Tbilisi Healer A. Krivoroltov Projects Up to 50°C Heat From 10 Centimeters Away
By June Hargrove ·
A Tbilisi healer locked himself in bathrooms before seances to hide how he projected 50°C heat, a mystery S. Kirlian pursued using RF photography of the skin's electrical space.
S. Kirlian was working in a Krasnodar hospital, servicing a high-frequency current generator, when he noticed a discrepancy in the electrical discharge between his palm and his forearm. To record the phenomenon, Kirlian used a glass photographic plate on a metal electrode while insulating himself from the floor with a rubber sheet. When he connected himself to the high-frequency circuit, the resulting image was not an X-ray, but what the record describes as a "photograph of a biological object in a field of RF currents."
According to OCR-extracted text from a document titled "'MAGICIAN' WALKS INTO THE LABORATORY," found in the CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room, the results were initially "fuzzy." Kirlian and his wife spent considerable time refining the gap between the object and the plate, experimenting with thin cloth and metal foil before settling on a "water electrode" using wetted cotton. The document notes that 17 patents eventually confirmed their leadership in this field.
"a fuzzy picture"
The resulting images allegedly allowed researchers to see beyond the visible spectrum. The text describes a test involving two identical-looking leaves from the same plant; while they appeared the same to the eye, their "electrical space" photographs were completely different. Phytopathologists later determined that one leaf had been taken from a branch contaminated with microorganisms, while the other was healthy. The record claims this method could register the "earliest stages of pathological processes" in tobacco, grapes, and apples, as well as in sick human organs.
These biological imprints were sensitive to the subject's internal state. The author of the original article, writing for a publication called TM in 1969, claims that after drinking a glass of wine, the Kirlians were able to detect the act via a changed "topographically scheme of the discharges."
A. Krivoroltov
The focus of the record shifts when a man named A. Krivoroltov, a self-described "healer" from Tbilisi, Georgia, visited the Kirlians. Krivoroltov claimed to heal patients via the "laying on of hands," a process that often left patients feeling as if a "hot dry compress" had been applied to their skin.
Kirlian placed Krivoroltov's finger under a microscope within an RF tank circuit. The resulting image showed "protuberances" and "schools of 'amebae'" billowing from the pores of the skin. When Krivoroltov became upset, the image shifted to "orange, violet, blue stars."
Kirlian attempted to find a physical basis for this "miracle-working." He discovered that the electrical resistance of Krivoroltov's palms was "3 to 5 time higher than the usual value," despite the skin being "pink, soft, just like a baby's." The record notes that Krivoroltov always locked himself in a bathroom before a seance. Kirlian hypothesized that the healer was rubbing his hands with a substance, possibly ozocerite, to create a "mutual dielectric glove."
Under this theory, the healer's hand acts as a polarized surface. When placed on a patient, an electric field is formed, creating an "ion flux" that "blows past" and heats the affected organ. The text compares this to the "ionic 'scharcot shower'" or "D'Arsondalization" used in medicine.
0.5 to 10 cm
The author of the piece eventually met Krivoroltov in person and requested a demonstration. He reports feeling a sensation of heat corresponding to a temperature of "45 to 50?C." However, he notes a critical detail that challenges Kirlian's dielectric glove theory: the burning sensation occurred even when Krivoroltov's hands were "comparatively far from me at a distance of .5 to 10 cm."
Because ion bombardment only operates across "micron gaps," the author concludes that the mechanism of healing is "considerably more complicated than would appear at first glance." This led the author to reference other international research into biological electrical fields. He cites a Japanese electronics engineer, Dr. Uchida, who investigated a Mrs. Yamada's ability to heal at a distance. Uchida's findings suggested that points of increased electrical conductivity coincided with "tsubo," or acupuncture points.
Further references are made to a 1963 paper from the Bulletin of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Korean Peoples' Democratic Republic. This paper describes the "kenrak system," a discovery by Professor Kim Bon Han. The record describes "kenrak" as a unified "anato-mohistological system" distinct from the nervous, blood, and lymph systems, consisting of "Von Han corpuscles" and "Von Han tubes" that connect acupuncture points to internal organs.
The translated article ends abruptly, with a translator's footnote stating that the text continued on another page which was not provided in the original Russian. The record leaves the question of whether the "magician" was changing "information processes in the organism of the patient... through the 'ether'" unresolved.