I experienced my first orb on a warm summer's evening in the heart of the Avebury landscape in southern England that has been my home for the last thirteen years. Deemed sacred for at least six millennia, Avebury and its surroundings are replete with ancient monuments, geomantic energies and the temporary temples of crop circles. And whilst I have experienced psychic phenomena and communicated with higher guidance and extraterrestrial intelligences since early childhood, it was only when I began to live here that I fully awakened to the living consciousness of the Earth and her multi-dimensional beings.

            The orbs I have encountered are an essential part of that awakening, for not only have I seen them, I have been able to telepathically communicate with them.

            All my life, I have connected with discarnate beings and extraterrestrials and I have seen and communicated with a variety of UFOs.

            But to me, the orbs feel different.

            The ancients and the primary peoples who still share the Earth have communed with and learned from her and the "shining ones" of her devic, faerie and elemental kingdoms as living intelligences. For me the orbs offer us such a communion.

            I believe we are now on the threshold of collective shift of consciousness, to re-member who we really are, re-discover our hidden heritage and evolve our cosmic destiny. As such, we are now becoming able to see and experience what only a very few people - the sages, shamans and seers may have perceived in the past.

            And as we expand our perception beyond the limitations of our ego-bound personality, we are becoming aware of the multi-dimensional realities of the Cosmos. We are realising that we have only been limited by our beliefs and that we can transcend the boundaries of space and time.

            I am delighted to be a fellow -traveller at our gathering in Glastonbury to share my understanding of these incredible times and the empowering message of which I believe the orbs are powerful harbingers.

            JUDE CURRIVAN PH.D., is an internationally well-known healer, scientist and Hay House author.

            Based near Avebury, England, at the heart of the crop circle phenomenon Jude has researched consciousness, perennial wisdom and metaphysics since childhood. She holds a PhD in Archaeology and a Masters Degree in Physics specializing in cosmology and quantum physics.

            During a highly successful business career she obtained extensive experience in merging her intuitive gifts into a practical and well-grounded approach for managing organizational and cultural change. Her corporate career culminated in her being the Group Finance Director of two major international companies and to her being in the early 1990s the most senior business woman in Britain.

            In 1996, Jude chose to take her work beyond the corporate world. She co-founded The Coachhouse, a holistic centre at Avebury and was the co-principal of The Earth School dedicated to the education of perennial wisdom teachings.

            She is a master dowser (on the professional register of the British Society of Dowsers) and a healer and teacher at the College of Psychic Studies, London.

            Jude has worked with the wisdom keepers of many traditions. She leads sacred journeys worldwide and since 2001, has led a series of pilgrimages around the world to Egypt, South Africa, China, Alaska, Peru, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Easter Island, Hawaii, Britain and Israel. The revelatory and transformational experiences of these journeys are the subject of her book The 13th Step.

            During the same period she completed her PhD thesis entitled "Walking between Worlds", an exploration of ancient wisdom teachings, the landscape embodiment of cosmology and the connection between people, the Earth and the wider Cosmos.

            Jude is also the author of The Wave, and The 8th Chakra and the host of the Internet MySpirit Radio show "Into-Greation" (www.myspiritradio.com). She is currently co-authoring a book with Dr Ervin Laszlo entitled CosMos, for publication in 2008.

            In a well-grounded and accessible way, her work reconciles leading edge science, frontier research into consciousness and spiritual wisdom to explain and experience the universal principles of integral reality.

            Jude works worldwide aiming to empower others, raise awareness and facilitate practical and sustainable harmony and wholeness on personal and collective levels. In addition to her writing and healing work she speaks regularly at international conferences, leads workshops and appears on US and UK television and radio.

            www.judecurrivan.com

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