...It is said to be a cloud of light that surrounds the body, with a thickness of several centimeters to nearly 1 meter, and is usually only visible to psychics. 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 devised the ``dicyanine screen,'' which consists of two glass plates spaced 1/8 inch (about 0.3 cm) apart and filled with an alcoholic solution of the photosensitive dye dicyanine. *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Astral body" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…数cmから1m近くの厚みで体を取り巻く光の雲のようなものとされ,通常は超能力者にしか見えないといわれる。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。… ※「Astral body」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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