Scholar Perspective by Miceal Ledwith

Scholars Perceptive

Articles to Evolve by Miceal Ledwith as seen in Science to Sage Magazine

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Dr. Miceal Ledwith, L.Ph., L.D., D.D., LL.D (h.c), served as a Catholic priest and as Professor of Theology and College President for over 25 years in Ireland. During the course of his academic and administrative careers he lectured extensively to interested adult groups in many countries and continues to speak at venues all over the world today.

He is a long-time member of Ramtha's School of Ancient Wisdom and has been invited to speak at Events held by the school for several years at many venues throughout the Given his life's experience and long years as a professional theologian Miceal Ledwith believes he is in a unique position to assist people who are also searching for information and answers, and to point the way so that they too can move towards finding the journey of discovery which he is on.

To assist in that way is the objective of both the DVD series and his forthcoming major work, "Forbidden Truth."

His book "The Orb

Phenomenon," co-authored with the German physicist Dr. Klaus Heinemannand his DVD "The Phenomenon of Orbs" are now "Forbidden Truth," which will be titled "Jesus of Nazareth," is forthcoming.

Dr. Ledwith was featured in What The BLEEP Do We Know!? and Down the Rabbit Hole.

Articles by Miceal Ledwith

Evolve The Wino and the Master How Can Little Green Men be Made in the Image of God? The Rise and Fall of the Halo Orbs: Is the Veil Lifting?

As Seen in Science to Sage Magazine

BY DR. MICEAL LEDWITH The Wino and The Master

S

ometimes when I speak to groups about matters related to

quantum physics I pose the question “Who do you think has the greater ability to manifest reality: an unfortunate homeless person living in abject poverty under a bridge, or an ascended Master such as we read about in those fabled accounts from long ago?�

For months, the media has been filled with accounts of one series of economic disasters after another all across the First World.

In that sense, I believe that many of the wildly popular self-improvement programs that have attracted such enormous attention in recent years have actually done a great disservice to the majority

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of people who espoused them. The impression was

t’s very rare that such a vast swath of

given that it was all very easy, even automatic to master these techniques. That suited the instant gratification society’s expectations but it just didn’t

humanity has been so united in focus on the same

work and the result was disillusionment. There is no

thing. Everyone across all of North and South

doubt that what we have deeply and profoundly

America , Europe and the East seem to be concerned

accepted will manifest into our lives.

with the same realities, and with a fierce intensity;

Unfortunately, all too often, what we have

will my investments be safe; will my savings, if I have

deeply and profoundly accepted in this way

any, remain secure, how will I pay the mortgage or meet my children’s school fees this year? Will I have a job in six months time? How can I afford to heat the house this winter? As a 19th century writer put it: “It’s a prospect to dizzy and

is lack, ill health,

Both the Wino and the Master have exactly the same ability to manifest.

appall.”

misfortune and what we are pleased to call bad luck.

Sometimes when I speak to groups about matters related to quantum physics I pose the

There are aspects to this present situation in the world

question “Who do you think has the greater ability to

at large which give great concern to anyone who has

manifest reality: an unfortunate homeless person

realized even the most basic facts about what

living in abject poverty under a bridge, or an

quantum physics has to tell us about how reality

ascended Master such as we read about in those

functions. For almost a century now the quantum

fabled accounts from long ago?”

physicists have been telling us that reality obligingly takes on the shape corresponding to the way in which

The answer invariably is “The Master” - who has

we observe it. Needless to say this insight has been

everything his or her heart can desire. But that is not

popularized in countless versions which usually

so. Both the Wino and the Master have exactly the

neglect to mention the awkward fact that while the

same ability to manifest. There is obviously an

realities we experience every day are determined by

enormous difference between the circumstances of

the way in which we observe them, it is no small task

the two, but the difference does not hinge on their

to acquire the skill to manifest what it is we would

ability to manifest because they both have that ability

like to see popping up in our lives as opposed to

in equal measure, and so has everyone else who ever

what normally does.

walked this earth.

Everyone is born with the innate ability to manifest

We all come into this world endowed with a certain

any reality out of the quantum field that corresponds

type of character, intellectual ability, and physical

to their deeply accepted beliefs and feelings. This is

attributes, but I know that through the course of my

as much a part of us as our unique DNA, our

life I can alter what I have been endowed with, for

digestive system or the circulation of our blood. You

better or for worse.

cannot exist without the ability to manifest out of the quantum field. It is not something you have to learn.

The person who grows to be a Master realizes this even though he or she may have suffered hardships,

The problem lies in the fact that what the vast

disappointment, discrimination or betrayal. That

majority of people take for granted and deeply accept

individual came to realize that it could all be turned

is usually the reality of lack; the conviction that things

around if only they could learn to control their

are scarce; that if I do not get my share before

thoughts at the deepest level.

someone else gets it I am in danger of being left short; that life is unfair and unless I am on guard and alert I

That is a very different exercise indeed from

will end up being pushed around to my detriment by

suppression. We are masters at fooling ourselves into

organizations and people who are more powerful

thinking that we have accomplished real change in

than I am. Is it any wonder then that such negative

our lives when all we have done is suppressed the

realities figure so often in many people’s life

tendencies, thoughts or beliefs which we want to be

experiences?

freed from and are thus no longer welcome in our lives. But these suppressed realities hide like a

So in pondering the case of the Wino and the Master,

festering sore until the day when they erupt to the

the Wino stands as an archetype of someone who is

surface again in a much more virulent form than they

convinced that the world is harsh, hostile,

ever had before the attempt to squash them into

discriminatory and unfair. As this is what is deeply

submission.

accepted it is inevitable that more of the same will manifest in such a person’s life. The Master on the

What we need to aim at is attaining a state where all

other hand started out by realizing one of the most

those negative thoughts, feelings, and emotions let us

basic realities about human life: the kind of life I have

go, rather than us deciding to try to expel them from

been experiencing mirrors the way I have been

our lives by suppression.

thinking. In “What the Bleep” I said Positive Thinking was fallacious, because usually all it meant was that I

In truth this process really is like trying to climb out of

had managed to put a thin smear of positive thinking

a snake pit. Everyone who has ever set out on the

over a vast boiling cauldron of negative thinking

path of human or spiritual evolution has come to

underneath, which is obviously what is going to

realize as a basic premise that the real enemy is

manifest, because I is what I have deeply accepted.

within.

BY DR. MICEAL LEDWITH

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ny form of enemy we perceive without is visible to us only

because it mirrors what is already within ourselves, but which may be so deeply buried that we are not aware of it until it is mirrored back to us by some person or thing that is external to us.

BY DR. MICEAL LEDWITH It should alert us to the fact that normally the varieties of ways in which people focus on things that matter to them cancel each other out for the large part. But now the focus of most people on the earth is much more unified than that, and it is concentrated by the apprehension of doom and gloom. When there is such a rare common focus, when it is negative, and when it is feared, then we can rest assured that a self-fulfilling prophecy is about to manifest and what

Many will say

“We can change this” and

that is true, but while bailouts may solve the external economic crisis, the only way to avert the power of such a widespread negative focus on disaster as we are experiencing now is to accomplish a profound

revolution in our habitual ways of thinking. That is a much more difficult and

was bad in itself can very easily become much worse

long drawn out process, but it is the only way to

simply because most of the world’s population has

eventually bring our habits of self -destruction to an

much more of the Wino in them than the Master.

end.

Miceal Ledwith

Dr. Micael Ledwith, L.Ph., L.D., D.D., LL.D (h.c) is an International Speaker, Author, Theologian, and Scientist.

His research interests had always been in the fundamental areas of religious belief, seeking answers to the “Four Great Questions” as he liked to call them: “Who am I? Where do I come from? What should I do? and where am I going?”

Dr. Ledwith insights are on the leading-edge of science and spirituality, indicating a very different understanding of God and our place and purpose in creation.

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From South America, to the Vimanas of India, to the spaceship of a Christian drawing - Bible to the Vedas.

How Can Little Green Men be Made in the image of God? The new Director of the Vatican Observatory announced fairly recently that it was all right to believe in extra-terrestrials, and that such a belief did not conflict with belief in God. I wasn't sure what to make of the statement since I couldn't figure out any way in which belief in aliens could ever be construed as counting against belief in God - quite the contrary. And while an interview with the Vatican Astronomer is a far cry indeed from an official Church statement, it was given some weight by the fact that it appeared in the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.

But a few days later the British Ministry of Defense announced a four-year program to release previously classified documents about UFOs into the National Archives. I wondered if it was just co-incidence.

There is a time bomb ticking at the heart of all the main western religions and it has to do with the troubled subject of aliens. The vastness of even the visible universe can be realized by anybody nowadays by viewing the extraordinary images from the Hubble Telescope. And when you see that, it's very easy to realize the depth of arrogance needed to believe that the human race on this earth is the only intelligent form life in the entire universe, or that all life would have to occur in our form of it. To make matters worse we don't seem to be even living in prime real estate: we are situated in the very boondocks of what is itself a comparatively rural galaxy. Oh for the happy times of Galileo and Giordano Bruno, when the only issue that troubled the Church was whether the sun revolved around the earth or vice versa.

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It is said there are many mansions and scientist believe there are many galaxies, then consider, that when we look into the night sky and see billions of stars, that it would only be common sense to assume that we do not exist alone.

Even on earth there are so many creatures that look entirely alien. StarWars a n d S t a r Tre k d e p i c t e d t h i s i d e a wonderfully with their cast of characters.

It's a public secret that reported sightings of UFOs and the dramatic quality of them has escalated over the past few years.

From time to time rumors circulate that authoritative statements on the subject from major world governments is anticipated, not all of those rumors coming from conspiracy theorists. If this should ever happen it would pose enormous difficulties for all the main tenets of almost every major Christian belief system.

Most of the Christian churches and denominations have managed to turn their basic message into a proclamation that Lord knows there are plenty of characters the creation as a whole is in a fallen state. From this condition it in our own lives. can be rescued only by God sending his only Son to suffer and Science states that opposing forces are die for our sins so as to appease God's anger against us. If the what keeps us in motion. Perhaps this existence of aliens were ever to be undeniably proven the rule still applies to visitors, some possess mind can only boggle at the extent of the enormous doctrinal the dark force and others the light. This updating the Churches would be faced with to accommodate is the epic story of the our planet. Then that fact within their belief system's view of reality. Belief in why not the universe? - Karen Elkins aliens may not threaten belief in God, but it would certainly pose enormous difficulties for almost every other major belief held by the western religions. The matter of course would be made immeasurably more difficult for them since the main religions maintain their central doctrinal beliefs are perennially true and irreformable, and so cannot be updated.

However, let's take look at some of the main alterations that would have to be made to accommodate that fact that aliens exist and where they fit into the scheme of things, particularly into God's plan; what beliefs might have to be jettisoned or adapted, what new ones adopted?

If God is supposed to have "made man in his own image" then in whose image would the proverbial little green men from outer space be made? And what if we were to discover that our definition of life was hopelessly narrow and left no room for life forms so different from ours that they didn't need oxygen, hydrogen, or even a carbon base? And what if the claims of some scientists made earlier this month came true that within a decade, on the basis of some current research discoveries, they anticipate being able to artificially generate life, which would have no connection with any life form known on this earth? Maybe at that stage we would have to realize that the way we have couched the relationship of God to the origin of life is hopelessly dated and outmoded.

The western religions believe that life began as the result of a specific and personal divine intervention.

Some minor groups even go so far as to maintain that this all happened during a particularly busy week for God about 6,000 years ago.

The Christian religions of the west believe that the fallen state of the race began on the fatal day a talking serpent cajoled that famous ribwoman into eating fruit from a magic tree.

It is equally believed that the only hope for the human race now is a rescue by Jesus, God's only Son incarnate.

Jesus is seen as a savior, not just a savior but a universal savior, so that all access to God by rational and intelligent forms of life, and access to their destiny, is possible only through him, and through his agents here on earth whom he has sub-delegated.

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But suppose for purposes of argument that one day aliens were proven beyond doubt to exist. Where would this scheme of things leave them? Or more to the point, where would it leave Jesus, or rather the Churches version of Jesus?

All of this imaginar y scenario reminds of a situation five hundred years ago when a series of frenzied debates took place at the renowned University of Salamanca in Spain. The debates were provoked by the Conquistadores discovery of the many races of "Indians" in the New World of the Americas north and south. If every human being is supposed to have descended from our first parents, Adam and Eve, how did these people get there, since up to now at least Adam and Eve and their descendants had no means of crossing the great oceans? If they didn't descend from Adam and Eve how could they be human? And of course if they weren't human it was perfectly all right to plunder them of their vast treasures of gold and silver to swell the coffers of Europe. Fortunately the majority of the expert Spanish theologians eventually accepted that they were human. They left the historical problems of Adam's and Eve's transportation system to be solved by someone else at later date.

So how would extraterrestrials relate to the progenitors of the human race? If Adam and Eve had no boats capable of crossing the Atlantic most assuredly they had no interplanetary craft. Or how would they relate to Jesus, whom the entire Christian system wants us to accept came as a savior to rescue the human race from the worst effects of their ancestors' blunder?

In recent times many thinkers who contemplate qualities such as emotion, intelligence and memory in what we are pleased to term the sub-human forms of life on this earth, such as cats, dogs, horses, dolphins, whales, or birds, are willing to attribute to them something of spirit. It's often phrased: "They have a soul, but it's a lesser grade then the human soul." So, to use this terminology, if aliens did not descend from Adam and Eve, do they still have a soul, and is it a lesser, greater or equal grade of soul to that possessed by humans?

When the American "Indians" eventually became accepted as human, even though no one ever managed to explain how they had descended from Adam and Eve, it was in large part because Christian thinkers began to realize that the circumstances surrounding the origins of life and the origins of the race were far more complex than just what God supposedly did during that particularly busy week six thousand year s ago surrounding the origins of life and the origins of the race were far more complex than just what God supposedly did during that particularly busy week six thousand years ago.

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Creator in Old Testament

Sophisticated literature that claims to have an alien origin is abundant these days. As in all other areas of life the fake is liable to outnumber the genuine

But one thing is notable above all else in some of that literature, the high quality of its spirituality. The same of course is true in relation to much of by a hundred to one.

the spiritual literature that forms the body of this earth's religious traditions.

While in general subscribing to these exalted concepts what's remarkable about us is the degree to which we ignore them in practice. Indeed some of this allegedly alien literature assesses the human race as far more barbaric and less evolved than the aliens are. We have grown so unthinkingly accustomed to measuring everything from a human-centered standpoint that the bitterest pill of all would be having to accept that at least some extraterrestrials might turn out to be superior to us.

Creator Myth of Mayan

That superiority to us of course should come as no surprise if they had a technology capable of taking them to this earth. At that point we should start to fervently hope that their spiritual development had kept pace with or surpassed their technological progress.

Where would all of this leave Jesus or indeed God, as they are envisaged in the Christian systems? Is Jesus now to be demoted from being the Universal Savior? Or did God separately also send him to those alien races in some appropriate local form, just as he came among us a human?

Maybe in pondering what would be the implications for our beliefs, if alien beings exist, we can manage to prune, refine and make those central everyday beliefs of ours more consonant with the facts. Maybe for far too long we have held them unquestioned within a system of knowledge about reality which was seriously deficient?

Maybe the truth is that Jesus did not come here to suffer and die for our sins to appease God's vengeance against us? Such an interpretation in any case doesn't do much for either Jesus or God. Indeed one might ask have we ever pondered the hugely negative impact such a picture has for how we imagine God to be, or Jesus to be? What kind of father would demand the suffering and death of his only son who was completely innocent? What kind of son would willingly comply with that sentence and at the same time never cease to speak of the profundity of God's love for us all, which is totally belied by that very picture?

The Greek tradition in Catholic theology has always maintained from the most ancient times that the work of Jesus had nothing to do with appeasement of God's anger and everything to do with the making divine of the human being. It's an insight of which most western theologians down the centuries have either been ignorant or have chosen to ignore.

What atrocities and suffering would have been avoided over the last thousand years if such a different view of Jesus and salvation had held more general sway?

Or perhaps the aliens' ancestors were more fortunate than ours and never had to ward off the unwelcome attentions of whatever their equivalent of that talking serpent would be. If that were so then they wouldn't need to be saved or redeemed.

If they did not need this, then by our theological standards they would have to be immortal or at least extremely long lived, since both the Old and the New Testaments regard death as the result of "the Fall," and not part of the original scheme of things at all.

The pictures of God and human destiny in western Christianity were eventually to become exclusively shaped within the context of sin and redemption, and now Christianity can no longer think outside that box it seems. As a result nowadays it seems almost impossible to think of Jesus, or indeed of Christianity itself, except in terms of the suffering and bloodied savior who struggled up the hill of Calvary to die for our sins. Consequently trying to envisage a race that would neither have "fallen" or be in need of redemption, actually smacks of the impious to us. Maybe part of the reason might be that we are beginning to suspect our own race might be in a similar position, and because we sense the catastrophic implications that would have for our major belief systems.

So if our picture of God and human destiny was totally shaped by the consciousness of sin and redemption how differently would an alien race, which had not "fallen," picture God? And would they worship such a God, or is worship just one other downside that comes from the context of our unfortunate history?

If God could and did create other worlds and beings to inhabit them, did he then also create another heaven for them, or do we have to share with them what we always thought was exclusively ours? Do they need their own Devil to test them, and do they have a private Purgatory, Limbo and Hell? And if they do not, why not?

But of course in this imaginative scenario which I put out here for the sake of pondering the ways in which some very deep matters have been formulated historically by the religions, the biggest question of all would have to be not whether there are other heavens, hells or saviors, or the lack of them, but why there is no mention at all, or even a hint, of any of this stuff in the Scriptures or in the doctrinal traditions?

If aliens exist that is quite a problem.

Posing imaginative scenarios like this can often help us to prune and refine our beliefs and tell us where we have drifted off the mark in the ways in which we have responded to God knows what historical circumstances down through history. In many ways it's reminiscent of the bizarre and complicated system of cycles and epicycles which the Ptolemaic astronomers over time had to introduce into their theories to reconcile their belief in an earth-centered solar system with the actual rotation of the planets. When the Copernican theories came to be known, the entire paradigm changed and the complexity of the Ptolemaic system was seen to be useless and redundant. When too many qualifications, complications and mental gymnastics have to be introduced into any system its time to recognize that the real problem may well be that the original insights got the matter wrong. If that is the case no amount of subsequent modification of the original insights will ever rectify the matter.

It's only four hundred years since Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome for suggesting that God might have created other worlds on which intelligent beings would relate to God in their own way. If the reality of extraterrestrial life ever becomes impossible to deny then the Church will come to mourn bitterly the loss of that four hundred year head start which Bruno's invitation offered to it.

With all due respect to the new Vatican Astronomer the fact that belief in aliens doesn't threaten belief in God should be the least of his worries. Almost every other religious doctrine would be challenged to the very core by that fact. Furthermore, by interpreting the whole reality of God and Jesus so exclusively in terms of sin and redemption, the religions have maneuvered themselves into such a corner that effectively dealing with such a major doctrinal crisis would be almost impossible without jettisoning the majority of its system of beliefs. Maybe this semi-official interview in L'Osservatore, as well as the similar statements over several years past by the Vatican's official Exorcist, Monsignor Corrado Balducci, might well be the humble beginnings of an effort to avoid being too blindsided if the worst ever came to the worst.

Dr. Ledwith puts words on the problems most thinking people have found with the traditional proposals about God, religion, and human destiny.

The conclusions put forward about Jesus in this DVD will come as a surprise to both the religious right and the religious left, because these precise conclusions have never before been drawn in the long debate about him.

The early Christian Church spent several centuries of tortured controversy trying to explain how God could have become man in Jesus the Christ. The Church would have been far more faithful to the original message and intent of Jesus if it had focused instead on how the divine element in every man and woman could be effectively drawn forth. According to the teachings of Ramtha, and upheld by a thorough investigation of all the historical sources, that is precisely what Jesus came to exemplify and facilitate for everyone. Read more...on the hamburger universe http:// store.hamburgeruniverse.com/

The Rise and Fall of the Halo MĂ­ceĂĄl Ledwith Stories of the renowned saints and mystics always fascinate; the vortex of many colors that surrounded Joseph of Cupertino before he performed his outstanding feats of levitation and teleportation; or the adventures of that paradox of mysteries, Teresa of Avila. She was profoundly mystical, yet an immensely practical reformer of enormous energy, a bastion of orthodoxy, while at the same time under suspicion by the Inquisition who believed her paranormal feats were diabolical in origin. When she came from prayer her fellow workers were frequently dazzled by the blaze of light surrounding her head.

Anyone who ever pokes through the dusty files of history will certainly agree that "things are seldom what they seem," including Teresa of Avila's halo. Many of the most sacred religious practices and symbols often have quite a different origin and explanation than is commonly assumed. While this is certainly true of the halo's history, what is even more interesting is what this phenomenon might now herald for a new stage of awareness in humanity's evolution. I

was intrigued to discover well over one hundred parallels between the teachings of the Buddha and the teachings of Jesus five hundred years later, just as I was to discover that the seven sacraments of the Christian Church were all initiation ceremonies of the ancient Egyptian Mystery Schools. What did that tell us: was Jesus or the Buddha a plagiarist? On the contrary, they were both channels of a much more ancient wisdom.

If this is the case with such central matters as the teachings of Jesus or the sacraments of the Church, then what do the levitations of Joseph and the blazing countenance of Teresa tell us?

That they were specially favored by God, who was thereby putting his stamp of divine approval on them? Or rather are they not far more likely to be telling us something of

ultimate concern about the real nature of God and the true make up of the human being and of this universe in which we float?

The halo has been understood as an artistic device only, and by the nineteenth century it had definitely gone out of fashion with artists who were too embarrassed to portray it any more. But we're still accustomed to think of it as a religious trademark, and in the West, of course, to consider it the very badge of medieval Christian art.

But in its origins the halo

is neither western, Christian, nor even religious, and most interestingly of all, is probably not an artistic device either.

Haloes began to appear in art long before any religion with which it has been associated had ever assumed recognizable form. At the end of the Greek Dark Ages, twenty nine hundred years ago, Homer's Iliad describes a preternatural light shining around the heads of Greek heroes engaged in murderous combat at the height of pitched battle. But long before Homer, "sun discs" or rays of light appear around the heads of Ra and Hathor in Egyptian art.

The Kushan Emperors of northwestern India seem to have been the first to depict themselves with haloes on their coins in the second and third centuries before Christ. And by doing that I think they intended to say far more than that God was on their side.

Later the depiction of haloes becomes quite common in both Japanese and Chinese Buddhist art and eventually appeared frequently in a great variety of Hindu religious literature.

Even when the halo began to be understood in the West as some form of divine radiance that conveyed closeness to divinity, it was probably an import from the Persian Empire and made its way to Rome with the spread of the Mithraic religion. The images of the Roman Emperors, like Alexander before them, began to feature aspects redolent of divinity, including the halo. Initially this was the practice only after they had died and were now judged to have been deified, but it soon came to be used also in the depictions of living Emperors.

It was only long after all of this long history, in the fourth century after Christ, that the halo began to be used by the organization that now claims the image as its own: the Christian Church. It belonged to the

movement that more and more accommodated Jesus and Christianity to the traditions, practices and symbols of the mystery religions.

It is hardly surprising that within Christianity a hierarchy of haloes soon began to form. In the beginning only Christ was depicted with a halo and it was meant to represent his divine nature. In the early Christian centuries a considerable body of Christians believed that Christ was born in a state similar to every other human being and that he only acquired the state of being divine as his journey progressed. The Church, in confronting this view in what it called the Nestorian Heresy, defined as an article of its faith that Christ Jesus came into this world with a fully formed divine nature as well as a human nature. Some artistic depictions of Jesus before the Church made this pronouncement did not show him with a halo until after the time of his baptism by John, which was regarded as the most likely stage at which he assumed a divine nature. Those artworks would of course be regarded as seriously heretical by the orthodox believers.

Surface is composed of triangles.- Plato In medieval art it became customary to represent Persons of the Holy Trinity with a halo within which the figure of a cross was inscribed but God the Father was sometimes depicted with a triangular halo. Lesser mortals had to be satisfied with plain round or spherical haloes. This became the practice in the Middle Ages and later it became usual to depict only the circumference of the halo as a circular line.

For individuals who were revered for their sanctity but who had not yet been formally declared saints, it was usual to depict rays of light emanating from their heads, but no actual halo was added until canonization had taken place.

Sometimes in the early medieval period living people of renown were depicted with square haloes to indicate that, however illustrious they were, they were still alive.

Notorious villains of this world or of the world to come, such as Judas or Satan, were depicted with black solid haloes.

And finally even back in the secular days when haloes began, sometimes the entire body of the person was encased in a halo radiating beyond the physical body.

Examples are found where Jesus is depicted with such a full-body halo and also a halo around his head. Where both intersected a vesica piscis was formed which had its own special significance.

By the High Renaissance period most of the major Italian painters had stopped depicting haloes altogether. Part of the reaction against the Protestant Reformation mandated that they be used in Catholic Christian art, but usually the painters tried to comply with this by placing a natural light source behind the subjects head to give the effect of a halo. By the nineteenth century haloes were definitely gone, unless one were striving to give a medieval 'flavor' to a scene. They are now found only in images of popular piety with those bleeding Jesus figures of the Mel Gibson genre.

However, haloes in their origin are neither western, Christian, or even religious, and most interestingly of all, are probably not artistic devices either.

What then does the luminescence around people like Teresa of Avila and Joseph of Cupertino really tell us? It wasn't imagined; those images were included by artists because that is what was actually seen around certain individuals.

But, even if it has ceased to be fashionable in mainline art, how is the luminescence of the halo to be explained and what has it to tell us? In both my book and DVD on the orb phenomenon, I point out that doing nothing but wondering

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amazement at the variety of orbs pictures that can appear to us would be as if those physicians who first saw chromosomes in the blood after the invention of the microscope simply continued to look, without taking the knowledge they gained from looking to fight disease and promote health. If my contention is correct that orbs are seen by fluorescence, not by reflected light, is it possible that the different colors of fluoresced light that comes from the orbs really reveal dimensions above this physical one to which the orbs belong?

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If so, then as individuals would we also exist right now in those same six planes of the electromagnetic spectrum above us which every high school text book of physics shows, since it is impossible for a lower frequency in the electromagnetic spectrum to exist without a higher one to hold it in place, right back to the source. If all those fabled and legendary beings of folklore and religious traditions really do exist, they would also presumably exist on one of those six planes above the physical that make up the whole gamut of the creation, but that would not make them superior to us, quite the contrary. So for example, if an Archangel is a being who lives on the fifth dimension or plane of reality, we would need to realize that so too do we exist there on that same dimension in another aspect of our makeup which plays its indispensable part in holding this physical aspect of us in being.

So [Allah] decreed them as seven heavens (one above the other) in two days and revealed to each heaven its orders. And We [Allah] adorned the lowest heaven with lights, and protection. Such is the decree of the Exalted; the Knowledgeable.

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Dispersive Prism Illustration by Spigget

Hebrews 2:7, quoting Psalm 8, says that God made us "a little less than the angels" but if my hypothesis is true would we not actually be more? Perhaps the effulgence, caused by the reaching of altered states in remarkable individuals of the past, and which was made visible and immortalized in the halo, is the talisman and pledge that we do

not live in the kind of universe we thought, but in one that is frequencybased, and, even more important, one that is intensely responsive to thought?

Light dispersion conceptual waves by Kieff

Is it possible that the interaction of mind with a frequency-based universe is what opens up access to the other dimensions that make us what we are, and that make up the universe as well? And is the mechanism that produces this what causes the halo?

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If so this would be the path along which our emergence into true power and ability within ourselves lies. So if originally the halo was neither western, Christian, or even religious, and was probably not an artistic device either, who would have thought that now understood in a profoundly different way, it might be the herald for us of an enormous and long-forgotten human potential, not too long after we became embarrassed to depict it any more?

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They are circular shaped visual phenomenon showing up in hundreds of thousands of photos in a myriad of different settings, under all kinds of conditions. These mystifying “orbs� have attracted attention in both the scientific and spiritual communities all over the world.

ORBS IS THE VEIL LIFTING? Some orb enthusiasts theorize that these spherical lights have been with us for centuries, possibly the source of our belief in angels, fairies, or other paranormal intelligence. They could be the inspiration for the halos shown around the heads of spiritual teachers in classic paintings.

With the introduction of digital photography, these bright balls of energy are no longer confined to religious art and sacred mythology.

Although orbs have previously appeared up in photos taken with traditional film cameras, it has only been since point and shoot digital cameras moved into the mainstream that photographers have been able to consistently record them.

Many believe that, since digital cameras are more sensitive to the infrared section of the electromagnetic spectrum, they are able to “see” slightly beyond what is visible to the naked eye.

However, even with the aid of our new cameras, it appears that it may take something of a leap of faith to make contact.

Photographing orbs may require a shift from an “I’ll believe it when I see it” attitude towards the unknown, to an “I’ll see it when I believe” it perspective. That, along with a good camera and a working flash is all that’s necessary to become an orb photographer, says Miceal Ledwith, co-author with Klaus Heinemann, of The Orb Project. With over 300,000 orb photos in his collection, Ledwith speaks from experience.

The other 90 percent is rejected by the brain which focuses only on stuff we want to help us with everyday living such as food, bringing the children to school, paying the mortgage, etc. Orbs obviously don’t fit into that category so we don’t see them. The difference between looking at something and seeing it involves an act of consciousness by the brain. You can convey to your brain that you are interested in seeing orbs.”

“You don’t need to be a guru, a mystic, an avatar, or specially favored by God to see an orb,” he says. “All you need is a cheap digital camera and an open mind.”

It may also help to have a basic understanding of how we process what we see.

Ledwith explains that “the brain comes into play in human seeing and we don’t see all that’s out there. We only take in 10 percent of the information coming in through the lens of the eye.

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B o t h m e n a re e x p e ri e n c e d re s e a rc h e rs w i t h e x t e n s i ve backgrounds in both science and spirituality.

Heinemann is a physicist and former NASA researcher.

Ledwith, a theologian and former president of Maynooth College in Ireland, served on the International Theological Commission at the Vatican for 17 years. Neither Heinemann nor Ledwith accepted what they were seeing in their photos without considerable skepticism, and both took painstaking efforts to validate their results.

Although many critics have dismissed orbs as dust particles, water droplets, or even tiny insects that have wandered into the camera’s field, the evidence indicates otherwise.

“I devoted a lot of time and research to make sure I was on solid ground and I wasn’t dealing with easily explainable phenomena,” says Heinemann. However, that doesn’t mean “fake” orb photos don’t exist. Although he concedes that it certainly is possible for natural phenomenon to produce occasional orb-like effects, he is quick to point out that the overwhelming number of orb photos that now exist make this explanation highly implausible.

For the skeptics, Heinemann offers a series of indicators that can authenticate orb photos. For example, he says, if a photograph shows an orb that is positioned behind another object, it essentially rules out the possibility of water or dust on the lens of the camera. He also classifies as authentic photographs that show orbs that change size and move from one location to another in successive shots. Equally hard to dismiss are photos of extremely bright orbs that are easily visible without digital enhancement, or orb photos taken in the same location at the same time by different cameras. The multitudes of photos that depict orbs in strategic locations such as at the elbow of a healer or the mouth also defy “logical” explanation.

Some skeptics also suggest that orb photos are the result of image manipulation. However, Ledwith explains, because the camera’s EXIF (exchangeable image file format) log tracks all changes made to the original picture, it is extremely difficult to successfully fake an orb photo.

These strategies apparently work. Both Ledwith and Heinemann have captured thousands of orbs of every size and color in their massive array of photos. However, these researchers are not shooting orb photos for the sole purpose of adding more and more spectacular images to their impressive collections. They believe the orbs are much more than a curiosity; that they have both a meaning and a purpose.

Inspired by their orb experiences which, between the two of them, comprise over 12 years of concentrated study, Ledwith and Heinemann have come to their own separate conclusions about the true nature of the orbs they photograph.

Heinemann believes the orbs are the perfect bridge between the scientific and the spiritual, allowing us to see that we are “just a part in a huge continuum of consciousness and conscious beings.” He says the orbs are Spirit beings, or more correctly, Spirit emanations. “They are emanations from a Spirit being,” he explains, rather than the entirety of that being. “I liken it,” he says, “to a person using a flashlight. Standing in the dark, you as the observer only see the flashlight — you don’t see the person. That person could be moving that flashlight

You could say that person is directing the flashlight and it is emanating from that person, but there is so much more to them than just what you see.” around and even shining it in your camera.

Spirit Emanations Are digital cameras the vehicles for providing us with at least the initial answers to these intriguing questions?

It all remains to be seen, of course – both literally and figuratively.

Ledwith Concludes ...that, “Orbs are, basically, at least in the first form in which we become aware of them, what you and I would be without the physical body.”

He further suggests that, “we are living in a frequency-based universe” That means, he says, that “these are beings just outside of our present dimension of frequency. They belong to a realm where you and I have been many times before we come back into a physical incarnation.”

Ledwith explains the implications of his conclusion through comparing human beings to icebergs — 1/8 of which are above the surface while the rest is hidden below. “The part of us which is beneath the surface exits in all of the various dimensions.”

Does this mean that orb encounters are paving the way to a greater understanding of the nature of the universe?

Dr. Ledwith’s personal collection of orbs is well over 100,000 images.He is the co-author of “The Orb Project”. His DVD “Orbs: Clues to a More Exciting Universes” draws some thought provoking conclusions about the nature of the universe and our place in it. Dr. Miceal Ledwith uncommon blend of wisdom be it from the conventional religion text to ancient wisdom traditions. He is featured in the movie “What the Bleep Do we Know?” and “Down the Rabbit Hole”. http://hamburgeruniverse.com/

Article courtesy of BellaSpark Magazine and interviewer Linda M Potter

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