This book lifts the crop circles away from the controversy of who makes them into the wonder of what they represent to us at this critical time in our history.--Peter Paget.
This phenomenon has intrigued me ever since I was a young boy. Still the most intriguing proof of extradimensional life there is. I don’t care what anyone that hasn’t seen the evidence says.
As always, our imagination and our willingness to reconceptualise our most fundamental metaphysical assumptions is the only true barrier.
This book however doesn’t add much as far as analysis goes.
This coffee-table sized book was given to me as a gift from my lady friend, and I couldn't stop thanking her as I read it. I became interested in the topic while in China, not because of many crop circles discovered there, but because of the interest of a fellow professor (and resident of the UK) whose discussions prompted me into taking a story I was writing about the part of Illinois where I grew up and turning it into a crop circle story. I started while over there, and my UK friend liked what I had begun.
I have seen many excellent DVD films on crop circles, some of which have been quite comprehensive, some of which are mainly filled with interviews. This is not to state that the interviewees are anything but intelligent and informed or that they don't bring in as many sides of the crop circles stories and theories as possible. However, this tome by Judith Moore and Barbara Lamb goes a bit deeper into the meanings of each symbol and, particularly in the second half, goes off into other (and otherworldly) directions. They not only discuss experiences with crop circles themselves (mainly found in the UK) but bring in the messages from extraterrestrials who offer to decode the symbols. One of the authors, Judith K. Moore, claims to be a conscious-merging channel for "Laiolin," a wise thirteenth dimensional being. She is also a telepath and is purported to be receiving signals from a space craft -- called a mothership -- circling above. I know how that sounds. I know. I know. Before you start singing or whistling the TWILIGHT ZONE theme song, take a close look at this book.*
Before the extensive introduction, we are shown numerous color plates of crop circles, some of them stunning beyond belief. We also see color photo inserts of investigators, of whom there are many. These plates I often referred back to again and again as I read the text (which includes black-and-white photos about the circle under discussion). Considering the intricacy and/or complexity of many of these circles, I can understand why many people are afraid of them, including those who are paid to be involved in a cover-up of the discoveries.
Some of those being interviewees have even claimed to have seen some of these circles being created. All of the bases are covered, including a discussion of deliberate hoaxes in order to prove that these circles could be man-made. Yeah. Right.
I am going to make an off-the-wall statement that if anything exists to prove to us that we have been visited by aliens or ETs, these crop circles would be the ticket -- these and the Phoenix Lights observations. I have already written reviews about STAR ANCESTORS and LIFE WITH A COSMIC CLEARANCE on Goodreads, so I will add this book to the list.
I used to say: See you on the other side of the river. Now I could say, see you on the other side of the crop circle.
Read all three of these books.
*Of course, let us not forget the disappearance of the 370 jumbo jet that left Malaysia and headed for Beijing. Some readers making comments regarding stories on Yahoo News referred to the TWILIGHT ZONE.