In the book "An Excursion Into the Paranormal" by George Karolyi, we read this on page 214:
"As it appears from the reports of subjects, who claim to have had an out of body experience, the vehicle of the exteriorized consciousness may assume various forms. It can appear as an immaterial human form matching the physical body in every detail, or it may assume an ill-defined form resembling a ball of light, or it may not be any spatial entity at all."
Photo date: April 25, 2022. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see a mysterious green orb I photographed indoors.
Today I am reading the book "Materialisations-Experimente mit M. Franek-Kluski," which is not easy because it is available only in German. Luckily I can use Google Translate to get English versions of the pages. The book is an astonishing record of seances with a medium. The most remarkable thing about the sessions described is that the observers (Gustave Geley and Albert von Schrenck-Notzing) were able (using paraffin wax) to get plaster casts as permanent physical evidence of what they had seen. I am writing a blog post that will discuss how that worked.
On page 58 we read the following astonishing account:
"I asked him if he could see my sister in the 'Astral' who has been dead for 3 years. Answer: Yes. At the same moment I felt a woman's hand gently placed on my forehead, making the sign of the cross there and encircling it with a circle, as my sister always did when she was alive when she said goodbye to me. I recognized her hand, dimly lit, against the edge of the fluorescent screen that lay on the table in front of me. It moved several times before my eyes, and more and more I thought I recognized it. She squeezed my hand, patted my face. I can no longer doubt that it is her hand that I feel. A short time later a glowing orb forms in front of my face and moves away; then she comes very close to my face and to my great astonishment and also to my great joy I notice the fully recognizable facial features of my sister, who smiles at me as in real life. However, she seems much younger to me, about the way she was when she was 25. She died at the age of 54. The upper part of the head is surrounded by cloudy veils."
Photo date: April 19, 2022. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a fast-looking orb I photographed indoors.
I continue to get dreams that seem to symbolize life after death (or directly refer to it) in astonishing numbers, a phenomenon that has occurred to me for many months. My post listing my dreams (entitled "I Keep Dreaming of Danger, Death, the Deceased and Life After Death") now lists more than 160 dreams I have had (since November 2020) that either directly referred to life after death or seemed to symbolize the idea of life after death.
Today I noticed something very strange on my Samsung tablet device. I was surprised to see that my device was displaying full-size (in the Firefox web browser) an archive.org page from the interesting book "Life After Death and the World Beyond: Investigating Heaven and the Spiritual Dimension" by Jenny Randles and Peter Hough. What was surprising was that I have no memory of having summoned such a page today. I had read the book online about 30 days ago (using www.archive.org), and had not looked at it since then.
There are two possibilities that I considered to explain this, but neither is credible.
Possibility 1: I could have searched for information on life after death, got a list of search results, and clicked on a line in the search results, forgetting that I had done such a thing.
This activity would have produced a trace on the History tab that I can view in Firefox. For example, below is what that tab shows if I go to www.archive.org, search for "parapsychology," and then click on one of the titles in the search results:
But looking at my History tab I saw something different:
So apparently Possibility 1 is ruled out, because if I had done such a thing and forgot about it, I would not see the History tab rows as shown above.
Possibility 2: It was just an old tab used long ago, and still showing because of "tab restoration."
If you have a browser that restores the tabs when you bring up a web browser, there is a possibility of seeing an old tab you didn't bring up today. For example, you might access a web page on Monday, leave it up in a tab of your browser, and shut down your computer. Then later in the week, you might be surprised to see that tab still hanging around, even though it was days since you accessed that page.
But this cannot explain what happened, because it occurred on my Samsung tablet, which I turn off every night, and which does not restore old tabs or pages when I bring up the Firefox web browser after starting up the device.
None of my blogs had a link to the afterlife-related page that mysteriously appeared. About 30 days ago I had created a Firefox bookmark for the "Life After Death and the World Beyond" book. But the bookmark was neither the first thousand of my Firefox bookmarks, nor any of the bookmarks on my last page of Firefox bookmarks I have made. To use the bookmark today, I would have had to do about twenty or more big long finger swipes on my Bookmark tab to reach its end, and then swipe in a different direction to reach the bookmark. To the best of my knowledge I did no such thing today, and did not even use the Bookmark tab today before mysteriously seeing the web page showing the life after death book.
This has happened before. Long ago I bookmarked a page for a life after death site. Then many days later my tablet mysteriously accessed the page in a way I can't explain, creating a "how did that page show up?" moment for me. I may reasonably wonder whether some mysterious reality out there is trying to remind me in different ways of the concept of life after death.
Postscript: A similar event just happened today (April 21, 2021). I went to www.archive.org, and I distinctly remember I intended to see whether I could find a book by a writer named Du Potet. There mysteriously came up search results for Baraduc, including a book Hippolyte Baraduc wrote entitled "The Human Soul: Its Movements, Its Lights and Its Iconography of the Fluidic Invisible." I formulated a hypothesis to explain this: maybe I accidentally typed "b" rather than "d," and maybe if you type just one letter, www.archive.org does some auto-complete, using the last search phrase you used beginning with the letter typed. But the hypothesis failed, because the site does not behave that way. A check of my History tab showed no record of a search on www.archive.org for "Baraduc," but if I go to the site and manually search for that name, a record of that does show up on my History tab. Very strange.
Photo date: April 9, 2022. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors,
Photo date: April 7, 2022. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors, one that seems to be pulsating. It looks rather like some burst of flame. See here for other photos of speeding yellow orbs.
On page 128 of the very interesting book "Parting Visions : an Exploration of Pre-Death Psychic and Spiritual Experiences," we have an account by by a woman named Anne who was diagnosed with leukemia at age four. She says at age six she saw a "ball of light" appear in her bedroom, and her pain went away. She says the ball of light transformed until she could see a beautiful glowing woman inside the light. She says the woman guided her on a journey to some ethereal realm, and then took her back to her room, promising that things would now be easier for the child. Hospital tests the next day indicated the leukemia was starting to reverse. Within two weeks the child's blood tests were normal.
In the very interesting book Parting Visions: An Exploration of Pre-Death Psychic and Spiritual Experiences, we read on pages 49-50 of a woman plagued by very painful arthritis. The woman said that on two nights in a row she saw an apparition of two men dressed in white standing in her bedroom, and that her husband saw the same thing. She says five days later a ball of light came through a window, and was seen for about two minutes by herself and her husband. The woman says that after such experiences, her arthritis went away and never returned.
In recent days the British newspaper The Sun had a headline of "US warship was chased by two car-size ‘balls of light’ UFOs."
Photo date: March 31, 2022. Photographer: Mark Mahin.
We see below what looks like a fast-moving orb I photographed indoors.
