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Kirlian

Kirlian may refer to:

  • Semyon Davidovich Kirlian (1898–1978), Russian inventor and researcher of Armenian descent
  • Valentina Khrisanovna Kirliana (died 1972), Russian inventor, wife of Semyon Kirlian
  • Kirlian photography, Photographic technique, named after Semyon and Valentina Kirlian

Other meanings:

  • pseudonym of Abe Duque (* 1968), American techno-musician and producer

Usage examples of "kirlian".

Bander had brought Kirlian equipment, of which Frost was in total ignorance, never having heard of Kirlian photographs.

Melody's own Kirlian ancestor had been an Andromedan transferee of that Sphere who had budded with the revered Flint of Outworld, both in Mintakan hosts, a thousand Solarian years before.

Because Honeybloom had a Kirlian aura of about one, or average: a washout as far as interaction with his own aura went.

Now he remembered: The creature he had fought in the Hyades had had extremely high Kirlian force, parallel to his own.

In fact, a Kirlian photograph of a living human hand resembled the image of our galaxy with all its stars and clusters and swirls of dust and gas.

Just before they had gone in to dinner, Mark had shown them a Kirlian photograph in which he had captured a spirit hovering in front of the fridge over a platter of Long Island duckling.

He shone as the Christ must have shone, as the Buddha must have shone, and a Kirlian photograph of him at that moment would have been a nova-blur.

Remember the weekend I went over to the lab with Kenny and he took that Kirlian photograph of my aura?

There's a lot of evidence that both the American and the Soviet governments take the subject a damn sight more seriously than they let on in public and are conducting top-priority studies to understand and isolate a whole range of esoteric phenomena, from levitation and Kirlian photography - a film process that reveals the human aura-to telepathy and teleportation and psychokinesis.