The Technological Age & the Orb Phenomenon

By Christina Rawls

The Technological Age & the Orb Phenomenon is a book about orbs or what physicist Dr. Klaus Heinemann calls "spirit emanations." Anyone can get orbs on film or photo with a little patience, understanding and intention. Christina Rawls started getting orbs on film and in photos around 2007 and these photos and the orbs exploded in 2011 to the present day when she can get them regularly each time she takes photos. This book explores Dr. Rawls's current choice to leave a full time teaching position in academia in order to help others understand more about the reality of psi phenomena, mediumship, and orb photography.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
• Release date: Dec 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781662918346

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© Christina Rawls

Zelienople, Pennsylvania 2012

"Given this and other emerging evidence, it is becoming obvious that our current mainstream view of reality is flawed and incomplete."

~Gary Schwartz, PhD

Super Synchronicity:

Where Science and Spirit Meet

By choice, after fifteen-ish years on the job, I left professional academia and teaching philosophy as of 2021. I had some real success teaching and oodles of joy. Some of my offices were mad hip as all-get-up, and working alongside real philosophers and caring colleagues made going to work so enjoyable, even if they weren’t sure what to make of me and my interests or experiences at times. Most of all, I learned a whole heck of a lot, and the young adults we call students taught me more than they know. I will miss them most of all.

Many do not understand what it takes to do philosophy professionally (and personally). It is a total absorption of mind, body, emotion, and soul on all levels. It’s a lifestyle and daily choice, both an easy one because it’s rational and also impossible sometimes because of the rigor and habit changes required—intense and difficult daily reading, ongoing research, rigorous rational structures and systems, the regular use of creativity, lots of writing, even more teaching, conferences, publishing (not easy), and much more. With support and, at times, some coauthors and cocreators, I have landed a few peer-reviewed publications worth your dime. Yet, 2020 and 2021 changed me, and they changed most of us and the world forever too. In 2020, I survived COVID-19, when most did not believe me. I was an early case. It was scary, especially when you hear your three doctors (over the phone!) say things like, Oh shit. This is a mess, and I’ll call you back when I know what to do next from the state.

I am a long-hauler. I then survived stage one skin cancer, a major heartbreak, and academia too. Ya know when we all went online for every single course from home within a two-week period of time?! I taught over twenty-seven different courses in four years (eight semesters) with five new 300-level courses that I developed at Roger Williams University, including one on artificial intelligence and consciousness with participation at the end of the term with AI pioneer Amir Husain. This is not counting all the other pressures and hacking, too, politically and personally. But I am ready to share more of my truth about who I am and what I have always experienced in this life. Truth is what philosophers are interested in, and it does exist, and love, too, if they are good philosophers. So, here we are, and I love and have loved well.

Knowledge is infinite, as the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza once wrote. He’s not the only one who said this, but I’m biased. I’ve always liked Spinoza. I wrote my doctoral thesis on his Ethics. That knowledge is infinite is not an original idea, but it includes that reality is infinite. Feel that for a moment. Spinoza would have called this understanding of infinity nature. Others call it god. What’s fascinating is how differently some of the best scholars on Spinoza in the world interpret his system as both wholly one of modern atomism or as one of a truly metaphysical, perhaps more spiritual order. Metaphysically oriented types, such as evidential and physical mediums, simply call all of the universe the greater reality.

I have spent many years seriously thinking through Spinoza’s challenging system and other philosophical systems within the limits of my learning differences. I have mild Auditory Processing Disorder coupled with partial Aphantasia. These and other challenges made graduate school very difficult. I became lazy and smoked a lot of pot. It wasn’t all terrible,