LITTLE ROCK — A Bella Vista couple has spent the past decade traveling the world and capturing on film what they feel certain is clear evidence of spiritual manifestations in the forms of orbs and mysterious light forms.
Eric and Angel Brodsky use their organization-the Universal One Foundation-to produce a two hour film that I found remarkable. It’s called Dimensional Photography: Capturing Spirit in Pictures. The DVD set to music shows 442 unusual still photographs of these so-called orbs, which are floating circular balls of varying colors that constantly hover around us, as well as inexplicable lights captured on film and in digital photographs.
What I find most fascinating about their findings is that these phenomena always are invisible to the naked eye, only appearing through the eye of a camera lens.
“The pictures on our documentary all are unaltered, except for either reducing or enlarging them,” said Eric. “They will have you wondering what are these lights.
Some will call them fairies and angels. However, orbs and other lights manifest as well on film.”
Married more than 11 years, the Brodskys have traveled to Egypt, Mexico and elsewhere capturing these orbs in photos. Some change shape from oval to triangular and other geometric patterns, depending on their geographic location. And there are predictable commonalities that became obvious as I watched and listened. The forms of colored and piercing white lights they capture often are evenly segmented by breaks, a sign, Eric says, of what appears to be intelligent energy.
Much of what they photographed was in dim light or near darkness with no visible light source. In other words, what they captured couldn’t have been reflection or refraction.
The Brodskys told me they began collecting the photographs years ago.After finally amassing so many, they decided to turn them into the film. The opening photograph in their production shows Angel reclining on a couch with her palms open and uplifted as a colored, softball-sized orb she calls her guardian angel hovers above her hand. That photograph was snapped by a friend after Angel said she reclined and became “intentional” about summoning the orbs.
The couple say they are nothing special when it comes to capturing orbs and these inexplicable lights with a digital camera, or even one that still uses film. “Anyone with a digital camera today can capture them around us all the time. We are never alone when it comes to these visitors, or whatever
you care to call them,” said Angel.
“It helps to attract them when you are in a place where people are playing music and having fun.We’ve found the orbs tend to gravitate to places like this where the vibrational frequencies are higher, like at parties and gatherings where people are happy.” Mysterious orbs can, and do, appear in so many photographs. They have an assortment of orb pictures taken in and around the historic Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs that bear this out. Sometimes they appear in
such abundance that they appear to be filling the air around people.
I also recalled the pictures taken two years ago by Beth Shibley of Burgaw, N.C., that show an enormous orb hovering above one of Eureka’s natural springs and other orbs that she photographed inside the Crescent.
While critics and skeptics have dismissed orbs and lights as defects in camera lenses or dust or water particles, the film itself unmistakably says otherwise. Some say they are flaws caused by light refractions on the camera lens. I’m thinking no. But they certainly are welcome to their beliefs and interpretations. Seems to me it doesn’t matter that much what any of us believe. It still will be just what it is. Sort of like gravity.
I’ve come to believe these phenomena not only exist, but appear to possess their own conscious intelligence and could have undetected influences on our limited existence that we are only now beginning to comprehend.
But remember-not even science and the wisest physicists are able to explain the origins or deepest nature of consciousness itself.
Can I even begin to tell you what these orbs and lights in pictures are? Of course not. But I did invest two hours the other evening watching and contemplating the Brodskys’ film and the impressive number and scope of their photographs. And there is far too much-and too many different cameras and locations involved-to dismiss them as bogus, anomalous or accidental.
In some pictures, water particles and dust can be see on the picture along with the vastly different orbs. Even the orbs when overlapping are distinctively individual in size, color and shape. And, to me anyway, many of them closely resemble the unfertilized eggs that humans produce.
Despite human arrogance and the outspoken know-it-alls among us, none of we fallible humans with our limited five senses know or understand a fraction of this thing we call reality. And about the time we pronounce something as valid, it changes a year later.
The Brodskys believe their documentary clearly shows that “you are never alone and are loved and assisted in ways you’ve not always seen.”
I certainly can’t or wouldn’t say they are mistaken.
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Mike Masterson is opinion editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Northwest edition.
Editorial, Pages 11 on 04/02/2012