still Spooky all your talcum is uniform sizes and looks like talcum.

and even if most orbs were dust particles in the air, this would not explain a great amount of photos I have seen of hands, faces, half forms, etc, clouds of etheric matter, it also does not explain how I perceived myself as an orb bouncing along the highway without my arms and legs. I'm sorry, it was real. not a dream.
also there are some orbs which zip by a person at great speeds, these can be photographed also on video and have been. many folks have reported orbs moving outside their window also. something that moves, not floating, but having intelligence connected to it is what u find on the videos.  research some of this documented orb business if any are interested...its truly amazing and photography of this sort is a valid science to pursue, and like I said, theres always a bit of fire where u find some smoke.
ooouuu...twilight zone..we are not alone and never were and our cameras are digital now, more sensitive...years ago, we didn't have digital cameras for the most part.

also why is there no dust on my lens, in my kitchen and in my 2 bedrooms, when I live in those other rooms too, there was only orbs in my living room where I requested help with my book writing.
all my picture taking was on the same time, there should have been orbs in the other rooms as well if they were just dust.

Spooky, that reminds me of that song dust in the wind..haha!

glad to meet you Richard. I don't know who did the song, I just remember feeling like dust in the wind and how much that sucked but I thought there was some truth to it.
the light was an overhead light in the kitchen, and 100 watt and a 60 watt together possibly but dim enough that orbs could show up if they wanted. the bedroom was the same filtered sunlight as the living room, there was an orange room also, a perfect backdrop to orb activity to place itself on the wall if they wanted, no furniture in that room either. they didn't want.
it's interesting to see orbs in complete darkness also as we have seen here, I would think the lighting had something to do with it, but apparently not.

I found in Seattle, I had a few orbs attached to the house, this in full sunlight but basically indoor was where they stayed, bright sunlight does not seem conducive to see them well but if you look closely they are there.

I forgot some details to tell u guys...remember I would talk to guides when I was asking help to edit my book. editing was painful because you think always you have a masterpiece, but I would hear voices saying, no, its not good enough yet, you have to cut 150 pages,  blah, blah, yada yada..I told the spirits at one time to GET OFF MY BUTT!

hahaha!   well, thats the rest of the story about the orb which landed on my butt when I told it to wait until I was in position and be over my head, and please to be large and unmistakable, so I could share the photo, etc. then they started to make me laugh, some of the things they said to me about the editing process...it wasn't a book I edited, it was my soul I edited. so my daughter snapped the photo of the orb on the butt then when I faced the wall, there was no orb in the wall shot I had asked for, then I knew, they were being funny again, always trying to get me to lighten up in this process of editing, not cry so much, etc.
I thought I was a good writer, and they essentially had to show me I was not that. so humor is very instructive and then they gave me the name laughing rain, which we had a big fight over that too.

its good not to be deluded, would just suggest that research and open minded approach is best in these studies, and a certain amount of trusting your heart, your intuition.
love,a lysia

Spooky:

I believe the below is a good idea. I've seen a lot of spirits, and there have been a limited number of times where they have appeared as orbs, and they didn't look like the orbs that appear in photographs.

There is also the issue of why would a photo have to be taken in order for orbs to be seen. The orbs I've seen were seen without photographs.  If a photo was taken, chances are they wouldn't show up on a photograph.

spooky2 wrote on Jul 9^th, 2007 at 11:18pm:

hi Doc, I was thinking about you. to me when I think about a person on this board pops up in my mind, then I know we are all connected, somehow out there, or in here. lol. I have tracking device installed

anyhoo, thanks for bringing us all together on a higher thought that we are basically wasting time to look for physical indication of spirits, NP's.
I believe the underlying question would be concerning newbies or lurkers who have never had a brush with the spirit world, therefore they may have no grounding paradigm whatsoever that we continue after death.

I remember being 18 and in the same quandary; I want everyone if possible and to gracefully come across this question to settle, but I know you are right, chasing orbs is not going to do the trick.

I would suggest and I repeat myself, the spirit world is trying to get through to any who opens the door, and who has the courage to open the door, the persistance, or even the desire to understand we are more than physical beings, and we are all greatly loved and applauded for even stepping into the earth plane. its not easy being us....

thanks again, my goodness, I love the way you talk..

OK, 

I'll have to accept that

  some dust motes have smiley faces
  Spooky wasn't on drugs, it was just late at night

but Spooky,

why is a giant red false fingernail stuck next to the door handle?!
Was a giant lady trying to get out so fast that she left it there?

Just wonderring,
Bets   

identcat wrote on Jul 10^th, 2007 at 5:59pm:


No flash and still orbs? That's more interesting. Are these pictures of yours anywhere on the forums, or can we see them?

Hawkeye:

Going by the photo, there were at least seven people in the room. Did any of these people report seeing an orb before a photo was taken? The orbs I've seen without the assistance of a photo, didn't look like they could be the result of a photographic effect. Certainly I was ready to accept their reality when I saw them. A person isn't being negative because he or she tries to be honest about something.  To suggest such a thing is to suggest that a person doesn't have the right to exercise his or her discrimination.


hawkeye wrote on Jul 13^th, 2007 at 12:44pm:

Hawkeye:

Thank you for such a positive response.  I figure my scepticism turns people off at times.

Regardless of what the truth of the photo orb matter is (despite how it seems, I haven't come to a final conclusion), I believe that we all have spirit friends we are connected to. I look forward to someday finding out how many things I have been right about, and how many things I have been wrong about.


hawkeye wrote on Jul 13^th, 2007 at 1:17pm: