“Photography with neither light nor electricity, of N. and P. at 5 feet from the lense in red dimness. After the preparations, electric light was finally turned off. Pose 10 minutes. State of soul: prayer, meditation, appeal to the universal spirit. Result: on the left side of the group, descent of fine tongues in the form of feathers. It is a projection of horizontal tongues or from top to bottom. The importance of this plate is capital, it is the experimental proof of the reply of the psychestasis, ascending towards the Spirit; it is the universal shower, the illumination of the proven prayer, the descent of the Spirit.”
Featured on PDR in the collection Imaging Inscape: The Human Soul (1913)
In The Human Soul: Its Movements, Its Lights, and the Iconography of the Fluidic Invisible, originally published in French in 1896, Dr. Hippolyte Baraduc (1850–1909) postulates the existence of “the fluidic invisible” — a “vital cosmic force”, which he calls Odic liquid, that extends across the universe and “saturates the organism of living beings and constitutes our fluidic body”. Instead of all things being composed of one elementary substance, as in philosophical accounts of the monad, in this cosmic vision, we all live in a sea that we cannot see, which Baraduc names Somod.
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“Photography with neither light nor electricity, of N. and P. at 5 feet from the lense in red dimness.”
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1913
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The Human Soul
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