• Photograph 1, shows her aura before receiving any radiation from the VRCR.

• Photograph 2 shows her aura after the crystal wand had been placed against her brow and the VRCR turned on for approximately one minute.

• Photograph 3 was taken immediately after the crystal wand had been placed on her Imagination Center (located on top of the head, 3 inches behind the center of the head) for approximately one minute.

• The green color in photograph 4 resulted from the crystal being placed approximately six inches below her feet for one minute.

• Photographs 5 and 6 show a very striking difference. Prior to these photographs being taken, Gwen had just completed a twenty-eight hour drive from Atlanta, Georgia to Denver, Colorado to attend a conference. She had had very little sleep and little or nothing to eat, and had just finished setting up her camera in the exhibit booth.  She was completely exhausted.

• Someone suggested that it was an opportune time to see just how effective the VRCR was in helping one's body rejuvenate itself, energywise.

• So, Gwen managed to drag herself onto the chair in front of the camera, smile a bit and put her right hand on the template on top of the computer.  Photograph 5 was the result of that effort.

• Immediately after, she went through the entire sixteen power centers tuning procedure using the VRCR. Upon completion, her tiredness had vanished, her body felt rejuvenated and she had no trouble at all in seating herself in the chair opposite the camera.  The smile was no effort this time.  See photograph 6.

 

Gwen says that she is always amazed at the reaction of the aura to the radiations from the VRCR.  In all of the thousands of photographs she has taken over the past several years, she has never seen the colors in the photographs change so quickly and so dramatically as occurs after the subject has been exposed to radiation from the VRCR.  She has taken photographs after a person has taken or been exposed to many different types of reagents or stimuli-herbal teas, homoeopathic remedies, vitamins, flower essences, Bach remedies, magnets, color, music, prayers, chants, yoga, exercising, Reiki, etc.  She has worked with meditation groups practicing guided meditation, silent meditation and music meditation.

 
Cornelius van Dorp, a New Zealand doctor who was a member of the GREENPEACE ship's crew, was visiting Jack in 1991 and participating in our ongoing investigation into the capabilities of the Violet Ray Crystal Resonator.  When the subject of auras came up, he made the following comment:
"What you (addressing Linda, our conscious psychic channeler) were saying about it being easier for you to see auras against a white background fits in with the technology that Harry Oldfield has developed in London.  He has a video camera and the output from the camera goes into a computer then onto a screen, and you get a live image of a person with an aura around.  The only essential things are a white wall behind the person and a multi-spectrum light.  It doesn't work without those two elements.  It fits in with what you say."
Researchers have dreamed for many years about taking photographs of the human aura, and that also was one of the main purposes of my own research.  Although for many years there have been rumors of such a camera having been developed, I had yet to see-either directly or on paper-any authentic, documentary evidence.  But that was about to change!
In 1991 Jack received a telephone call from Harry Schneider telling him that there was to be a camera at one of the New Age conferences that could take photographs of the human aura.  Jack and his wife Marolyn immediately decided to investigate, hoping that this might be a means of objectively demonstrating the effect of the VRCR-generated energies upon the human body.
 
Jack and Marolyn flew to Orlando, Florida to attend the GREAT UFO/ET/ALIEN & ABDUCTION CONGRESS held at the Grosvenor Resort in the Walt Disney World Village, August 23-25, 1991.  They renewed their acquaintance with Schneider and met the aura photographer, a very lovely and conscientious young lady by the name of Gwen Kemp.  Gwen had been looking forward to meeting the Derbys because due to Schneider's dogged persistence and enthusiasm, she herself had already obtained photographic verification of the VRCR's generated energies interaction with human body energy fields.
With minimal paraphrasing, let's let Gwen summarize the events leading up to her meeting with the Derbys.

"Even in college (she graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.S. in Fine Arts, major in Interior Design), I always had a hobby interest in Kirlian photography.  I've had a Kirlian device for years, have played with it, photographed everyone I knew-finger tips, toetips, crystals, leaves, rocks, jewelry and about everything else I could
think of.  Even photographed organic vitamins versus inorganic vitamins."
"I had always hoped that I would be able to bring Kirlian photography more into the public arena so that people could see that there was more to them than just the physical, that there was light energy associated with our physical being.  When I told them that the Kirlian photographs gave evidence of a type of light energy around their finger tips, they really did not understand what it meant.  I could tell them again, even give them charts which explained what the different types of photographs meant, but they still didn't get it.  Perhaps it may have been that all they were seeing was just a very small portion of the body, that they couldn't relate a picture of a finger tip to the whole body."
"One day I was at a New Age Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia; it was probably October 1989.  For the first time I saw the aura camera and was fascinated with it because I saw that people who had their photographs taken with that camera really didn't need much explanation given to them as to what the photographs meant.  They got it on an inner level.  And I think it's because we all tune into this whether we are conscious of it or not."
"As I began experimenting with the aura camera, I realized that it did produce on film something similar to the way in which I view or see auras.  So, from that I decided that I was going to own that camera.  The next step was to figure out how to come up with the $30,000 which was the cost of the camera and associated equipment.  Eventually, I did obtain the money, and in June 1990 I bought the camera."
 
"The camera technology is very interesting because the inventor and his associates have cleverly found a way to literally replicate the way in which the aura appears surrounding the upper part of the human body.  They use computer technology which is contained in a box.  The box is placed beside a chair where a person is seated.  There is a black background behind the person.  As the person sits down, the person will literally touch the computer.  There is a hand template on the top of the computer box which is an integral part of the computer.  As the person touches the template, some type of electronic circuitry inside of the computer is activated, and the computer makes a scan of the person's electromagnetic energy patterns.  That scanning produces data that is run through a computer program."
"What they are literally doing-and as you know the patent pendings are held by Reverend Scott Samon who developed it at Berkeley Scientific which is located in the Berkeley, California area.  What they are really doing is using the acupuncture meridians of the body to identify the vibrational rates of the organs in the body.  Literally every inch of you from head to toe is equated back to its vibration frequency and that is translated, you might say, into the energy emissions or the light energy that is emitted from the body in specific areas."
"The computer itself is used in conjunction with a computer peripheral, in this case the modified Polaroid camera.  A flat wire connects the computer to the camera.  The results of the electronic scanning from the person's contact with the hand template is massaged, so to speak, by the computer program.  The massaged data is then transmitted to the camera by the flat wire and is electronically imprinted on the film.
At the same time the person's hand touches the template-and I assume it is a very accurately synchronized timing-the camera also take a photograph of the upper body of the person."
"When the print is developed, what you see is the actual photograph of the person's upper body surrounded by the energy imprint replication of what that person's aura would look like if you had the ability to actually see the aura.  So, in the developed print you can literally see the person in their replicated energy field."
"The purchase of the camera started a wonderful experience for me in life.  It gave me the opportunity to do exactly what I always wanted to do; it also gave me freedom to travel.  Not that I hadn't traveled in corporate America.  I had worked for the Steelcase Corporation of Atlanta for eighteen years and had spent 4 to 5 days a week traveling for a number of years.  Steelcase is the largest office furniture manufacturing company in the world; I enjoyed working for them very much.  But the aura camera had entered my life and it was time for me to leave, and I did."
"The travel I did now was different.  I could choose and select where I would be and what I would participate in as opposed to being told where I needed to be on a given day.  One of the first events I participated in was an event called psychotronics held here in Atlanta.  And psychotronics-if there is a way to summarize what it is-I would say it's like the scientific study of the energy of the mind.  And that gets into things like all types of mind-driven energy devices which open the door to radionics and dowsing, a whole variety of other things."
 
"A year later I participated for the second time in the annual Psychotronics Conference which was held in Dayton, Ohio.  It was at that event that I observed a man walking around with a little box, waving some kind of a wand about people.  He was asking them how they felt, asking for information and feedback.  After the second or third day-and I believe it was a five day event-I had an opportunity to talk with this person.  His name was Harry Schneider and he had one of Jack Derby's Violet Ray Crystal Resonators, or VRCR as it is usually referred to."
"We began to experiment a little, doing before and after photos of people.  Several of the people we photographed had very exhausted physical levels of energy.  Some photographs also showed depleted mental energies and a lot of stress in their auras, and it definitely showed in their before pictures.  Harry would use the crystal wand of the VRCR on them for a few minutes.  I don't recall what he actually did, but I don't believe he went through the entire sixteen chakras, or power centers, alignment steps with the person at that time."
"After Harry finished with them, they would come back and I took their pictures again.  In every case their auras were incredibly enhanced; they would be brilliant.  Whereas in the before picture the aura might have been muddy in its color, it now had a lot of white light. It might have gone from having a muddy red or orange around them to having full spectrum, magnificent rainbow type of auras.  Beautiful flames at the crowns, flames of white light with color radiating from that. Frankly, I was overwhelmed by what I was seeing.  From my own experience with the camera I had found that it was practically impossible to really shift your aura dramatically upward (toward the Light) in just a matter of minutes.  And here the VRCR was doing it in every case!"

"When I first got the camera and practiced meditation, I thought that if I would say, "I AM LIGHT, I AM WHITE LIGHT " that, presto, my aura would immediately show up as a brilliant white light in a photograph.  But such was not the case.  When I sat down and really wanted to raise my energies, it took a lot more than just a minute or two; and I have found this to be true for most people with whom I have had the opportunity to work with using the camera.  For instance, in 15 minutes I really might be able to raise the frequencies into more brightness; but it would really take 45 minutes or longer for me to move from middle range color into a white-lighted aura.  What I found later using the VRCR was that virtually everyone's aura was reaching white light in a matter of one to three minutes."
"I believe that the energy imprints around the person's upper body that you see in the developed print is a reflection of energies from the physical, the emotional, and the mental bodies.  And, if you stop and think about it, to really dramatically change those energies-at any one of those levels or all of those levels-you really have to employ a method or instrumentation that gets to the core of your being, physically, mentally and emotionally.  And, so if a person is exhausted physically, typically its going to take something physical to revive them on that physical level whether it's sleep, food, nutrition, water, exercise or relaxation.  But by the next day, even if your total physical level had been re-energized, your photograph could still show emotional and mental weaknesses in the aura."
"And so what I was observing was that in a matter of minutes after using the VRCR, people were getting incredible auras.  In fact, auras which I doubt they could ever achieve on their own.  It was like getting a booster energy shot."
"So I knew this was really profound and it really caught my interest.  I am very thankful that Harry Schneider made the effort to contact me later and put me onto a conference call with Jack Derby, and to explain to Jack his (Harry's) experiences with the aura camera.  Jack was very interested in seeing what these effects were.  Jack had heard many positive, verbal comments relative to the VRCR but now he would be able to literally see these effects on the light fields around people."
"And so at another event-maybe 6 months after-I was in Orlando.  It was the UFO conference.  It was Harry's neck of the woods so to speak.  Jack and Marolyn came down.  Harry and his friend Dolores, and Jack and Marolyn came to the conference.  For several days we just experimented with the aura camera, doing everything that they had a curiosity about.  And when the conference was over, Jack and Marolyn stayed over for a few days with Harry Schneider.  And they asked me if I would come back and work with them a little more which I was thrilled to have the opportunity to do.  Soon afterwards, Jack and I found a way to do some work trade for future events, like the Global Sciences Conference, etc., and I was able to obtain my own Violet Ray Crystal Resonator."
 
A few days after Jack and Marolyn returned to Tucson, they showed me the photographs.  And they were quite extraordinary!  I immediately called Gwen.  We had quite a long conversation and she gave me telephone numbers to contact Scott Samon. After several attempts, I finally reached Mr. Samon via telephone.  He was kind enough to take the time to explain to me, in very general terms, how the camera works.  (It took some persistence and patience before I was finally able to get a hold of Scott because he is a very, very busy person and travels extensively in this country and throughout the world.  I never was able to contact Scott a second time to ask him if he wanted to review my completed write-up about the camera.)

Scot Samon has been able to see auras all of his life and the aforementioned computer program is, apparently, based upon Scott's unusual ability. According to Scott, the task has been arduous and tedious; but when the computer program began to give results that matched the way in which Scott (and perhaps others ?) actually saw the aura, then the program was fine-tuned to its present status. Drawing upon my talks with Gwen and Scott Samon, I have put together a somewhat more technically oriented explanation of how the camera may work.
This explanation is included in the Appendix.
 
The camera and an associated computer program are indirectly replicating the aura.  The camera does not actually "see" the aura.  What the camera actually sees through the lens is just the usual human being, not surrounded by any "auric-looking field of energy."  And, in the usual manner, the photographic emulsion in the Polaroid film reacts to the light energy reflected off the subject being seated in front of the camera lens.  And, if the camera had not been modified by Scott Samon, an ordinary picture would result after the film was ejected from the camera and was allowed to develop.
But the camera in Samon's Model 2100 is a modified Polaroid camera.  The back plate of this modified camera receives digital electronic signals from the Samon computer program which is an integral part of the camera instrumentation.  This digital information is synchronized with the opening and closing of the camera shutter.  In some very proprietary manner, these digital electronic signals are applied to the film being exposed and cause different colors and shades of colors to show up in the developed picture.  And these colors are seen in very specific locations around the head and shoulders of the subject.
The person whose picture is being taken seats himself comfortably in a chair facing the camera.  The chair is placed in front of a large, black curtain, or backdrop; the backdrop must have a smooth surface.  Next, the person places his right hand on a hand-shaped, metal plate attached to the top of a computer housing that is located on the floor beside the chair.  The metal plate is in the shape of a person's right hand complete with the thumb and four fingers extended.  When the person puts his hand on this metal plate, his palm is facing downward.  The computer program is activated when a person's hand is placed on this metal plate.
The metal plate is called a pick-up plate.  There are a number of "pick-ups" on the pick-up plate which monitor carefully selected acupuncture points on the fingers and palm of the right hand.  At each of these pick-ups, the radiated electromagnetic (EM) energy is scanned and measured, voltage and frequency.  These acupuncture points were carefully selected based on (1) their relation to the acupuncture meridians that run through the upper body and (2) the location on those meridians of other key acupuncture points.
Let us assume that Mr. Samon can actually see the human aura.  According to the various books that have been written about the aura, it is generally believed that the color, density, texture, size of the aura is affected by one's emotional state, physical condition, and spiritual beliefs.  It is quite possible that Samon and his researchers have discovered a unique way to monitor and measure the energy radiation at different acupuncture points.  There have been various instruments available on the market for years that do just that. But Samon's method might operate on a different principle.  Samon has been quoted as saying that, "frequency is the name of the recognition game."  So, it may be that Samon's method can measure the voltage and/or frequency-down to very minute changes-at these acupuncture points.
Having found the frequency measuring method, Mr. Samon would now draw upon his own unusual ability to see the human aura.  By taking voltage/frequency measurements at various acupuncture points along specific meridians, he could compare these measurement results to the type of aura he was actually seeing.  For example, he could have a subject deliberately concentrate on being angry while he was making the measurements.  Then he would have the subject concentrate on being passive, unemotional, in a dream-like state and make his measurements again.  And so on.
Over a period of years, viewing many different subjects representing thousands of different physical, emotional and spiritual states, he could amass a huge volume of measurement data.  For simplicity of operation, he could have selected key acupuncture points on the right hand to monitor in the production model cameras.  For each different type of "beingness" experienced by an individual, whether spiritual, mental or emotional; Samon's extensive measurement program determined the relation of frequency measurements made at the selected right hand monitoring points to those frequency measurement values existing at other acupuncture points located throughout the upper body.  His computer program would then be "engineered" to function as though it were actually viewing the upper body aura through the camera lens.
 

A LOOK AT AURA PHOTOGRAPHY
AND SHOWING RESULTS OF USING
VIOLET RAY CRYSTAL RESONATOR