Orbs (Vignette)

A flash of light, barely discernible. Was it just my imagination or was there something there? An angel flitting across the room, or the dying energies of an earthbound spirit?

Programmes on television such as 'Most Haunted' have brought orbs more out into the mainstream, commanding public attention. We, as humans, are only now starting to understand the implications of energy, and orbs seem to be on the very periphery of our knowledge and appreciation of it.

When people normally talk of energy they talk in terms of fuel or the expending of physical energy. They are less likely to acknowledge psychic energy or the life force energy we tap into in our healing practices. What does it all mean? Einstein said that E=MC2, but that also means M=E/C2, which provokes a different slant on thinking about the connections between matter and energy. "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" translates into "What came first, energy or matter?". And consciousness comes before energy.

Our world of human consensus delusion puts matter first, and that kind of thinking has trapped humanity into a dark prison, but if we turn things upside down, harnessing the way things really work, we can allow the power of love and light to release us from this prison. Then we can truly start to build heaven on earth.

A vignette written in the Blue Angel Café, Findhorn Park, Sunday 22 June 2008, just before Diana Cooper's talk on Orbs in the Universal Hall.