Can some orbs be legitimate?

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We all know that virtually all orbs in photographs are nothing more than distorted dust, water, or bugs. But can there be orbs seen with the naked eye that are paranormal?

There have been a few times in my life when I have seen unexplained balls of light with my naked eye. I don’t have another word for what they might be except the dreaded orb, which is almost a swear word to most investigators in recent years. I’m right there with them. I see allegedly shocking orbs in photographs or video and I want to tear my hair out and scream. The television show, My Ghost Story, has only encouraged this misguided idea that what are really bits of dust or moisture are shocking evidence of the paranormal. Seeing balls of light behave with intelligence and without the aid of a camera are entirely different things though.

My biggest experience with balls of light happened in Gettysburg. My very first time there, I went to Little Round Top at dusk before I totally lost daylight to see my way through the woods. It was my first experience coming into contact with something tangible that played an important role in Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s life. I was there with a few other people and we were all standing around quietly talking about everything that had happened there. At one point, I looked toward the position where the 15th Alabama charged up toward the 20th Maine and I noticed a little movement. I squinted a bit and thought I saw a firefly, except it was November, and fireflies don’t progressively grow to the size of baseballs right before your eyes. More appeared, each moving toward the 20th Maine position but vanishing once reaching a certain point, as if hitting some kind of barrier. They were colored lights as well. Some were in varying shades of red, orange and yellow, while fewer were in shades of blue and green. No one else in my party seemed to notice the lights, so I didn’t say anything. I thought maybe I was just misinterpreting giant Pennsylvania bugs or somehow imagining it. After I went home, I searched online for paranormal experiences on Little Round Top and, much to my shock, other people had reported seeing the same thing at different times.

Here is a photograph of my party and I on Little Round Top that exact evening. It should be known that I was with Jeffrey Keene, who is widely known to be the reincarnation of Confederate General John B. Gordon and a lady who was once Lucy Pickens, who was First Lady of South Carolina at the start of the Civil War. I still wonder if being a Union general’s wife accompanied by Confederate notables had some effect on the spirit activity that evening.

A few years before, I had been basically bed-bound due to a multiple year battle with borderline kidney failure. It was the middle of the night and the house was quiet when I noticed movement by my bedroom door. Three or four blueish-green balls of light came into the room and they ranged in size from a marble to a baseball. I don’t recall being afraid. Quite the opposite. I felt rather calm.

I asked other people recently if they too had ever seen mystery balls of light and I received a great deal of responses. There were a lot of reports of similar things that I had seen and there were other experiences like a sparkling effect or a gassy effect as well. The majority of experiences were just like mine, however, but nobody knew what to make of them. They all saw the same things but the question of what it all meant was met with a resounding I don’t know.

So what are these balls of light? What do you think? Are they partially manifested spirits? Are they merely traces of the earth’s energy? Are they some type of inhuman entity?

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The importance of journaling in psychic development

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Nearly every psychic, intuitive or medium I know keeps a journal. Some of us were told to do so by our teachers and mentors, while some of us picked up the habit naturally. It’s my experience that it’s very important to keep journals but it’s even more important to be diligent about doing it on a daily basis. Sporadic journaling is not going to help you understand the nature of your specific intuitive talents because, as many of you know, we all have different strengths and weaknesses in this field.

The process of keeping a journal for developing intuitive skills is not the same as keeping a regular journal that records your daily events. An intuitive journal is designed to keep track of your impressions and feelings about anything and everything. There is no possible way to remember every intuitive impression. I do a reading for someone and forget it immediately afterward because it’s not good to hold onto all of that energy. Trying to remember every impression you have causes an accumulation of energy that can and will begin to have a negative effect on your mind, body and soul. The process of writing it down allows you to properly channel the energy, record it, and release it to the universe so it doesn’t clog up your personal system. Seeing your impressions written out on the page also facilitates your ability think it through on a deeper level. Think back to being in school when you took notes, copied text, wrote papers, etc., to engage your brain in critical thought and a better understanding of what you’ve learned. It’s a similar process with taking the time to write down your intuitive impressions as well.

Practicality comes into keeping the journal in that you have a tangible piece of documentation at your disposal. It is an exercise in proper documentation by learning to keep track of your impressions as well as the exact date, time, environmental conditions, circumstances, etc., that were present at the time your impression came. It may be days, weeks, months or years before a particular impression is proven accurate and there may be a connection between what you felt and the conditions of your environment at the time. This is especially important when it comes to encounters with spirits. There may be patterns in environmental conditions when it happens that should be recorded, otherwise you might miss those patterns because you’re not seeing them on paper. When it comes to recording dreams, it’s important to describe your emotional and mental condition at the time of the dream in order to establish patterns there as well. Emotional and mental issues have a huge impact on the type and quality of dreams you experience.

Getting into the habit of keeping a regular journal isn’t easy. Don’t get discouraged if you forget to do it or if you simply procrastinate too often at first. In all things with this field, it’s important not to put too much pressure on yourself. This work should not feel like a terrible strain but it will be a bit tough to establish regular habits at first. Eventually, it should feel like second nature. Practice for a few months and see if it gets easier, which I think it will.

Here’s an example of how to record your impressions if you are highly organized like me.

Date:
Time:
Type of Experience: [Dream, General Feeling, Future Event, Spirit Communication, etc.]
Detailed Account of Experience: [This should be a highly detailed account of what you experienced from start to finish, whether it’s a paragraph or pages.]
Mood: [Your mood at the time of the experience.]
Weather: [Temperature, rain, snow, sun, etc.]
Others Present: [Names of people who might have been present at the time and their relationships to you and possibly a spirit if applicable.]

Of course, you can customize it to your own tastes or simply keep it as a stream of consciousness journal. I’m merely showing you how I do it.

Happy journaling!

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The great Ouija board debate

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Recently, I saw a discussion involving a woman who burned her Ouija board in an effort to put a stop to paranormal activity happening in her home. Some people said burning the Ouija board was the wrong thing to do. Some people said burning it was the right thing to do. Others said getting rid of it wasn’t going to solve the problem.

I have seen the Ouija board debate rage on for my entire life. Some say they’re just toys. Some say they’re inherently evil. Based on my experiences, I would say they’re neither a simple toy, nor are they tools of the devil, but they are certainly not meant for the inexperienced. As a 16 or 17-year-old girl, people brought an Ouija board to a party at my house and, being the impetuous teenager that I was, I decided it would be fun. About a year later, I had to move across town because the activity unleashed in that home was out of control. I made the fatal mistake that everyone new to the paranormal makes – I let my ego decide that I could control things even though I had nowhere enough education to even think about touching an Ouija board. When you play with any divination tool without proper training, you’re opening doors to allow any kind of entity in your life no matter if you asked for it or not. Without that proper training, you’re not going to know how to establish proper energy boundaries and you’re not going to know how to close those doors and banish whatever came through. That kind of thing happens a lot.

But are Ouija boards themselves inherently evil? I say not necessarily. Here’s why.

I don’t feel that any divination tools are problems on their own, just like a gun or a knife isn’t a problem by itself. It’s only when people use the objects for misguided or bad purposes do they become dangerous. Ouija boards, tarot cards, dowsing rods, digital recorders, cameras, etc., are simply objects until people put energy and intent behind them. Using any object as a focus point in opening/closing spiritual doors can either be dangerous or not depending on the level of experience the user has, as well as their intent in doing it. I could go grab a straw out of the jar in my kitchen right now and focus intent and energy on it, declaring that spirits can pass through the straw to communicate with me here. Then a simple piece of plastic becomes a divination tool. So in my experience, no object is more dangerous alone than any other. It’s the people who focus that energy of inexperience and lack of education that will unintentionally facilitate things getting out of control.

So what should you do when you accidentally get in over your head?

Ridding homes of divination tools is a start. It doesn’t really matter how you get rid of it. However, it doesn’t completely correct the problem. The doorways are still open and the energy walls (also known as boundaries) are still down. How do you fix a levee once it bursts open? You can never completely stop the water from coming through but you can slow it down and get better control over it. My suggestion is to give unwanted divination tools to people like RobertMurch.com who collect Ouija boards and know how to handle them. Then begin the slow process of trying to repair energy walls around the property and closing all open spiritual doors. Like I said though, once a levee bursts open, it’s almost impossible to completely close it again. Once you start dabbling in the paranormal, you become more susceptible to it and you may never completely escape activity. Think very carefully about looking into the unknown because the unknown is never going to forget your face.

I don’t really know if there is a situation in which using an Ouija board is necessary. I haven’t used one since that party. Very few investigators that I know have used them on a regular basis as there are better ways to establish contact. I’m not going to be one of those people wagging my finger and saying don’t ever touch one but I encourage all of you to seek a good mentor and proper education before doing anything with the paranormal. Education is the key.

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