A photographic process that captures the auras or biofields of persons or objects within the photograph. The process of Kirlian photography is named after Seymon Kirlian, an amateur inventor and electrician of Krasnodar, Russia, who pioneered the first efforts on the process in the early 1940s. Even thought the process has produced results it still is controversial. There seems to be no evidence that Kirlian photography is a paranormal phenomenon.
Some experimenters think it reveals a physical form of psychic energy.
Another theory is that it reveals the etheric body, one of the layers of the aura thought to permeate all animate objects. The understanding of this latter aspect of the process gives rise to the prospects of beneficial benefits of gaining significant insights in medicine, psychology, psychic healing, psi, and dowsing . Critics repudiate the process by saying that it shows nothing more that than electricity being discharged which can be produced under certain conditions. Little value was seen in the process, so scant attention was given to it. Research in the fields was published by a Czech, B. Narvratil, also in the early 1900s.