'MAGICIAN' WALKS INTO THE LABORATORY.

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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
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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 2 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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. . .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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Weeks of strange experiments began in which both the "magician" and
the experimentalist himself were the subjects.
Kirvorotov put his hand quite close to Kirlian's head and literally
poured hot lead over him. However, he didn't say anything and didn't look
into his eyes. This means there cannot even be any talk of hypnosis. The
heavy sensation did not leave Kirlian all night, and it was as if his head
was on fire. He was trying to think of where the energy could have come from:
after all, Kirvorotov was not some kind of "living generator" and even the
guest himself acknowledged that while "giving off energy" he did not feel
fatigue.
The next day Kirlian photographed fingers--his own and that of the
"magician"--in the high-frequency field. One could clearly see how the lu-
minescence bent around the "biological object" separately. There was no
doubt: both fingers were charged with electricity of the same sign. But
what makes the touch of Kirvorotov cause the sensation of heat? This is just
the point--sensation. In transmitting heat one expends energy; after all,
sensation can be produced almost without energy by transmitting simply in-
formation. And what do the experiments say?
Kirlian checked the dielectric properties of the skin on Kirvorotov's
hands. This is the point: the resistance was 3 to 5 time higher than the
usual value! Of course, the dry rough skin of the hands of a person occupied
with heavy physical labor may have such properties, but after all the palms
of the Tbilisi "magician" were pink, soft, just like a baby's. It is of in-
terest as to how the guest is "charged" while being locked up in the bathroom
before each seance?
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The experimentalist photographed the fingers of Kirvorotov before
his preparation in the bathroom and afterwards. On the first photograph
there was the conventional distribution of the potentials of a
healthy person, while on the second many "potential " had vanished,
as if the electrical conductivity had been lost. The pattern of the "protu-
berances" had likewise changed radically: a gold flame bubbled madly against
a black background, as if it were breaking through an invisible barrier. The
experimentalist assumed that in preparing for the procedure Kirvorotov rubbed
his hands with some substance, probably ozocerite, in order to increase the
dielectric resistance of the skin.
"The mechanism by which the healing procedure of the "magician" op-
erates a-pears to us to be the following," S. Kirlian--"the body of any person
situated in the earth's electrostatic field is charged negatively. Since the
skin of the fingers and palm of'the "magician" was, as it were, covered with
a mutual dielectric glove, a potential of any sign may be induced on it.
During the procedure, while "healing" hands are placed on the head or body of
the patient, the electrical charges of the patient's body excite (polarize)
positive charges that are equal in magnitude but opposite in sign on the "glove".
An electric field is formed between the skin on Kirvorotov's hands and the skin
of the patient; this field has an intensity which increases as the spacing de-
creases. The electrons and ions situated in the air gap tend to move toward
the photoelectrodes:" the positive ones move toward the skin of the patient
Kirlian while the negative ones move toward Kirvorotov's hands. The ion flux
"blows past" (and at the same time "heats") the sick organ and stimulates its
recovery. In a word, the same thing occurs as in the ionic "scharcot shower,"
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D'Arsondalization, and other similar methods of "electrical healing" which are
used extensively in modern medicine. . ."
This is what may be assumed for the time being. Much is still un-
understood. It is far from clear as to whether or not the dielectric plays
such an important role in the healing procedure of the "magician." After all,
the "healer", regardless of the apparent "complete exposure," steadfastly in-
sists on the "purity" of his seances. Kirlian repeatedly attempted to repeat
the "focus" of Kirvorotov, but, alas, unsuccessfully. The action of one person
on another at a distance via a field so far remains a puzzling phenomenon of
nature. Recently Professor of Leningrad University, P. Pulyauv demonstrated
that our body generates and, possibly, perceives an electric field (see TM,"
No. 12, 1968). and concerning the fact that a person senses an electromagnetic
field and an ordinary magnetic field has been known for a long time. The ques-
tion arises: Does not the "magician" change the information processes in the
organism of the patient (who feels "heat") through the "ether"? In order to
answer this and other such questions, further investigations that are carried
out at a higher level are required.
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ON THE WAY TO SOLVING A PUZZLE
To make a judgment concerning the internal processes in an organism
solely according to NRF photograph is the same as conceiving the exterior of
a person from his X-ray. It is quite possible that the mechanism of "healing"
is completely different. In June of last year I met A. Krivoroltov. At my
request he demonstrated his effect on me. Actually, when the "magician"
slowly moved his hands along my body a sensation of heat developed correspond-
ing to a temperature of 45 to 50?C. But this is the catch--the "burning" was
felt even when the "healing" hands were located comparatively far from me at
a distance of.5 to 10 cm. It is clear that in such a situation there cannot
even be any discussion of ion bombardment (which operates only for micron gaps).
It remains for us to draw an uncomfortable conclusion: the procedure of heal-
ing by "laying on of hands" is considerably more complicated than would appear
at first glance.
Recently in the Japanese Journal "Radio, Television and Electronics"
November (1966) a letter from a Dr. Uchida appeared; he was an electronics
engineer by profession and he described his investigation of a Mrs. Yamada who
can "heal" with her hands at a distance. The scientists measured the electrical
resistance between points of the skin which had an increased conductivity. These
.points concided with the acupuncture points (in European countries they are
called acupuncture points, in Japan they are called tsubo).
(insert Figs. 1 and 2, RP II; Captions - Fig. 1. Dependence of the Electrical
Resistance of Tsubo on the Physiological State of the Corresponding Internal
Organs: R = R1 - R2, where R1 and R2 are the resistances between symmetrical
points in the forward and reverse directions; S is the number of tsubo connected
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Tsubo During a Seance of "Healing With the Hands". 2 and 3 are the Yamada curves
before and after healing; 1 and 4 are the curves for the patient before and af-
ter healing.
A study of the electrical characteristics of these points has been
begun recently, but acupuncture therapy is an efficient healing method and has
existed in China for several thousand years.
In 1963 the Bulletin of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Korean
Peoples' Democratic Republic published a paper "On the Kenrak System." A
scientific-research team headed by Professor Kim Bon Han discovered a previ-
ously unknown substance called "kenrak" in the human organism--a unified anato-
mohistological system distinguished both from the nervous system and from the
blood and lymph vessels (see "TM" No. 54, 1965). Using a luminescent microscope,
a successful investigation was made of the microstructure of the "kenrak" system
consisting of so-called Von Han (named after the scientist) corpuscles and the
Von Han tubes which link them. It is specifically the "kenrak" system, accord-
ing to the data of Korean scientists, which is what connects the acupuncture
points to the internal organs. This is the first point.
The second point. Japanese scientists measured the electrical resis-
[Translator's footnote. The article above was continued on another
page which was not provided in the original Russian.]
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