Townsend's Orb of Light Experience and Transcendental Consciousness
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:34 pm
When Linda told me of Townsend's encounter with a glowing light, I thought of it as a spiritual experience rather than a UFO encounter. It seemed to bear a similarity to what Canadian psychiatrist, R.M. Bucke called cosmic consciousness:
This type of "thunderbolt enlightenment" has been the objective of Kundalini Yoga practitioners for more than 3000 years, but it also strikes everyday people who have never given the first thought to yoga or awakening. Recently, however, these events have been seen as a type of UAP phenomenon. Kelly Chase of The UFO Rabbit Hole podcast speaks of how her own experience opened her to a new level of acceptance of the weirdness around us, in Episode 35 Through the Looking Glass Part 1: My introduction to the anomalous.
https://uforabbithole.com/podcast/ep-35 ... anomalous/
Perhaps this type of experience is becoming more common, or maybe it is becoming easier to share orb encounter stories, now that we have countless photos them. (Orbs of light entered the social discourse with the advent of digital cameras in the nineties) In her Ph.D. thesis, Orbs in the Skyscape: An Exploration of Spiritual Experiences with Anomalous Light Phenomena, Mara Steenhuisen-Siemonsma looked at the photographic evidence and conducted interviews with a number of Orb Experiencers (OEers):
Over the past decade, orbs have willingly interacted with many different humans, from well- known personages like Chris Bledsoe and Steven Greer, to YouTube psychics, Linda Grindell and Kim Carey. Though we may not yet speak their language, it seems that their arrival always brings an uplifting effect. Encouragingly, they also seem eager to help us break the communications barrier, so it may be that they have still more to teach us, once we acknowledge them.
https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Conscious ... 19076616031. The person, suddenly, without warning, has a sense of being immersed in a flame, or rose-colored cloud, or perhaps rather a sense that the mind is itself filled with such a cloud of haze. 2. At the same instant he is, as it were, bathed in an emotion of joy, assurance, triumph, salvation. 3. Simultaneously or instantly following the above sense and emotional experiences there comes to the person an intellectual illumination quite impossible to describe....
He goes on to say, 'The person who passes through this experience will learn in the few minutes, or even moments, of its continuance more than in months or years of study, and he will learn much that no study ever taught or can teach.'
After reading Bucke's writings, P. D. Ouspensky, the respected Russian Philosopher echoed his comments in his book Tertium Organum; 'Cosmic Consciousness is a third form, which is as far above Self Consciousness as is that above Simple Consciousness. The prime characteristic Cosmic Consciousness is, as its name implies, a consciousness of the cosmos, that is, of the life and order of the universe. Along with the consciousness of the cosmos there occurs an intellectual enlightenment or illumination which alone would place the individual on a new plane of existence-would make him almost a member of a new species.'
This type of "thunderbolt enlightenment" has been the objective of Kundalini Yoga practitioners for more than 3000 years, but it also strikes everyday people who have never given the first thought to yoga or awakening. Recently, however, these events have been seen as a type of UAP phenomenon. Kelly Chase of The UFO Rabbit Hole podcast speaks of how her own experience opened her to a new level of acceptance of the weirdness around us, in Episode 35 Through the Looking Glass Part 1: My introduction to the anomalous.
https://uforabbithole.com/podcast/ep-35 ... anomalous/
Perhaps this type of experience is becoming more common, or maybe it is becoming easier to share orb encounter stories, now that we have countless photos them. (Orbs of light entered the social discourse with the advent of digital cameras in the nineties) In her Ph.D. thesis, Orbs in the Skyscape: An Exploration of Spiritual Experiences with Anomalous Light Phenomena, Mara Steenhuisen-Siemonsma looked at the photographic evidence and conducted interviews with a number of Orb Experiencers (OEers):
https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprin ... nomena.pdfIn any manifestation, orbs are viewed as stemming from Source, God, the divine and are
mentioned in terms of physical healing...emotional comfort during bereavement... emotional support during the spiritual awakening process... mental support for example in writing books and
other publications... and combinations thereof for all interviewees on their life journey, matching the experiences of OErs from the primary anecdotal literature...
Over the past decade, orbs have willingly interacted with many different humans, from well- known personages like Chris Bledsoe and Steven Greer, to YouTube psychics, Linda Grindell and Kim Carey. Though we may not yet speak their language, it seems that their arrival always brings an uplifting effect. Encouragingly, they also seem eager to help us break the communications barrier, so it may be that they have still more to teach us, once we acknowledge them.