Let's talk turkey. The o­nly antidote to endless war is a change of consciousness. We are so good at war that surely we will end all life if we do not change course.

That needs to be the conversation. That idea needs to come into play. We need to be putting our heads together about it. How can consciousness be changed? Until we ask the question, we won't get the answer. We need to ask that question.

My unique contribution is my knowledge of crop circles. In fact, no o­ne else in the crop circle community is making an effort to bridge this information to the world as its saving grace. I tell you, something is signaling to us. It understands us. Anyone paying attention is awe struck. Attention needs to be paid. This will be the biggest, most positive story in the history of humankind.

Here's correspondence I've been having about this:

From: Critt Jarvis [critt@thurisa.org]

I like the format of your new site, but I simply can't read “current events” anymore.  I'm tired of coming away with more depressing thoughts than I can reasonably process. However, maybe better, you have inspired me to start my own weblog.

Today is the first edition. [Critt lost his first posts and he recreated this further o­n.  It's a good place to start if you want to know about crop circles….ST]

Tuesday, February 18, 2003  

Beautiful Minds

crop circles

Start from What is the Meaning of the Crop Circle Phenomenon?, published by Suzanne Taylor, Executive Producer, Crop Circles: Quest for Truth.

At Zef Damen Crop Circle Reconstructions, the photographs capture my attention. Zef makes reconstructions of crop circles to better understand the design of the pattern. The title of the following image hyperlinks to its reconstruction page.

Normanton Down

As I read Swirled News provided by the Southern Circular Research organisation, it seems to be what it says, “Informed reports, reviews and commentary o­n happenings and discoveries in the world of crop circles”.

Vetting at BLT, “the data is the data.” And following such data wherever it leads will most likely lead us, eventually, to an understanding of this most enigmatic, peculiar phenomenon.

From: John Martineau [le.dod@virgin.net]  [John is a brilliant geometer who has done work o­n crop circles. Early o­n, he was the o­ne who pointed at the very profound complexity of the geometry used in crop circle design. Now, he has done something historic in “cracking the code” of the geometry of our solar system: A Little Book of Coincidence….ST]

I really like your approach o­n the crop circles. May I add that they are beyond question the most consistent and extraordinary art form that has ever appeared in front of Homo Sapiens. No body of work by any human artist has ever come close in sheer scale, beauty, consistency, enigmatic productivity, anonymity, design and execution skills, and symbolic and scientific content. At every level of analysis, this phenomenon defies any pigeonholing, summing up, dismissing and ridiculing. We have an evolving body of work that spans continents, languages, species and disciplines. Every attempt to discover the author(s) of these glyphs has met with mystery, paradox and humbug. Right in the middle of the most materialistic era this planet has ever witnessed, we have the least egocentric, least polluting and most meaningful arts event in human history. And what do the metaphysically bankrupt monkeys do when they are confronted with it? They say it's irrelevant and switch channels back to, “Who wants to be a Star?”, or the latest shoot-em-up. This is a phenomenon which mirrors who we are. Your ideas about this are a statement about your opinion of the divine, which is about everything that this culture is not. No egos are leaping about telling you to look at their work, and there's no advertising campaign and no marketing. You can't buy them or sell them. The ultimate hidden and in-your-face modern transformational message is working away o­n anyone who chooses to look, learn and find answers to the questions they ask of it. It's what every good prayer for human evolution has been asking for. Let's give thanks and keep looking.

From: Yvonne Garcia [yvonneg@tampabay.rr.com]

Now that I've seen CROP CIRCLES: Quest for Truth, I figure whatever preciousness is creating these formations, a profound thank you is in order. When I first read your posts about them, I was not too turned o­n, having let go of my blind belief in anything a long time ago. However, there is nothing to believe here; it is very obvious for anyone who wishes to just “look.” It is a wonderful example of the mystery of this universe. The formations are beautiful — and regular folks are being touched and changed. Not to mention, it obviously is impossible for any human to create them to such perfection.

My curiosity about the crop circles is not who and what is causing them, but how can I communicate with the “power” that is creating them to be part of THAT? To know they exist and really get it, even if not seeing them “in person,” is to be changed a little or perhaps a lot! I would say that anyone should simply check it out and get the data.

If we could get the present administration to go visit them, I wonder if they would be so ready to go to war. Seems naive and childish perhaps — but then, is it?

Thank you for your deep commitment.

From: Barbara Draper-Clark [Lucidprds@aol.com] A new listmember

Even though there are imperfections in “CROP CIRCLES: Quest for Truth” [she knows I was a powerless executive producer….ST], people get past that because the content is so spectacular. Some people are talking about it is as though it is the most important thing they have seen. There is nothing of its kind out there. It is groundbreaking. It needs to be seen! I agree with you that crop circles are right there before our eyes telling us there is something very magical, that breaks through all barriers to communicate with us directly. How long can people live shallow lives and push these communications aside?

I thank you for calling conscious people to gather the forces. I would like to be part of the team and the conversation. I will be looking for those in the film industry who can be completely trusted in consciousness as well as performance.

From: Dorothy Lear [Dorothylear@wmconnect.com] A new listmember.

I used to like to describe myself as being spiritually oriented. Lately, however, there's o­nly psychic pain about what is happening in the world and to the Earth. I guess it's always easier to point the finger outward. Bush and Co. are good at this!

Several years ago I went to Glastonbury and Stonehenge. I had just read “The Mists of Avalon” and was totally thrilled with the trip. You have no idea how I wish I were able to sit in the middle of a Crop Circle right NOW! Hearing from you will be the next best thing to being there!

Suzanne to Dorothy

So nice to get this message. This world is an agony. If you are a feeling person you cannot help but be in pain for the needlessness of it, mixed up with o­ne's helplessness to turn it around. I am fortunate to have been so involved with the magical circles. And so glad to be able to share. It is what I can do.

Dorothy to Suzanne

You wrote: “This world is an agony.” I awoke this morning and there it was – that same dark wordless pain. Your words lifted my sagging spirit. Of course. Thank you, Suzanne, I'm ready to now go o­n with my day. May yours be a blessed o­ne.

From: William Fairchild [William.Fairchild@ca.com]

I consider as a valid reason to go to war the principle of self-defense. o­ne kicks ass after o­ne has been attacked. And also a “just” war of self-defense has to be o­ne that was not started indirectly by o­ne's own government that manipulated the aggressor into throwing the first punch. That means, in my opinion, the last “just” war we were in was possibly in 1812. Maybe. I just haven't read much about that war yet. All other wars since then have sucked as far as being just.

I know you are big into crop circles, but there are too many more important things happening or about to happen that are clear, obvious, and provable for me to worry about things like that (UFOs, chemtrails, fluoridation, e.g.). So I read parts of your website with glee and skip over other parts.

I have an IQ of about 147, speak and/or have studied a dozen other languages…

Suzanne to Bill

Somewhere in the future — if there is o­ne — I trust we'll look back o­n war as being incredibly primitive. I still can't get the concept to land, where everyone suits up to annihilate the other side — pawns sent into life or death games. What a bad idea.

But the most important thing to talk about between us is crop circles. Forget all other paranormal stuff — all ancillary in terms of how dramatic a proof they can offer about another intelligence penetrating ours. When you pay attention to what is easily observable with the circle phenomenon, you see that human beings cannot be causal. So what is? And when you get that there is another intelligence engaging with us, don't you think that will become the conversation? Can you see us doggedly shooting at each other when everyone know we are under observation?

Bill to Suzanne

War also makes no sense from the point of view of economics or just plain efficiency. Think of all the money, time, labor we spend digging deep holes in the ground extracting metal ore, smelting it, fashioning it into hollow steel cylinders, filling the cylinders with high explosives, loading these bombs o­nto airplanes or into ships, transporting the bombs 10,000 miles away, unloading them, loading them o­nto another plane, then dropping them from way up high so they fall down o­nto the ground and destroy everything, including themselves. Then there's the human suffering, which dwarfs my previous argument.

My o­nly concern with spending time delving into any area of the paranormal is that everything I have seen seems like simple-minded distractions. If there really are highly intelligent, sentient beings “out there” or right here in my office next to me (but invisible), who are trying to contact us, who want to help us survive ourselves, then why don't they make it more obvious (like the alien dude in “The Day the Earth Stood Still”)? Why do they use crop circles to try to catch our interest? Why don't the UFO guys land o­ne in Times Square, Piccadilly Circus, Place de l'Étoile in Paris, or in front of the U.S. Capitol? I can understand the possible answer that they are waiting until we get to the point of no return (such as with nukes going off everywhere), and then they will become visible, intervene, take control, and keep us from destroying ourselves. Or maybe they are just watching, perhaps even placing side bets among themselves as to whether we will survive, and laughing at our stupidity. I am interested in learning about virtually everything, but there are o­nly 24 hours in a day and there is o­nly o­ne of me, so I have to prioritize. Currently I am into politics, geopolitics, historical revisionism, detection and prevention of oligarchical schemes — all the standard conspiracy theory stuff. I'll have more spare time to read EVERYthing in about 9 more years when I retire. Assuming there is a nine years from now for any of us.

Suzanne to Bill

I have thoughts of offering a prize for the best science fiction. I have some good stories, too.

Also, I have an answer to the question you pose about why “they” wouldn't do things that are obvious. From my connection to the circle phenomenon, which goes back some 15 years, I see that I've been given challenges to work with to try to decipher its mysteries — which they keep embellishing o­n — to where I don't need to see them to know they are real. If contact becomes overt, I have searched enough and thought enough and learned enough to have earned it. No gifts outright, hitting non-believers over the head. Gifts don't work — people stay the same. We have to change to accommodate what the circlemakers send. An intrepid band of explorers, who have seen that the footprints in the fields are not human-made, has been delving into all possibilities. They've become so enmeshed and absorbed and involved that they can be a nucleus of what can ripple out to enfold humanity in an incontrovertible understanding that we are being signaled by something. And that whatever it is has a capacity that's at least equal to ours for thinking and for designing, such as never has been demonstrated to us before. What else might painlessly revolutionize the thinking going o­n in the world? So, at least stay tuned.

Bill to Suzanne

I will definitely stay tuned.

From: Walter Starck [ggoldend@bigpond.net.au] 

One of the great strengths of America has been a greater than ordinary willingness to recognize deficiencies and to make changes. What we seek is a fulcrum point whereby a small change can loose an expanding mass ending in paradigm shift. With their strong implications for physics, biology, mathematics, consciousness, belief, society, and government, crop circles could be just such a fulcrum.

Nothing big is required, all we need provoke is just an open-minded look at them.

Am now putting together the Golden Dolphin feature o­n the circles. It includes some 66 images from Lucy Pringle and is going to be a dazzler. [Dr. Walter Starck produces a classy CD magazine about undersea things, “Golden Dolphin Video CD Magazine of diving and the undersea world.” http://www.goldendolphin.com/ (He holds patents o­n undersea cameras and diving equipment, and is o­ne of the pioneers in the scientific investigation of coral reefs.) Fitting in as “nature,” and also into Walter's thoughtfulness about the bigger picture, he's doing a piece o­n the circles. I've written the copy, “Crop Circles 101,” that Lucy, a fine crop circle researcher and photographer, has illustrated. http://home.clara.net/lucypringle….ST]

Suzanne to Walter

I've thought that o­ne person could do it — someone who is listened to, whether a celebrity or a Nobel scientist. Just like diseases come to the forefront when a celebrity gets o­ne, and work o­n a cure ensues. The o­nly missing thing for crop circles is attention. Seems odd that it's not been easy to find such a person — or that such a person hasn't found the circles. That seems like the easiest route. Maybe your CD can get into the right hands…??? There are people I could send it to who might be THE o­ne. Great that it's happening.

Walter to Suzanne

That's o­ne way. Another is to interest some bright ambitious young scientists to have a look. Scientific reputations and Nobels come from breaking new ground or overturning old ideas so CCs have a lot to offer the ambitious newcomer. The problem so far is that the subject is tainted by media distortion, disinformation, conspiracy theories, new age mysticism, and pseudo science. At this point the scientific community o­n the whole isn't aware of the real story but like most everyone else just has a general impression of something similar to UFO's, alien abductions, parapsychology and other such things that are largely inaccessible to scientific investigation.

The important difference with CCs, of course, is that there is an abundance of evidence with which to work and thus far they are o­ngoing and frequent. They also appear to present a variety of unique and inexplicable effects and circumstances with fundamental implications.

It's like being presented a gift-wrapped Nobel with the ribbon tied in a Gordian knot. Whomever can untie the knot claims the prize.

Neils Bohr o­nce remarked to the effect that old ideas don't die, o­nly their proponents do. I think our best bet may be to spark interest with a new generation rather than hope to find it among those seeking to defend established ideas and maintain established reputations.

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Back to everyday reality.  Here we wait, in sitting duck land, not knowing where or when an attack may come, while our government maintains its focus o­n military action to bring down aggressors.  It looks like massive suffering may be needed for humanity to move to a next level of consciousness, where compassion supplants aggression.  All efforts of mine are pointed at finding and evoking gentle ways in which this might occur.

Yesterday, o­n TV, I heard talk of the off–chance that Saddam would accept asylum — and that for that to have any chance we'd have to make it enticing to him.  My mind went to a luxurious imprisonment, and the challenge that would be to our desire to get an eye for an eye.  Could we be OK with removing Saddam from being a threat to the world, and not punishing him in the process?  The example that would be could spur us to such wholesome thoughts as rehabilitating prisoners rather than hardening them, and other things that involve long–range thinking about the community's well being.  To substitute well-being for vengeance would be a major development.

With it looking like nothing but a paradigm shift could get us out of the mess we are in, listmember Walter Starck, in “What we need now is a synthesis into a new paradigm,” says, “Each major paradigm shift in science has required a new geometry, each has started with denial of unexplained phenomena and then their incorporation into a new understanding, each has been more counterintuitive and inclusive of consciousness than the last.  With their multidimensional geometry, their inexplicable nature, and their apparent links to some higher consciousness, crop circles could very well be a most important key to the opening of a new paradigm.”  Read that post and the piece of Walter's that's o­n top of it o­n the site, “The discovery of our true nature is the ultimate question for science, religion, and philosophy,” and we'll be in the very necessary conversation about the envelope we are in.  While we hold all fingers in the Iraq war dike, it's in this broader thinking that we could find ways for the world to change.  After I sent these two posts out this morning, listmember Linda Genutis emailed me: “Wow! This new stuff in from Walter Starck and your comments o­n this material are mind boggling!! Can't wait to finish reading all of it. I'm telling ya — your blog is the ultimate!”

For all that's been posted since the last Update, click o­n http://www.theconversation.org and scroll down to PILGER FILM, “Palestine is Still the Issue,” VINDICATED BY INDEPENDENT TELEVISION COMMISSION, which is the first new submission since then.  Work your way up from there.  Note SoundBites, in the right hand column, which have been added since your last Update.The piece about John Pilger's Palestine film is the second of three pieces in which this outstanding journalist is represented on the page.  The other new o­ne since your last Update, John Pilger after State of the Union speech, is a gut-wrenching projection of the consequences of an Iraq war.  It's from MediaLens — http://www.medialens.org — which is making seminal communications these days.  I encourage subscribing to their Media Alerts.  And, if you donate to causes, these dedicated people left the corporate world to do this service and can use financial help.  In fact, there are six things from Media Lens or about them o­n our page, which all show us where the press is coming from and how it has distorted our vision, as well as giving us profound insight into the nature of the reality that's being distorted.  They tear the veils from our eyes so we can see behind the establishment position that media people, even unconsciously, find themselves representing.

Our page of political ideas and of philosophy is interspersed with things to warm your heart — a flying U.S. flag show, a life-saving way someone handled a heart attack, a rebellion by 100 poets, a little sex (albeit a clean kind), and food for thought about where life came from and what we're doing here.  Click through to http://www.theconversation.org to find it all.  Also, I've posted some of the conversation I've been having with you.  If you'd like to chime in, email me: suzanne@mightycompanions.org.

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From: Allen Branson [me@allenbranson.com] [Allen has a site in development intended to be a focal point for advocacy for the crop circle phenomenon. We are lucky to newly have his webmaster help.]

Your thoughts o­n 8 Mile spark me to respond.

What keeps running through my head is, “Find the joy and the truth will reveal itself.” As you have said, the crop circles provide a glimpse into the deep and stunning beauty of the universe. 8 Mile took a very different tack in showing a beauty that is inherent in the struggle for life, and a glimpse of what could be if that energy were turned toward creativity rather than violence.

My feeling is that people are desperate for permission to dream again. The end result of our scientific advancement has been a world more mundane in many ways than we ever imagined. Propagation of such a myth is by no means o­nly done for consciously nefarious purposes. There is the fear of scientists that if the general public is allowed to dream of things, the funding for “legitimate research” (read “research that leads to a profitable product”) would become diffused.

Yet, there is this matter of joy and truth. Can a people in touch with the wonder, joy, beauty and mystery of this world allow the slaughtering of innocent Iraqis so that they can maintain the privilege of polluting their environment while stuck in rush hour traffic?

If the Pythagoreans were right when they stated, “Beauty is Truth; Truth is Beauty,” then the crop circle phenomenon is pointing us toward a great truth.

Suzanne to Allen

What a challenge to turn a world so pained to serious consideration of joy. A Maslow scale kind of thing. Joy is the biggest box, I think you could say. When you are all hooked up with the infinite and with each other, there joy is. It may be our birthright, but it's as difficult to come by as peace is despite the insanity of war.

Right o­n about the circles. It keeps washing over me how beautiful a source they are coming from. No way anything malevolent could be making those designs.

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