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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Russian inventor Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, and to his process of recording corona discharges from the surface of objects onto photographic plates.

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Examples

  • I saw Kirlian sparks leap between our fingertips when I touched him.

    365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

  • A series about interstellar agents who travel thanks to their extremely strong Kirlian auras, enabling them to take over the minds of locals when they have problems to fix.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Space Heroes A Brief History Blue Tyson 2008

  • But the Kirlian aura analysis—he still preferred the old Earth term for it—had shown that the female's aura was supercharged with conflict and with insupportable physiological overload.

    TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

  • "Like the old Kirlian patterns," Christine Chapel said to McCoy, "which were said to show results of psychic healing."

    TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

  • "Like the old Kirlian patterns," Christine Chapel said to McCoy, "which were said to show results of psychic healing."

    TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

  • But the Kirlian aura analysis—he still preferred the old Earth term for it—had shown that the female's aura was supercharged with conflict and with insupportable physiological overload.

    TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

  • "Like the old Kirlian patterns," Christine Chapel said to McCoy, "which were said to show results of psychic healing."

    TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

  • But the Kirlian aura analysis—he still preferred the old Earth term for it—had shown that the female's aura was supercharged with conflict and with insupportable physiological overload.

    TRIANGLE SONDRA MARSHAK 2009

  • A series about interstellar agents who travel thanks to their extremely strong Kirlian auras, enabling them to take over the minds of locals when they have problems to fix.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • A few years ago, they called it "Kirlian Energy", and before that it was "psi", and before that it was "orgone", and before that it was "spiritualism".

    The Memory Hole 2005

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