Proper preparation: Crop Circle Etiquette

Hi Dees!

Look what I found! Some essential documentation for preparing our crop circle trip. I assume you will read this before next Saturday? 😉

Cheerio…

First local crop circle!

Hi Dees,

Look what Percy gave me! Apparently, there is a crop circle in Belgium, close to Landen. De Morgen (a Belgian newspaper) published a huge article about it. It is quite a funny article. The farmer in whose crop the circle appeared was not amused, he is planning to ask for a financial compensation from whoever made the circle. He claims that the circle will cost him about 1000 Euros of damaged crop (which seems rather a lot of money to me for such a circle). Furthermore, two Belgian croppies were interviewed, who immediately went to lie down in the circle to feel the energy. Also, a Belgian group of crop circle makers (who claimed to have nothing to do with this particular crop circle) was interviewed.

I’ll bring you the article later this week!
Cheers, Karin

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

To do!

Hi Dees,

Isn’t that great! I’m looking forward to our trip already! Out of sheer enthusiasm I started looking for B&B’s and I found two nice ones to start with:

• Monkton Wyld Court who say on their website: “For breakfast, help yourself to cereal, muesli, oats for porridge, milk, soya or rice milk. There are eggs from our own hens for you to cook to your taste and bread for toasting plus a selection of spreads and a range of herbal teas and other hot drinks. Lunch and supper are available by reservation. All our food is vegetarian and almost all organically grown, some right here in our garden.”
• The Royal Oak in Swindon, who have a pub and an organic farm as well (and serve non-traditional veggie food).

There are many more, we should probably start with the Organic Holidays website again! I guess we can search in the areas of Wiltshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Hampshire (and maybe a few more). Maybe we should make a to do list as well, for all the things we have to arrange!

I’ve sent an e-mail to Wiltshire tours, hopefully we’ll hear from them soon…

Good night!

Booking

Hey Karin,

That was a nice, bit chaotic, telephoneconversation we just had (86 minutes and 24 seconds)!!  Yesss, the traintickets are on their way… the 24th of july our cropcirclehunt is going to start!   So now we can contact Wiltshiretours, for a nice daytrip. I also found this very nice story about Avebury Circle (in dutch) on a very spiritual oriented website about powerspots. Please share your skeptic thoughts about this one…

see you next week,

Dees

Galactic communication?

Hey Karin,

How are you two doing… still under a blanket on the couch?

This afternoon I found some time to read your posts and the ‘order of time’ website you were writing about. Pretty interesting and this time-stuff is indeed related to what I teach in my ‘Tzolkin-courses’. For me the Tzolkin (or Mayan-calender although it is not THE mayan-calender, there is no such thing as THE mayan-calender) is about recollecting our connection with the galaxy… I realize this might sound a bit hocus pocus to you… but living with this calender synchronizes us with our spiritual path and gives us a deeper understanding of what it is to be a ‘galactic human’ on earth. So, I guess my perspective on galactic time is even a bit more elaborate then what I read on this website. 

Although I am very into uncommon ideas about time(perception), natural time-stuff, lunar, solar and galactic calenders I am not sure the only way to interpret cropcircles is to see them as an expression of alien or galactic beings (don’t forget we are also living in this galaxy and therefore are galactic beings as well) searching for contact and waiting for an answer. In my opinion galactic communication takes place at a different level and those wanting to contact us find ways, they are not waiting for a stamp in the grain. Anyway, If we are talking about this kind of subjects we have to go beyond the scope of our normal human mind… we have to think out of the box!

So, I can appreciate most things written on this site and in this article… And I’m sure the time-management/calenders we use reflect our mindset and our way of managing this planet as a collective but I find the cropcircletheory they propose a bit hollywood-like… (een beetje erbij gehaald, zou ik zeggen).

Well, are we getting any wiser on this cropcircle-stuff? I feel the need to visit one (not the best timing now) to experience for  myself. Everything I have read about the believerside of this subject is the same beautiful inspiring story, all echos from each other.

What to do? Let’s go plan our trip!  When do we have a meeting?

Hope you and Eise soon will be better (Let me know what you think about a distant healingsession, I know somebody…)

Love, Dees

Critical review on W.C. Levengood’s crop circle research

Hi Dees,

No trip to Bloemendaal & Haarlem this weekend, unfortunately. Eise caught the flu (and an additional ear infection) and I’m not feeling too well either. So I thought this was a good moment to start reading some of the supposedly scientific research into crop circles myself.

But before I got to reading the articles, I found a nice review on W.C. Levengood’s crop circle research. This review addresses two issues I’ve mentioned before, the lack of double blind testing and the circular reasoning (“Although there are no guaranteed genuine formations on which to conduct research, the research supposedly proves the genuineness of the formations.”). Besides these two points, the author (Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), how cool does that sound!) also points to a fact I hadn’t even realised myself, namely that the correlation Levengood finds between structural and cellular alterations in plants and their location within crop-circle-type formations does not at all show a causal relationship. Of course! This reminds me to something I read earlier, that stalks that have been bent grow longer nodes (one of the signs of a “genuine” crop circle, according to Levengood and other croppies) because they simply have to elevate themselves again.

Just another nice skeptical read! 😉

By the way, I’m quite curious about Karlo’s opinion on crop circles and our blog, couldn’t you push him to leave a comment??

Bye, Karin

Crop circle denial

Yo Dees!

Wow. I’m flabbergasted. I stumbled upon this website which is a “participation platform for alternative time consciousness”. It’s called The Order of Time, do you know it? They posted an article on Crop Circles and the Key to the World Order. This article is full of conspiracy theory views on man-made crop circles (their reaction to the circlemakers website: “Apparently this is an action of legally covering it up”) and the author seems convinced of the fact that crop circles are made by an intelligence that tries to communicate with us (“The conclusion is that some intelligence is writing messages in symbol circle code to us on the face of mother earth and we are baffled.”).

The article is mostly about what the intelligence is trying to communicate with us and what we should answer them (“we, from our own selfrespect of conscious control, owe them an answer.”). The author finally comes to the conclusion (I could not really follow the analysis and interpretation) that the meaning of the crop circles is related to time (“From the above as well as from many other religious, philosophical and political options we have to depart from a threefold division of time representing the relationship of our earthly management of time and organic life.”). So Dees, maybe you can connect this to Maya calendars!!

The author ends with designing an answer we could give to the genuine crop circle makers, which is supposed to represent our own complexity of time consciousness. I couldn’t really understand how the explanation of crop circles resulted in this design, maybe you can make something out of it….

I really wonder what you think of this article. You can probably guess my opion…

Cheers, Karin

 

Exact sciences & spirituality

Hi Dees,

I am in Bloemendaal on November 22nd… Missing an opportunity to hear mrs. Ossebaard live! I did find another event we should definitely go to (and which is much closer as well), a Studium Generale discussion night about exact sciences and spirituality. What do you think?

Enjoy your weekend!

Cheers, Karin

Let’s go visit this event!

Hi Karin,

Good to hear from you. Paris was nice, no cropcircles overthere, but I did see the mysterious space invaders we saw a few years ago!

please look at this site www.2012ofnu.nl  it’s about an event in Emmen, think I already mentioned it. I really would like to go there!  Not only because Janet Ossebaard is giving a lecture, also Peter Toonen (I read most of his books) and some other interesting people will be there. A trip to Wiltshire will cost less time… but this event might do some good to the spiritual side of our hunt 🙂

Greetz,

Dees