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ARTICLE FROM TM,
NO,
3,
1969,
pp.
III.
"MAGICIAN" WALKS INTO THE LABORATORY
Abstract.
Dear Editors!
I am construction engineer A.
Rafailyan and
am writing you from the sunny state,
Georgia.
I
lived
in Tbilisi and have now
been listening for several years
to various "oral" sources of stories about
a certain A.
Krivoroltov who somehow is successfully healing patients by the
"laying on of hands."
I also heard
that this self-educated "magician" was
in-
vestigated by various specialists— in particular
the inventors, Mr.
and Mrs.
Kirlian,
and that somehow the secret of his "miracle-working" hands has been
divine.
Is
this
true or not?
Couldn't you tell of
this "healer"
in greater
detail?
The mechanic,
S.
Kirlian, was working in one of the Krasnodar Hospital.
One evening he was servicing a high-frequency current generator and noticed that
the discharge between his palm and
the generator electrode was not at all the
same as
that between his forearm and the same device.
Was
this accidental?
It would be well to register
(for example,
photograph)
this strange phenomenon.
But how?
Under bright illumination the discharges would simply become invisible.
It was then that
the inventor decided
to do without a camera.
And there on the table lay an insulator—an
sheet,
and on
it there was an electrode consisting of a metal plate;
a glass photographic
plate lay on the electrode.
Having stepped onto a rubber sheet and
thereby
in-
sulating himself from the floor)
, Kirlian connected
the second electrode
to
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the back of his hand
("the biological object")
and pressed his palm against
the
photoemulsion.
"In case of energency"
the inventor called
a medical student and
then threw the switch and connected himself
into the high-frequency circuit.
A
sharp jolt!
The frightened student opens
the circuit,
and the plate
is devel-
oped:
a fuzzy picture is obtained, but the silhouette
of
the hand
is clearly
visible on
it,
and the white bones are traced out against
the background
of
the
fingers.
However,
this
is not an X-ray but
a photograph of a biological object
in a field
of RF currents.
The first foggy photograph of an unknown world were just
as fuzzy as
conventional photographs which have been taken out of focus.
Here the role of
the focal distance
is played by the discharge gap—those
to
3 hundredths
of
a
millimeter which separate the investigated object from the light-sensitive plate.
But how to produce such a small gap and how to maintain such accuracy?
S. Kirlian performed a massive experiment together with his wife.
There were hardly any contrivances
they didn’t resort
to!
They placed
a thin
cloth between the object and the photoplate.
They obtained clear pictures,
but.
.
.
with the traces
of
the threads.
The cloth was replaced by metal foil.
However,
the material turned out
to be stiff and noncompliant ,
and micron gaps did not
come out at all.
And
then the inventors made the electrode a water electrode.
The backside of
the photo emulsion was wetted with a wet piece of cotton and be-
came current conducting.
It
is difficult
to
tell of all the investigations which Mr.
and Mrs.
Kirlian carried out before
they obtained clear photographs;
17 patents confirm
their leadership
in this new field.
Thus,
a window was opened to
a hitherto
unknown world.
What is
it
that could be seen through
it?
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One time botanists asked
the inventors
to photograph two identical
looking leaves from the same plant.
The images
of
the electrical space of
the green twins
turned out
to be completely different.
Only then did
the
phytopathologists discover what
the secret was:
not any of the leaves had
been torn off
the branch contaminated with microorganisms, while the other
had been torn off from a healthy branch.
But
this
is what was curious:
the
infection was
in no way manifested externally right up until the death of
the six leaves.
But photographing in a field
of RF currents immediately re-
vealed
the physiological "maladjustment"
that were hidden from the eyes
(see
photograph published on the cover of "TM" No.
9 for 1966).
In the
same way
it was possible successfully
to register the earliest stages
of
pathological processes
in apples , tobacco,
grapes.
And not only in plants.
"Electrical photographs" of sick human organs
(for example,
during
spasms of the blood vessels)
looked different than photographs of healthy
organs.
The nervous activity of
the "subject" also makes
its imprint against
the firey panorama of "live sparks."
The author of these lines drank a glass
of wine
to
toast
the flowering of science.
The Kirlians, having connected me
into
the RF
loop, immediately discovered this "act" according to
the changed
topographically scheme of
the discharges.
The most ridiculous rumors circulated concerning the work of
the
Kirlians
(so far no comprehensive monographs devoted
to their discovery have
been published).
Thus,
a hundred fold repeated rumor
is stated that somehow
the Krasnodar experimentalists have been able
to photograph a mysterious lu-
minescence
(maybe even a sign of holiness—a halo)
that a person is suppose
to emit.
And then somehow late one autumn evening.
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o Three years ago late on an autumn evening a man knocked on the
door
of
the inventors,
Mr.
and Mrs.
Kirlian.
His name was
A. Kirvorotov and he
was from Tbilisi;
he announced
that some understandable force emanated from him,
and he would
like
to discover
its
secret.
It
turned out
that Kirvorotov had
discovered in himself
the capacity
to be
a "healer."
He heals by the old
benevolent method
of
the "laying on of hands."
For example,
a patient comes
to him and complains
of
a pain in the loins.
Kirvorotov concentrates,
goes
into
a trance,
stretches
out his hands,
and approaches
the patient.
Another
instant and
the patient fearfully flinches from the "burn:"
it
is
literally
as
if
a hot dry compress had been applied
to the loins.
This unpleasant sen-
sation does not go away after
that
for
the whole night.
Sometimes an invisible
"heating pad"
aids.
Kirlian connected Kirvorotov into the RF tank circuit
(by the way,
this "operation"
is completely painless)
,
and placed his finger under
a micro-
scope,
The guest looked into the eye piece and was shaken.
From the pores and
channels
of his
skin,
protuberances were fiercly billowing, whole schools
of
"amebae" were creeping from place
to place,
first merging together into one
blazing bon fire and
then splitting up into pieces.
Kirvorotov carefully took
his finger
out and looked at
it—nothing.
Again he put his finger under
the
eye piece, but
the picture had changed radically:
now orange,
violet, blue
stars were scintillating.
"You’re upset:
this has changed
the electrical state of your organism.
And
the skin is
a kind
of mirror
that reflects
the internal bioelectric processes,
Kirlian explained while looking into
the microscope.
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