It's thrilling that Greg Palast has started blogging. There's a mind to track with. Have a look and get o­n his email list. When I saw the site, the lead piece, which was about Cynthia McWhinney, was shocking to me: . Even though our Internet informants see into most spin, I never realized what a hatchet job the media did o­n her, and it was great to find this out. And Greg is fun to read — a real writer. How could you resist a piece that starts like this?

“Holy shit! Writing about Cynthia McKinney is like a blind date with Godzilla. You don't really know what you're in for until you've walked through the door.”

Another new thrill — a movement to draft Arianna Huffington to run for Governor of California. Could anything as delicious as that happen in government? Say yes at http://www.runariannarun.com.

I'm leaving you with these choice morsels as I wing to England tomorrow to do some filming o­n my save-the-world possibility, continuing to press to bring it to the world's attention. Every o­nce in awhile I think I have something new to say, although, when I check, I sound like a broken record. But what can I say, except this echo???!!!

CROP CIRCLES: A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

Shattering the Hypnotic Trance of Contemporary Life

What is the vehicle for the choices that are being made in the highly creative designing of the crop circles? The answer would bring us to our knees.

This phenomenon is not another category for reductionist science. It takes place outside our thought form — somewhere else there is an intelligence that outpaces ours. To be blasé in the face of it is testimony to how mechanized our culture is, and how oblivious we are to that — like the student fish who says to the philosopher fish, “Water? What water?”

Look, there is mind behind crop circles. We are in a budding relationship with sentient creatures — an intelligence that is housed in something other than human bodies is making contact with us. It speaks languages we know. It has technologies unknown to us with which it manipulates our matter. It is brilliant at geometry. It hears our thoughts. It continually delivers ever more stunning designs.

It defies the imagination to foresee all that will happen as this knowledge spreads in humanity, but the situation augurs o­nly good. There is something sacred going o­n. A great power has come to us. And, as we open ourselves to it, we become more of who we are in the o­neness that we have become so disconnected from.

The point of focusing o­n this phenomenon is to gestalt a new understanding. The realization that we are being visited is our best chance to defuse the out-of-control aggressiveness that threatens our survival. What are we with this otherness in our lives? What's needed now is not battlefield wins, but a way to see beyond the plane of conflict. Our guiding vision needs to be of o­ne world, pulling together. It's a new creation story, not a new victory that we should be looking toward.

I'll have my laptop and hope to send back reports. In the meantime, with the best theater o­n earth going o­n now in southern England, here are some of the treats I'll be seeing firsthand:

http://cropcircleconnector.com/2003/weststowell/weststowell2003a.html

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2003/Thornborough/Thornborough2003.html

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2003/northdown/northdown2003a.html

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2003/sharpenhoe/sharpenhoe2003a.html

http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=551&category=Environment

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2003/greenstreet/greenstreet2003a.html

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2003/sharpenhoe/sharpenhoe2003a.html

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