I read something remarkable today, which makes it almost as special as seeing, say, a flying saucer in unmistakable detail. It was in an unlikely place, and for this reason it had such significance for me: on the computer page front, MSNBC.
I did not choose this site as my computer opener - it somehow was granted to me - but I have kept it because I can learn the Dow Jones average immediately, the weather, and, more importantly, can catch up on how stupid the forces behind the media think we are. When they reach down into the Kardashians and the JLo's, do you think they have any idea that we read on because we are laughing as much at the content providers as they are at us?
In any case, however, MSNBC is NOT the vehicle to challenge conventional wisdom - it rather confirms and reproduces it. And so I opened one teaser titled something like "The Truth behind Crop Circles." I did this out of evading work, because I did not want to begin the second draft of my latest novel - always a mind twisting chore. I certainly am interested in crop circles and have read a fair amount about them, but not from such conventional sources.
Generally, one tends to read about them either in the Enquirer or in the less known esoteric literature that has become my fascination. But MSNBC? I was certain they'd tell us that crop circles were all made by hoaksters and that would be that. I was in for a surprise. I knew all the information that they gave me, but I never expected them, the establishment mouthpiece, to reproduce it.
And yet they did. It was a video, and as the narrator talked, they showed pictures of the most exquisite mandalas (sacred geometric patterns) and religious motifs I have ever seen on such a massive scale. These were the crop circles, and just to see them is to realize that they could not be made by hoaksters - indeed, they would be hard to make by experts and artisans working in the broad light of day. Actually, as it turns out, according to the video, it would have been impossible for such human workers to make them. I do forget the details, but the turns of the wheat or other crops that are used to make the patterns (that is, the angles to which they were bent) could only be done by microwaves (and something else even more exotic). No flattening by mechanical means could do it. And although they appear in many locations around the world, the greatest concentration of them are in England in the vicinity of Stonehenge (actually, now that I think about it, this I did not know). They are described by the narrator as "geometric designs and religious symbols" that may spread across so many thousands of square meters - some obviously covering acreages of 20 or more.
They did NOT tell us the secret of the crop circles - because, as was said, it was not known. That is, no one knows who or what or how or why these fantastic symbols are there or come to be. No one. Unexplained.
Think of the implications - massive symbols of intelligent design, some of them with deep religious meaning, are simply appearing in fields without human effort. This is no loony paranoid ranting, but a concise reporter's view of a certain phenomena that he treats (or the team treats) as another, "hey, how about that?" and, of course, then moves on to - I don't know, maybe JLo. And yet it is clearly proof that reflective intelligence other than that of humans is busy on earth in our own time - a new source of miracles every bit as great as the parting of the seas of the raising of the dead - and almost nothing is made of it. Yes, the skeptics always have their day, but this, like many other things (telepathy, clairvoyance, faith healing, the "placebo effect") cannot be disproved. So they are forgotten or put from time to time on little videos for our amusement. Yet, clearly, we still live in the age of miracles - we, or many of us, simply will not accept them.
What do I think they are, and are from? Anyone? I will work up my answer for another day. FK
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