Here's a fun fact about the glasses from the movie They Live: They were a real thing.
Called "PranaVision," the lenses of these goggles - invented by a physician named Dr. J. W. Kilner - were overlaid with a dye called dicyanin.
Something about the dicyanin in the lenses seemed to attune the user's vision to a specific range of the visible light spectrum, making it possible for them to see energy fields around living things. (If you've ever seen Kirlian photography [examples pictured below], it was something like that.)
PranaVision enthusiasts claim that dicyanin was literally giving them the ability to see straight into the astral and etheric planes. So according to them, these energy fields were the natural aura, or bioelectric glow, you'd expect an organic lifeform to have. Apparently you could even see people's energy fields interacting with each others' in close proximity.
But while wearing these goggles, some users reported that not every human had an energy field around them.... 🤔
This raises questions as to what PranaVision was actually causing people to see. Were they seeing auras? And if so, why didn't every human appear to have an aura when seen through these goggles? Were they not alive? Were they not human...?
PranaVision goggles are now only available on obscure websites for absurd sums of money. Or they can be made by hand for a few bucks — that is, if you manage to get your hands on the key material, dicyanin dye. But this substance is now TERRIBLY difficult to procure, as one requires high-level security clearance from the government. Apparently it's easier to obtain heroin than dicyanin (according to the claim of one chemist).
Interesting, no?
Assuming that the PranaVision glasses were, indeed, revealing the energetic hollowness of some humans, the next question becomes: Why don't some people have auras?
Why do some people seem like zombies, walking around like empty-headed automatons?Â
Laura Knight-Jadczyk might have some answers to that question:
"Organic portals," as she describes them, are humans who have unwittingly forfeited their spiritual sovereignty, thus making themselves available physical hosts for mind-parasites. These parasites then hijack their host's consciousness, using their human body to do horrible things that a fully ensouled, bio-electric, loving human would otherwise never do.
This is a derivative of what you might know as "NPC theory," or, the theory that some humans are not actually humans. They are humanoids, who look and act like humans, but are technically not alive.
This topic opens the door to much bigger questions, like: What does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to be human? Are these "organic portals" real, and if so, are they to be condemned? Are they simply lost souls who can be brought back to life, so to speak, by the power of Love?
And if so, who among us, is brave enough to Love them?