My introductory Outside the Box is the first half hour of part two from last week:
http://ufo-info.com/show/10162011

John is a sweetie. Here’s his email to me:

Here is the info I posted throughout the web, I talked you up everywhere 

Also, once it airs it’s picked up on ITunes and about 100 different podcasting sites worldwide. Plus we are a featured show on The UFO Paranormal Radio Network, which also is worldwide.

Don’t miss this Sunday’s “Thresholds Into Other Realms.” We are very pleased to announce that the one and only Suzanne Taylor (the Crop Circle Queen) will be starting her new segment on our show this week! It’s called “Outside The Box” and it will cover all the wild, weird, unusual and downright strange news of the world.

Sundays 7:30 pm CST http://www.ufo-info.com

I added this line as a comment:

For those of you who don’t know Suzanne Taylor, here is a little link for you: http://imdb.com/name/nm0853220

Anybody who Likes What On Earth? on Facebook will see posts about future shows: http://Facebook.com/WhatOnEarth.

And for Netflix to carry it, we need more Netflix subscribers to ask for What On Earth? in their queues. Here’s the direct link for the request:  http://bit.ly/pbkqgG.

Footnote:

I am so moved by this extraordinary situation of OWS spreading throughout the world. Either the help crop circles can offer for opening people’s minds will be unnecessary, or perhaps it could be more useful than ever. This is a comment I just made on Reality Sandwich to Occupy Wall Street: No Demand is Big Enough, by Charles Eisenstein, and the intelligent comments that followed it.

After all the smarts above me — and I bow to them – as a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of NYU I have smarts, too, about how crapped up we’ve made the world and about the incredible OWS movement. But how to get it to achieve any objectives? There’s the rub.

The forces of fundamental change are mysterious and elusive, all fitting into that old Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. Antithesis is well along now, and how to shove it over to synthesis is the head scratcher. It could just emerge, like the Berlin wall coming down or the Soviet Union collapsing – somehow it “just happens” when the contradictions to the status quo get too great for the center to hold. Are we at that point? Who knows? But if there were anything to do to evoke the new crystallization wouldn’t that be wonderful? Of course. So here’s my offering.

If it were ascertained that the crop circle phenomenon is for real and that we are being visited by other intelligence, that could be the peaceful shock and awe that could do it for us. All of a sudden, all human beings would be in relation to an otherness – all of us in one curiosity, buzzing together to make sense of what is greater than we are. Buzzing together, we could rethink everything — a consummation devoutly to be wished for, as Willie the Shakes would have said.

No need to argue here about whether there is a mystery to the phenomenon, which no one can know for sure – am just advocating that attention be paid. There is data to be scrutinized, and making that inquiry could turn out to be a very very good thing to do.

The day that formation, made up of two main circles, came in, she and a friend had visited it. She brought a new set of dowsing rods, but there were so many people in the formation that they left and went back early the next morning. When they discovered a third circle — which had a tuft of standing wheat in the center — had been added, they left to report this to some members of the Centre for Crop Circles Studies, who were visiting from America.

When Shirley and her friend returned, still early, she noted that six of the stalks of wheat in the center tuft had bent over, but she didn’t particularly think anything of it and remained in the circle with her back to the center, talking to her friend. A few more people came, and, when she heard them remarking on the fantastic cone shape in the center, she turned around and “there in the centre of the circle was a tightly formed cone. Every single stalk of corn [it was wheat but the English call all grains “corn”] had bent over, twisted and knotted itself into that shape. Yet no one had entered or left the circle at any time. It happened before our very eyes, yet we didn’t see or hear a thing.” Shirley had become kind of the mother of that circle, hanging out in it and telling people the story.

Here’s a picture of her making my drawing of what had happened to the standing tuft.

Here’s the drawing up close — notice Shirley has signed it.

And here’s Shirley and me. Gosh, almost 20 years ago!

For cut and paste ease in your social networking world:

“Crop Circles as a Portal to Personal and Planetary Transformation”  http://evolverintensives.com/upcoming/personal-planetary-transformation.html

Shortened for Twitter:

“Crop Circles as a Portal to Personal and Planetary Transformation” http://tinyurl.com/4xdaefd

Here’s the mailing from Evolver Intensives, the sponsor:

What messages are crop circles trying to communicate to us, and are they an invitation for us to shift our worldview?

Join filmmaker Suzanne Taylor and her line-up of guests for the live interactive video course, “Crop Circles as a Portal to Personal and Planetary Transformation” – 4 potentially awareness-shifting sessions, starting August 20th, produced by Evolver Intensives.

The spiritual aspect to the circles often is ignored in discussions about how they are created and whether they are “real.” Not so for our host, Suzanne Taylor. For more than two decades, Suzanne has been captivated by the circles, so much so that she was the force behind CROP CIRCLES: Quest for Truth, the first feature documentary ever made about the circles, which she served as Executive Producer. She went on to produce and direct the award-winning documentary, What On Earth?, which continues to bring the message of the circles to a worldwide audience. Suzanne sees the phenomenon as a spur to humanity to see ourselves as part of a bigger picture, which would help free us from the small-mindedness that leads us to be so destructive to one another and to the planet.

In this course, you will discover how crop circles offer a doorway for you to find yourself in an interconnected universe that is far more miraculous, mysterious, and beautiful than most people imagine.

* Discover the connection between historic Native Americans spiritual practices and crop circles in the United States.
* Observe the sacred geometry that guides the circle design and see how it relates to the design of the universe.
* Learn about the science that proves crop circles are creations beyond any technology known to humanity.
* Get insight into how the circles are calling humanity to move away from its materialist worldview.
* Feel the call of the circles to live in harmony with nature.

In this interactive video series, you will engage with well-respected, fascinating individuals who have had profound involvements with the crop circles. Featured presenters include:

* John Martineau: sacred geometry expert, publisher of Wooden Books and author of QUADRIVIUM: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music and Cosmology
* Daniel Pinchbeck: author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
* Nancy Talbott: President of the BLT Research Team, Inc., established in 1991 to carry out scientific evaluation of crop circle plants and soils.
* Gary Bobroff: Jungian psychologist, author of Jung, Crop Circles & the Re-Emergence of the Archetypal Feminine
* Jeffrey Wilson: leading researcher of US circles, Director and Co-Founder of the Independent Crop Circle Researchers’ Association

This will be a live, dynamic experience in which you become part of a community sharing real time with thought-shapers who have been closely involved with the crop circle phenomenon.

It all starts on Saturday, August 20th. To learn more, visit: http://evolverintensives.com/upcoming/personal-planetary-transformation.html

Evolver Social Movement members will receive a special discount in a separate mailing. For more about the Evolver Social Movement, please click here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/esm/join-evolver-social-movement-esm

Evolver Intensives are a project of the Prophets Conference and Reality Sandwich.

We hope you join us for this remarkable chance to explore the mysteries of crop circles.

Crop circle season is in full swing. See what’s coming in on THE site that tracks all the formations as they arrive, where the pages for the more interesting ones have contributions from people who have ideas about the encoded information the circles are delivering. Don’t know yet if this circle is the real deal, but I sure like this artwork by Jay Goldner, good friend of the circles, that it inspired!

My big news is I’m hosting a four part webinar, “Crop Circles as a Portal to Personal and Planetary Transformation,” for Evolver Intensives. It will start August 20, and it’s about the magic of the circles and of the universe, way past crop circles 101 and the arguments about real or unreal. See the next post, just about that. At this time, when What On Earth? is newly on iTunes and has just engaged wholesale distributors to get the DVD to the big world, the Evolver outreach to 250,000 people is good timing. Please spread the word. Not only will circle lovers be stretched beyond what they know, but it would impress people who don’t know much about what’s going on.

I’ve been acquiring a lot of YouTube subscribers, and have been adding videos to my channel. When it’s something special, I send out notices – if you subscribe you’ll get them: http://YouTube/suzannet. The last notice was for a 20-minute talk, “How Crop Circles Can Change the World,” that I did for the Learning Annex in New York. You might poke around on my channel for other new things.

I recently posted a favorite piece of bonus material that’s on the DVD.

Before New York, I was in Philadelphia, at Free Your Mind, a conference that has posted the 45-minute talk I did before they showed my movie. It was lit for the movie and I was in shadow, but I like what I had to say and you could just listen to the audio where you’d find out a lot about me and how I got into the circle game.

Writer’s Voices is a one hour radio show I did recently. I loved talking to the hosts about what they described on their website as my “deeply spiritual documentary film” that’s “nothing less than how these sacred shapes are assisting humanity in our evolution, our return Home, from separation to Unity.” Here’s what they had to say after the show:

“What a fun and satisfying conversation. Suzanne, your engrossing film is such a tantalizing way to inform people about the crop circle phenomenon, and your insights and perspectives during interviews are so instrumental right now in shifting people toward a more hopeful way of looking at the world. You definitely open people up to greater possibilities. Thanks so much for such a terrific interview!”

Marc Rosenbush, my mentor for film marketing, has bought in a team to get the word out. Here’s what they say the film’s supporters can do:

The important things are for them to like your Facebook posts, comment on them, and reply to your blog postings. These are three key things will help keep you an active social media player.

If you aren’t a fan of the movie, hit Like on http://Facebook.com/WhatOnEarth to get in the swim.

I’ll conclude this Suzanne extravaganza with what may be the nicest letter I ever got, which I received after I did a talk for The Institute of Philosophy and the Arts:

The connection to Alan was because of another of his spare time interests, in crop circles. A big wow, not only that there’s a world class scientist enamored of the circles, but for the sort of person he is.

Some years ago, I created A Call For an Investigation of What is Known About Crop Circles, thinking I’d get Nobel Prize winners to sign onto this benign petition. However, even that was threatening to people with reputations and funding. Alan is a rare one who is OK with being seen for how broad his spectrum is.

I’m passing along this article he wrote in 2,000, along with some comments he just made. One caveat is that he doesn’t know how much hoaxing goes on or how good the hoaxers have gotten. That said, what matters is that no matter how many formations the hoaxers make, there are formations that are a genuine mystery.

Crop Pictograms In The United Kingdom

11/2/2000

By Alan Holt M.S. Physical Science (astrophysics)

In July of this year (2000), I had the opportunity to visit the United Kingdom for a couple weeks. The primary purpose for my trip was to spend some time with my companion, Hildi, who lives in Glastonbury, England. Since I knew the timing of my visit would allow me to see and hopefully visit some “crop circles,” I did a little exploration of web sites before I left.

I was absolutely amazed at the patterns I saw, and was wondering why these developments hadn’t surfaced in the general press in the U.S. After my visit and discussions with various people in the UK, it is now clear to me that crop “circles” or pictograms have suffered the same fate that UFOs and other phenomena have, which do not fit the current paradigm.

Upon arriving in London, on July 20, I was picked up by my companion and a friend, and on the way back to Glastonbury we stopped at the Barge Inn. The Barge Inn is located along one of the many canals crisscrossing England, and is a meeting place and informal headquarters for crop circle researchers and visitors. Photos of the latest crop circles are tacked up on a bulletin board.

Outside, looking toward nearby hills, a simple crop circle could be seen. After getting something to eat, we went up to the circle and entered it. The plants on the floor of the circle were woven into a basket like pattern. Unlike the few hoaxed or manmade circles, the stalks of the plants were not broken but looked like they had suddenly decided to bend down and grow in a horizontal direction. My assessment, after visiting several crop pictograms, is that the manmade circles are relatively few, and are composed of simple forms having very poor geometric precision compared to the amazing pictograms.

There are other factors which clearly delineate a manmade circle from the absolutely amazing pictograms, which can be learned from the web sites and several books. I would recommend “Crop Circles: The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times” by Lucy Pringle, 1999, Harper Collins Publishers, ISBN 07225 3855 3, $27.00. I had an opportunity to talk with Lucy at the Glastonbury Crop Circle Conference, July 28 -30, during my visit. She personally flies out over the fields and takes photos.

Since I have for many years used enhanced intuitive capabilities to pick up additional information, I did sit in the crop circle near the Barge Inn and picked up some interesting impressions pertaining to the future. In addition, I put out the thought, somewhat as a test but really a request, that I would like to see a crop pictogram appear which could provide me some insight into the direction I should pursue in my advanced transport/field physics research activities.

We then went on to Glastonbury, to London, and then back to Glastonbury. Eight days later, we went back out into crop circle country and again visited the Barge Inn. On the bulletin board, was an astounding new pictogram. It was shaped like a bar magnet, with magnetic field lines coming out of the north and south poles. The pictogram had appeared on July 22 two days after my arrival in the England (and my first visit to the Barge Inn). We determined its location, visited the pattern, and spent a lot of time exploring it.

 

You'll see footage of this formation in my movie!...ST

The precision and intricacy of the pattern was stunning. Even the farmer whose field the pattern had appeared in was overwhelmed by this pictogram. He indicated that there had been other patterns in his field before, but he had still harbored some doubts concerning who or what had made them. But with the appearance of this pictogram, he knows now that this is a true mystery. From his perspective there is NO possibility that this was made by humans or our technology, and I agree with him.

While in the pattern, I recalled the thought which I had sent out for a pictogram to appear which could provide some direction for my research activities. I have to conclude that whatever intelligence is responsible for these patterns, it has connections with or links with our human consciousness.

There is truly an astounding phenomenon unfolding in England and elsewhere in the world. It’s very unfortunate that the unscientific thinking, and perhaps deliberate disinformation, of a few individuals have been picked up and accepted by a naive press worldwide. As a result, millions of people have been deprived of the opportunity to experience a consciousness expanding phenomenon. It is our civilization’s loss; but fortunately the apparently successful attempt to ridicule or “debunk” crop circles will do nothing stop what may be a major transformation ahead for humanity.

From my perspective, there is also a warning or “be prepared” message coming through the crop pictograms as well. We have not been very good stewards of the planet on which we are living. We have recklessly depleted resources; contaminated water, air and Earth; threatened the foundation of Earth’s viability with the use and testing of nuclear weapons (and perhaps other exotic technology), and continue to waste at least one-half of what we produce (especially here in the U.S.). The Earth can compensate for some of our mistakes, but it too goes through transformations. If our care of our planet is not dramatically improved soon, we may not have many more years to enjoy the beauty and nurturing environment which even now the Earth still provides (the year 2012 could be a turning point).

Alan Holt is currently a Project Manager for NASA’s International Space Station: This article does not necessarily reflect the views of NASA and are the sole views of Alan Holt. [He still holds the NASA position...ST]

Brief Update to My Crop Pictogram Comments

Alan Holt (6/26/11)

After reading my comments from the year 2000, all of what I said then still seems to apply. The amazing crop pictograms continue to suffer the fate of any phenomenon, or set of facts, which does not have a clear mainstream science/paradigm explanation, and/or which could open up a pathway for major paradigm changes.

The complexity and form of the crop pictograms continue to be very amazing and insightful. There is a growing focus on, and concern for, the decline of the Earth’s environment; and a growing awareness of the upcoming shifts in the calendars of the Mayans, Hopi, and other native groups; and what these shifts (in consciousness?) could mean for human civilization. It would be interesting if any trends in the crop pictograms begin to occur, which more directly (and more often) address steps to help us avoid the decline in the Earth’s environment, and enhance potential shifts in human consciousness.

It was made clear to me in my first visit to a crop pictogram in 2000, that we may not have many years left to enjoy the verdant Earth as we do now. Hopefully, we have made progress since 2000 to reverse that trend, and we will take additional steps to minimize the Earth’s environmental decline. The bar magnet crop pattern which appeared during my visit in 2000, did seem to be an answer to the question/request (which I mentally proposed) about the best research approach, in my breakthrough space transport interests. I’m convinced that humanity’s destiny path will lead us to become a very successful, evolved consciousness, space exploration species. The crop pictograms may be helping us to take a few key steps down that path.

I’m still involved with space utilization and exploration activities. The above comments are my personal comments only.