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Fun with Aura-reading Apps

Last week we delved into the scientific process of Kirlian photography / electrophotography and how pseudoscience has adapted it into a method of “reading people’s auras” — guessing their emotions, thoughts and health according to the colours shown around them. I decided to experiment with different aura photography apps available on the iOS app store,Continue reading “Fun with Aura-reading Apps”

Is it Kirlian or Aura Photography?

Back in 1939, Semyon Kirlian, (a Soviet electrical engineer and scientist) and his wife Valentina discovered a bizarre photographic phenomenon. Someone in Krasnodar Hospital was receiving a treatment which involved a high-frequency electrical generator. Semyon and Valentina noticed that whenever the electrodes were near the patient’s skin, there was a glowing light similar to theContinue reading “Is it Kirlian or Aura Photography?”