Thursday, October 8, 2015

A MAGNOLIA GRAVESTONE ORB (WARNING: INCLUDES ARTIST'S SKETCH OF A NUDE)

When  the  Patrick  Jane  character  in  "The  Mentalist"  denies  that  there  are  ghosts,  or  telepathy,  or  telekinesis  in  the  course  of  one  of  the  shows,  he  is  wrong.  These  things  are  absolutely  real.   However,   all  should  keep  their  distance  from  these  things.   Telepathy  and  telekinesis,  when  they  actually  occur,   are  almost  always  successful  because  of  demonic  activity  --  the  experiencer  is  being  "whispered  to"  by  a  demon.   What  we  call  "ghosts"    are  frequently  demonic  in  nature,  but  not  always.

If  you  are  foolish  enough  to  "play"  with  ghosts  --  by  engaging  in  a  "seance"  with  your  foolish  young  friends,  or   by  joining  your  friends  or  family  in  using  a  Ouija  Board,  or  even  just  watching  friends  or  family  engage  in  a  seance  or  use  a  Ouija  Board,  there  is  a  respectable  chance  that  you,  yourself,  will  accidentally  conjure-up   a  powerful,  persistent  "presence"  that  is  very  hard  to  get  rid  of,  which  will  not  leave  you  alone,  and  which  will  spend  years,  or  decades,  even,  engaging  in  a  behavior  called   "familiarization"    to  get  you  used  to  it  and  more  open  to  accepting  a  more  striking  manifestation  of  itself,  and  in  the  end  all  you  will  achieve  is  a  ticket  to  eternal  Hell  fire.

Why?

Because,  ultimately,  no  matter  how  you  cut  it,  conscious  use  of,  or  communication  with,  the  occult  is  a  really  a  grab  for  power  or  control  in  this  life  by  a  means  other  than  your  relationship  with  God.   It  is  really  an  "anti-prayer,"  a  prayer  to  "the  invisible  bad  guys,"  isn't  it?

Never,  ever,  ever,  ever,  ever   "talk  to"   the  occult.   Never  pretend   to  yourself  or  to  others  that  you  can  "control"  it.  If  you  produce  striking  results,   it  is  because  "it"   is  playing  with  you,  making  it  appear  that  you  have  "control,"  when  in  fact  it  is  engaging  in  a  contract  with  you,  in  which,  because  it  does  your  bidding  for  now,  it  builds-up  a  kind  of  "account  payable"  to  "it,"    and  it  will,  believe  me,  come  knocking  to  collect  the  debt.

So,  parents,  as  silly  as  it  seems,  warn  your  kids  in  advance,  "No  seances  --  ever.    No  Ouija  Boards  --  ever."  Tell  them  to  get  out  of  houses  where  seances  or  Ouija  Boards  are  being  used,  before  the  event.    Just  being  near   such  can  produce  a  bad  result  with  years  of  negative  consequences.

This  is  real.  This  is  not  nonsense.

More  on  that  another  time.

I  always  loved  photography.    During  law  school  in  the  late  1970s,  I  went  out  and  got  myself  the  much  vaunted  Pentax  K1000   SLR  camera,     and  I  had  such  a  wonderful  relationship  with  that  thing.  After  I  moved  to  Magnolia  and  married,    I  replaced  my  Pentax   with  a  digital  camera.

All  of  a  sudden,  something  new  started  showing-up  in  a  few  of  the  thousands  of  pictures  I  took  --  orbs.


http://www.freewebs.com/pinellaspascoparanormal/new%20135%20orb%20small.bmp

For  reasons  unknown,  digital  cameras  have  a  capacity  to  record  the  presence  of  orbs.    And  so,  with  the  entrance  of  digital  cameras  came  a  cultural  interest  in  orbs.   What  are  they? 

Skeptics  maintain  that  orbs  are  nothing  more  or  less   than  airborne  pollen,  which  the  camera  with  its  flash   greatly  magnifies  by  some  photographic  process  not  well  understood   by   photographers  or  scientists.  For  them,  pictures  like  this ...


https://lisagawlas.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/blue-orbs.jpg

... are  decisive  on  that  issue  --  thousands  of  the  little  guys   in  one  place!  And  near  pollen-generating  plants!

One  of  my  problems  with  the  obvious  pollen  allegation  is   that  problems  arise  when  one  maintains  that  they  are  only  pollen.

A  simple  example:   In  the  first  picture,  above,    why  is  there  only  one  (1)?  How  did  the  photographer  get  so  lucky?     Why  didn't  he  also  photograph  the  iron  and  nickel   micrometeorites   floating  down  from  above,   and  the  ambient  dust  particles  one  can  see   in  sunbeams  indoors  on  a  lazy  Sunday  afternoon?

Next,  orbs  have  a  striking  tendency  to  "skeedaddle"    after  the  camera  flash  goes  off.  They  don't  like  light.

Next,   orbs  frequently  engage  in  some  pretty  astonishing  behavior.

Once,  I  read  that  when  someone  is  sleeping  in  a  haunted  house,  and  the  ghost  is  a  night  time  "poker,"    which  awakens  the  sleeping  person   by  poking   him  or  her  on  the  side,   if  he  or  she  snaps  a  digital  flash  shot  of  the  air  above  them  they  will  almost  invariably   capture  a  photo  of  an  orb.  I.e.,  the  ghosts   hover  above  their  experiencers  in  the  form  of  an  orb.

So,   on  one  occasion  I   was  making  repairs  to,  and  cleaning,  a  vacant  home  which   a  relative  was  selling,  where  my  agreed-to-compensation  was  twice  our  cash  investment.  On  weekends,  I  would  kiss  my  wife  goodbye,   drive  over  to  the  empty  house  with  my  tools, work  Friday  night,   sleep-over  on  a  cot  in  the  living  room,  work   all   day  Saturday,    morning-till-midnight,  sleep-over  again,   and  work  Sunday  morning  (after  going  to  Catholic  Mass!)  and  Sunday  afternoon.

The  house  turned  out  to  be  haunted.     Again  and  again,  the  ghost  there  would  playfully  poke  my  hip   through  my  blankets  to  wake  me  up   at  nights  between  2:00  and  3:00  a.m.

Because  I  had  read  that  article  on  capturing  photos  of  the  orbs  carrying  "poking  ghosts,"    I  set  up  a  my  digital  flash  camera  on  a  tripod,  pointed  it  at  where  I  was  sleeping,  and  ran  a  shutter  cable  from  the  camera  to  my  cot.   The  first  time  the  thing  awakened  me  with  a  poke,  I  flashed   a  shot  of  it,  and  then  the  comparison  shot  about  two  seconds  later.   Lo  and  behold,  I  caught  an  amazing  picture  of  a  3-foot-high   orb  which,  as  usual,  "skeedaddled"   before  the  next  shot.

On  another  occasion,  Rise`  and  I  were  exploring  a  haunted  cave  in   Colorado  Springs.   At  one  point,   our  guide  in  the  cave  agreed  to  kill  the  lights,  so  that  I  could  attempt  to  capture  the  ghost  haunting  the  cave on  film.    I  laid  down  on  my  back  on  the  cave  floor,    pointed  the  digital  flash  camera  straight-up,  our  guide  killed  the  lights,  I  waited  a  few  seconds,  and  flashed  the  picture ...



The  Colorado  Springs  "ghost"  orb  "draws"  a  figure  made  of  mist  in  the  ceiling  of  a  cave

The  misty  thing  to  the  right  is  the  "ghost."  It  wasn't  present  at  all  in  the  next  shot  I  took.   Ghost  hunters  would  call  it  an  "ectoplasmic  entity."    I  personally  suspect  that  it  is  an  image  literally  made  of  mist  being  "drawn"  in  the  air  by  the  true  cold  entity.   What  is  it  a  mist-picture  of?  One  friend  suggested  that  the  thing  on  the  right  vaguely  resembles  a  particular  art  school  drawing  of  a  nude ...



http://evocative-art.com/images_a/WS15_NudeDrawingPastel.jpg

... with  head  tilted  left,   left  and  right  arms  framing  a   breasts  and  a  torso.  It  can  be  imagined  with  difficulty.

The  important  thing  about  the  "ectoplasmic  entity,"  however,  is  not  the  entity  itself,  but  what  you  see   in  it.

Click  on  the  photo  of  the  thing  to  make  it  big.    Look  carefully  in  the  ovaloid  torso  at  about  the  4:00  o'clock  position.  Do  you  see  it?  In  my  opinion,  we  have  caught  a  picture  of  the  orb  "ghost  vehicle"    racing  through  the  air  at  several  thousand  miles  per  hour,     using  its  innate  coldness  to  "draw"   its  mid-air  "mist  art"  in  the  cave,  so  that  I  could  photograph  the  "ectoplasmic"  mist  figure   with  my  digital  flash  camera.

My  most  amazing   "high-velocity  orb"  photo   was  taken  about  5  years  ago  tight  here  in  Magnolia.

I  had  been  telling  a  friend  about  how  easy  it  is  to  capture  orbs   on  camera,  using  digital  flash  cameras,   so  long  as  one  follows  certain  rules:

(a)  Go  to  places  known  to  be  haunted,  or   places  which  are  the  kind  of  place  which  one  expected  to  be  haunted.     For  example,    grave  yards  or  locations  where  a  murder  or  suicide  has  previously  taken  place.

(b)  Go  when  YOU,  YOURSELF  are  fatigued  or  sleep-deprived.     The  things  LOVE  sleepy  people.  Your  sleepiness  will  attract  them.

(c)  Go  in  twilight  or  in  the  dark  of  night.  The  things   HATE  light.

(d)  Use  a  digital  flash  camera  with  the  lens  set  for  infinity  and  the  flash  turned  on.  Since  the  things  make  a  fast  escape  after  the  first  flash,   DON'T  test  your  flash  in  or  near  the  place  where  you  want  to  take  your  ghost  photo.

(e)  You  can  talk  in  the  room,  but  DON'T  talk  to  "it"  --  ever.

So,  my  wife  Rise`  and  I  took  the  digital  camera  with  us  when  we  took  our  usual  walk  at  10:30  p.m.  that  night.  Our  2.25  mile  route  through  Magnolia  took  us  past  Magnolia  Methodist  Church   and  its  cemetery,  on    Evesham  Road  at  Barrett  Avenue.  At  the  cemetery,    I  crouched  next  to  a  tilting  gravestone,    turned  on  the  flash,  set  the  lens  for  infinity,    and  snapped  a  flash  picture  at  nothing  in  particular  next  to  the  tilting  gravestone.    This  is  what  I  got ...



The  Magnolia  Grave  Orb

Then  I  flashed  my  "control"  shot,   a  few  seconds  later,  and,  as  usual,  the  thing  had  "skeedaddled"  in  response  to  the  flash.

In  my  opinion,  you  are  looking  at  something  very  astonishing  in  that  photo.     If  you  look  at  the  thing  carefully,   you  can  see  it  "stopping  and  posing"    about  13  times  during  a  2-foot-long  path  of  travel   in  front  of  the  gravestone  and  then  behind  and  up  the  left  edge  of  the  gravestone  as  it  escaped,  barely  visible  past  the  edge.  It  appears  to  have  done  this  --  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  moved,  
"stopped  and  posed,"  and  
finally  disappeared  --  
over  the  course  of  the  1/1000  of  a  second  camera  strobe  flash.

2  feet  in  1/1000  of  a  second  =  2,000  feet  /  second  =  7,200,000  feet  /  hour  =  1,364  mph.

Another  thing  interesting  about  the  Magnolia  Methodist  grave  orb   is  that  it  possesses  that  little  "comma"   at  the  bottom,    and  that  little  "window"  at  its  "equator,"   both  of  which  can  be  seen  in  multiple  shots,  helping  us  to  identify  it  as  one-and-the-same  in  each  "exposure"  of  it  during  the  1/1000  of  a  second  flash  time  lapse.

Because  orbs  can  move  like  this  --  MUCH  faster  than  than  any  wind   which  ever  occurred  in  Magnolia  --   it  is  not  surprising  that  in  the  case  of  some  of  the  orbs  being  photographed  by  others,  we  can  see  them   zipping-off  on  their  own  --  note  well,  WHILE  the  other  orbs  are  undisturbed  by  any wind --  under  their  own  power ...


http://www.silvia-kost.de/upload/bilder/Orbs/Orbs14.JPG


http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_aliens/orbs01_02.jpg

A  very  cool  racing  orb  picture !

2 comments:

  1. So what's your theory on why orbs show up when digital photography is involved?

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  2. Hi, Carol.

    I puzzled long and hard over why orbs should suddenly become visible with digital photography.

    Could it simply be the case that the pixel-size sensors in a digital camera happen to be highly sensitive to the wave length of reflected light coming off orbs while the silver compound comprising color emulsions on Kodachrome film are not?

    There’s another possibility: My theory of orbs is that orbs are the basic “tulpa,” a kind of a semi-real entity which functions as a prayer vehicle to God, and a prayer-response vehicle from God. The idea is that God made us so that human focus -- “deep faith,” a Christian would say -- can generate these things.

    These “tulpas” are somewhat “schmoo-like” -- remember L’il Abner’s schmoos, which could be molded into anything, even eaten for nutrition? …

    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8PA7tYWUe18/UUwKwwKUxgI/AAAAAAAAjxk/RY_-dLIY2ZE/s1600/ShmooV2.jpg

    So, if a person being murdered is fearful enough, as he is being murdered, his extraordinary focus at that moment, from his fear, might accidentally create a tulpa looking and acting exactly like the murderer or himself.

    Another example -- In the 1800s, a packet ship from Ireland carrying hundreds of Irish immigrants sank in the frigid waters just off the coast of Maine. A young Irish girl, dressed only in her shift tried to swim ashore holding onto her baby. However, a wave smashing into her yanked her baby out of her arms. As the girl crawled up onto the beach, dying of cold and exhaustion, rescuers heard her repeating, “Where is my baby?! Where is my baby?!” For the next century after that, locals were reluctant to serve in the lighthouse at that location, because it was famously haunted by a very-real-looking girl ghost in a wet shift walking up the lighthouse steps, knocking on the door, saying only, “Where is my baby?! Where is my baby?!”

    If a tulpa is the product of a prayer, it is immune to demonic possession. If a tulpa is the product of a curse, it is automatically demonically possessed. If a tulpa is an accidental creation, it is neither, but it can be demonically possessed.

    If the possessing presence within the tulpa is strong enough, it CAN BE MOLDED INTO ANY SHAPE THE POSSESSING SPIRIT DESIRES. Most UFOs are exactly this. Bigfoot creatures are this. Chapcabras, like the Jersey Devil, are this. “Greys” in the Abduction Phenomenon are this. Loch Ness - type monsters are this.

    Respecting orb photographability, it could be that orb-possessing evil spirits coincidentally began a pre-End-Time program of making themselves more visible, around the time digital cameras came into their own, by doing whatever they need to do to make their orbs visible to cameras.

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