Editing Kirlian photography (section)

==In popular culture==
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Kirlian photography has appeared as a fictional element in numerous books, films, television series, and media productions, including the 1975 film ''The Kirlian Force'', re-released under the more sensational title ''[[Psychic Killer]]''. Kirlian photographs have been used as visual components in various media, such as the sleeve of [[George Harrison]]'s 1973 album ''[[Living in the Material World]]'', which features Kirlian photographs of his hand holding a Hindu medallion on the front sleeve and American coins on the back, shot at Thelma Moss's UCLA parapsychology laboratory.<ref>Tillery, G. ''Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison'' (2011)</ref>

The artwork of [[David Bowie]]'s 1997 album ''[[Earthling (David Bowie album)|Earthling]]'' has reproductions of Kirlian photographs taken by Bowie. The photographs, which show a crucifix Bowie wore around his neck and the imprint of his "forefinger" tip, date to April 1975 when Bowie was living in Los Angeles and fascinated with the paranormal. The photographs were taken before consuming cocaine and 30 minutes afterwards. The after photograph apparently shows a substantial increase in the "aura" around the crucifix and forefinger.

The ''Cluster'' novels by science fiction author [[Piers Anthony]] uses the concept of the Kirlian Aura as a way to transfer a person's personality into another body, even an alien body, across light years. The book ''[[A. E. van Vogt|The Anarchistic Colossus]]'' (1977) by [[A. E. van Vogt]] involves an [[Anarchism|anarchistic]] society controlled by ‘Kirlian computers’.

The opening credits during the first seven seasons of the television series ''[[The X-Files]]'' shows a Kirlian image of a left human hand. The image appears as the 11th clip in the introductory video montage and is formed by a bluish coronal discharge as the primary outline, with only the proximal phalange of the index finger shown cryptically in red.  A human silhouette, in white, seemingly falls towards the hand.

The Italian electronic darkwave band [[Kirlian Camera (band)|Kirlian Camera]] was named after the device used for Kirlian photography.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kirlian Camera biography |url=https://www.kirliancamera.com/bio.htm |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=www.kirliancamera.com}}</ref>

British industrial band [[Cabaret_Voltaire_(band)|Cabaret Voltaire's]] first album [[Mix-Up]] features a track called Kirlian Photograph.