Thoughts

In my previous article, I made note of three tree circles in the forests of Putten, the small town in the centre of the Netherlands, where I live. After having told my friend Mark and his daughter Georgia, the three of us decided to return to the tree circles to take more flash photographs. Contrary to my previous photo shoot, this time a variety of lights showed up on my photographs.

It was a cold winters night. The atmosphere was peaceful and pleasant, there was no wind. Straight away, the lights appeared on my photographs, varying from ordinary orbs to moon shapes: something I had never photographed before! Furthermore, blurs of mist appeared that could not be explained away by exhaled breath, for I always hold my breath while taking pictures (a technique my father taught me as a child to prevent blurred photographs.) Here are some examples:

As you can see clearly on the third, fourth, and fifth photo, an apparition seems to be manifesting. It seems as if something is trying to get through. The same occurred on another spot in a series of subsequent photos:

Yet, there were also quite a few photographs with just the 'old fashioned' balls of light:

And finally, as mentioned above, moon-shaped lights (or are they eclipses?): a brand new manifestation.

The next two pictures are quite interesting. I took them straight after each other, with only two seconds between them. Look at the position of the lights and how they have moved.

The following two photos were also taken straight after each other. Look at the arc of lights between Mark's hands:

Sceptics, upon seeing this kind of pictures, often say it's just mist. When they are told it was a clear night with no mist whatsoever, they tend to believe the pictures only show breath or cigaret smoke. I can assure you, however, with a 100% certainty, that I do NOT smoke and I did NOT exhale.

For many years, people have been speculating about the nature of the balls of light. Personally, I have been performing photographic experiments for at least three years, carefully mapping the conditions of the experiments, such as temperature, humidity, wind force, lunar position, and hardware data such as the type of camera I used and (in the case of analogue photography) the type of film that was used. Many people draw the conclusion way too fast that the lights are only the reflection of the flash against moisture and dust particles. I can assure you, however, that is NOT the case in many cases. Elsewhere on my website you can see what rain, mist, and fog look like when photographed with the use of a flash. (Click here)

The balls of light are not easily explained away. For instance, are you aware of the fact that the number of lights rises considerably when there's a full moon? And what about this one: Immediately after the Tsunami, the amount of lights in my garden (always present due to the existence of many leylines) dropped to almost zero. From one day to the next, I photographed practically none. It should be clear that there was something else going on here than simply the presence of dust...

Another very interesting thing is the fact that I, on a regular basis, receive mail from people who write excitedly about the lights that they have started to photograph AFTER having read about them on for instance my website. Before that moment, they never photographed anything out of the ordinary, but suddenly, there they are, as if the lights respond to the level of awareness or consciousness of the photographer. Once you have accepted the lights as a part of this reality, they start to show themselves on your pictures. At first, they do that quite subtly, but after a while, they become much clearer and more frequent.

During the Sunrise Summer Solstice Celebration last year (21 June 2006), Tony Chinn photographed the following light phenomenon in Somerset, South England:

In a letter, he wrote the following: "The left picture was the first one I took during the summer solstice festival. The picture shows an energy burst of pinkish-white energy. Then I photographed the ceremony where you can clearly see the pink light withdraw; a smaller bluish-white energy band manifests at the bottom left." Tony used an analogue camera. The way he chose his words indicates that he considers the existence of energy manifestations not unusual. Is that why he was able to capture them?

Another beautiful example of the lights manifesting themselves when the photographer is ready to see them, is the following. A friend of mine never photographed anything unusual with her digital camera. She was quite sceptical about the whole light phenomenon. One day, when I was visiting her, we decided to put it to the test. We went outside into the garden and started taking flash photographs. Apart from a tiny vague light, we photographed nothing out of the ordinary. However, when she pointed her camera towards her young son's room upstairs, many balls of light were captured. I remember laughing and saying: "Look, these are his guardian angels"! My friend's jaw dropped, and from that moment on, she became a fervent photographer of the phenomenon. And once she got an open mind about the existence and presence of the lights, they show up on her pictures on a very regular basis. Recently, she sent me the following photograph of her son:

Could the following lights be my guardian angels? My spirit guides? The pictures were taken during or straight after giving a lecture about the crop circles and the lights:

I strongly believe that the balls of light are a manifestation of consciousness, taking on a particular shape to become visible, to show themselves to us. They do this quite subtly. In my case they started slowly, with simple and small balls of light. At first, they were quite vague, but after a while, when I got familiar with them, they became much clearer and started to show a beautiful interior structure. Subsequently, I started to photograph diamonds:

And a few days ago, as mentioned above, I suddenly captured moon-shaped lights:

And how about these hearts, that I photographed in my garden?

At the moment, I'm reading the most interesting book about the similarities between the Mary apparitions in Fátima, Portugal (1917) and the UFO and ET apparitions that occur all over the world. (See Tip of the Month). One of the things that struck me was that only the three children saw Mary (although, they merely mentioned seeing "a very beautiful lady"), while the others only saw a ball of light. Could it be that these entities only show themselves to those who can handle it? Those who have accepted their existence and presence as a part of this reality?

In 2005 I gave a series of crop circle lectures in Australia, together with Mary Rodwell. Mary is an authority in the field of alien abductions. During one of her lectures, I photographed her and part of the audience, while she was talking about the very famous and intriguing case of Tracey Taylor. On the picture, next to Mary, a ball of light appeared. As I zoomed in, I saw it straight away: the ball of light seemed to be an alien face!

On the small picture on the right, I added contrast, thus making the facial expression visible more clearly. I immediately recognised the small ETs that have been drawn by so many eyewitnesses:

I can almost hear you think: "It can't get any weirder than this!" To be honest, it took me a long time as well to get used to the idea of entities manifesting in our reality, showing themselves to us in ways that will not frighten us: a sphere, a bit of mist, a blur. Something of which we can always say it was just a bad picture and toss it away... But for those who have become accustomed to these appearances, they show themselves in a more complex way: a diamond, a heart, a moon. And finally, we get to see a face or even "a very beautiful lady". Are they trying to get through to us? Are they communicating to us by means of the lights? Will this continue until we have become accustomed sufficiently as to not become hysterical upon the idea of the existence and presence of different sorts of entities? Alien or otherwise?

Yet, things are much more complex than pictured above. We, humans, play a large part in all of this. This was clearly shown to me on two occasions. Once in Avebury (Wiltshire, South England), where I spent one night at the of Long Barrow of West Kennett, together with some friends in the summer of 2005. One of these friends, German crop circle researcher Andreas Müller, performed some Tai Chi postures. Both me and another friend took his pictures. Mine showed many balls of light, but his showed none. He exclaimed it HAD to be my camera that was producing them, and he grabbed it to prove his point. Yet, when he started taking pictures with my camera, he got NO balls of light. But when he moved close to me, only two feet away, he DID capture the lights! I then took his camera and started shooting away. The balls of light were all over the pictures... I remember vividly thinking: "It's MY energy field! I influence this with my own energy field!" We repeated this experiment many times, getting the same results over and over again.

I realise that, to many, this will sound absurd. But please bear in mind that this is exactly what quantum physics suggests: the person performing the experiment influences the outcome, merely by his focus/attention/look. Indeed, this seemed to be the case at the Long Barrow of West-Kennett.

In and of itself, this wasn't new to me. Back in 2001, Bert Janssen and I did a flash experiment at the long barrow of Balloo (province of Drenthe, the Netherlands). We had heard of a lady in England who had performed a flash experiment of her own. During part one of her experiment, she simply took photographs. During the second part however, she ate some Magic Mushrooms in order to see if this would influence the outcome of the experiment. She was amazed to see that the photographs she took during the second half of the experiment, showed a red glow, as if she had worked with a red filter. I realised at that time this could indicate that the mental/emotional state of the photographer influences the outcome of the photographs. In and of itself this is quite acceptable if one believes in the spiritual law of the oneness of subject and object. But within Newtonian physical laws, this is absolutely impossible...

Bert ate the Magic Mushrooms one hour before taking the following photographs. In spite of the fact that he hardly felt their effect on him, he photographed this... (The picture on the right is a darker version of the original, to show more clearly what it was Bert photographed.)

He photographed a mushroom! Coincidence? I think not. I believe he photographed that which had expanded his consciousness. He influenced the outcome of the experiment...

So... are the balls of light the result of the reflection of the flash against moisture and dust particles? No, most certainly not. I'm not saying dust particles cannot show up as balls of light. I'm saying that in most cases of lights on our pictures, there's something else going on. I have become convinced that the intelligence behind these manifestations uses our photography to make contact with us. Certainly in this age of digital photography, the manifestation of the lights has become much easier than in the era of analogue photography. This technique seems to be used as a means to make contact with us. They do it slowly, in a respectful and loving way. If we are not ready for them, we can simply toss the photos away. But when we are ready, they go a step further in the way they manifest. Furthermore, they show us the power of our own mind. We influence whatever it is that appears on our pictures, by means of our level of consciousness. Bit by bit, we are shown that we are indeed gods and goddesses, creating and shaping everything around us. Once we realise this to the fullest, we will no longer ask ourselves why the powers that be, through the mainstream media, continuously ridicule the crop circle and light phenomena, and why they are intent on trying to prevent our awakening...