Kirlian observed a connection between the pattern of an electrograph, physical conditions and psychological states. He suffered from a circulatory problem that gave him periodic bouts of pain in his legs. Prior to one of these painful episodes he noticed the radiation field around his hands took on a completely different shape and luminosity to usual.<\/p>\n He observed that this seemed to happen a few hours before he experienced any physical symptoms. This apparent coincidence left him wondering whether the electrograph was picking up something that was happening on an invisible level prior to it becoming apparent to his physical senses.<\/p>\n A number of times while demonstrating his equipment to important dignitaries and scientists he noticed that the electrograph images of his hands changed dramatically to when he was working on his own or with his wife. It soon became obvious to him that his nerves tended to get the better of him during these demonstrations and it was this apprehensive state that his equipment was revealing. \u00a0Personality states seemed to be linked with changes in energetic properties.<\/p>\n A Russian bio-physicist came up with the theory of bio-plasma to explain the Kirlian effect as it was called. Bio-plasma is explained as a stream of sub-atomic particles that move in and out of living tissue and it was claimed that it could reveal important information about life processes. 10 years prior to Kirlian\u2019s discovery Russian embryologist Alexander Gurwitsch showed that living tissue released photon emissions in the UV range of the spectrum that showed significant correlations between biological and physiological functions. Later scientists Cohen, Popp and Yu Yan provided evidence of biological rhythms being associated with bio-photon or light emissions from the human body. They also noted that the integrity of the light emissions correlated with how sick or healthy a person was.<\/p>\n In 1777 Dr Lichtenberg, a professor of physics at the university at Gottingen in Germany built a large phosphorus-ionizing machine and demonstrated that discharges of static electricity could form complex fractal-like patterns in dust.<\/p>\n In 1907 Father Landel de Moura, a Brazilian Catholic priest and scientist invented a machine that could photograph energy fields, producing radiation field photographs. He called his invention a bio-electrographic machine. He developed a thesis of \u2018Universal Harmony\u2019 and \u2018Unity and Physics Forces\u2019 and believed that all bodies were encircled by a luminous coloured halo.<\/p>\n![\"MrKirlian\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/MrKirlian.jpg\")
<\/a>Semyon Kirlian was born in Yekaterinodar, now Krasnodar, Russia. Semyon Davidovich Kirlian – was a Russian inventor and researcher. He had the Russian, Armenian and Jewish blood, but always considered himself a Russian, spoke only Russian and patented his inventions only in Russian. In the 1930\u2019s he popularized radiation field photography, presently known as Kirlian photography. Kirlian and his wife Valentina found that subjects placed within a generated high voltage electrical field, revealed an image surrounded by a bright luminous aura. Despite their enduring association with electro-photography they were not the first to discover this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<\/a>In 1898, a Russian engineer Yakov Narkevich-Todko was reported to have produced electrographic photographs using something described as \u2018quiet electrical discharges\u2019. He made an apparatus that could induce luminous zones on the palms of the hands. His claim that he could influence the luminosity by thought attracted the attention of the parapsychologists but mainstream scientists dismissed the effect as nothing more than an electrostatic charge. Narkiewich\u2019s discoveries were dismissed, as unreliable and subsequent funding was not made available for his research.<\/p>\n