May 9

Through My Eyes

Friday May 9

" The long train was on the last leg of it's journey from Moscow to Krasnodar, a south Russian inland port on the Kuban River, two hundred miles northwest of the volcanic Elbrus, Europe's highest mountain peak in th Greater Caucasus range.

In one of its "soft" cushioned cars reserved for Soviet officials , a plant specialist, bored with watching the flat countryside, still only partly recovered in 1950 from the Nazi ravages of the "Great Patriotic War," reopened his satchel to check the condition of two similar leaves which he had plucked in a greenhouse before leaving the Soviet capital. Relieved to see that the leaves were still sparkling fresh and green in their bedding of moist cotton wool, he sat back in his fauteuil to admire the approach of the Caucasian piedmont.

Late that evening in a small Krasnodar apartment, Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, an electrician and amateur photographer, and his wife Valentina, were making some adjustments to equipment they had begun building two years before the Nazi attack on their country. ( Those Russian names are amazing aren't they?). With their new invention they had discovered they could photgraphically reproduce-without lense or camera- a strange luminescence which seemed to issue from all living things but was unapprehensible by the human eye.

A knock on the door surprised them, as no visitor was likely to call at that time of evening; they were even more surprised when a total stranger announced he had come all the way from Moscow to see if they could make for him photographs of the strange energy which he had heard they alone could make visible on film. From his briefcase the stranger pulled the two identical leaves and handed them to the Kirlians." ( We'll read more from this later. I admit to not being as enthusiastic when we read of physiologist's experimenting and manipulating living things. It's one of those compromises I have a tough time with since in it's strictist sense it isn't true to the principles of "ahimsa" or harmlessness to all beings that Ghandi worked toward and that I strive toward. Bose though, was a very spiritual person and most likely showed the greatest respect possible to the living things he worked with. ) I promise to add more tomorrow...

Through my eyes

* This is,of course, more from The Secret Life of Plants!


	Through My Eyes Friday May 9 " The long train was on the last leg of it's journey from Moscow to Krasnodar, a south Russian inland port on the Kuban River, two hundred miles northwest of the volcanic Elbrus, Europe's highest mountain peak in th Greater Caucasus range. In one of its "soft" cushioned cars reserved for Soviet officials , a plant specialist, bored with watching the flat countryside, still only partly recovered in 1950 from the Nazi ravages of the "Great Patriotic War," reopened his satchel to check the condition of two similar leaves which he had plucked in a greenhouse before leaving the Soviet capital. Relieved to see that the leaves were still sparkling fresh and green in their bedding of moist cotton wool, he sat back in his fauteuil to admire the approach of the Caucasian piedmont. Late that evening in a small Krasnodar apartment, Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, an electrician and amateur photographer, and his wife Valentina, were making some adjustments to equipment they had begun building two years before the Nazi attack on their country. ( Those Russian names are amazing aren't they?). With their new invention they had discovered they could photgraphically reproduce-without lense or camera- a strange luminescence which seemed to issue from all living things but was unapprehensible by the human eye. A knock on the door surprised them, as no visitor was likely to call at that time of evening; they were even more surprised when a total stranger announced he had come all the way from Moscow to see if they could make for him photographs of the strange energy which he had heard they alone could make visible on film. From his briefcase the stranger pulled the two identical leaves and handed them to the Kirlians." ( We'll read more from this later. I admit to not being as enthusiastic when we read of physiologist's experimenting and manipulating living things. It's one of those compromises I have a tough time with since in it's strictist sense it isn't true to the principles of "ahimsa" or harmlessness to all beings that Ghandi worked toward and that I strive toward. Bose though, was a very spiritual person and most likely showed the greatest respect possible to the living things he worked with. ) I promise to add more tomorrow... Through my eyes * This is,of course, more from The Secret Life of Plants!