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® REVIEWS BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY: Hall and Pickering sum up by speculating on Encounters with Orbs, Angels and what the orbs are (intelligent, interdimen- Mysterious Life-forms sional entities), where they come from by Katie Hall & John Pickering (they've even been recorded on space shuttle O Books, Hampshire, UK, 2006 missions), what their purpose is and what ISBN 1-905047-90-8 (237pp bb) they might mean for humanity. In a similar way to the enigmatic crop circles, these light-forms are inspiring people everywhere to explore new frontiers of consciousness. Available: See http://www.o-books.net [I the digital camera age, a fascinating phe- nomenon has emerged: hovering or mov- ing discs or orbs of light captured in photos. Around five years ago, contemporary artist CONTROLLING THE HUMAN MIND Katie Hall and designer John Pickering inde- by Dr Nick Begich pendently discovered this phenomenon and _Earthpulse Press, Alaska, USA, 2006 ever since have been photographing these ISBN 1-890693-54-5 (248pp tpb) orbs inside and outside their middle-England Available: http:/www.earthpulse.com country house with its idyllic gardens, Teamoresics to influence human minds woodlands and streams. Their book con- and behaviours have been under devel- tains some astonishing and captivating pho- _—_ opment since perhaps the 1920s when Dr tos (b&w throughout, with some repeated as George Estabrooks of Harvard proposed colour plates) of orbs but also of other lumi- —_ using hypnosis to create super-spies and nosities: winged, faerie, angelic, ethereal pushed the idea on the US military without forms as well as moving vertical light-rods. success. It wasn't until the end of the It's amazing to see how their cats could Korean War when returning US POWs exhibited unusual changes in behaviour, per- a sonality and beliefs that the US military began to give serious attention to mind con- Beyo nd trol research. The North Koreans, Chinese and Russians already had a head start, the Photo gra ph y latter demonstrating expertise in microwave weaponry when, from 1963, it began bom- barding the US Embassy in Moscow. Here Dr Nick Begich (see 13/02-03) gives a potted history of mind manipulation, tak- ing into account the CIA's MKULTRA pro- gram, Col. John Alexander's development of so-called "non-lethal" weapons, Dr Michael Persinger's research into simulating peak experiences and UFO abduction scenarios, . the Soviet Woodpecker and LIDA systems, focus on something that corresponded with Dr José Delgado's work in remote control of the positions of orbs seen in the photos. the brain, the HAARP ionosphere-tampering Not content just to accept the phenomenon, project in Alaska, and much more. Hall and Pickering set out to analyse it in To help us understand the root of mind/ terms of physics, i.e., its similarities to ball —_ behaviour control technologies and how lightning and plasma, its presence in the _ they work, he explains the basics on bioen- records of history and art as well as mysti- ergetics, resonant frequency interactions and cism and local legend, and its likeness with modulations, electromagnetic coupling and the so-called "small transient lights phenom- — "nanotronic" effects. Dr Begich is deeply enon" which is often seen by sensitives. concerned that military/intelligence agencies Indeed, Hall herself has observed and inter- acted with these seemingly intelligently positioned lights for most of her life. The authors have also discounted sources of pos- sible interference such as lens flare, water droplets, pollen, moths and so on, and yet the orbs persist. On one occasion, the orbs mimicked the star positions in a cluster of the Canis Major constellation which the authors had just observed. Not only are these light-forms showing that they have minds of their own, but that they interact with human consciousness. With an interesting narrative on their escapades around their home and gardens, have now so fine-tuned these weapons that they are able to "pierce the very integrity of the human being" and violate our most basic civil rights. He draws on the available liter- ature including several hundred source doc- uments to get across the serious implications of the deployment of these systems. On the other hand, he gives positive cover- age to technologies such as biofeedback sys- tems, electro-acupuncture, Robert Monroe's Hemi-Sync device and the Earthpulse Soundwave technology that are the 21st cen- tury's mind-expanding tools that can improve human potential. Still, a cautionary tale about mind control research gone mad. BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY: Encounters with Orbs, Angels and Mysterious Life-forms by Katie Hall & John Pickering O Books, Hampshire, UK, 2006 ISBN 1-905047-90-8 (237pp tpb} Available: See http://www.o-books.net [I the digital camera age, a fascinating phe- nomenon has emerged: hovering or mov- ing discs or orbs of light captured in photos. Around five years ago, contemporary artist Katie Hall and designer John Pickering inde- pendently discovered this phenomenon and ever since have been photographing these orbs inside and outside their middle-England country house with its idyllic gardens, woodlands and streams. Their book con- tains some astonishing and captivating pho- tos (b&w throughout, with some repeated as colour plates) of orbs but also of other lumi- nosities: winged, faerie, angelic, ethereal forms as well as moving vertical light-rods. It's amazing to see how their cats could a Beyond Photography a <* | =~ focus on something that corresponded with the positions of orbs seen in the photos. Not content just to accept the phenomenon, Hall and Pickering set out to analyse it in terms of physics, 1.e., its similarities to ball lightning and plasma, its presence in the records of history and art as well as mysti- cism and local legend, and its likeness with the so-called "small transient lights phenom- enon" which is often seen by sensitives. Indeed, Hall herself has observed and inter- acted with these seemingly intelligently positioned lights for most of her life. The authors have also discounted sources of pos- sible interference such as lens flare, water droplets, pollen, moths and so on, and yet the orbs persist. On one occasion, the orbs mimicked the star positions in a cluster of the Canis Major constellation which the authors had just observed. Not only are these light-forms showing that they have minds of their own, but that they interact with human consciousness. With an interesting narrative on their escapades around their home and gardens, NEXUS +73 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com