| ▲ | Kirlian Photography: Building Your Own Equipment(imagesco.com) |
| 60 points by joebig 10 hours ago | 16 comments |
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| ▲ | arjie 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The company is quite old! They have some old YouTube videos depicting how their stuff is used[0]. Some of their videos allude to kickstarter which made check! Kickstarter is 17 years old. Man, I remember the early days of it. Boy! 0: https://youtu.be/rAGSStsMuy4?is=fK-qhiPT4ITcbTld |
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| ▲ | UI_at_80x24 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| IIRC this was debunked as ...The plate/glass was not thoroughly cleaned between photos... I.E. the leaf left residue on the glass. |
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| ▲ | Eridanus2 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It appears to be a form of DBD (dielectric breakdown discharge). Setting aside the para-physical claims, that aspect of it seems reproducible, as a fun science demo, at least. | | | |
| ▲ | dvfjsdhgfv 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is specifically addressed in the article, at length. | |
| ▲ | 47282847 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I consider it a given that any living organism radiates (heat) energy: there is constant energy and matter exchange with its surroundings; a foundational aspect of life. I consider it at least a possibility that by looking at this radiation, you can find correlations between balanced “health” (new age speak: intact Aura), and potential imbalances, and thus that it may work as a diagnostic tool. | | |
| ▲ | jstanley 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can measure someone's temperature to find out if they have a fever, is that the kind of thing you're suggesting? | | |
| ▲ | 47282847 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Did you ever touch a human body and noticed that its temperature feels different in different regions? Even, say, down one arm? That’s what I was referring to; not core temperature. | | |
| ▲ | buildsjets 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | As a sufferer of psoriatic arthritis, I am painfully aware of this phenomenon. | |
| ▲ | _Microft 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They do that for professional athletes but they use thermal cameras for that and look for asymmetries in the left and right side of the body. That seems to give a clue about inflammations. They look for differences as low as 0.1°C iirc. Take all that with a grain of salt because I heard very little about it. |
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| ▲ | JKCalhoun 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "Kirlian's work was first made known to the general public in this country by a book published in 1970 by Shelia Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder titled "Psychic discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain"" Ha ha, the psychic 70's. And U.F.O.s, biorhythms… (Loved the 1970's) |
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| ▲ | 2b3a51 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | And Rupert Sheldrake later in that decade with his theory of morphic resonance. His son Merlin Sheldrake has written a book about fungi called Entangled Life which is quite sensible and doing very well. I noticed that the book was very carefully referenced with detailed end-notes, some like mini-essays with references to papers by a wide range of authors. These notes comprise about a third of the word count of the book.
Unusual in a popsci book of this kind. I can't help thinking that this approach might be a reaction to Sheldrake senior's writings and the reaction to them. OA is a nice Web site with practical information on what could be an interesting art-practice. | |
| ▲ | JSR_FDED 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The book Superlearning (also by Shelia Ostrander) made a big impression on me as a high schooler. The idea of using rhythms, music, relaxation to shift one’s brain into a highly receptive state to learn and memorize was super compelling. | |
| ▲ | Eridanus2 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | (Loved the 1970's)
I concur, Sir. An aside: Arthur C. Doyle toured US to sumptuous throngs lecturing on consciousness, the spirit realm and seances in 1920s-ish, iirc. Someone alive in 1970 might have had recollections of that coverage/seen ACD in person and would be in a position to pass on the whiff of ether to an younger generation: hungry for transcendence and shedding of burdens. |
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