This original manuscript of a technical report was one of many studies that have been supported by the Parapsychology Foundation. One of the organization’s goals being the support of the academic and scientific research of psychic and unexplained phenomenon, several other studies like this one can be found in the collection.
Kirlian photography is a technique which visually captures coronal discharges, or electricity that is discharged when a person’s skin or other object comes into contact with another electrical conductor. In this report, the researchers hypothesized that the intensity of the coronal discharge captured in a given image could correlate to several psychic phenomena, such as viewing one’s past life or having an out-of-body experience.
Technical report, “The Kirlian Connection: New Discovers in Electrophotography,” Joe H. Slate et al., Athens State College, prepared for Parapsychology Foundation, Inc., New York, NY, February 1, 1985, Box B, Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation Collection, Collection 331, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).