OK, you guys, here it is. If you scrutinize nothing else I send you, hearken to this. Be sure to click through to the Net for the piece that's mentioned at the end.  (Also, have a look at a video interview with me — connection speed fast or slow — on my favorite topic, from the summer I spent in England hosting a conversation for a film about it.) 

Here, it's Walter Starck and me, delving into the mysteries again.  (See the rest of our Featured Conversation, that has been going o­n for more than a year, about the pushes and pulls of the world and ideas about ways out of the mess we are in.  It starts here, and this gets it from the most recent entry.)

Here's my part of today's exchange — hoping my enthusiasm, in response to the email I got from Walter, below it, will ignite yours…

Suzanne to Walter:

You and I are so much o­n the same beam. Over and over, we are struck by new models with which to present our life-giving information, and we deliver each new packages hoping that this arrow will hit the bull's-eye and humanity will get what we know. Strange but true, us little grains of sand have keys to the kingdom. Where oh where is the lock?

This plea you've made to humanity is so cogent that I hardly can picture anyone being indifferent to it. I want to take a full page ad in the New York Times. My wheels are turning already about what use to make of it, with my enthusiasm amplified by clicking through to your incredibly cogent synopsis of the whole crop circle situation in your new issue of Golden Dolphin. I relished it all, including the links you provide. Bravo, Walter. Your summary towards the end is a telling paragraph:

“Summary: Although the origin, methodology and purpose of crop circles remain unknown, the evidence is sufficient to make some reasonable assumptions: They are intended for us. An unknown force is involved in their formation. Their design reflects a high level of intelligence. They are not so much intended to instruct with specific information as to provoke thought and awareness. Their intent is benign and care is being taken not to harm anyone. Their frequency and their content have a relationship to the response they receive. There is no reason to suspect human origination other than the lack of any other explanation. There is no reason to not suspect involvement of non-human intelligence other than a refusal to consider such a possibility.”

This is what I was responding to…

Walter to Suzanne:

Recently I had a lucid dream and awoke with that “eureka!” feeling of having an answer to a long pondered problem. It was about bringing electrical generators o­nline together, and having them fall into synchronization with a common frequency and wave phase. Generators running independently each establish their own frequency and wave phase timing, but when connected in a common grid the waves push and pull o­ne another and bring the generators into synchrony. This is well known and basic to grid function. What was significant was that the dream was a clear answer to a profound problem I had been thinking about when I went to sleep.

That problem is how to get humanity to work together. Wars, crime, famine, pollution, terrorism, fanaticism, repression, righteousness, cruelty and indifference have always been endemic to humankind, but in the past their impact was limited by more separated smaller populations and less-sophisticated technology. Now our numbers, interrelations and technological power are beginning to threaten unprecedented, even global catastrophes. Everywhere o­ne looks there are massive and growing problems. Obviously, a piecemeal approach is hopelessly inadequate to address a future of ever more and bigger problems.

The good news is that most of the difficulties we face are of our own making and can be solved if we have the will. The question then becomes how to find a way to work together. Where can we find an impetus to arrive at common agreements?

During the Cold War, there was much cooperation between Soviet and Western scientists involved in non-military research. In such exchanges, a shared enthusiasm for discovery and understanding created genuine mutual regard and friendship, with politico-ideological differences disregarded.

Scientific cooperation still continues in the same spirit, but there are problems that interfere with us benefiting from its quests. Science is largely inaccessible to non-scientists. Its findings are published in journals not generally available outside of research institution libraries, and they are written in techno-speak that is largely incomprehensible to the non-specialist. There also is a disposition within science to frown upon popularizers, as they tend to gain public recognition and influence by going outside the peer system. What does reach the public inclines to be simplified and dramatized versions of a limited sample of the overall scientific enterprise, selected for what the popular media deems newsworthy.

What we need today is something important that's outside ourselves — a profound mystery common to all humankind to focus o­n and to cooperate o­n. It needs be something unthreatening, with no ideological overtones, that's easy to access and can be approached without highly specialized knowledge or tools, yet can employ the most sophisticated knowledge and techniques. It should also have far reaching implications. In fact, such a thing does exist. It is the crop circles phenomenon.

Regardless of who is making them or why, crop circles clearly present a profound mystery. They are global, numerous, ongoing, and present undeniable evidence of unknown forces involved in their creation. The designs utilize geometries with relationships that are accessible to all, yet, in employing simple elements they make extraordinarily complex patterns of sublime beauty, presenting a challenge to even the most sophisticated. In fact, there is a science lab that has published research papers about crop circles in peer-reviewed journals that clearly show evidence of an energy source unlike anything we know about. It is impossible to reconcile these findings with any kind of human activity. This should be front page headlines, yet it is virtually ignored.

A widespread recognition and interest in crop circles could turn human attention to a common purpose, in a common direction, towards a common synchrony. We wouldn't all suddenly find ourselves agreeing o­n everything, but the focus they would give us would be a good place to begin to start to come to common understanding. Hopefully, the realizations they would afford of things that challenge our prevailing concepts would leave us less certain of our own rightness and righteousness and more amenable to consideration of new ways of thinking.

Crop circles are a profound mystery. The idea that huge, complex patterns, incorporating highly sophisticated geometry and sometimes comprised of hundreds of elements, are, night after night, year after year, being constructed by pranksters using planks and string, would seem impossible to believe were it not widely accepted as a satisfactory explanation. How much does it take to get our attention? That a great intelligence is trying to tell us something cannot be dismissed and is foolish to ignore. We have nothing to lose but our ignorance.

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