Kilner, WJ - Kilner

Japanese: キルナー，W.J. - きるなー

...In the scientific field, it has been studied in relation to Kirlian photography and Reich's orgone energy, and in the religious field, it has been studied as a key to understanding the halo of saints and the astral body (the spiritual body that surrounds the material human body). Scientific experiments on the aura began with Walter John Kilner (1847-1920), who invented the "dicyanine screen," which is a glass plate separated by 1/8 inch (about 0.3 cm) and filled with an alcoholic solution of the photosensitive dye dicyanine. According to Kilner, when the aura is passed through this screen, it becomes visible, and three layers can be distinguished: the black shadow-like part "ether complex" that directly surrounds the human body, and the "inner aura" and "outer aura" that extend above it. ...

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…科学面ではキルリアン写真やライヒのオルゴン･エネルギーとの関連から，また宗教面では聖人の背光やアストラル体Astral body(物質としての人体を包む霊的肉体)を解明する鍵として研究されている。オーラについての科学的実験はキルナーWalter John Kilner(1847‐1920)に始まり，1/8インチ(約0.3cm)離れた2枚のガラス板の間に感光染料ジシアニンのアルコール溶液を満たした〈ジシアニン･スクリーン〉が考案された。キルナーによれば，オーラをこのスクリーンに通すと可視状態となり，人体を直接包む黒い影のような部分〈エーテル複体〉，およびその上に広がる〈内オーラ〉〈外オーラ〉の3層が識別できたという。…

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