Sunday, June 15, 2003

I've written a great deal about "weird" subjects such as alien contact, so it's ironic that I've barely even mentioned the crop circle enigma. The subject is so dauntingly strange and rife with fraud . . . and inundated with even more brainless New Age thinking and professional debunking than the UFO phenomenon -- if such a thing is possible.

If I had to guess, I'd posit that there is an actual mystery behind crop formations. And I don't think it has anything to do with atmospheric plasma vortexes or black-budget defence projects, although the latter may play a peripheral role. I think there's a nonhuman intelligence involved and that hoaxers and disinformationists have exploited the prevailing mythos to their own ends.





The prospect of hard evidence of nonhuman intelligence scattered throughout the crops (and frozen lakes) of the world is almost insidiously intimidating. Given the large numbers of known human circle-makers, it's little surprise that this enigma hasn't received the attention it deserves. Perhaps a strange sort of dialogue is unfolding, with feints and subterfuge from both participants.

Some close encounter researchers have noted that the so-called "abduction" epidemic seems explicitly personal, even intimate. The crop formation controversy shares this same "grassroots" sensibility -- sometimes even literally. It's as if something is bypassing established lines of communication in order to

a.) avoid contaminating the recipient culture

and

b.) remain hidden behind a screen of "plausible deniability."

The implications are dizzying. We may not understand the formations' message until we develop an actual physics of consciousness. I predict that this may arise, at least in part, from artificial intelligence research. If we can construct a sentient mind, we may inadvertantly crack the code that renders crop formations and close encounters so maddeningly absurd. The "parasphere" -- that liminal realm of subjective anomaly and official duplicity -- may suddenly begin to make sense, even if we have to learn a new cognitive syntax.

Like learning to process visual association blocks (see post below), crop formations may catalyze the very way we think. But how? And why?

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