A well hidden secret

Well, here I am with some thoughts to share… Thoughts on cropcirclemaking ofcourse, that’s what we went for. To start with I can assure you that the cropcircle we visited was man-made. I should have brought my videocamera to the circle, not for filming the crop or the circle but for shooting the arguing men… one shouted (from a smaller circle) at the other that he had no permission to enter this smaller circle, the other screaming he knew the farmer and had permission, then again the first one screamed the other would be officially trash if he would be trashing the crop, etc, etc. Not a very peaceful discussion on this spiritual spot, but interesting however.

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 🙂

 

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First Circle of 2010

Hi Karin,

First formation of the season has arrived!

 

 I must say that I am very happy with Mike, our Wiltshire tourguide, who keeps us posted and is very helpful in finding our way around, and we are not even there yet! great! thanx Mike!

well, the question that keeps me busy right now is… is this cropcircle made by humans or by some other intelligence?

See you later,

Dees

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Entertainment

Hey Dees,

Well, that was fun! I just watched the Terzake show and thought it was quite cool. I tried keeping some notes, let’s see if I can decypher my scribbles. For my own comfort I’ll just list my observations:

• Two new terms: agroglyph, another word for crop circles (which seems to be a mostly French term, I learned from a Google search), and the more than fantastic name Cereal Killer :-D.
• People dressed in Napoleon style are by no means credible. Never.
• The thought that crop circles are negatives of the thoughts of people living in a fifth or sixth dimension (I was very curious about your reaction to this Dees!!).
• Crop circles mostly appear near historic monuments. I was thinking, if I wanted ‘facilitate’ the creation of urban myths around something I had made, I would definitely choose such spots on purpose too.
• Crop circles are visited by over 5000 people. There must be a business model to that!
• Just a quote: “Amongst experts, this circle is described as “real”.”. I liked the subtle skeptic tone here…
• I noticed that the Wallonian researcher who took some stalks for further analyses in the lab only took them from within the crop circle, not from outside. So no control sample. They did not find anything out of the ordinary, but I think they should have compared the sample from the circle to a true control sample anyway. Maybe they did not show this in the video, I don’t know.
• Apparently, many of the videos showing balls of light creating a crop circle are hoaxes. I thought so.
• Another really nice quote (I’d like to refer back to my business model note): “Crop circles are big business in new age circles.”.
• OK. Janet Ossebaard. Even you did not really appreciate the arguments she discusses in her book to ‘prove’ that crop circles are not man made, did you? She totally did not convince me. I am just repeating her here: “You ask such difficult questions!”. Really. I did like the fact that the reporter thought of her ideas as an ‘ambitious hypothesis”.
• Should we attend the annual Crop Circle symposium in Glastonbury? Bookings can be made from February onwards. I might want to spend some money on that! Entertainment guaranteed I guess. Going just one day isn’t that expensive, 40 Pounds.
• Then we had firm believer and conspiracy theorist Andy Thomas (a quick search led me to this website). He claimed that crop circles are not explicable in normal terms. I am completely not convinced of that! So far, the explanations that I have seen for the creation of crop circles by humans is quite convincing. Do you think he would even take the evidence disproving his theories seriously?
• John Lundberg, the guy behind circlemakers.org mentioned a movie he was making about crop circles with some Japanese people. Note to self: check this out!! I also loved Lundbergs customer list, including Microsoft, Nike, the BBC…
• Some things that were frequently said about creating a crop circle: “it is simple”, “it is quick”, “he just makes crop circles for fun”.
• I really liked the interview with crop circle maker ‘Cereal Killer’. Especially the part about why he never exposed himself as the maker of some famous crop circles (because then myths and urban legends rise, people try to explain what happend, which is quite fun. Also, when everyone would know a crop circle was man made, the crop circle itself (which very often is a beautiful piece of landscape art) would get far less attention. It probably all boils down to acknowledgement. In an anonymous way.) This guy was quite concerned about the take up of crop circles by sects and religious groups though, which might also be an interesting issue to explore further (another note to self).
• Apparently, making a crop circle isn’t that difficult, as long as you prepare it well and make sure your planning and organisation are in order. I can do that! I think.
• Do you think someone ever made a calculation of the loss of income for farmers because of crop circles?

It is time I started doing some real research myself again, but ah, time…. You know the feeling! I’ll try to remember I ask for Eise’s library card next time I see him (I’m more of a single girl these days!!). Buying crop circle books is just one step too far for me… :-S

Cheers!

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Nice Video’s

Hi there Karin!

Just found a nice series of video’s perfectly matching with our cropcirclehunt. Watched the first one and can’t wait to see the rest!

These are video’s from the Belgium televisionprogram Terzake, they interviewed croppies as well as skeptics from different countries and did some research themselves!

here’s part 2 (I watched it in the meantime) enjoy!

and part 3.

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