Orbs ...

There has been quite a debate on what Orbs are and where they come from. Real, not real?! Find out more on the interesting links below.
Food for thought and investigation...



The Orb Project Book :
THE ORB PROJECT: book from Míċeál Ledwith & Klaus Heinemann
ORBS: THE VEIL IS LIFTING: DVD from Hope & Randy Mead
The Orb Project Book - Forum
The Veil is Lifting from the Bleep Store
The Orb Project from the Bleep Store
Master Connections photo gallery
Is This The Proof That Spirits DO Exist? by Klaus Heinemann, Ph.D
on Great Mystery and on Merlian News
Work on Psychoenergetic Science from Dr. Tiller
Orb phenomenon: Not so ‘out there’ anymore By Courtney Dunham
What are Orbs? on Strange Planet
Orbs from Celtic Gardens
Orbs from Sacred Spaces
Orbstudy
Discussion group on the Ning Reiki Forum
Orbs by Beans
Ghost Study: fake page Orbs
Wikipedia: definition of Orbs
Wikipedia: Paranormal

Great Mystery: The Prophets Conferences

Orbs: Interacting with Other Realms Prophets Conference - 2008
Palm Springs, California - Spring Equinox, March 21-23, 2008
Glastonbury, England - July 7-13, 2008
with James Gilliland, Klaus Heinemann PhD, Miceal Ledwith LLD, Randy & Hope Mead, John Pickering & Katie Hall, Norman Shealy MD, Freddy Silva, William Tiller PhD, Míceál Ledwith, D.D., LL.D, William Bloom, Diana Cooper, Jude Currivan, Daniel Pinchbeck

Writings from the conference faculty

Orb phenomenon: Not So ‘Out There’ Anymore an interview with Miceal Ledwith
Are We Only An Ant Hill At The Side Of The Cosmic Expressway? by Cody Johnson
Orbs: The Veil Is Lifting by Hope Mead
The Science of Orbs by Dr. William A. Tiller
Conversations with G—A Physician’s Encounter with Heaven by Dr. Norm Shealy
We Are Surrounded By A Cloud Of Witnesses by Klaus Heinemann, Ph.D.
The Dimensional Shift That Is Now Taking Place by Hope and Randy Mead
Luminosities And Light-Forms by John Pickering & Katie Hall
Listen For Free to Dr Miceal Ledwith
Orbs: Are They A Psychoenergetic Phenomenon? by William A. Tiller, Ph.D.
Orbs, Crop Circles And Sacred Sites: The Manifestation Of Soul by Freddy Silva
Is This The Proof That Spirits Do Exist? by Klaus Heinemann, Ph.D.
Orbs: Pieces of the Puzzle Come Together from James Gilliland

Orbs: What is going on? Prophets Conference - Sedona 2007
with Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D, Bill (William) Tiller, Ph.D., Joan Ocean,JZ Knight, Klaus Heinemann, Ph.D., Miceal Ledwith, Ph.D.,Randy Mead, Hope Mead

Related links

ORBS: MESSENGERS FROM THE FUTURE by ALBERTO VILLOLDO, PH.D.
ORBS: ARE THEY A PSYCHOENERGETIC PHENOMENON? by WILLIAM A. TILLER, PH.D.
ORBS – THE VEIL IS LIFTING with RANDY MEAD and HOPE MEAD
ENTITIES, ORBS, ANGELS AND POWER ANIMALS: Mystical Musings From The Road From CODY JOHNSON, Co-founder of The Prophets Conferences
ORBS – ENTITIES IN THE UNSEEN From RAMTHA, as Channeled by JZ KNIGHT
ORBS: MYSTICAL MUSINGS FROM THE ROAD From CODY JOHNSON, Co-founder of The Prophets Conferences
ORBS AND MYSTERIOUS SPHERES OF LIGHT Conference presentation description by JOAN OCEAN
ORBS: EMANATIONS FROM SPIRIT BEINGS? Conference presentation description by KLAUS HEINEMANN, PH.D.
THE ORB PHENOMENON Conference presentation description by DR. MICEAL LEDWITH
OrbStudy
Orbs: a mystery to be explored
NASA film clip A Circular UFO Appears from behind the space shuttle
Photo Tour from Tami Pennington: Plasma energy and rainbow colored orbs.

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Freedom Is Not a Feeling

One of the most difficult but important things to understand, if one aspires for enlightenment, is that freedom is not a feeling. Freedom is not any particular experience, no matter how profound the experience may be. Freedom is not peace; freedom is not joy; freedom is not ecstasy.
Peace, joy, and ecstasy feel free, but that is just a feeling of freedom; it is not freedom itself. A person who is not free can have an experience of sinking into the peace, joy, and ecstasy of the ground of being and feel during that experience as if they are free. But that doesn't mean they are actually a liberated human being. And on the other hand, a person who is free may experience pain, fear, frustration, confusion, or anxiety, and not lose their freedom.
All experience comes and goes. The feeling quality of your own experience will always be changing, and all the more so if you live a deeply engaged and committed life.
So if you want to be a liberated human being, that liberation is dependent only upon the position that you are taking in relationship to your experience; it's not dependent upon the quality or the content of the experience itself.


Andrew Cohen

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Paradise on Earth

Beautiful Mauritius ...


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The Integral Approach

"Integral" means "inclusive, balanced, comprehensive." The Integral approach may be contrasted to other methods—mythic, rational-scientific, pluralistic—which, as they themselves announce, exclude other approaches as being inferior. They are thus, by definition, partial and incomplete. These latter methods, although widely accepted and dominant in the world's cultures, tend to generate partial analysis and incomplete solutions to problems. As such, they appear less efficient, less effective, and less balanced than the Integral approach.

Like any truly fundamental advance, the Integral approach initially seems complicated but eventually is understood to be quite simple and even straightforward. It's like using a word processor: at first it is hard to learn, but eventually it becomes incredibly simple to use.

The easiest way to understand the Integral approach is to remember that it was created by a cross-cultural comparison of most of the known forms of human inquiry. The result was a type of comprehensive map of human capacities. After this map was created (by looking at all the available research and evidence), it was discovered that this integral map had five major aspects to it. By learning to use these five major aspects, any thinker can fairly easily adopt a more comprehensive, effective, and integrally informed approach to specific problems and their solutions—from psychology to ecology, from business to politics, from medicine to education.

What are these five aspects? Technically they are referred to as "quadrants, levels, lines, states, and types." Of course, unless one has already learned the "word processing system," as it were, then these aspects won't make much sense. But they are indeed very simple and easy to use once one gets the hang of it.

There is an important point about these five aspects. Because the integral map that they were drawn from was created by an extensive cross-cultural comparison of human capacities, these five aspects appear to be potentials available to all human beings. (We will see examples of this in a moment). Thus, the integral approach does not ask a person to adopt anything that they do not already have available to them. This is not some "outside" philosophy that people are asked to believe, but a pointer to potentials that they already possess but perhaps are not fully utilizing or expressing.

For example, one of the five aspects—called quadrants —refers to the fact that all major human languages have first-, second-, and third-person pronouns (for example: I, you/we, and it). These three dimensions of reality (I, we, and it) often show up as art, morals, and science (or the aesthetic expression of "I," the morals of "we," and the objective "its" of science)—the Beautiful, the Good, and the True is another version of these dimensions.

If we realize that "it" can appear in plural, or "its," then we have the "four quadrants" or dimensions that are present in all major human languages: I, we, it, and its—or the intentional, cultural, behavioral, and social dimensions of all human beings.



Upper-Left Quadrant
"I"Interior-Individual
Intentional
Upper-Right Quadrant
"IT"Exterior-Individual
Behavioral
Lower-Left Quadrant
"WE"Interior-Collective
Cultural
Lower-Right Quadrant
"ITS"Exterior-Collective
Social (Systems)

Notice some of the major and extremely influential modes of inquiry that are based in each of the quadrants:
Upper Left: phenomenology, psychotherapy, meditation, emotional intelligence, personal transformation
Upper Right: empiricism, scientific analysis, quality control, behavioral modification
Lower Left: multiculturalism, postmodernism, worldviews, corporate culture, collective values
Lower Right: systems theory, social systems analysis, techno-economic modes, communication networks, systems analysis

Which of those approaches is right? All of them, according to Integral theory.

The Integral approach simply points out that these dimensions of reality are present in all cultures, and therefore any truly comprehensive or integral approach would want to touch bases with all of those important dimensions, because they are in fact operating in people in any event, and if we do not include them in our analysis, we will have a partial, fragmented, and broken approach to any proposed solution.

See more on the Integral Approach at the Integral Insitute.

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Global Mind Change

Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from dictates of governments and the results of battles but through vast numbers of people changing their minds -- sometimes only a little bit.

Some of the changes have amounted to profound transformations -- for instance the transition from the Roman Empire to Medieval Europe, or from the Middle Ages to modern times. Others have been more specific, such as the constitution of democratic governments in England and America, or the termination of slavery as an accepted institution. In the latter cases, it is largely a matter of people recalling that no matter how powerful the economic or political or even military institution, it persists because it has legitimacy, and that legitimacy comes from the perceptions of people. People give legitimacy and they can take it away. A challenge to legitimacy is probably the most powerful force for change to be found in history.

To the empowering principle that the people can withhold legitimacy, and thus change the world, we now add another: By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world. Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.

Willis Harman -- Global Mind Change

Global Mind Change: The Promise of the 21st Century (BK Currents)
Global Mind Change: The New Age Revolution in the Way We Think

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Toward Integral Consciousness

Highlights from Düsseldorf 2006 international scientists conference "Wisdom and Science in Dialogue: The new Planetary Consciousness."

Once again, many many thanks to Stream Source for this most valuable input toward integral consciousness and enlightenment!
I cannot but recommend visiting the blog which continuously provides most inspiring messages.
Visit Stream Source here.



Also visit ARIOnline (The Ashlag Reserach Institute), QuestionYourReality and The Kabbalah Education and Reserach Institute

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The Power of Choice

Embracing the path of peace and spiritual enlightenment, Russell Hill devoted himself to the Path of the Masters. Many years of discipline and meditation have imprinted upon his mind Universal Truths. Over the years Russell Hill has been taught by spiritual guides and visited higher spiritual realms.

Russell Hill has a deep seated desire to share his wisdom, knowledge and the story of his incredible journey with his Brother and Sisters throughout the world.

Since 1989 Russell Hill has published five works on spirituality and metaphysics.

See more on Russell Hill on Self Growth and Secret of All Ages

Download free e-books here:
Understanding the Law of Attraction
The Journey Begins

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Living Deeply-The Art & Science of Transforamtion in Everyday Life

Living Deeply transcends any one approach by focusing on common elements of transformation across a variety of traditions, while affirming and supporting the diversity of approaches across religious, spiritual, scientific, academic, and cultural backgrounds. Each chapter in the book ends with "Experiences of Transformation," exercises drawn from wisdom traditions or scientific investigations meant to enhance your direct experience of the material.

Opportunities to actively engage in your own transformation and that of our world are woven into the fabric of your everyday life. Learning more about the terrain of consciousness transformation can not only give you a map, but can help you become the cartographer of your own transformative journey. Research over the last decade at the Institute of Noetic Sciences has systematically surveyed hundreds of people's stories of their own transformations, as well as conducting over 50 in-depth interviews with teachers and masters of the world's spiritual,religious, and transformative traditions.

No matter who you are,where you come from, or what your current path is - whether you seek to transform your life completely or simply make adjustments that will add a layer of richness and depth to your life - exploring the many ways that transformation is stimulated and sustained can hold great power. Weaving together cutting-edge science with wisdom from teachers of the world's transformative traditions this book explores how people experience deep shifts in their consciousness, and how those shifts can lead to healing and wholeness.

By authors: Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Cassandra Vieten, Tina Amorok
Preface by: Richard Gunther
Foreword by: Robert A.F. Thurman


KEY MESSAGES

Common and enduring principles can be found in all wisdom traditions and religions – there is a universal set of truths and values common to all peoples and cultures.

Transformation is an ongoing, natural process that is available to everyone in each moment.

Life teaches us what we need to know – the opportunities to learn suffuse each day if we are paying attention. Both painful and joyful experiences can be transformative.

Dramatic and lasting change for the better springs from radically shifting your perspective of who you are. This most essential change, the one from which all other changes arise, is a shift in how you view the world and your perception of what is possible.

Transforming your consciousness may be the most important thing you can do for yourself and the world.

Deciding where to direct your attention and intention has a profound impact on how you relate to yourself, others, the earth, and all living beings.

Transformation is a practice and must be lived in your daily life to be sustainable and meaningful -- transformation is about how we LIVE our everyday lives, how we behave in the world.

The more we become aware, awake, or “conscious,” – the more our life becomes a practice, and everything we do is a practice. We need to practice and expand our capacity for love, compassion and generosity.

Intention Matters -- One of the most crucial cultivators of transformation is intention – transformation is something we choose, nurture and cultivate into being.

Transformation brings with it an understanding of unity and entails the shift from “I to We” --You begin to live from a place and understanding that will benefit all.

Transformation brings about the realization that everything is sacred and we begin to quite naturally orient ourselves toward protecting and preserving all life.


See more on Living Deeply here: http://livingdeeply.org/index.html

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Forgiveness and the Freedom of Letting go

Forgiveness is the mental, emotional and/or spiritual process of ceasing to feel resentment, indignation or anger against another person for a perceived offence, difference or mistake, or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution

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