I have been reading on the web today some comments about orbs from naysayers, so I invite you to read here: www.prairieghosts.com to see what they have to say, just so you can examine the orbs here and see if these feel like ghosts to you or light refractions or pollen or the flash bouncing off something else in the picture. All of these arguments sound plausible, but when I look at these orbs, really look at them, they don't feel like technical explanations. They FEEL like mystical phenomena to me.

As an aside, paranormal psychologists say that ghosts manifest as misty, hazy, humanoid shapes, sometimes transparent, sometimes as a figure with only part of a body, but I have not read that ghosts, who are human spirits who haven't made it to the Light yet, manifest as Orbs.(See GHOSTS, by Hans Holzer, Ph. D.) In my experience, Ghosts and Orbs are two different kinds of manifestations, but the controversy over the continually fascinating orbs rages on.

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#1 After a monsoon storm one day last Fall, I went outside to photograph the flooding in my yard.  In two photos taken back to back, this orb only appeared in one.  The orb is in the exact spot the water jumped over the drainage ditch, causing excessive flooding all around my house.
#2 One night last summer, I was photographing outside my house and I wanted to capture some fast-moving orbs. Enough said.


#3 This orb in my house is especially interesting, because a Master dowser had come to my house and we both dowsed a power spot, a high energy spot, right below the plant. The roots of the plant are also overflowing the pot now and seem to be attracted to that spot. I pull the roots up and wind them around in the pot, and they keep heading back for the power spot. I guess the orb likes it too, or at least, likes the plant!


#4 Harriet Hough sent this photo from a Deeksha meditation ceremony. Logically, this golden orb is a lens flare, but isn't it interesting how it is right over the woman doing a healing and it appears to be a bit blurred, suggesting movement of the kind a lens flare doesn't do.
#5 Self-luminous orb from one of my hikes in Sedona.
#6 and #7 Self-luminous orbs appearing above Rev. Robt. Short's house in N. Arizona

#8 and #9 This orb was on a hiking trail near Bell Rock.  Every time I look at the enlargement, I see a different face in it, but the one I favor, is the one with a big grin and teeth showing.
#10 and #11 The sun had already set below the mountain in the background when I took this photo, one of two back to back.  If you want to take interdimensional photos, taking two of the same content  gives you a control image, in case you get something mystical.  This orb was not in the other photo.
# 12 Photo by John Nobel.

#13 amd #14 Dr. Hans Holzer, a parapsychologist, qualifies a psychic photographer as one who is sensitive to other realms while using a sensitive camera.

My own view is that a psychic photographer is one who is open to receiving other realities and uses a camera to channel them. We all have psychic abilities but we are not all open to acknowledging them. This photo was taken from my balcony.

#15 and #16 Sent by a friend in Australia. Does this look like pollen, dust, rain, a bounce-back of the flash or a reflection? It is very similar to the one in front of the tree on my hike (#10 & 11).

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Nebulae photos courtesy of NASA Hubble Telescope