I think what Belle is trying to say is that you don't need someone else's inquiry to explain anything. It is all well and good to compare and analyze different experiences. But the one doing the experiencing needs only to look inside his/herself to decode one's own experience.

Conversation is a healthy excersise to analyze experience though. I am confident that there are a ton of shamans around the globe who can tell you more about orbs from direct experience with them. In the end though, it is you who has been 'granted' the experience. Judging by what you said in this thread is has been an honor and has emotionally affected you. There might be a deeper underlying reason that this happened to you in the way it did. It certainly seemed to have touched you and that is beautiful in and of itself already.