Encounters with orbs

By Manon Tromp

( Bianca van Zeijderveld)

I have always been fascinated by orbs ever since I got to hear about them and see them
on photos. For me they are a mystery that is waiting to be uncovered, so we can get more
answers about our existence. It could be my imagination, but it seems to me that we get
more contact with orbs than we used to. I believe it has to do with our fast growing
consciousness, which opens up our openness and willingness to acknowledge them. But
why are they here and what is their message? As it happens I was in Glastonbury this
summer when the Glastonbury Symposium took place. This symposium is about earth
mysteries like crop circles, orbs and more. Speakers and researchers from all over the
world come here to present their findings. I was especially interested in a talk by a
couple who had done their own research into orbs and written a book about it, called
Beyond photography.

Beyond photography
Katie Hall and John Pickering live in the Lake District; Katie is an artist and John is a
designer and cartoonist. Years ago they had never even heard of orbs, so when they got to
encounter them by chance, they had no idea how this would change their lives. Their house is
located in woodlands and is part of a 19th century mansion. That is where they have taken
most of their pictures and where it all started.

Katie: For me it started of with little twinkling lights back in 1998, in the dark time of winter
and I was quite depressed. I reached out to the universe and asked for help. I asked with my
heart and soul: please help to direct me, because I am lost. The help came in the form of little
twinkling lights that I saw everywhere, around peoples heads and in my work. I literally
thought that I had a braintumor, I got some medical advice, but everything was perfectly all
right. I was asking questions to people, but no one could give me an answer and they thought
I was creating this myself.

Over the years I got more involved with healing and went to a seminar where I spoke to a Tai
Chi practitioner and he knew exactly what I was talking about. I was advised to go with it and
not to deflect it and see where it leads. Then after 4 years I finally took a photograph of the
twinkling lights and made the connection to basically another life form which was interactive.
We started to take hundreds of photographs because we were fascinated. After four more
years, friends and relatives said that the photographs we got were so amazing that we needed
to put them down in a book and so we did.

The photos in the book are definitely amazing and they do not only show orbs, but also
strange light beings and even fairy like shapes. It seemed as they progressed in the years, the
images would become even stranger and almost unbelievable. It was like the veils to the other
dimensions were starting to open more for them and it reminded me of another book I had
read, Dimensional Journey. In this book Linda Ball describes her experiences with orbs and
alien beings. She was living on a ranch near Sedona where she had taken the most amazing
photographs of orbs and alien beings. Just like Katie and John, her pictures evolved from orbs
to other alien lights and even a giant being. It made me think that there had to be some sort of
evolving in vibration. Maybe the contact with the orbs raised their frequency or vibration in
way that other dimensions were getting to be visible and accessible. But before I get carried
away, lets go back to the beginning: what is an orb?

Orbs
Orbs are the so called balls of light, which apparently become visible when you take a picture.
Cameras are now able to pick up more of the light spectrum than we can normally see with
our naked eye and that can be a reason that they show more easily on pictures. Orbs are
believed by many to be life forms. There is an important spiritual significance linked to these
life forms, as it is believed that many of these orbs are the spirits of our deceased and loved
ones and they also represent spirits from other dimensions.

According to the book Beyond Photography: for years now, people have been photographing
strange spheres, disks and balls of light, a phenomenon commonly known as orbs. Although
orbs have been sighted since many years, it seems that with the invention of photography
there have been many occurrences of strange lights on photos and negatives. Digital
photography has even increased that number and many not believers claim that it has to do
with malfunctioning of digital cameras.
Dust particles is one of the most common used descriptions for orbs by non believers. Many
critics and sceptics are still trying to deny the phenomena called orbs and I personally think it
is because they can not really deal with the idea of something else out there. Too many so
called coincidences and synergetic events which are experienced by people dealing with orbs
are proving them wrong. One good example is the story of John and Katies friend Sam, who
was present in a room were they took a picture, in which some orbs were visible. Not wanting
to concede straight away, he said: OK, then. But Id be more impressed if youd got a whole
roomful. To his amazement, they did get a picture with a room full of orbs. It was like the
orbs were giving their answer. And that is exactly what they do: they communicate.

Orbs and crop circles

Orbs have a fascinating connection with crop circles. Many crop circle enthusiasts have seen
orbs and sometimes captured them on film or photos while they were hanging or flying over a
crop circle field. On a rare occasion orbs have been filmed while making the crop circle and
you would think it is science fiction, because it does not seem real. Crop circles are becoming
more creative and their shapes more complicated than ever. Also every year their number
seems to increase, especially in the area of a place called Avebury, in the South West of
England. The crop circles are beautiful and it is impossible that most of them have been made
by humans, as some of these shapes would take an army to get it done. They are also usually
made in the night and so it is a wonder that nobody ever gets caught in action.

Personal encounter
The night before I was going to visit my first crop circles in Wiltshire, in 2007, I had a
personal encounter with an orb. I was staying in a house in Glastonbury with a group of
friends and we were talking about how we thought crop circles were made and why. We
discussed the theory of how orbs are responsible for making them and that they are intelligent
beings who communicate. Suddenly I had an idea: I drew a picture of a pentagram on a piece
of paper and showed it to my friends, claiming that this would be in the crop circle I was
going to see the next day. I do not now why I did this, but I felt I needed to get my own proof
on the communication with orbs. Afterwards one of my friends and I went into the garden and
we stood there looking into the night. All of a sudden a ball of light went past us in the next
garden, it had a tail of light and at first I was not sure if I really did see it. I looked at my
friend and she said: yes, I saw it too. We just stood there in amazement and wonder on what
we had just witnessed.
The next day when we were in the car on our way to the crop circles, our driver and guide
showed us a picture of the first circle we were going to see. It had a pentagram in it, together
with some other symbols and again I was amazed by this synergy of events. For me there was
no more doubt about the ability of orbs to communicate.

(photo by Stephen Alexander)

Janet Ossebaard is a Dutch researcher who has done extensive work on crop circles. Her latest
book is called Crop Circles, The Evidence; it is a book filled with hard facts that most crop
circles are not made by people, but by an unknown intelligence wishing to communicate with
humanity. She has personally witnessed crop circles being created and she has taken many
photos with orbs being present at crop circles. Not only orbs have been spotted, but in most
cases electric magnetic sounds have been heard while a crop circle was being created.

An orb experiment
Recently I conducted my own orb encounter experience; I had invited some friends to watch a
documentary on orbs, called Orbs, the veil is lifting. This movie features two well know orb
experts: Micel Ledwith and Klaus Heinemann, who had written a book The orb Project in
which they had published many spectacular pictures of orbs. After the movie was finished we
went on an orb hunt: it was 22.30 hours in the evening and we walked to this little park in my
home town of Amsterdam, where I knew a spiritual place. It is a Maria chapel, a pilgrimage
place and it radiates loving energy which you can sense all around it. We started with a short
meditation and then began to take pictures and immediately we could see orbs in the pictures.
Still vague and not too many, but they were there. After about 15 minutes or so, the orbs on
the pictures increased and suddenly there was this sea of orbs surrounding us and it blew us
away. Then they went away again and we felt grateful that the orbs had indeed blessed us with
their presence.
The message of the orbs

Why do orbs appear to us, do they have a message? Katie Hall believes they are here to regain
our focus on what is really important. She believes that orbs are healers, but you have to
activate the contact and healing yourself. For her orbs have made a difference in her life in the
sense that she has become more spiritual and is more in tune with her feelings.

According to the conclusions of Micel Ledwith and Klaus Heinemann in their book: The orb
project, Orbs are real and they are connected to realms that are outside of normal human
perception. They appear to function outside the conventional laws of physics, yet they can
communicate with us through digital cameras that are now readily available to all of us.

In the introduction of Linda Balls book Dimensional Journey, she writes that for her the
major theme in the messages of the orbs, was that there was nothing to fear. She was being
taught that she must first recognize who she truly is, who we truly are. Her experiences were
very important to her growth and awareness.

I believe that orbs invite each of us to start a communication that goes beyond earthly limits.
It has to be initiated by ourselves and we need to open up to different realities and dimensions
that are out there. Most of us live our lives in a box and forget to be in touch with our souls.
The orbs help to open up more awareness about who we are and why we are here, but most
important they tell us that we are not alone. The orbs show me personally that life indeed
continues after we die and that helps me to grow and evolve. If you want to enrich your life
with more meaning and love, get your camera out and start shooting. The orbs are waiting to
hear from you.

Manon Tromp is a writer who lives in the Netherlands and in Glastonbury UK. She works
with the Celtic traditions and has a special connection to Glastonbury. www.manontromp.com

The Orb Project - Micel Ledwith and Klaus Heinemann

Beyond Photography John Pickering and Katie Hall- www.lights2beyond.com
Dimensional Journey - Linda Ball
Orbs the veil is lifting the movie - http://orbstheveilislifting.com
Crop Circles the proof Janet Ossebaard - www.circularsite.com