Spiritual and Paranormal Investigation and Research Team

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* OBE/OOBE:
See "Out-of-Body Experience".

* Objective Apparitions:
Apparitions or phenomena that appear independent of our minds, thoughts, or feelings.

* Object Reading:
See "Psychometry".

* Occult:
Of, relating to, or dealing with supernatural influences, agencies, or phenomena.

* Occultism:
A belief in occult powers and the possibility of bringing them under human control. [Also see "Occult" for more info.]

* Omen:
A sign that foretells events.

* Oracle:
An answer to a question, believed to come from the gods; a shrine at which these answers are given.

* Orb:
A sphere or spherical object.
Something of circular form; a circle or an orbit.

A sphere of energy looking like "balls of light" on film, thought to be Spirit energy. Some people have been known to see them with their naked eye, but most are captured on film (photos and video). Be careful though.. Dust, Moisture (like rain), etc.. will come out to look like spirit orbs on film, so follow Standards and Protocols to help avoid these forms of false evidence. So you say, "If there's evidence of these natural causes producing orbs, why do you associate them with spirit?". Well.. We tend to get alot of orbs in places known to be haunted.. we also tend to get them in locations of EMF/Thermo meter fluctuations, we have captured video of them going around people/objects and even through objects (doors/walls/etc..), have captured them setting off motion detectors, and have even captured video of them hitting a ceiling fan (turned off) and making a "ping" sound each time. Dust can't cause these things that we have captured.

* Out-of-Body Experience (OBE or OOBE):
The experience that the self is in a different location than the physical body.