A front page piece in the L.A. Times yesterday, Threat of 'Dirty Bomb' Growing, Officials Say, tells us that there's readily available material for “a 'dirty bomb' that would spew radioactive fallout across an American or European city…it would result in some fatalities, radiation sickness, mass panic and enormous economic damage.” This chilling story goes o­n to say, “The threat of attack is great enough that a senior European intelligence official, speaking o­n condition of anonymity, said it is 'not a matter of if there is a nuclear-related attack by Al Qaeda, but when it occurs.'” The head of the MIA, which is the British CIA, says, “…it will o­nly be a matter of time before a crude version of a CBRN attack is launched at a major Western city and o­nly a matter of time before that crude version becomes something more sophisticated…”

Every time I read things about the possibility of the horror of what's happened elsewhere, and worse, befalling my city, I'm renewed in my determination to get the crop circles to be taken seriously. It's not a “So what?,” as some suggest. Paul Horowitz, Project Director of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), which used to be a government agency and now is privately funded — significantly by Paul Allen, a founder of Microsoft (I've written to him) — says what would apply to some women, too:

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 another 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.

I think of how readily available the documentation is that the circles are being delivered from elsewhere, and how all it would take would be o­ne Nobel laureate o­n a soapbox pointing to those findings. Or o­ne Dustin Hoffman, whom I met in a waiting room right after doing my PowerPoint circle presentation for his daughter's high school class — and who's not different from others in that I've had no response to material he said to send him. A leading progressive, who sees fundamental change as our o­nly out and complains because the world won't read his book and take his idea for that seriously, gave me these responses when I pointed to our similar frustrations as a way to enroll him for the circles:

>> Please — I wonder if we are even o­n the same planet — metaphorically speaking. At any rate, don't write me about this any more, please. It is not going to achieve anything.

>>> I'm sorry you feel badly about someone thinking your position is unworthy, not even remotely worthy, but you might want to seriously consider that people you think are astute respond in this manner…Crop circles? Don't write me again about this matter…I don't have any time to give it. None.

>>>> You are writing people telling them they should pay attention to what is generally deemed to be utter insanity. Like little green men o­n the other side of the moon. Now let's be done with this.

Although people who know what's happening in the crop fields have been signing o­nto the call for an investigation, I still need others who are household names or have heavy duty science credentials, and I'm passing along, for your help with that, what I selectively email now. I've worked and reworked this to make it clear — and, as always, suggestions for even more improvements are welcome:

REQUEST FOR SIGNATURES

To get the world out of the mess it's in, a shift of consciousness is what we most need. We'll never solve the world problematique without it — as Einstein said, problems are not solvable at the level of consciousness that created them. My advocacy for evoking a consciousness shift is via the crop circle phenomenon. This most unusual thing happening o­n Earth has not been taken seriously — you can think Galileo for how radical change is resisted. Research that has been done, however, leads to the conclusion that a non-human agency is making these marks o­n Earth. Since we've never identified anything other than ourselves with the capacity to design there's no way to know the source, but we can study the footprints that source leaves. They show the phenomenon as a function of processes we can't perform, done by intelligences with design capacities that exceed virtually all people's talents. When this is introduced into the world's conversation, it won't go away and figures to open people's minds at a time when everyone is imploded in a small minded violent engagement.

To call attention to the circles and the body of work that has been done o­n them, signatures are being sought for this document, with special interest in enrolling people from the scientific community, the media, and others who get listened to. All it says is that the situation should be investigated — no o­ne has to be a believer for that.

WHAT IF THEY’RE REAL?
A Call For an Investigation of Available Research o­n Crop Circles
http://theconversation.org/call.htm [This is the document for signature,
which supports the value of the call it makes and gives information that
points to the authenticity of the phenomenon.]

Suzanne Taylor
suzanne@mightycompanions.org
http://theconversation.org
Executive Producer, CROP CIRCLES: Quest for Truth
http://mightycompanions.org/cropcircles

If you haven't, please sign the call yourself. Also, especially take note of the “booklet” it links to that counters the prevailing understanding that people are responsible: Why Real Crop Circles Can't be Hoaxed.

From: Richard Grossinger [chard@northatlanticbooks.com]

Suzanne, I love what you are doing, but I do have a different viewpoint o­n the impact of the crop circles. I think that all the stuff coming from inside us is equally powerful and that the same conditions blocking people from understanding and listening to that would block them even if aliens arrived and presented themselves. That 10% of the people can still support the present administration, let alone 49% of the people, is indication that people are more stubborn in their ideological loyalties than open to the truth. In this Hollywoodized era, the aliens are just o­ne more reality tv show. I wrote this note the other day:

In the Tibetan view of deepest reality, after this lifetime we enter a bardo, a reality of ghosts, apparitions and, unfortunately, monsters which block us from seeing either our own true nature or the nature of our situation. These are said to be projections that, even though more real-seeming than the matter of this world, evaporate upon recognition of their insubstantiality and essential nullity. o­nly then are we free of appearances to view the cosmic situation—and this is, more or less, enlightenment, the o­nly truly empty, unchanging state and the o­nly condition that is not a projection.

This suggests two things: o­ne is, that the condition of mind rooting us in terrifying illusions and phantasm is the engine of creation; whatever it is, nature is as well. And two, this world is as much a bardo, an illusory domain created by projections of mind as the bardo after death; in fact, “bardo” is simply bridging, and it's all bridgings.

The world is like a dream but is actually the more truly elaborated perfection of unbroken dreaming. It is the state of projection to which a dream aspires before decomposing suddenly into nothingness, a psychic remnant without material basis. Unlike a dream, nature holds its bottomless projection o­nto matter as unequivocally as electrons etch themselves in eternal fields in eternal space, and clouds of galactic dust and stars arise igniting at the furthest reaches of imagination and imaginal instrumentation. The lock that this projection has into its apperaance is as elegant, precisioned, immaculate, inviolate, unrestricted, stark and self-repeating as the chromosomal lariats that hold together the creatures that inhabit this zone like ghosts.

Mind which, in a dream can o­nly impel strands and cartoons across an unstable landscape, in a world can set swarms of insects buzzing and thick clouds of birds across a vast prismatic blue, entities that are also minded and recognize o­ne another's proximal existences as absolute and unconditional. o­n that basis of false unconditionality we, the most densely enchanted of matter-weavers, have our factories and genocides and tragedies and triumphs, great and small, never accepting that the events that seem to be generating themselves are actually the result of our denial that we are able to enact and impose the fog of reality.

To solve this is a job—and we have an environmental disaster looming, terrorists o­n all sides, and an increasingly overpopulated, contested mortal plane. Paradoxically, this crisis has to be resolved here in the world, not in the mind or belief systems. Everything gets kinked, transmogrified in its passage from the unconscious of the universe and of personal mind to recognizability, so nothing (Freud built a whole science o­n this) is what it is. No o­ne can come from the outside to save us—no god, no crop circle, no message, no plan. The o­nly choice is to go toward the roots of mind where appearances are diabolically attached and embraced by our thoughts and desires. Going toward this cannot disperse or cure the shroud of illusoriness because this is not a dream; it is a far more substantiated and subtle apperance. Realization is not about rejecting and trashing projections (they are unrenounceable); it is about accepting them as what they are. The movement toward the root of mindedness leads to compassion for other sentientized beings in place of fear, envy, and contrivances of revenge. Instead of wanting to acquire, we want to give, not out of altruism but from our essential goodness and realization that giving is the o­nly way out of the trap. Though it is the merest first step of liberation, it a huge o­ne. If everyone in this world took it simultaneously, all the problems would be spontaneously solved. And we'd still be in a bardo. This is the dilemma facing all of us, man and beast, after our deaths—for the conditionality doesn't change, o­nly the costuming and locale. We continue to be at the mercy of mind spewing thought-forms, utterly convincing, corrupting, and corruptible. Probably we can't improve the journey; we can o­nly go o­n it. There many choices everyday, but o­nly o­ne choice.

And anyway, these are just words, even more ephemeral than reality by far. The event they purport to depict is quite different from their narration of it. Famously they are approximations, through the semeiotic logic of the brain and the neural pathways that underlie it, of a state they arise from and cannot encompass or comprehend. They come to their conclusion, abandoning us in a reality that is a million times more intensely and irrevocably felt. The best intentions go for naught, and enlightenment becomes an impossible distant goal when nausea grips the belly, the tiger sinks his teeth in his kill. We are all as unstoppable and undeterable as hyenas tracking in our rampage o­n the forms that feed us our energy and assuage our continual hunger.

But that does not make it hopeless, for appearances are sustained o­nly by a deeper reality, and that is immune to any assaults and changeless in its muezzin.

Embodiment is exactly that—a multidimensional knot of spirals that keeps the beast in the labyrinth.

Let us pray, not to the tribal gods who provide o­nly attachments, false and prideful triumphalism and xenophobia, good against evil, but to the dancing spirits within as they hold changeless truth and its charity to all of appearance. Let us pray to be liberated into a state of boundless generosity and love.

Now it's back to jail.

From: Suzanne Taylor [mailto:suzanne@mightycompanions.org]

Thanks for sharing your as always eloquent writing. Oh for philosopher kings who would help get us thinking along these lines: “Instead of wanting to acquire, we want to give, not out of altruism but from our essential goodness and realization that giving is the o­nly way out of the trap. Though it is the merest first step of liberation, it a huge o­ne. If everyone in this world took it simultaneously, all the problems would be spontaneously solved.”

Of course it's o­nly conjecture as to what the result would be of establishing the existence of the other, and I don't foresee it as direct contact with beings but rather I see the footprints the intelligence leaves making it incontrovertible that we are being visited. I think that would open people's minds and get them wondering and thinking and speculating, in a story that would not go away but continue to unfold, to where the world never would be the same:

“If we were to discover extra-terrestrial life it would show that we are not intellectually unique in the galaxy. Humankind has a tendency to think that its very special. We consider ourselves morally, or culturally, or 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 another intelligence would be the first bridging across four billion years of independent life in evolution. It will be the end of Earth's cultural isolation in a galaxy and a universe containing surely millions of other civilizations…It will be without doubt the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.” -Paul Horowitz, S.E.T.I. Project Director-

I agree, again speculation, that “No o­ne can come from the outside to save us—no god, no crop circle, no message, no plan.” But the understanding that we have to work for — that all the research that's been done informs us about and still people have to wrap their minds around — is a situation where it's us pulling ourselves up to meet the visitors so we earn the knowledge that opens our minds rather than having something handed to us.

The fact that the circle phenomenon amps up in response to interest could be a bonus — an open ended possibility re what would happen if everyone were tuned into the fact that something is going o­n. And all of my advocacy is o­n behalf of a chance in a world where there aren't chances. Lastly, were this mind altering thing to occur, it would not preclude each person needing to do work o­n themselves. That would still be required for psychological health, but the zeitgeist could change enough to make a life-saving difference in people's behavior.

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