There's a great book on the art of crop circles at 21st Century. Just pictures and descriptions without getting mired down in controversy about HOW they were made. It's by Steve and Karen Alexander and it costs about $14. It's amazing value and I gave 4 of them away as Christmas presents last year. They make great coffee table books.
Many of the pictures are shown on their website: http://www.temporarytemples.co.uk/ It takes a while to load this webpage. I was educated in the UK in the 70's and early 80's and never knew how much the phenomenon has evolved since then. There are so many and so complex, I can't see how they could all be man-made. As to what made them - well that is a mystery. Maybe Deva's are playing? Steve and Karen's book includes some which go beyond art and into communication with pictures of ET's and a complex message in binary code which appears to be a response to a message sent by radio signals into outer space. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > I wouldn't consider Erich Von Daniken a reliable guide > > to anything RJ, let alone archaeology. The guy was a > > dreamer and had some amazingly wild ideas about things > > most of them were just him interpreting things he didn't > > understand in terms of things he did. ... > > > > I always found them insulting to ancient man, the whole > > point of them is that our ancestors couldn't have done all > > the things they did without help from the space brothers, > > give em a bit of credit I say. ... > > > > And just because I couldn't knock up a crop circle in 4 > > hours doesn't mean someone else *couldn't* have got the hang > > of it. We know they are made by people as was the Shri Yantra, > > we *know* who builds them, to claim they are lying shows > > a desperation to believe there is more here than we know about. > > I've been staying out of this crop circle thread > because I have very little interest in crop circles, > except as 1) a believer phenomenon, and 2) as Earth Art. > > The thing I find most interesting about the believer > phenomenon is twofold. First, the seeming need some > people have to find a supernatural or extraterrestrial > "explanation" for crop circles. And second, the "team > effort" that seems to be going on among other humans, > who cater to these people's need, and who seem to do it > just for the FUN of it. > > I mean, it is probably more *likely* that each and > every one of these things was created by humans or by > natural phenomena than that they were created by Space > Brothers, right? Occam's Razor, probability, all that. > So who is DOING this stuff in the dead of night? > > It's like they are "Compassion Pranksters." Someday > 'way back when, when Mystery-starved people started to > trip on ancient peoples' Earth Art, and even started > tripping on natural circles appearing in fields, a few > people *noticed* the Mystery-starved people tripping > on such things, and decided to do something about it. > They got into creating MORE things for them to trip on. > > The people who trip on crop circles are IMO so starved > for Mystery in their lives that they now need Big > Mysteries to get them off. The mathematical perfection > of a rose or a child's laugh just doesn't DO it for them > any more, Mystery-wise. They need something more, some- > thing HUGE. > > And so the Compassion Pranksters get together in the middle > of the night and give these folks something HUGE, the Big > Mystery that the Mystery-starved can't see in their daily > lives, in the form of a crop circle or two. The Compassion > Pranksters have fun doing it, probably laughing and partying > the whole time, and the Nabby's of the world are happier, > because there suddenly appears in his life yet another Big > Mystery that only he and Benjamin Creme fully "understand." > > I see this as a somewhat symbiotic and essentially harmless > relationship. Win-win. The people who need Big Mysteries to > trip on get them and have fun tripping on them, and the > people who create the Big Mysteries have fun creating them. > No harm, no foul. > > That said, I do like crop circles as Earth Art. I'm a fan > of Earth Art -- using found materials to create a statement > about the nature of a place. > > I love Japanese Zen gardens -- possibly the pinnacle of Earth > Art. And I love places like Chaco Canyon. I love that it's > laid out along precise astronomical lines, with buildings a > half mile apart aligned to the centimeter along a line of > sight that ISN'T a line of sight, because there is a mountain > in the way. No one could have seen through the mountain TO > align the buildings this perfectly. I think that's neat. But > at the same time I give all the credit to the Anasazi them- > selves for figuring out how to do it. I don't have to think > that members of the City Planning Dept. of Space Brothers Inc. > came down and did the blueprints for them. > > BTW, if you are at all interested in Earth Art, may I recommend > a BEAUTIFUL film that you might be able to find on Netflix or > in specialty stores or libraries? It's called "Rivers and Tides," > and is a documentary following the work of Andy Goldsworthy. He > takes found natural materials and builds "time sculptures" with > them -- art installations that are designed to be ephemeral. > > For example, he might build a elaborate driftwood sculpture in a > tide pool during low tide, knowing that it will be washed away > during the next high tide. Stunningly beautiful film, one that > never fails to inspire the hell out of me. Here are a few YouTube > clips from the film: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qrE_rBrJQ > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnek_0Dd9S8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBcdL8uO71E >
