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Non-scientists and pseudo-scientists claim that the patterns of light captured in Kirlian photography are images of the organism's soul, aura, qi, or metaphysical energy field. However, the truth is much more mundane. When electric charge moves quickly enough through air, it rips electrons off of air molecules and gives them energy.
When these electrons recombine with the air molecules, they emit their energy in the form of light. For low to medium amounts of electricity, this process is called gas discharge.
No, Kirlian photographs do not present the soul of an organism. Kirlian photographs demonstrates the light that is from the electrified air surrounding an object when the object is intentionally filled with electricity.