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‘E|SCIENCE| 2. REGISTRATION OF AETHERIC FORCE ACTIVITY applied high-voltage pulses using a Wimshurst machine or a Van de Graaff generator. These seemed to conform o what people perceive ina eightened state of consciousness, such as described by the chemist Dr Frank Sherwood Taylor: "On a clear sunny autumn morning, | had walked into he gardens of St John's College, Oxford: the dahlias were still in bloom and the Michaelmas daisies were covered in great butterflies: _ tortoiseshells, titillaries and red admirals. Suddenly...everything revealed itself as interconnected...around each centre of life there was an influence, as if each living thing were a centre in a spiritual medium." We also registered "bright spots" which we thought Figure |. Electrophotographic registration around a hand obtained by Dr Hippolyte Baraduc, circa 1910. by Dennis Milner, DSc © 2011 ystics and clairvoyants claim Mie there are auras of activity permeating and surrounding the physical bodies of plants, animals and humans. In the Department of Metallurgy at the University of Birmingham, Ted Smart and I, seeking evidence for this auric activity, embarked on extra- curricular research, picking up on the work of Dr Hippolyte Baraduc' who in the early 1900s registered an “auric surround" to a human hand (figure 1). This is an electrical discharge picture, akin to a Kirlian photograph, but some of Baraduc's pictures also showed what he claimed were soul phenomena. Baraduc did not give sufficient details for us to repeat his results, but in trying to do so we found a way of registering auric phenomena around leaves (figure 2) by putting them in a "sandwich" between two photographic plates, with metal plates outside them to which we Figure 2a (above left). The type of aetheric aura described by clairvoyants around a privet leaf (the narrow band) with globules of prana in the background. Figure 2a (above right). Interaction between three privet leaves. NEXUS ¢ 53 FEBRUARY - MARCH 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com