Dr. Kilner
Copyright © 1990 by Robert Bruce

An English doctor, Dr. Walter J. Kilner, in 1911, used colour as an aid to stimulating auric sight.

Dr. Kilner, researched the use of auric sight, as an aid to diagnosing the health of his patients. He used dicyanin screens for this. Dicyanin is a dye product of coal tar. These screens consisted of two pieces of glass with dicyanin dye sandwiched and sealed between them. He found that by using these - aura goggles, as he called them - he could stimulate the ability to see the human aura.

He would stare, for a few minutes, through these screens, at a bright light. When he looked away, he could see an aura surrounding his patient. He would then note any changes and abnormalities in their aura, and compare them with other observations, taken of healthy people. This allowed him to detect disease, in the very early stages, before the actual symptoms of that disease appeared.

Dr. Kilner used several different coloured screens, and combinations of them. Different coloured screens showed him different aspects, or layers, of an aura.

He also used strips of brightly illuminated, coloured cloth. He would stare at one of these strips, after preparing his eyes, by looking through one of his screens. These strips caused a phantom strip, of a different colour, to appear in his gaze. These were like small windows, that could be moved around by shifting his gaze, highlighting different parts of his subject's aura. This gave him a different view of their aura, in that part.

By looking through these screens, at bright light, Kilner flooded his eyes with the slow auric colour of that screen (it's reverse colour). This made his eyes hypersensitive to that particular auric colour, enabling him to see that colour in his subject's aura. Different coloured screens would allow him to see different colours in an aura. The use of the strips of colour, then enabled him to see the slow auric colour (reverse colour) of the coloured strip, minus the original colour of the screen he was using - showing a small band of an entirely different colour, in the aura. This small band of colour could be moved around the patient's aura, by shifting his gaze, like a small window, highlighting the area it covered.

One interesting thing about Dr. Kilner's work is this: after using these screens for several months or more, he found he needed to use them less and less. By continually straining to see auras, with his aura goggles, he stimulated his brow centre, and mastered the visual technique needed to see the aura. He eventually gained full auric sight, i.e., he no longer needed the aura goggles to see auras.

If you would like to get a copy of Dr. Kilner's book, you will find it contains many fine colour plates (paintings) showing the aura, as seen by himself and his associates. These show the different effects that can be had using combinations of different coloured screens and coloured strips.

† Kilner's book is listed, in the book I read, as: Kilner, Walter John. (1965). "The Human Aura." (New Ed.). New York: University Books. I was quoted $300.00 US, for the purchase of this book.

I cannot comment on the effectiveness of using genuine aura goggles, as I have never actually seen a pair. I did, however, experiment with a pair I made myself, many years ago. I used two pieces of glass, covered them with a deep blue dye, and sealed the edges with windscreen sealant. I followed Kilner's instructions, staring at a bright light through this screen, etc.

I found this made my eyes extremely sore, and so, after awhile, discontinued using them. They did work, however, and showed me some interesting auric effects. I considered it was not a healthy practise, though, due to the painful burning it caused in my eyes, and the possibility that it could damage them. In his book, Kilner gives a warning about this nasty side effect - burning, sore eyes.