# 2025-04-08 23:33 Partly cloudy tonight, but there was an awesome moon halo. Very full and large. I recently learned of compassion and loving-kindness meditation, and how they promote gamma waves in the brain, and that gamma waves relate to compassion, consciousness, and very high cognition, like much more than mundane problem solving. I'm thinking that maybe our best moments as computer programmers use the gamma brain wave frequency. It definitely feels different than a relaxed/creative/artistic flow, or from the simple mental exercise of working through a bug. I wonder if this meditation will resonate more with me than those that lend themselves to lower frequency waves that are associated with sleep, out-of-body experiences, and meditation. I like those too, but they don't yet feel as familiar as compassion meditation instantly did. Anyways, I went out, practiced those briefly, and set the intention to connect with an orb and have it communicate back with me. I did indeed find one; not a star based on how much it moved around, and hows its twinkle and brightness was slightly different. It moved around a lot when I asked if it knew or was related to different family members who have passed on and to my kigher self. I had another experience like that a month or two ago. I can't shake the feeling that I know the orb(s) somehow, or that they are intimately familiar with and interested in me, but I just do not recognize it/them currently. It also occurred to me that if some orbs are beings who have ascended to higher realms and are non-physical, and if we have higher selves that are also non-physical, then our higher self would be as or more conscious than an extraterrestrial, and that the ETs also have a higher self, and they would know a lot about connecting with their higher self.