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Walter John Kilner, M.D. B.A., M.B. (Cantab.) M.R.C.P., etc. (1847–1920) was a medical electrician at St. Thomas Hospital, London. There, from 1879 to 1893, he was in charge of electrotherapy. He was also in private medical practice, in Ladbroke Grove, London. He wrote papers on a range of subjects but is today best remembered for his late study ''The Human Atmosphere''. In 1883 he became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians. In his spare time he was a keen chess player. ==The Human Atmosphere== In 1911 Kilner published one of the first western medical studies of the "Human Atmosphere" or Aura, proposing its existence, nature and possible use in medical diagnosis and prognosis. In its conviction that the human energy field is an indicator of health and mood, Kilner's study resembles the later work of Harold Saxton Burr. However, while Burr relied upon voltmeter readings, Kilner, working before the advent of semiconductor technology, attempted to invent devices by which the naked eye might be trained to observe "auric" activity which, he hypothesised, was probably ultraviolet radiation, stating that the phenomena he saw were not affected by electromagnets.〔Kilner, Walter J., ''The Human Atmosphere, or the Aura Made Visible by the aid of Chemical Screens'', 1911, reprinted as "The Human Aura" by Citadel Press, NY, 1965, ISBN 0-8065-0545-1. The Aura, by Walter J. Kilner. Introd. by Sibyl Ferguson. New York, S. Weiser, 1973.〕 Glass slides or "Kilner Screens"〔Raymond J. Corsini ''The Dictionary of Psychology'', Psychology Press 1999 p.524〕 containing alcoholic solutions of variously coloured dyes, including a blue coal-tar dye called "dicyanin" were used as filters in "Kilner Goggles" which, together with lights, were held to train the eyes to perceive electromagnetic radiation outside the normal spectrum of visible light.〔Williams, William F. (2002). ''Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy''. Facts on File Inc. pp. 176-177. ISBN 978-0816050802〕 After being so trained, one could dispense with the apparatus. Kilner did not recommend merely viewing the subject through these lenses. According to his study, Kilner and his associates were able, on many occasions, to perceive auric formations, which he called the Etheric Double, the Inner Aura and the Outer Aura, extending several inches from patients' naked bodies, and his book gave instructions by which the reader might construct and use similar goggles.〔 Francis J. Rebman, a friend of Kilner supported his research in America.〔The Daily Journal-Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois. August 19, 1911. p. 3. Rebman published a booklet on the subject ''The Human Aura: A Brief Explication of Dr. Kilner's Discovery of Means for Observing the Human Atmosphere''. (1912).〕 A drawback to Kilner's method was the scarcity and toxicity of the chemicals he recommended. Later, the biologist Oscar Bagnall〔Bagnall, Oscar. (1937). ''The Origin and Properties of the Human Aura''. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company.〕 recommended substituting the dye pinacyanol (dissolved in triethanolamine) but this dye is also not easy to obtain. Carl Edwin Lindgren has stated that cobalt blue and purple glass may be substituted for the dyes used by Kilner and Bagnall.〔Lindgren, Carl Edwin. (2005). ''Capturing the Aura.'' Blue Dolphin Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 978-1577330721〕 In 1920 a revised edition of his book was published under the title ''The Human Aura''. Kilner's work was well-timed for the heyday of Theosophy and his findings were incorporated into Arthur E. Powell's book ''The Etheric Double''.〔Powell, Arthur E. (1925). ''The Etheric Double and Allied Phenomena''. Theosophical Publishing House.〕 Powell rightly made clear that Kilner had expressly differentiated between his own work and the clairvoyance and eastern systems of spiritualism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter John Kilner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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