Most cities, especially as populous as Mumbai, are just full of energy. Of course most of us are blind to this unlimited world that is all around us. Psychics can tell us about it, but usually we do not get to see it for ourselves.

Surprisingly, spirit energies sometimes show themselves on film and the camera can give us a glimpse of this other dimension which so closely intertwines our own.

So now you can take a look for yourself. Here are photos of the elusive other world. These photos have not been edited or created on computers. They are just as the camera took them, though in some cases they have been brightened when the picture was too dark. I use a digital camera but any camera will do.

I took these pictures when driving or walking around the city after dark. It is a lot easier after dark. In the daytime the brightness of the light makes it difficult though you can occasionally get good pictures even in daylight.

When I first took pictures I was shooting at random, while walking around the block or on those long, boring airport drives. I shot randomly from the car window and I did not know what to expect. Results were immediate and it soon became clear to me that there was not an inch of the city which was not full of otherworldly energies. The commonest are orbs, round balls of light that show up on camera with amazing frequency.

Orbs are everywhere. They shoot past traffic at blinding speeds, and hang around passersby and street corners, dash around at pavement level and make themselves clearly known on the camera lens. Take a look for yourself.

Siddhivinayak Energy
The Siddhivinayak temple is one of the biggest in Mumbai. Every Tuesday the 'darshan' lines extend for several blocks. The queues cover the whole spectrum of Mumbai life, jeans clad teenagers, housewives with vegetable baskets, executives with business suits and briefcases, fisherfolk and cabbies, to name only a few.

A place so revered must have vast and powerful energies. Since temples don’t allow photography I took this picture from outside. In many shots I found a lot of energy around the temple, blue mists and orbs shooting down from the sky. In this picture I got a rare gold-orange orb shooting past the golden spire of the temple. Gold is a very high vibration. These orbs are higher beings or deities and are not easy to photograph.

Here is the temple spire with a blue orb shooting down like a falling star. Other fainter orbs are vaguely visible in the background.

Are they shooting down in answer to someone's prayers?

This beautiful blue energy is probably protective, guarding the temple and keeping the vibrations high.

Gold Orb around a tree shrine
In Mumbai, as well as any city or town in India, there are thousands of roadside shrines, built on pavements, roadsides or under trees. Of all trees the Peepal is one of the most sacred. Almost every Peepal tree has a small idol or sacred picture tucked into the twists of its trunk. Incense and flowers are regular offerings and some have tiny shrines built at the base as well.

 Traditionally, the Peepal tree is said to house spirits. Many legends warn people not to sleep under the tree at night because unseen entities may disturb their rest. So what kind of energies are around these sacred trees ?

I took my camera to a private shrine built under a Peepal, just outside a bar. Under the saffron shelter are pictures of every God and Goddess, including a cross. The shrine is in use, with offerings made every day, incense lit and diyas burning all the time. Where there is faith there is a lot of energy, so I took many pictures to see what would come on camera.

In most of the pictures I found a huge gold orb was hovering around the shrine. Gold is a very high energy and the same kind of divine energy I photographed at Siddhivinayak. Here you see the gold orb guarding the shrine. Perhaps it has been called into being with the establishment of the temple, or by the faith of those who pray there.

The same orb was in every picture I took, and this one is the clearest. The gold orb is so large it is half the size of the shrine itself. It is a very high spiritual energy which is around to protect and maybe to answer prayers.

Mumbai’s Shooting Orbs
Mumbaikars like to complain about the traffic, traffic jams and the time it takes to commute from one end of the island city to another. It's regular Mumbai conversation and not to be taken too seriously. But what is really out there on Mumbai roads beside the honking snarl of cars and cabs and buses?

I took my camera on a long drive to find out. I shot more than a hundred pictures at various times and the most common of all were shooting orbs. These orbs are everywhere around traffic.

They shoot above streets, above cars and past traffic snarls. They shoot past buildings and flyovers. There are lots busily commuting at pavement level, flying low down across pavements or roads. In many pictures there are swarms of flying orbs in all sizes, leaving long trails as they shoot past. Are they trying to outrun the traffic? They move so fast they would have to slow down even to keep pace with cars.

Blue and orange shooters fly past a traffic circle in central Mumbai. Because this photo was taken just outside a temple there is an orange orb as well. White orbs are the most common. Blue ones are nature energies and usually in the outdoors, or around trees and plants.

White orbs shoot past a traffic light and across a street overhead. Sometimes they are in swarms like this. They are so numerous that they fill the whole picture and they are so bright that the tree beside the light is obscured behind them.

A white orb shoots past a flowering tree at Fort. This is a very strong and benign being.

Bright blue energy shoots through a small tree on Marine Drive, almost obscuring it from sight. These are nature spirits and very lovely. Just looking at the picture brings a sense of great peace and puts you in tune with the living energy of nature.

Do you know how busy the roads are? And I don’t mean just the visible mess of cars. Take a look at this picture where an unaware scooter goes past some very unusual traffic.

It's amazing how vast a world lies unseen to our eyes. We walk through this other dimension all the time but until the camera gives us a peek we have no idea that it even exists. Perhaps with the help of the lens we can become aware of the magic and mystery that is all around us.

- Rohini Gupta
Rohini Gupta writes articles on new age subjects and fiction as well. She has been conducting workshops for the last ten years, in subjects ranging from tarot to past lives, mantras, psychic powers, meditation, inner guides, belief work, mandala art and journal writing amid other things. She is a professional psychic and tarot reader.