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Oh, those orbs!
When our daughter, Megan, was a young teen, she wanted to go on a ghost tour during a visit to St.Augustine, Florida, known as the oldest city in North America. (The village of Oraibi on the Hopi reservation is actually older.) She was very interested in using her new digital camera in hopes of catching a ghost. So, she took photos of many of the houses and buildings we visited, using a flash, and numerous orbs–spots of light–appeared.
I (Rob) didn’t think much of it. I’d read technical explanations about why orbs appear sometimes on pictures taken with digital cameras. But I’d also noticed that Megan seemed to have better luck photographing orbs than I did, unless I was taking pictures of her. See the one above. That photo was taken during an unusual sunset when the atmospheric conditions had turned the sky deep red. (Also notice the horizontal face above Megan’s head – an extra spooky effect!) All the pictures that evening were charmed with orbs.
Was it synchronicity that Megan was there and so were the orbs? In other words, Megan was interested in orbs, and they appeared in the pictures. I’d snapped similar dramatic sunsets without Megan, or anyone else, in the viewfinder, and no orbs appeared in the photos.
The first time I noticed an orb in one of my photos was a shot of Megan when she was eight or nine. The orb had a tail, like a comet, and appeared as if it was coming from outside the frame, striking Megan in her mid-section. I took that photo with 35mm film.
So what are these orbs? There are lots of opinions. Here’s what C. Norman Shealy, M.D. says: “Orbs may be to the atmosphere what crop circles are to the earth. Having seen orbs and had them photographed while I am speaking, it is great to know that we are receiving cosmic energetic communication.”
“Orbs may just be evidence that can only be explained outside of the box of current limiting and reductionist worldviews,” wrote James O’Dea, president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
“The orbs are certainly not creatures of our spacetime world. This type of photographic evidence should be accessible with even higher-dimensional life-forms under the appropriate circumstances,” commented William A. Tiller, Ph.D professor emeritus, Sanford University.
Those comments suggest that orbs are something more than stray reflections, moisture particles, spots on the lens, dust or pollen particles, or optical flares, as skeptics maintain. None of the above writers, however, offered specific ideas on the identity of orbs.
But JZ Knight did in the foreword to The Orb Project, by Miceal Ledwith and Klaus Heinemann. Knight is the well known channel for the entity known as Ramtha, who several years ago gave “a long set of teachings on what he called the ‘orb entities.'” In her autobiography, State of Mind, Knight wrote: “They are not just a ball of curious light but rather what you and I are out of our bodies! We are the Ball of Light that is the life-force of our brain and body.”
Knight also wrote that she has seen orbs herself on numerous occasions. So have a lot of other people. My mother, who is psychically sensitive, saw a ball of light in her house in the weeks after my father died. She also saw his nickname, MAC, scrawled in frost on a window next to the chair where he used sit and read. But are these sightings the same thing the digital cameras are picking up?
Personally, I’d rather have a dust speck causing an orb than some dark misguided entity messing up my picture. On the other hand, I openly welcome highly evolved spirits in my world and my photos for guidance and inspiration!
We’d love to hear your experiences and ideas.
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Obama & UFOs visit Cleveland area
President Obama flew to the Cleveland area to give his last speech on health care today (Monday). Interestingly, last night was the ninth night in a row that UFOs have been sighted over Lake Eerie and the Cleveland area. Here’s an article with video from MSNBC.
We don’t know if this is synchronicity, but it’s interesting!
UPDATE: Dennis Kucinich flew with Obama today to Cleveland, and we just happened to remember that Dennis K. was the only presidential candidate in ’08 who said that he has seen a UFO. So, yeah, synchronicity, after all!
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UPDATE: Jung’s Red Book
from Jung’s Red Book
Teapotshappen left a comment on an older post that Jung’s Red Book is available as a free download here. But it’s more than 146MB! Still, it’s too tempting to pass up. Onto the laptop, which has more disk space.
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Dead Man’s Curve
This photo of a dead man’s curve is in Bolivia, but the next synchronicity is about similar dangerous curve in Georgia.
After reading A Trucker’s Tale, Connie Cannon sent us the following story.
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Our friends were “Joan and Dave”, (pseudonyms), who had been married for seven years and had no children, although they had been trying to conceive for years. Dave was a some-times-heavy beer drinker, and on the night of April 12, 1970, had gone out in his Mustang to a bar on the other side of Atlanta. He got back into the car after having too much to drink, was driving much too fast, and on a curve that was so dangerous it had been dubbed “dead man’s curve”, Dave lost control of his vehicle and rammed it into a tree. Almost every bone is his body was broken and, for all intents and purposes, he was dead, kept alive by a respirator.
When we received the call and went to the hospital, I found Joan in the chapel there on her knees sobbing, begging God to let Don live because she wanted a baby so badly.
Dave did not only miraculously survive, but survived with no after affects whatsoever. Later, I helped Joan fill out their insurance forms, and according to the police report the accident had occurred at 2:02am on April 13, 1970.
A few months passed, and they conceived a baby boy. More time passed, and Dave traded automobiles. He purchased a brand new Pontiac Grand Prix, in which he went out drinking on the night of April 12, 1972, to the same bar on the other side of Atlanta. Coming home, once again driving too fast and inebriated, he flew around Dead Man’s Curve. But he didn’t make it. The car smashed into a steel utility pole.
Dave was carried to the same hospital. He had no visible injuries this time, but had sustained a closed head injury and it killed him. According to the police report, (I again helped Joan with the insurance forms), the accident happened at exactly 2:02am on April 13, 1972, exactly two years from the moment of his first accident.
At both accident scenes the police knew the time because the car clocks had stopped at the moment of impact.
Did the Universe answer Joan’s sobbing supplications and allow Dave to survive another two years so that they could have their baby boy?
The police reports and insurance papers prove the exact time and place of both accidents.
But who can prove the reason Dave recovered from the first, only to conceive a child and then die at the (apparent) originally appointed time?
His wife has never re-married, remaining a widow to this day, almost 38 years later. She remains totally spooked by the synchronicity of the events surrounding her husband’s accidents and subsequent death, but is comforted by their son.
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Loki – Shape shifter, trickster
Loki, by Manarama
The other day someone asked the meaning Caleuche, the name of the ghost ship we’d written about. A short time later, d page responded with a succinct answer–it was a word from an Indian language that meant shape shifter. How appropriate that was since the ship and the crew were known as shape shifters.
So it was interesting when, a short time later, I found myself reading about another shape shifter – Loki. Here’s the passage:
“One of the best-known trickster myths features the Norwegian god, Loki, the son of two giants. He possessed great ingenuity, but was a rascal and raconteur who enjoyed stirring up trouble. A shape-shifter who took various forms—including a horse, falcon, and fly—Loki could even change his gender, so it’s no wonder trickster synchronicities appear in many guises. Loki hung out with the major gods, Odin and Thor, yet he was often their enemy. When he wasn’t invited to a banquet at Valhalla, for instance, he crashed the party, becoming the thirteenth guest. He lumbered around, demanding food and alcohol, embarrassing everyone. He even tricked Hoder, the blind god of darkness, into shooting Balder, the god of light and joy, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. Balder died and the earth was plunged into darkness. Ever since, the number thirteen has been considered unlucky.”
The source for that paragraph? Seven Secrets of Synchronicity. I was reading the galleys, our last step before publication in August.
Rob
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Corey & the Trickster
Another actor has died and once again we’ve found a synchronicity related to his recent acting career. Previously, we’ve written about the deaths of David Carradine and Keith Ledger, Bruce and Brandon Lee, and the synchronicities related to them.
Now Corey Haim, who starred in Lost Boys as a teenager, has died at age 38 after a career that was marred by drug use. For years, Haim’s debilitating drug use eliminated him from consideration for movie roles. He started making a comeback a couple of years ago, co-starring with Corey Feldman on Two Coreys, a reality show that lasted two seasons. Last year, he had a role in Crank 2:High Voltage. (Although the movie isn’t drug-related, crank is street term for amphetamines.) The tag line for the movie is: He was dead…But he got better.
This year, Haim starred in his first movie in two decades, which will be released this fall. The apt title: American Sunset. The tagline: Everything is a clue and everybody has something to say, even if it is from the grave. And so it is for Corey Haim.
Also, notice the limo in the publicity photo. It looks like a hearse.Once again, it sounds like the trickster was active in the passing of an actor.
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Five Minutes of Pleasure
According to neuropsychiatrist Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of “The Female Brain,” men think about sex every 52 seconds. Meanwhile, women tend to think about sex once a day. (Ha! says Trish.)
So, being a guy, I figured it wasn’t really synchronicity when a woman at the gym obliviously made a remark that could be interpreted as a double entendre. We were talking about diet. Since she is in training for an upcoming competition, I was curious about what she ate. She said the most difficult time was the evening, when it would be so easy to grab a bag of potato chips while watching television.
I suppose we’d been talking about a minute–at least 52 seconds at that point–when she added: “But for five minutes of pleasure, it’s not worth it.” With that she excused herself and walked away.
Her last comment was overheard by a guy who’d just arrived in that corner of the gym, and didn’t know what we’d been talking about. He gazed after the woman, then turned to me. “Did I hear that right? Five minutes of pleasure? I think it would be worth it.”
“She apparently doesn’t think so.” Then I explained what we’d been talking about. We laughed a bit about that. Then, as if on cue, Synchronicity, by the Police, came on the gym’s sound system. So maybe it was one after all.
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The 3040 Synchronicity
Clusters of numbers, names, words, phrases, songs, objects, and events are one of the most curious aspects of synchronicity. When it happens, noted author Frank Joseph, you invariably feel “that something important, perhaps even divine, is trying to communicate through the numerical symbol.”
Jung, who experienced many numerical synchronicities throughout his life, believed that numbers represent “an archetype of order which has become conscious.” The meanings of such clusters may not be immediately apparent when you experience them. But by interpreting them as metaphors, by doing some research and using your intuition, you can gain clarity and a deeper appreciation for how your inner self, your unconscious,
guides you.
We’ve done quite a few posts on the synchronicity of numbers. Some of the more common and famous number clusters we’ve written about involve 11,111, or 11:11; 23; 27; and 137. The other day, we received a really cool number synchronicity from Butternut Squash. We’re posted several of her synchronicites – here and here.
She was in Kathmandu, Nepal, on a search for the jewelry she purchases there and then sells through her business in Ohio. When you read Butternut’s blog, though, you get a sense that her trips to Nepal are about connecting with the people and the culture of that country. A soul journey, perhaps. So it’s intriguing that her number synchronicity – 3040 – adds up to a 7. My understanding of 7 is that it’s a deeply spiritual number.
In February, Butternut dropped us an email about a synchronicity concerning 3040 and we speculated about what the 7s could mean. The other night she wrote from Nepal with an update.
“Do you remember that I wrote a check for $3040.00 on check number 3040 and I was pondering the lucky number 7? Well, it turns out that the next day my husband received a call that he had passed his licensing exam. It was the completion of a 10 year retraining process in clinical psychology. This has been the preoccupation of both our minds for years.
“Also, a dear friend of mine, without prompting, called and announced that she was joining me on the trip to Nepal. She managed to arrange this journey with less than 2 weeks before our departure date.
“The very same day, I arrived in Chicago at my hotel where the hotel announcement board proudly proclaimed me as the winner of the customer of the day with a free upgrade to a luxury room. Stupidly, I did not buy a lottery ticket!”
I wrote Butternut and asked if she recalled the exact dates and was she back from Nepal yet? “Not back yet,” she wrote. “You are getting messages from Kathmandu. Power is intermittent and internet service is sketchy. The date of the check was 2/18/10 but all the good stuff happened on 2/19/10. I forgot to also say that I found a great pair of hiking shoes on the same wonderful day. That’s not a big deal for most people, but I haven’t been able to find a decent pair of shoes that don’t hurt my feet and can fit my inserts for about 7 years!
“Got to go. A friend is picking us up for breakfast soon…rice, curry, lentil soup, and yak mile tea. Yum!”
We wondered if her boots were size 7s, but by then the Internet connection with Kathmandu was gone.
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Planetary Empaths
We’ve posted a number of synchronicities on how animals seem to be able to predict catastrophes like earthquakes. But what about people who are planetary empaths, who feel physical symptoms of a pending quakes hours or even days before it occurs?
Over the years, we’ve known several individuals who possessed this ability. Our friend, Renie Wiley, sometimes experienced intense migraines and vivid precognitive dreams before a planetary disaster. Connie Cannon, a retired ER nurse and psychic, often writes us when her symptoms begin, just so we have a record of it. When I asked her to describe the symptoms in detail for this post, she did.
“Prior to higher magnitude earthquakes, no matter where they are going to occur on the earth, I begin to experience a sense of impending doom. This is quickly followed by an “edginess”, and then the physical symptoms kick in. My ears will click and ring and sometimes thump; walking becomes a real issue, as if I’m trying to walk on a rocking, undulating boat in water although my floors are perfectly level and I must hold onto the walls to keep my balance; the nausea is a sea-sickness type of nausea. Although I do have advancing Parkinson’s Disease, there is a distinct difference between the PD symptoms and the planetary event warnings.
“When the event is going to be a significant volcanic eruption, I experience a severe and sudden localized head-ache…and I do not have headaches otherwise, fortunately. When my head hurts, on one side or the other, I can be sure a volcano is rumbling and ready to spew. I also get extremely nauseous and very hot prior to the eruption. My head will seem “foggy”, and I can actually smell dust where none exist.
The compelling thing is that I don’t know precisely where or when the event is going to happen. Just that it is. And the more people who are going to transition, the worse my symptoms.
“Another interesting aspect is that once the “release” occurs, once the event happens, my symptoms disappear as if by magic. But they begin and build until it manifests.”
D Page, a psychic and Dharma student in California, also experiences symptoms before a catastrophe. On February 27, her post says that since 2004, her left ear “registers high pitched rings prior to earthquakes all over the globe.When this phenomena first started happening, I talked to my lama, Lama Chodak Gyatso Nubpa. I told him I was hearing high pitch ringing 1-3 days before significant quakes, occasionally with accompanying visions of disaster and lossof human life. He verified that this was real. Being a new, immature student, I asked if he could take this phenomena away! No, he said. He did give me practices to do, consisting of mantras and meditations, to help those beings who are dying and suffering.”
Before the Chilean earthquake, the ringing in her ear was absent.”Instead, I was very dizzy, with severe ear pain yesterday. I spent the afternoon and evening on the couch. With the Haiti quake and aftershocks, I heard the ringing in the left ear, but I did not have visions.”
D ends her post with wise words from a Dharma practice:
“May sickness war, famine, and suffering be decreased for every being.”
-Red Tara Practice (Chagdud Gonpa)
Does anyone else experience these kinds of symptoms before global catastrophes occur?
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