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This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture.

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The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily the only ones to the mysteries we will examine.

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The human aura. That golden halo familiar to saints and psychics was long thought of as an artist's fantasy.

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Today, Curly in Photography captures the image of an aura as the energy fields surrounding all animate beings.

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And now, for the first time, in search of has made ultra high speed motion pictures of the aura around a drop of human blood.

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Can this radiating pattern offer new insights into disease and health?

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In almost every religious painting, a golden halo symbolizes divine power of healing.

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Many stories in the Bible suggest that Jesus' contemporaries could actually see a brilliant aura surrounding him.

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Here is the recreation of one such story.

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Two thousand years ago, the sick and lame flocked to the hills around Jerusalem, searching for a mysterious carpenter's son who performed miraculous cures.

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A rich woman, afflicted with terrible hemorrhaging, had wasted all her money on doctors.

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She heard that Jesus was passing nearby.

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If I can touch only the hem of his robe, she said, I will be cured.

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This is one story in which the Gospels agree. Jesus did not suspect what was about to happen.

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His healing power, or aura, seemed to have a life of its own.

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Jesus felt power drain from him. He asked the disciples, who touched me?

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The woman felt instantly that she was healed. Jesus kept asking, who touched me?

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When he realized what had happened, he blessed the woman.

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Your faith has made you whole, he said. Go in peace.

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Had this woman, who acted in blind faith, drawn the energy from his aura?

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After Jesus' death, his disciples gathered to pray at the Feast of Pentecost.

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They recalled that Jesus had promised to send the Holy Spirit to comfort and guide them.

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And then they heard a sound like rushing wind, and began to see what they called,

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cloven tongues of fire sitting on each. Later they surmised they had inherited Jesus' healing power.

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That moment marked the historic beginning of the Christian religion.

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In Christian art, halos around the heads of saints were actually filled with gold leaf,

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a priceless commodity in any era.

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Historians have been unable to trace the origins of this tradition, which has shown a remarkable consistency over 2,000 years.

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The aura remained a purely psychological phenomenon until the end of the last century, with the pioneering work of W.J. Kilner.

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This brilliant surgeon, chief of X-ray experimentation at London St. Thomas Hospital, was always popular with patients.

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Kilner startled the medical world with a completely new diagnostic technique.

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He had invented an aura screen, a glass plate coated with dyesionin.

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Through the screen, he could clearly see a pronounced aura around all humans,

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and the shape of the aura he claimed indicated oncoming diseases.

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Collecting thousands of case histories, he wrote long books on aura diagnosis,

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and yet no one else could see an aura through his screen.

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The medical world branded him a quack.

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Patients continued to come, however, because his aura diagnoses were accurate.

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The most momentous discovery came to Kilner by accident,

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a discovery which would change all of his ideas about the existence of the human aura.

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One night, he prepared a new mixture of dyes.

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Persistent staring through strong colors had wracked his eyes with pain.

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He looked away for an instant, and began to perceive auras with his own eyes.

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Could the power to see auras have been all along, not in his chemicals, but in himself?

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With no students who could carry on his work, Kilner was forgotten.

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They only carry over from his research these aura goggles, a novelty item from England.

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Supposedly, after wearing them for 10 minutes, one can see auras.

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However, at least for me, they don't produce anything unusual.

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The ability to see auras remains with a select few.

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In search of has located one individual who apparently has this gift.

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What's happening in the leg areas, the colors are dimmer.

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In modern-day Los Angeles, Janet and Eileen Charlton offer a unique service, aura counseling.

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Janet Charlton claims to see auras surrounding everyone, an ability which was not always a blessing.

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Since she began to speak, no one believed the colors and shapes she reported.

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I have seen auras ever since I can remember. I don't physically ever remember not seeing them.

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I knew how people were feeling just by the lights that were surrounding their bodies.

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During my childhood, I went from one psychiatrist to the other.

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I spent lots of time, lots of money going to, I believe there were six of them.

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Basically, yes, they all thought I was crazy. They didn't understand.

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I learned to more or less keep things to myself rather than saying what I was seeing and saying what I was sensing about people.

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Janet made this drawing of a healthy human aura as she sees it.

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According to what's going on in the auric field is how you can tell what disease is coming in.

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I have found through experience of not only myself watching my own auric field change,

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but also by watching others' auric field changes, that there is a definite color bleeding that goes on in the auric field that shows up.

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It shows up in the auric field before it manifests in the physical body.

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Suddenly we realized...

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For a mother-in-law, Eileen Charlton, long a practitioner of psychic healing, was the first to identify Janet's gift.

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We discovered that she could see the changes and she could describe what was going on in the client.

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So we had a feedback system. We had a way of checking one another because it's difficult for a psychic to work alone at times.

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Because they're not sure of the information that they're receiving.

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A woman whose illness had recently been diagnosed by an MD, volunteered to test the Charlton's.

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Lower calf area is very orange and very red.

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Mostly in the calf area, not so much the front, but the back of calf.

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Okay, there's some green in the orange area.

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It doesn't look like it belongs there.

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You've been having any constipation stuff? Anything like that?

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I can't.

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That's probably what that is.

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The health aura basically looks good except down in the lower leg area in this right thigh.

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And it's about four inches away from the body whereas up in here it's about seven.

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So I'm channeling some energy.

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We have no statistical documentation of Janet and Eileen's abilities.

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At least one medical doctor has referred patients to them.

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Our test subjects reaction is one opinion.

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Well, the diagnosis is correct as far as the three things that have been bothering me were the legs and water retention and constipation.

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And they name those three things.

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So if I were to scale it, I would, I guess honestly give it like a 90%.

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These pictures were taken with Curly in Photography, a controversial process which claims to give pictures of the aura.

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A breakthrough from Russia, Curly in Photography is just now offering scientists a new method of diagnosis and healing.

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At the California College of Acupuncture, a state-approved teaching institution, research is ongoing in the field of aura photography.

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Here experimenters are trying to capture motion pictures of the energy body by sending high voltage through plants and humans.

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These are Curly in Movies of the Sparks around two fingertips.

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The person on the right reported feeling agitated and angry.

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John Hubecker, one of the leading experimenters today.

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When we take a Curly in Photograph of a living object, it will always change, changes very dynamically, very much like we expect the human order to change.

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And we believe that these changes do accompany, in human beings, physiological changes, changes of the body, changes of our state of health.

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We find changes with emotional state. It's a very complex thing that we're just learning about.

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Curly in Photography doesn't necessarily photograph the aura.

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It may be photographing a component of the aura.

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The aura, as clairvoyance claims to see it, does extend out quite a distance from the body.

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So it's certainly not the aura that clairvoyance talk about, but it may be what they call the inner aura, or the etheric body, or the energy body.

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Or as we're trying to do research here at the California Acupuncture College, the system of acupuncture, chi energy in the body.

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This maybe is what we're really photographing with Curly in Photography.

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Skeptics have claimed that Curly in Auras are nothing more than fancy sparks,

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until the startling phantom leaf experiment was performed by several independent investigators.

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Ready to go?

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A generating apparatus produces a controlled alternating current of 40,000 volts.

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Part of a still living leaf is cut away, and a Curly in Movie recorded.

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In this case, with a video image intensifier.

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The faint electric field can be seen and recorded only in total darkness.

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One would expect to see just the uncut part of the leaf, and that is usually the case.

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On rare occasions, however, the leaf seems to remember a ghost of the missing portion.

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Evidence for the first time that the physical body is not all there is to life.

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Alan Dietrich has a worldwide reputation for his phantom leaf ability.

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John Hübacher comments.

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One of the problems with Curly in Photography and the phantom leaves is that work that we had done at UCLA,

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and the work that we had heard about, done in other countries, notably Russia, was that the experiment was not reproducible.

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This means that we would take phantoms, and at UCLA, for instance, we would get phantoms 1%, 2% of the time.

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It was very difficult to get. Alan had fabulous phantom leaves.

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He presented these at this New York conference, and he was getting them, how many say, 90% of the time?

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95%. This is a tremendous result, and so we were all very excited about his ability to generate these phantom leaves.

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The first time I did it, nobody ever said I couldn't do it, so I just went down and tried it.

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And I got it the very first time I tried it, so I've been working with it ever since. I haven't changed anything.

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It seems that it may actually be Alan himself that can produce the effect, and this is typical with many types of experiments in parapsychology,

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where the experimenter himself interacts with the experiment quite intimately.

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The movie apparatus would not produce a complete phantom.

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Alan Dietrich continued all night with still film. Here are two of his successes.

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In each case, half a leaf produced a complete image.

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Curly and photography is now being combined with the ancient Chinese art of acupuncture.

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Preliminary results hint at a link between Curly and images and the Meridians of acupuncture.

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Experiments with volunteers are ongoing.

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Meridians on the feet, the lines of energy, tend to be fairly weak, so we don't expect a very strong discharge.

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Right now at the California Acupuncture College, that's exactly what we're trying to determine.

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Whether the energy changes that are traditionally understood by acupuncture can be seen by Curly and photography.

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Okay, lights, let's...

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The feet show a slight imbalance.

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Okay, this Meridian here, as you see, the large intestine Meridian, tends to be very full on the pulse,

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so we should see this stronger, and we've found out afterwards that there are some intestinal problems,

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so that corresponds again to the diagnosis.

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Okay, lights, let's see if the Curly in...

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The hands show generally healthy Meridians.

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Being able to cause and being the under...

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Dr. Steven Rosenblatt, president of the college.

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The body's functioning depends on this energy flow.

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By changing the energy flow, we change the body's functioning.

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The Curly in work, the reason it's so important and so critical,

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is that it provides an independent measurement and photograph, an actual picture,

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of what this energy flow that we've been talking about so long is like.

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And kidney three on the left side.

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Data is still being collected.

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Curly in photos are taken of volunteers before and after the acupuncture.

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These are strong points to stimulate what are called the Yen Meridians,

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which appeared weak by the pulse diagnosis.

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The procedure, by the way, is painless,

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and subjects rarely report any conscious awareness of a change.

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And to stimulate.

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Now we've had the needles in for a period of about five minutes.

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I'm putting a little bit of moxa right here on this point,

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which is an herb which will tend to stimulate the energy here.

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We should be finding that the left foot,

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when we take the Curly in photographs,

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should be stronger than the right foot.

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Now we're lighting the moxa,

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and this should stimulate the meridians in the...

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Can the internal energy flow be altered and photographed?

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The extreme faintness of the Curly in image requires total darkness,

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and film pushed to the extreme of sensitivity.

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The feet are now more in balance.

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This again is the large intestine line that we determined.

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There was a problem with the large intestine line,

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and so now we can have the lights,

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and we can see if this side shows up a little more balanced

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than it did last time in comparison of the two.

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The aura around the fingers is stronger.

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Because of the stress of the environment and other problems in modern life,

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the body is not perfectly healthy all the time, as we know.

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What acupuncture does is try and overcome some of these impediments,

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some of these blockages that occur in the system,

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and return it to a state of balance or a state of flow.

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Now what we're talking about flowing is cheap.

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Che is the Chinese word for this energy that we're talking about,

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this animate type of energy,

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energy that causes the body to be alive and somehow different from the model that we have here.

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It has a certain life quality.

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It's this life force, the Chinese designated Chi.

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Other cultures call it Qi.

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The Hindus call it Prana.

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The ancient Hebrews called it Ruach.

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The Russians today call it biomagnetic force.

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It's been called Orgon.

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It's been called Odic force.

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The names throughout history have been given to this particular force,

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and for the first time in all this history, we're able actually to photograph it.

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At the Orthopedic Hospital in Los Angeles,

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a startling new application of Curley and energy has been invented by Alfred Benjamin,

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director of medical photography.

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The experiment attempts to diagnose diseases in human blood.

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A Curley and generator is set up to discharge through the blood

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onto a glass plate coated with liquid crystals.

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The drop of blood is carefully measured and placed on the crystal plate.

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An ultra-high speed camera prepares to capture the first one thousandth of a second in the discharge.

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The first one thousandth of a second.

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The second one thousandth of a second.

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The third one thousandth of a second.

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The fourth one thousandth of a second.

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The fifth one thousandth of a second.

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The fifth one thousandth of a second.

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What we found out, generally speaking, is that normal blood, for instance,

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has a certain healthy, we call it, pattern,

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radiating waves coming from the center.

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It's usually very repetitive. You can repeat it again and again.

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While with cancer patients, we found the pattern itself is not there,

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as pronounced and sometimes completely gone, disarrayed,

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no inner circle, no inner corona, and the radiating pattern is missing

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and bubbles appear, a lot of bubbles sometimes.

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So we found out there is a certain differentiation between so-called healthy blood and cancer blood

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on a great proportion.

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This investigation is preliminary.

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Alfred Benjamin is hopeful, however, that the elusive aura may yet fulfill its promise of healing power.

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Curly in photography offers a great promise as a tool in the new horizons of medicine.

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Mystics and visionaries never doubted the existence of the aura.

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After two thousand years, science may rediscover its promise of wondrous healing.

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Coming up next, agents break up a gang of New Jersey bank robbers

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and pin them with charges of racketeering and murder on FBI The Untold Stories.

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Then histories, crimes, and trials chronicles the crime of England's notorious lady killer, Neville Heath.