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.
