I must admit.. I was a bit of an eavesdropper… and it became worse… I was standing there, very close to the man who was now officially trash, just pretending some meditative staring in the wheat stalks but in the meantime listening to the monologue he was having  with a random visitor. He was suspecting criminal involvement and was researching the possibility of a gentleman’s agreement between the farmer (owner of the cropfield) and a local photografer and reporter of cropcircles. Aha!! that would be some evidence for my newly considerated belief on cropcircles. That morning when Mike told us about the new formation I was excited and at the same time the idea of a ‘cropcircle-industry’ popped up…

I didn’t give much attention to this thought but during that day and the rest of the week the ‘cropcircle-industry idea’ seemed more reasonable to me. Agreements between farmers, cropcirclemakers, photografers, microlightpilots, shops, researches, writers, touristic establishment etc. A well-hidden secret.  The nice thing about the man officially declared to be trash and his monologue was his interest in this case, he wanted to separate the real circles from the manmade ones because all the people who are visiting, chanting and meditating in these places, are cheated by this criminal act of human cropcircle making.

My question is: Do they always send a person like this in to have this sort of ‘gossip’ in a circle to keep everybody on the wrong leg??? I just love the idea of a cropcircle industry, they do this very complicated secret stuff for years and years, can you imagine? Chapeau!

Lovely conspiracy theorie, the only thing I can’t fit in is the fact that a lot of tourists camp out and do nightwatches… 

And if you think I have lost my spiritual orientation… I had not.. yet..

I truly believe we are not alone out here. If earth was a peppercorn and Jupiter a chesnut, you’d have to place them 100 metres apart to get a sense of the real distance between them. And this universe is only one of many. What about the chances that there are many more populated earths, just like ours, in other universes? And that’s just space. But I guess other intelligences don’t use cropcircles to communicate to us. They have easier ways… whispering in you ear in a way you’d think it’s your own thoughts

The guy at the tourist information office already warned us that the last mile of the tour would be along a very busy road towards Stonehenge. He urged us (we had to promise) not to cycle on that road, but to walk, or use the sidewalk. He was right. It was a very busy road. So busy that we actually passed the traffic jam of people watching Stonehenge. After watching Stonehenge from a distance for a while, we decided not to go in. We saw loads of tourists circling (in a wide circle) around the stones, which we could see very well from the distance. Next time we’ll visit Stonehenge, we’ll try to buy tickets for entrance at sunrise or sunset (only sold to a very limited number of people and sold out months in advance).

Again, some photos:

Bright orange, slightly smallish cross country bikes (with Old Sarum in the background).

Sunglasses! Not so much on this photo, but we had wonderfully good weather during our trip. No rain at all!!

Lovely cottages.

(Very hot) Soup, in Heale Garden, with a view on river Avon.

Cycling past the Stonehenge traffic jam.

Check!

Stonehenge with a circus of tourists circling it.

I won’t say too much about Glastonbury, except for the fact that is was the absolute lowlight of our trip. Partly due to the shabby B&B we managed to book, but for the largest part due to the ‘look-at-me-being-spiritual’ people walking around. We enjoyed (windy) Glastonbury Tor (a hill believed to once have been the Island of Avalon) and Chalice Well gardens, but we really needed quite some time to loose our chagrin and to start see the humour of all those people taking themselves and their spiritual views on life way too seriously. The biggest fun of all was the Goddess Conference, which was held in Glastonbury when we visited, attracting a highly dubious crowd of (mostly) women in long, red and frivolous costumes (probably all aspiring to become a high priestess in the Goddess Temple of Avalon). Please have a look at the website, and the conference program to grasp a bit of our hilarious laughter during dinner. Anyway, we took (almost) the first bus out of Glastonbury the next day, and wouldn’t recommend a visit.

Some photos:

Typical bookstore in Glastonbury. Growing needs, really.

Chalice well, lots of iron.

Dees with an angel on her shoulder (very Glastonbury-esque), in Chalice Well Garden.

Windy Glastonbury Tor.

The Goddess Conference, right across the street from our B&B.

Goddess in red.

More Goddesses in red. With flowers in their hair (common fashion in Goddess-world).

Goddess in purple.

Multicoloured God. For an uncensored view on his hairy buttocks, zoom in on the hole in his pants.

My, that first picture seems like a tiny miniature crop circle! Did your friends make it themselves?

So, while I’m typing this message, I’m washing and waterproofing my outdoor jacket (weather forecasts are pretty good, but hey, it’s England!) and I’m about to wax my hiking boots.

I’ve also just visualised our trip on Google Maps (not exactly accurate, as I couldn’t select train routes), just for fun (see below).

See you tonight!

Cheers again,

Dees

Just started reading some pages of the cropcircle etiquette book on the internet. Want to share the next points of attention:

first, “find the farmer and pay the farmer, customary donation is 2 or 3 pounds per person, but langer amounts will ofcourse be welcomed.” (factoid:It has been suggested that crop circle tourism brings an annual revenue of about six million pounds into the area.) 

Better not take the dogs, smoking in the field is selfish, be prepared for the British weather (rainjacket, sunlotion, hat, check!) as well as for long walks, uphill and downhill… and obviously there are no public convienences in a wheat field.

So, no running through the field in summerdresses and flipflops  

Knowing this we are ready to go, well-prepared and very serious about exploring the cropcircle mystery!

Another interesting factoid from the book: “Many people insist that all crop circles are man-made. If this is true, we have witnessed, over the last quarter century, a spectacular crime wave which occurs predictably within a specific time period and in a known and limited area. This is the most observed and photographed area of agricultural land in the history of the world and yet only one individual has ever been charged.”

See you later!

Dees

Where did you find this book? Is it from the library? I would love  to read it before we arrive… we have some hours in the train on saturday (saturday! only three days to go!) so that would be a good moment to browse the cropcircle-etiquette.  Did you read it yet? If you’re finished you can bring it tomorrow ofcourse.

Well, ready to go? I’m looking forward! 

Thanx for sending me the Lonely Planet downloads. While reading it appeared to me that the region we are going to visit and some of the places are very (very) spiritual places. Yes, I knew about Stongehenge, Avebury, Silbury Hill, the cropcircles and the myths of king Arthur, but it seems to me that spirituality is a way of living and being  in this part of England. Nice, I’m curious and I’m also curious about how you are going to experience this trip…  Did you open your chakra’s and third eye yet?  ;-)

Today I got this from a friend (they did a cropcircletrip 10 years ago). Interesting isn’t it… have to take a look at the Kryon website, before saturday…

(34a) QUESTION: Dear Kryon: Would you please explain crop circles? What is their origin? What is their importance to humanity? How can we interpret the symbology? Is it connected with interdimensionality?

ANSWER: I give you only this for now: (1) Definitely interdimensional. (2) From Humans, but from a different time. (3) The symbology is 12-based math. The messages are to help with peace on Earth. (4) Yes, many are hoaxes.

check you later!

cheers,

Dees

Not much crop circles yet apparently, but there are a few listed on the Crop Circle Connector website which have been found in late July. One of them is in Wiltshire, so let’s hope the farmer owning the crop will leave the circle there  for a few more days!

See you soon!

Karin