on the film. When the film is devel- oped, you have a Kirlian photograph of the object. The Kirlian process doesn't require the use of a camera or lens.
Kirlian photography is named after Semyon Davidovich Kirlian and his wife Valentina who began their work with high voltage photography in 1939. Kirlian collaborated with his wife for over 30 years developing equipment and studying electro- photography. The Kirlian’s work was first made known to the general public in this country by a book pub- lished in 1970 by Shelia Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder titled, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain. The Kirlians’ work became so well known that the field of high voltage electro-photography is called Kirlian Photography. However, Kirlian wasn’t the first to study electro- photography. The field of electro- photography can be traced back to the late 1700’s. At that time, Georg Christoph Lictenberg noted pictures made in dust created by static elec- tricity and electric sparks. Nikola Tesla (1880) photographed many co- rona discharges using his famous Tesla Coil. In the early 1900’s, Rus- sian researcher Yakov Narkevich- Todka exhibited electro photographs he had made. A little later, Dr. F. F. Strong of Tufts University Medical School used a Tesla Coil to make electro- photographs of his hand. Iovine states on his website: “There are numerous Kirlian devices being sold on the internet today. To sell their devices, the co- rona discharge in the resulting Kirlian pho- tograph is claimed to be paranormal or to hold information that can be decrypted by the company's Kirlian researchers. All my re- search to date shows the corona discharge can be explained by employing known phys- ical laws, like changes in a subject’s skin re- sistance due to factors such as stress, lying, illness, fatigue, alcohol consumption, etc., without the necessity of invoking para- normal (bio-plasma) factors. Some other var- iable factors influencing the resulting Kir- lian picture include the object’s pressure against the film, humidity, air pressure, voltage, frequency, and exposure time. If anyone has any evidence to the contrary, I would be more than happy to examine that data. We have never made any ‘paranormal’ claims to sell our Kirlian photography de- vices. Our devices are sold to make brilliant Kirlian photographs. If one wants to do para- normal research with our devices, that’s fine; just know we make no claim that any inter- pretation of the corona discharge is due to anything other than standard, variable phys- ical parameters as already stated. If you dis- cover something different, please let us know. We are open to examine any new evi- dence or data that comes along.
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most amazing claim (in Iovine’s opinion) is known as the ‘phantom leaf’ experiment. Here a small portion of a leaf is cut off; the leaf is then photographed using Kirlian pho- tography. In a small percentage of cases, the cut portion of the leaf appears in the photo- graph as a ghostly apparition. The appearance of the cut portion of the leaf, the Soviet re- searchers claimed, is proof of an ethereal, bio-plasma body. [Researchers at Drexel Uni- versity, however, have claimed that they were unable to reproduce the effect when the glass used to capture the original leaf was replaced with new glass before the freshly cut leaf was photographed, leading them to conclude that the ‘cut leaf’ phenomenon was caused by mi- croscopic etching in the surface of the glass which occurred during preparing the images of the uncut leaf.] Although a few Kirlian re- searchers have claimed to duplicate the phantom leaf experiment in their own labs, the most reported successful results are from Soviet researchers. The exact experimental parameters (voltage, frequency, etc.) needed to obtain this phantom leaf effect are either not available or didn’t work for Iovine. Skeptics of the paranormal have long dis- puted the claims made concerning auras and Kirlian photography; this DVD might be more to their liking than it will be to fans of the paranormal interpretation.
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