Photo date: November 26, 2021. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
I took the photo below while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling in front of a black featureless background. We see orbs that each have three indentations and a hole.
The page here allows you to search accounts of near-death experiences at the site www.nderf.org. Using this search page tool, I found some interesting references to orbs in accounts of near-death experiences.
Nick S. (2006-03-11, ID #767):
"In front of me was something that's hard to describe, almost like an orb or a spirit of some kind, but I heard someone say, 'You're not supposed to be here yet. Come with me and go back to your home. It's not your time.' I asked, 'Am I dead?'"
Debra C. (2008-02-03, ID #1542):
"I was floating in place, colored orbs of indescribable color were coming toward me and all around me a feeling of peace and calm that you cannot describe, beautiful!"
Daniel T. (2008-03-02, ID #1565):
"As I was floating, I saw orbs of light and as I passed, I saw people's faces, which I did not recognize. As I got to the end of the tunnel, the only face that I recognized was my Granny Wilson's. My Granny Wilson had died in the mid-1940's and I had seen her picture on numerous occasions."
Cam (2008-12-01, ID #1759):
"First came absolute darkness, then a bright orb of light. The light was more than light; it had a hexagonal tessellation of radiant yellow/orange, but mostly white."
Vicki P (2011-07-04, ID #1788):
"The next thing I knew, I was going rapidly through a tunnel toward a light. I saw small, bright orbs of light accompanying me and I said to myself, 'Angels!' Before I could reach the light, I returned to my body and came to."
Michael G (2010-02-26, ID #2178):
"Then I saw this large, golden orb in front of me, suspended in the blue. It was close enough to touch, but I didn't. Its surface undulated, like the sea - rising and falling. Immediately, I thought, 'This is the sun,' but then remember saying, 'I am so sorry.' Instantly, without word, I was corrected. This 'orb' in front of me was no 'thing,' it was a personality. I don't know what it was. It didn't speak to me. It just was so beautiful to look at and be with; I didn't want to leave its presence.
Joshua B (2015-08-02, ID #3982):
"Wherever this somewhere was, I had no human form. I was like a small ball of yellow light. Though in darkness, I knew I could see in all directions at once. Around me appeared other orbs of light. The orbs were other people who had passed away. We all glowed with different shades of light. Some were more pink, some were blue and I was yellow. I remember that all of our thoughts flowed into and out of each other simultaneously. Despite this, I could still process my own thoughts."
Lewis D (2007-12-16, ID #1391):
"At that time everything went black, so black it was as though I could feel it. Then I saw a ball of light that seemed to be moving closer to me, it seemed to rouse interest in me at the time. I was moving closer to the ball it was perfectly round with twinkles in it."
Wendi (2008-01-02, ID #1461):
"After leaving my body I was pulled into a void or darkness. In the distance, I saw a white ball of light come close and closer to me. I couldn't really make out what it was until I got closer.... It was a deceased friend of mine who had committed suicide the previous year. I was very close to this person in life, we went to High School together and he was a support to me in life as well as in death. He told me that I needed to return there was a strong sense of needing to return."
Robert C (2010-01-02, ID #2072):
"I tried to assure them I was going into the light but they denied my passage. They were adamant it was not my time. Then I noticed I was a ball of light. I no longer had the shape of a human being. My consciousness was spherical in all directions at once and I had a god like knowing. Then all at once, I saw my entire life pass before me in minute detail."
Laurie L (2008-03-15, ID #4489):
"I could hear the most beautiful music and I could feel it moving through me. The breeze blew against the tall golden wheat stalks, and as it did I could feel the spirit of all things living around me: animals, plants, the elements. I was one with them. I looked up and saw a huge ball of light that cast the purest, warm light all around me and felt God touch my skin."
Photo date: November 25, 2021. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
I took the photo below while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling in front of a black featureless background. We see orbs with a dark oval shape inside them.
At the page here you can read each of the prize-winning entries of a competition by the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies, a competition for the best presentation of evidence regarding life after death. There are some very interesting entries, some quite long. Clicking on the second prize entry by Pim van Lommel MD, and scrolling down to page 33 of the downloaded file, we find an astonishing account. Pim van Lommel relates a personal communication he received regarding a "sphere of light." We read this:
"At the end of 2000 my eldest son died by suicide. From the police report estimating time of death, I learned it was about the same time a curious thing happened to me. I saw a sphere of light enter my window and then enter my forehead whereupon I was suddenly ‘awareness without a body', in a place profoundly lit, with a sense of spacious depth but without any features. I felt profound warmth and love, felt my son was ok, and heard the words, 'There is nothing wrong and there has never been anything wrong.' Somehow, I knew this to be true with every cell of my body even though he had been suffering with pain for years. The next day I learned of his death."
Photo date: November 24, 2021. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
I took the photo below while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling in front of a black featureless background. We see orbs with a three-part pattern.
Photo date: November 24, 2021. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
I took the photo below while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling in front of a black featureless background. We see an orb with a very colorful appearance.
Photo date: November 24, 2021. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below two colorful orbs I photographed indoors.
Photo date: November 20, 2021. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
I took the photos below while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling in front of a black featureless background. We see orbs having columns of three spots.
Photo date: November 18, 2021. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
I took the photos below while photographing only ordinary drops of pure, clean water falling in front of a black featureless background. We see orbs with a big hole in their center, and an indentation on both their left and their right.
