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a lig Po Fig. 1. Various types of finger images (from top left to right): (a healthy adult, relaxed (the author); (b) same individual in temporary state of stress; (c) old person with low energy; (d) Reiki healer immediately after healing session; note branched streamers. in relation to the state of health and psycho-physical constitution. Figure la shows a typical beogram of a healthy adult. The colours [seen here in b&w as tones; Ed.] bear no relation to the actual wavelength of the light, which is mostly in the ultraviolet. They are "false" colours chosen to represent degrees of rightness. However, differences in brightness are rarely obvious from the image; for this, one needs to look at the quantitative values. In conditions of poor health, fatigue or stress, the beogram tends to show reduced area, with increased brightness and ractality (fig. 1b). But this is only a general guideline: in some conditions of ill health, the area can be too great, and brightness and fractality too small. Beograms also vary greatly with age—a fact that is now taken into account by some of the diagnostic programs. For example, ealthy children tend to have high values for brightness and fractality, which might indicate stress in an adult. Organ correspondences As a result of long clinical experience using conventional Kirlian photography, Dr Peter Mandel in Germany has found that illnesses may be represented by characteristic defects in the finger images. Thus he was able to define sectors of the finger images corresponding to the main organ systems of the body. These sectors are broadly related to the meridian system in acupuncture. So, just as in reflexology, iridology and auriculotherapy, these observations support the intriguing idea that the subtle energy system may be holographic in its nature. Having essentially confirmed this organ representation, Dr Korotkov has added a further useful facility, by which the software takes the sectors of the images for all 10 fingers and arranges them around an outlined human figure so as to approximate the corresponding organs and give the appearance of an aura (fig. 3). Examples of organ representation are shown in figure 2. These also show two types of defect: there may be an outburst of the image beyond the average radius (fig. 2a), or a weak area or even an obvious gap (fig. 2b). The first corresponds to the "excess" state in acupuncture and may indicate an inflammatory condition or pain, while the second represents a weakness in energy in that organ system, which corresponds to the "deficiency" state of an acupuncture meridian, and may result in sluggish function of the organ or, eventually, degeneration. These defects may be only transitory and, as such, are not of much pathological significance. On the other hand, if they are constant, and especially if they occur in the same sector of the finger on both hands, then one should suspect frank pathology. It should be noted that while such defects are often seen in conditions of acute local pathology or immediately after surgery, the energy system tends to compensate for any disturbance so that in chronic conditions the defects may not be manifest. Nevertheless, they can often be caused to appear by subjecting the organ to some suitable functional stress; for example, a heavy meal for the stomach or exercise for the heart. Fig. 2. Two types of defect. (a, above) left middle finger, a few days after the patient passed a painful kidney stone from left idney; outburst type of defect in kidney sector indicates region of acute inflammation or pain; (b, below) right thumb of person suffering many years of trouble with teeth; gaps indicate region of weak energy in jaw; both thumbs were similar. Effects of the therapy Although the presence of defects may give an indication of the location of pathological processes, often it does not. Thus, with our present state of knowledge, the instrument should not be relied on to give conventional medical diagnoses. But it does indicate the state of a person's energy system. Its greatest use in medicine is probably as a feedback on the effects of therapy. Figure 3 shows "aura" beograms of a patient immediately 40 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com