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KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE NEW BIOELECTROGRAPHY KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND NEw THE BIOELECTROGRAPHY A new technique known as Bioelectrography improves the accuracy and repeatability of the early findings of Kirlian photography and extends the possibilities for dependable clinical diagnosis. hat is Kirlian photography? In essence, it involves high-voltage, high- frequency electricity that is applied to the underside of a plate made of an insulating material such as glass. When any conductive object (which could be metal or any material containing water, such as part of the body) is placed on this plate, there ensues an electric discharge through the air where the gap is narrow, close to the object. Light from this discharge can be recorded on a photographic film placed between the object and the electrified plate. This much could have been expected. What was remarkable, however, was the discovery, made by Semyon and Valentina Kirlian in the 1940s, that the characteristics of the discharge varied with a person's physiological and mental states. The history, some suggestions regarding the physics of this process and an application to studies on mental patients were described some 15 years ago by Dr Victor Adamenko.' As a result of subsequent work by other investigators, it became clear that the characteristics of the discharge are sensitive to many factors in the design of equipment and the precise technique, so it was difficult for one investigator to repeat the work of another. In addition, without a means of quantifying the images, the interpretation had a large subjective element. Moreover, there continued to be a lack of any coherent theory to explain these effects. For these reasons, Kirlian photography failed to gain credibility with most doctors and scientists. All three of these objections are now in the process of being overcome, due to the invention of a computerised version by Dr Konstantin Korotkov of St Petersburg, Russia. To begin with, this method involves no photography—a tremendous advantage in terms of speed and convenience. Instead, the light from the electric discharge passes down through the glass plate to an electronic camera underneath. From here, the image goes to the computer in digital form. The high standards of design and construction of these instruments ensure that comparable results can be obtained among all those using them. Gas-Discharge Visualisation Most important is the fact that once the image is in digital form, it is possible to quantify its various parameters. A sophisticated software package, supplied with the instrument, allows you to measure the area of the image, its brightness, its "fractality" (how "jagged" the border is) and a number of other aspects. This software is being updated all the time. Now that it need not involve photography, this general type of method is known as Bioelectrography or Gas-Discharge Visualisation (GDV). While a complete physico-chemical account of these effects will be a long time coming, there is no doubt that it will need to be based on an holistic theory of life. Such a theory has been emerging over the past three decades through the work of Dr Fritz-Albert Popp and others on quantum biology.’ It gains further support all the time and is beginning to make headway with the mainstream. What do these images represent? In spite of much talk about the "Kirlian aura", little work seems to have been done to correlate these images (now becoming known as "Beograms") with the aura as seen by "sensitives". Nevertheless, the very immediate sensitivity of these images to a person's physical, emotional and mental state suggests that the characteristics of the discharge may indeed bear some relation to the aura. The patterns of the image show considerable variation, even among healthy people (one could even speak of a fingerprint). Nevertheless, it is possible to define a number of types by Roger Taylor, PhD, BVSc © 2005, 2007 Email: rogerbt@onetel.com First published in Caduceus, issue 67, Winter 2005 http:/www.caduceus. info by Roger Taylor, PhD, BVSc © 2005, 2007 First published in Caduceus, issue 67, Winter 2005 http:/www.caduceus. info APRIL — MAY 2007 NEXUS = 39 A GREAT LEAP FORWARD IN BIO-ENERGETIC IMAGING Email: rogerbt@onetel.com www.nexusmagazine.com