Getting Past the Worldview of Scientific Materialism: Could Crop Circles Be the Key?
Join Suzanne Taylor for the Evolver Intensives online video course, "Doorways to Another Reality: Peering Into Inner and Outer Mysteries." For this 4-session live, interactive course, Suzanne will be joined by 4 remarkable guests: the respected crop circle authority, Andy Thomas; Klaus Dona, who will look at the staggering examples of highly advance technologies in our prehistory; psychic researcher remote viewing pioneer Stephan Schwartz, will explore space, time and consciousness; and astronaut Edgar Mitchell will share his insights into UFOs and paranormal phenomena. Each of them holds knowledge that could radically transform the world and lead us to embracing the new paradigm that awaits us. It starts on June 16.
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I know for sure we're not alone in the universe. I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet. It's been well covered up by our governments for sixty years now. I think we're headed for real disclosure. Some serious organizations are moving in that direction. --Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon
We love our science fiction, but we titter when we talk about UFOs. What never gets discussed is how valuable it would be if extraterrestrials turned out to be the real deal. If we had our heads on straight, instead of raising our eyebrows we would be investigating reports of sightings.
In 1952, the Robertson Panel was convened by the government to look into the very active buzz that was going on about UFO sightings. Ignorant about the cause and anxious not to alarm the populace who would be fearful if the government acknowledged they didn't know what was going on, it set official government policy to use the media to ridicule and debunk all such possibilities. It's time for that policy to be reconsidered.
Establishing the reality of an intelligence that's at least comparable to ours would be the biggest news since Copernicus and Galileo. In their time, when it was established that Earth wasn't the center of the solar system, humanity was situated to evolve away from a worldview in which our planet dominated the universe. In that humbling new reality, the old social order no longer could hold, and, in less than lordly light, kings gave way to democracies.
After honest appraisal of crop circle data it is impossible to maintain the rationalistic world-view on which modern science and education are founded. One is led into unfamiliar channels of thought, which point away from structured theories and hard-and-fast beliefs towards a more mystical view of reality and, eventually, towards the greater mysteries of divinity and the living universe. --Ralph Noyes, The Crop Circle Enigma: Grounding the Phenomenon in Science, Culture and Metaphysics
With problems being global now, it's time for another new take on who we are and what we're doing here. It's imperative to get past the worldview of scientific materialism, which supports an "us or them" mentality in which whoever has the most toys wins and we resort to war to resolve conflicts. In relating to other intelligent life we would be one humanity, and the lid would be off the smallness in which we gun for one another.
If we were to discover extra-terrestrial life, it would show that we are not intellectually unique in the galaxy. Man has a tendency to think he's very special. We consider ourselves morally, culturally, and intellectually unique. But if we were to find a signal from another star system, another thinking being, we would know that none of that is true. A connection with intelligence would be the first bridging across four billion years of independent life in evolution. It would be the end of Earth's cultural isolation in a galaxy and a universe surely containing millions of other civilizations. It would be without doubt the greatest discovery in the history of humankind. --Paul Horowitz, Project Director, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
It is reasonable to think that we can arrive at this awareness via the crop circle phenomenon. Scientific studies written up in peer reviewed science journals tell us that something beyond what's in our reality grid is delivering the circles to us. While what makes the glyphs remains a mystery, just knowing something is watching us and signaling us is enough. It's that they are, not who they are that's important.
A great power has arisen, directing thoughts and perception in a certain direction towards a more complete and satisfactory view of reality than the modern conventions of materialism have previously allowed. Gently, subtly, with no disturbance or panic, we are being guided across a watershed, from one worldview to another. And this is in no way arbitrary, but a purposeful process, in accordance with the interests of eternal nature and the necessities of the present. We now can see something of what the ancients meant when they spoke of revelation. --John Michell, The Traveler's Guide to Sacred England
Finding out we aren't alone would be a huge deal. And, if that were established, there could be more. If we are being visited, the technology possessed by "the other" would be more advanced than ours, and what they would be capable of perhaps could help us solve the environmental problems that threaten our very survival.
Why would our visitors be making crop circles instead of delivering things that would be helpful to us? If sending circles is their hello, they could be awaiting an aha from us, where we get it that they exist. Then we would invite them in.
People hate being conned, which militates against accepting something as mind-blowing as the crop circles could be. What can subsume that concern is an appreciation for the realm of mystery. In fact, being open to what we don't know is good for us. It keeps us dreaming, which is a state in which amazing things can find their way into our reality grid.
Here's what Brian Swimme, a mathematical cosmologist specializing in the evolutionary dynamics of the universe, says about that idea:
Albert Einstein once remarked that for the human there is no more powerful feeling than that of "the mysterious." In fact, he was convinced this was the cradle for all works of science, art, and religion. One might ask: "What is the opposite of a feeling for the mysterious?" It would be the sense that one is in possession of a system that explains all the phenomena in the universe. For such a person, the universe becomes something we don't need to pay attention to. No real surprises are possible, but only the working out of a logical mechanism through time. When a feeling for the mysterious is lost, one becomes vulnerable to the various fundamentalisms plaguing our planet, each possessing passionate certainty that it has all the answers while thinking that every other set of beliefs is just superstition.
In moments of stress and breakdown, there is a powerful drive in us to acquire answers and explanations. Certainly, in our own time, when we are dismantling ecosystems around the planet and deconstructing the stable climate upon which our civilization is based, we feel a deep need to know what is real and what is good and how to proceed. This need can be so great that we are liable to latch onto a simplistic pseudo-explanation to quell the feelings of fear and doom surfacing in us.
The existence of crop circles eases us out of some of the prior certainties we might have had. We find ourselves considering new ideas about the nature of our universe. We begin to imagine that things might be different than we thought. We might begin to release ourselves from some of the tired explanations imprinted in our minds by the media. But, most important of all, we might begin to feel stunned by the simple fact that here we are in the midst of this overwhelming mystery, the universe.
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Aliens
I'm generally as sceptical of aliens as I am about Jesus as Savior. But I see and feel the consciousness shift, too, the increased awareness of the mysteriousness of this universe we inhabit, the hunger for it. The awareness that we are somehow cut off from it.
Perhaps the Venus transit will be an infusion of divine feminine, pacifying the idiot violent. Or maybe a 45x-class solar flare at the moment of conjunction. That would be something. Or maybe it will be nothing.
I'm not relying on Aliens to save us from the folly of our rationalist drive. That seems too much like Jesus, generation after generation waiting for revelation.
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Hoaxes = disinformation
Genuine crop circles have tiny microscopic metallic particles in the grass. The plants in genuine crop circles have their DNA altered. Last I checked, it's not possible to do that with some boards and string. However, a brief burst of radiation, well, that might do the trick.
I don't doubt that MI5 may have had some hand in making crop circles, but only because they realize the truth about them: crop circles are so far the best and most reliable communication we've had with an unknown intelligence sharing the planet with us. If the true significance of this were realized people would freak out, and probably be less inclined to bow to authority, with the knowledge that there may be higher authority than human intelligence. So the easiest thing is to concoct a completely idiotic story about drunken farmers that totally disregards the physical fact and research.
Again, some crop circles have no doubt been hoaxed, but they represent a small minority and are usually really easy to spot because their patterns are flawed, whereas a genuine crop circle is very close to flawless. So close, in fact, that you would need complex geometrical computer software to even be able to replicate them.
Questions
Hey Drew I watched the video. Not really buying it. Questions:
1. Let's assume that you're correct and MI5 hoaxed most of the crop circles. Why would they do this? What did they gain from this that was worth the effort? I don't see it.
2. Was MI5 also hoaxing the crop circles which appeared hundreds of years ago in the middle ages?
3. If MI5 wanted to cover up an alien origin of crop circles, what better way to do this then insinuate that they created them? =)
The crop circle mystery
You can count on anything about crop circles attracting the hoax contingent that will tell you there is no mystery. There is. Andy Thomas, the first presenter, will deal with that. And you can get it from my documentary.
I am excited about our upcoming course. Each one will be a gem!
Suzanne Taylor
Producer/Director What On Earth? Inside the Crop Circle Mystery: http://CropCircleMovie.com and on iTunes.
Host of Doorways to Another Reality: Peering Into Inner and Outer Mysteries. http://evolverintensives.com/upcoming/st-doorways-another-world.html
Crop Circles...whatev'
First, lest we forget, we are apes, driven by the same primal desires and emotions as all other apes, but cursed and blessed with an expansive intellect that seeks to ascribe meaning and agency to all phenomena. This is why rationality is so important, rather than a misguided cultural slant. Rationality is one of the few characteristics (e.g. thumbs) that marked us as "different" from other Earthly creatures, or least the extent to which we can think logically and rationally. There is literally no difference in believing that aliens create crop circles and the belief that Zeus creates lightning.
I've read up on crop circles for upwards of two decades, and I've yet to see any compelling evidence that they're produced by non-human intelligences. I consider it highly suspect that they have, from a design angle, become better and better over the years. Simple circles and lines at first, and now spectacular creations. It's almost as though someone has had some practice!
Now, even without delving into the really fun realm of conspiracy theories, I would hope true believers might consider a few things... 1. A.C. Clarke's adage that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." 2. Decades of black budget DOD and intelligence agency research that we're not privy to. 3. The interest of groups like the CIA in determining why and how people believe what they believe, and how to go about forming the beliefs that they want, either for the purposes of strategic psychological warfare, or for grander social engineering purposes.
What I'm driving at is that I suspect that crop circles began as a longitudinal psychological operation executed with space-based satellite technology of the sort that I can't imagine, the purpose of which is to chart the social construction of a meme through myriad belief systems, all based upon viewing essentially meaningless geometric glyphs through different worldviews. This makes infinitely more sense to me than any other explanation I've ever heard.
This is an aside, but not completely irrelevant. Did you know that Paul Linebarger, author of 1948's classic Psychological Warfare, sci-fi author, and CIA operative was an associate of L. Ron Hubbard, and even produced a work that mimics precisely that of Dianetics? http://mahajohn.com
Occam's Razor points to orbs.
"There is literally no difference in believing that aliens create crop circles and the belief that Zeus creates lightning."
Actually there's a big difference. Lightning has been understood scientifically for a long time. Crop circles have never been accurately explained with science. The best we've gotten from most scientists is the drunken farmer hypothesis which is preposterous if you examine the facts. Drunken farmers can't appear and disappear in the space of fiteen minutes in pouring rain and making an amazingly complex geometrical shape without leaving any footprints. Unless they also happen to be wizards...
"What I'm driving at is that I suspect that crop circles began as a longitudinal psychological operation executed with space-based satellite technology of the sort that I can't imagine, the purpose of which is to chart the social construction of a meme through myriad belief systems, all based upon viewing essentially meaningless geometric glyphs through different worldviews. This makes infinitely more sense to me than any other explanation I've ever heard."
Really seems like you're going out on a limb here. My favorite explanation fits a lot better with Occam's Razor. The crop circles are made by the balls of light which are frequently seen in the fields when people find crop circles. Often they are called "orbs". I've seen lots of footage of them and read personal accounts. There are plenty of credible eyewitness reports. The orbs move with intentionality and are able to affect the consciousness of humans, often lulling them to sleep and giving off a generally peaceful vibe.
There is footage I've seen in one documentary that shows the orbs literally creating a crop circle. I believe they do this by creating a brief burst of radiation that imprints the pattern of the crop circle. Are these creatures "alien" by most definitions? Not sure. Maybe. There are reports of crop circles dating back to the middle ages and earlier, so maybe the've always been around.
Orbs creating crop circles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMWG2JBM4lgNow, video footage aside, I've never seen an orb make a crop circle. I have witnessed an orb flying around though. Have you ever seen a space-based sattelite used for psy ops? I think they're using that kind of technology for manipulating weather now. Crop circles would be a waste of that technology.
I don't doubt that what you're describing is true, there have been psy ops involving manipulating belief systems. I imagine this goes fairly deep into the new age movement.
Proof?
Terminology Hangup
It cracks me up that people point to aliens or the government as the only possible explanation for "genuine" crop circles.
First off, it's not like these are a recent phenomena, that is somehow only possible in conjunction with advanced scientific/technological knowledge. So I don't buy the whole "the government is the only rational explanation." To me, that view seems to be ignoring a massive amount of evidence present in the historical record. Crop circles, mysterious mound-line structures, orbs of light, and other "UFO" sightings and such have been going on for millennia, and are extremely well documented, across nearly all cultures distributed over the planet. Even CG Jung noted this pattern.
The only difference is that for the lion's share of human history, the terminology used to refer to these phenomena was that of the mystery faiths - faeries, faerie circles/rings, ley lines, spirit signs, demons, and gods.
Interestingly enough, the science actually does overwhelmingly support this view, on all counts. Quantum physics has revealed that solid matter is indeed a light-and-shadow show, a grand illusion. There is no such thing as solid matter. The entire cosmos is one great big, self-differentiating soup of energy, vibrating at different frequencies. We exist at a lower frequency, creating the very convincing facade of solidity. The beings that produce these phenomena, however, exist at a much higher frequency, making them rather difficult for us to perceive directly.
But everything that appears solid stretches its consciousness beyond this realm - every rock, tree, mountain, river, ocean, animal, etc has an invisible counterpart, forming a sort of parallel world, closely mirroring ours but not exactly identical. This is the underworld, fairyland, Wonderland, Narnia...where we go when we dream, and where we go when we take psychedelic substances. It's a "real" realm/dimension, in that it can very definitely impact our minds, our perspectives, our lives.
And what's really funny is that the animate consciousness that these terms indicate is far, far, FAR more "of the Earth" than we mere infant-species surface-dwellers. So calling them "aliens" is beyond hilarious. It's like calling the soul of the Earth an alien. That is beyond ironic.
They aren't extra-terrestrial. They're super-terrestrial.
If interested in learning more about the depth of current investigation into the reality of the planet Earth as a living organism, check out the work of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, for starters.
We really don't need to reach all the way to another galaxy to find mystery, meaning, and magic. We really, really don't. In fact, I would argue that all of this lies within, a seed of unbound consciousness planted in our minds at birth, to remind us that there are other worlds than this.
Series is just one fourth about crop circles
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If the answer to scientism is anti-science, we're screwed.
It's like finding out Santa Claus isn't real, feeling disenchanted by the world, and seeking refuge in the Tooth Fairy.
There is a state of consciousness where we are enchanted by the world, because reality IS enchanting.
We're cut off from that enchantment like we are in a dark cloud. But the path to truth CANNOT be to return to ignorance.
We seriously need to disband taking this stuff for real. Scientism is bad, but anti-science is just as bad.
If..
cropcircles were made by creatures from other dimensions so than why do they use tractor trails as rulers or guidelines..? These forces/beings/entities with highly developed technology would, I assume, at least have some GPS (Galactic Positioning System ;-)
I asked about what they thought the reason was that the tractor trails play a role in the making of certain cropcircles. I send this question to two people very buzy (and money making) on cropcircle fenomenon, namely Lucy Pringle and Bert Janssen, both never gave an answer to this question.
While I thought I was a guinius.. lol.
In the personal (tiny) research I once did on cropcircles I got into contact with a Dutch advertising agency that claims to make cropcircles and that claims to have made the biggest cropcircle so far, a human butterfly. When I asked the director of XL D-sign if he thought all cropcircles are human made he answered me that he thinks all of them are human made. To which he added: "..but that doesn't make them less interesting..".
For a while I thought of the possibility that cropcircles were made with HAARP, for sure 'they' know very well a growing amount of people are into (ancient)symbolism and sacred geometry. And for sure military technology is stunningly further than we even could think of.
Cropcircles would be the focus of 'new' (non-religious) spiritual thinkers and so would make them less focused on there -inner being- from where they can come to insights, get balanced, fearless and free. HAARP, so was my thought, would develope cropcircles as a mass control method if it where.
In my personal opinion New Agers that believe cropcircles contain messages from Arcturians are looking at spirituality the same way as people that belief Christ will come back in the form of a person. Both to my personal feeling might so miss the insight that personal spiritual developement is approched by going within our -being- instead of looking outside ourselfs for signs of the help of others..
Besides this personal viewpoint, some cropcircles are amazingly beautiful and also because of there size they are impressive to look at. I love the Julia-set made of nearly 400 circles I thought it was.