you hang up the phone." For Moss, the message is that Kirlian photography clearly demonstrates a human aura. "We have done work with acupuncturists and [psychic] healers," she says, "and we find that the corona of the healer becomes intense before healing, and then afterward is more relaxed and less strong. We think we're looking...