An article for the CCCS journal The Circular, 1994.
by Palden Jenkins

About 2,500 years ago the sage Lao Tzu taught that the purpose of a cup, a room or a person lies in its apparent emptiness. The same might be said for crop formations. Being brought up in a well-ingrained materialistic society where nothing is accepted unless proven and nothing is proven unless already accepted, we examine the corn itself and its patterns of lay, perceiving this as the evidence – and we have thereby become confused. In greater detail, we research the molecular composition of grain-stalks or the presence of radioactive isotopes, which we customarily view as structures and particles. However, these are energy- wavelengths, perceptible slices of an immense energy spectrum, which stretch outside our capacity to identify them. By our misconception, we miss a key to understanding the energies connected with the crop formations.

Theoretically, we do recognise that all detectable or manifest things are constituted of energy-waves locked into a multiplicity of transient combinations. Yet we are hesitant to go further, to really seek the possible language or clues contained in these waves in anything other than an anxiously rational way. We are reluctant to cast off from the safe shore of Known Things. Nevertheless, crop phenomena and associated paranormal events oblige us to do so – especially when they seem to infiltrate the very roots of our psyches. Becoming a 'croppie' is a virtual guarantee that our very sense of reality and participation in it is irreversibly changing.

A crop formation is a footprint, an effect of a force which creates or inhabits it. Formations clearly seem to be made by advanced multi-dimensional intelligences (MDIs), probably of non-earthly origin, and they seem integral to our future. However, investigating MDIs leads us to an initially-unsettling conclusion that the distinction between earthly beings like us and non-earthly beings like them is hazy – 'earthly' and 'non-earthly' are cosmologically-xenophobic and relativistic concepts. After all, we ourselves are multidimensional beings, capable of travelling in sleep, trance and imagination to the furthest reaches of the universe, and additionally of operating inside a dense physical body. We don't utilise these capacities fully, but they are there in our repertoire.

Our compelling search for contact with circle-making intelligences betrays an unconscious emotional craving for reunion – reunion perhaps with long-lost kin and even with ourselves, on a new level. We're all MDIs. I have always found that croppies' motivation derives from a deep, indistinct 'remembering', which drives them to exert energies on circle-chasing and intense investigation which few rational interests could equal.

The MDIs – circle-makers – instigating the formations seem free of form, time and space. What makes us different from them is that we are MDIs clad in dense physiques – weighty, organic, bone-held contraptions – through the senses and organs of which we participate in dense planetary reality. At least, that's what we do when we're 'awake'. And we get rather lost! In altered states, though, we can fly as free as other MDIs, except perhaps with less adepthood.

We are MDIs with a special brief to live and work in this physical reality, to pull spirit into concretion, and to infuse physicality with the repercussions of higher intelligence. This can be done by less-physical MDIs too, but not without a concentration of effort and technology which has its technical problems in our sticky, tricky reality. Many MDIs are what we call ETs, though others are 'supernatural' beings – though these are fallible distinctions to draw. These less-physical MDIs, whatever their nature, seem to me to be involved with the 'engineering' aspect of circle-making, though possibly not instigating such activity. I would suggest that they are distantly set in motion by beings of a very 'high' nature, who never dip into our reality.

As an aside, my 'take' on the golden ball-like phenomena which have been seen around crop formations is that they are remote viewing/sensing devices, which translate information across dimensions – while appearing to us as a localised and intelligently-behaving golden ball.

Through creating crop formations, the circle-makers demonstrate that such a psychic-engineering feat can be done, without any noticeable agency of any circle-making devices. These are not the imprints of UFOs: they are intentional designs created either remotely, by invisible technologies or psychokinetically. One thing I suggest they are saying is: 'you could do it too'. The circle-makers go to great lengths to counteract our questionable though rigid belief that materiality is the only reality, or that physical objects can be modified only by physical things.

Yet, by dint of location and patterns, the crop formations draw attention to the megalithic ancient remains of Britain, and to what these remains were built to achieve. They are perhaps pointing to energy- frequencies or reality-levels we ourselves once worked with in the megalithic era. Put another way: today, we omit to carry out crucial work our ancestors once did, working with the subtle fields within ourselves, with the heart of the landscape and dimensionally with the whole universe – thereby we create a plethora of problems. As many circle-analysts have pointed out, the circles draw our attention somehow to the parlous state of nature and our planet.

In a sense, crop formations represent temporary operational home-like energy-spaces on Earth, where the MDIs set up a short-term, harvestable energy-base into which people may enter. These tantalising agriglyphic art-galleries of wheat and sky are empty, yet they are specifically-formed and precisely-charged spaces, into which we are tantalisingly invited to walk.

We have the choice to enter formations – our free-will is respected. Most people avoid or ignore them completely. Yet once we step inside, we are in the MDIs' reality-space. We are their guests. As if we were unwittingly teleported to their world or realm. The whole atmosphere inside crop formations is subtly different – time-warps, sound-warps, healings, insights, unusual phenomena or headaches arise. No one comes back unchanged.

However, we perversely tend to watch the cinema-screen rather than the film. We look at the wheat. In doing so we sense and feel the energy-fields only unconsciously. But in the absence of anything better, that is sufficient – MDIs have obviously studied us carefully to find out how to set up this phenomenon to give it maximum educational potential.

Crop formations embody a holographic swarm of meaning and interpretative potential, yet two further factors seem to me to be important and deliberate: MDIs wish to scan and register us, and they seek to irradiate us – from most croppies' experience, beneficently.

I would suggest they are scanning us to find out how we truly tick – complex, incomprehensible and splintered beings that we are, even to each other. They also want to get a 'fix' on us, individually and collectively, to identify and know us more clearly. They are registering us because they need to find out who responds to the call. There's such a shortage of receptive people in the human population that they need to find and 'log in' to as many as they can get. By playing a cereological game with us, they can measure how far each of us can get in coming half-way to meet them. They're also seeking to acclimatise people to interacting with them – even if, again, our interactions are largely unconscious.

Next time you visit a formation, try acting as a guest, as if in a mosque, pagoda or medicine-wheel. Let yourself be observed, and note the kind of consciousness-state which is asked for – adjust to whatever frequency seems to be present. In that state, questions may be asked and clues or knowings might come back – I've been given a good few, though answers are terse and riddlesome. These MDIs don't want to give things away – they want us to run the whole course. Comprehensive elucidations and explanations would pre-empt the mystery chase they've set us, a seat-of-the-pants wild hunt for a mode of consciousness lying beyond our everyday reach. The probable outcome of this riddle-weaving might be that we might come to grasp the holographic meaning and implications of crop formations whenever we have grown to a state where we already implicitly understand them! If you get what I mean.

Irradiation? Energy-fields are probably more important than corn-fields. Laboratory research, dowsing and psychic sensitivity all demonstrate there is active energy present in formations. This is, by notable degrees, qualitatively different energy to anything we've encountered before. It's different even from the feeling you get from active ancient sites. When we enter a crop formation, it's as if we are being secretly irradiated with pattern-modifying energies, as if to microwave our genes and induce new patternings.

Genuine corn-imprints are valuable to study and beautiful to behold. They represent a subtly tempting trick, cajoling us into entering a multi-dimensional energy-space we might not otherwise enter. We then are bathed in something – a reality? This frequency-band, this morphic field, sinks into us, whether we quietly sit and absorb it, or whether we talkatively 'trespass' in circles with our boots and jangle. We come away from formations in altered states – something inside has been jiggled, quickened, energised.

There might well also be re-programming of our fundamental depth-psychology going on. A re-programming which trickles to the surface of consciousness over a period of years. There's more. Formations, seemingly designed and encoded 'from above', though more probably executed 'from below', might well be delayed-release programming keys, containing information for Earth itself and for humanity as a whole. These keys are maybe inserted into the Earth's energy-sphere now for future activation when circumstances are correct – like keepsakes we save for our children's eventual inheritance, or like benign computer viruses. The keys are impressed into the Earth's energy sphere partially through the physical manifestation of the crop formation, even though it is temporary. We tend to think of them being impressed from above, but it is more likely that precisely-localised, shapely gravitational fields are used, pulling the corn down, drawing on earth-energy grids and unconscious human psychic propellant.

They could be altering the fundamental structural relationships or morphogenetic fields within matter, energy, thought, imagination and spirit. They could be rearranging human group psychology as one being. What we believe is happening in the world today is not necessarily what is happening – behind contemporary developments a deeper agenda is being acted out, shaped in symbolism and underlying significance, evolving humanity, mutating Nature and affecting the universe. It could well be that crop formations are far more crucial and significant than we ever dreamed. Some theorise that the circle-makers are our future selves communicating back in time to their rather lost ancestors.

My intuition is that the energy/information concealed within the circles is not specifically aimed at awakening us to our world crisis – though it naturally does so as a by-product. And some formations, by their publicly-visible placing, are obviously setting out to communicate with humans. Rather, it is tuning the dials for what might happen after the world crisis we're plummeting toward, however we handle it, for the provision of future solutions for a time we really need them.

This undoubtedly concerns such matters as consciousness (since awareness is activated in formations), interconnectedness between people (witness the inter-personal meetings and synchronicities in crop formations), the power of mind (witness the responses to humans by circle-makers, and to circle-makers by humans), the integral connection of gravity-light-energy-thought (implicit in the apparent mechanics of cereological construction), sophisticated universal mathematics, free-energy and a host of other future-civilising factors.

Matter itself, and its morphogenetic foundations, could be going through a re-programming or 're- booting' from an utterly new basis. This doesn't directly involve communication with humans: it's a kind of psychic surgery on matter and energy itself, on Gaia's own programming and 'operating system'. And Britain is an island with some global outreach and certain deep-seated historic qualities, where it could be that a new reality-patterning is being 'pumped up' for later global release.

Two visible possibilities exist to achieve this release: overwhelming disaster (shaking out the past), or a public mass-awakening and 're-enchanting' of Nature (such that manageable world transition becomes feasible). The latter option is more energy-efficient, since the former can lose the baby with the bathwater and might demand an emergency 'cosmic aid effort' which could override the very evolutionary potential of humanity and Earth. Such an eventuality could be inherently problem-creating, since the universe needs us to be self-determining and creational – despite our destructiveness, we do know planet Earth better than anyone, and we're pretty experienced with the exigencies of dense physicality too. Averting disaster in advance brings humanity to rise to its full stature, by choice: itself a major evolutionary step.

This reprogramming probably forms a major priority in the MDIs' consciousness campaign. Communication with us is but one priority. In fact, the main communication is probably yet to come – since we do not yet understand what's being said! Perhaps the main communication issue is education-initiation rather than information-conveyance – the laying of a mystery trail which tricks us into stumbling upon important truths. Even hoaxers are being incorporated in the campaign – disgust and confusion over hoaxing has obliged people to confirm their own cereological experiences, and to end the habit of doubt in subjective experience and reliance on authorities and rational explanations. Hoaxes and conspiracy-rumours are forcing us to distinguish the language and characteristics of genuine circle-makers. However, if we break through the evolutionary threshold before us, we might well find we have been given holographic formulae for the next step after that.

This next step involves a deepening and maturing of humanity to utilise the full potentiality available to us. This is a more cooperative, interdependent state of being, based in wide-spectrum insight and a 'magical' capacity to work with physical and subtle forms in new ways, giving a basis for a new Earth-harmonic civilisation and reality. This involves handling thought, love, energy, light and gravity as adeptly as we now use spanners and keyboards, acknowledging all beings as our family, living in spirit in physicality without the painful, somnambulant slavery of today. Divinity incarnate, busy creating – that's what we can be. We can take a long or a short path towards this, but take it we shall, if survival is our choice.

Combine harvesters reap the corn, yet the energy surely does not just evaporate. It might not stay in the precise location of the crop formation either. This energy is expressed into cereological form to penetrate dense physicality, to immunise it against creeping loss of life-force in nature and humanity. It gets absorbed into the energy-body of the Earth. One unifying factor which characterises nearly all formations is the spinning, the whirling of corn: it is spinning (what Viktor Schauberger called 'cycloid space-curve motion') which is the energy-basis of all life. Spinning creates energy, energy creates gravity, gravity creates physicality, and physicality hones and tests the spirit.

Spinning counteracts the current anti-life contaminant effects we create through our mechanical, electromagnetic, chemical and nuclear technologies. Spinning re-enlivens the morphogenetic patterning of Nature. The psychological sensation of spinning – confusion and burn-out – also brings human consciousness to a crux-point of truth – our still small voice. Consciousness enters physicality through spinning. The whirled corn might be a way of fixing non-material energy into the physical, screwing it down through quartzy stalks of wheat, potentiating the very grain we eat in our chocolate biscuits.

The energy/information within the formations seems to me to be the crux of the issue. We need to give this at least a decade of study, and to observe its effects on ourselves more closely. It means a lot to all of us, even if some cannot acknowledge this. Specifically localised in corn-fields, connected with power- places, yet on another level unlimited by time and space, these holographic energy-devices are like mystery branch-offices, embassies on Earth, into which we variously stumble, and from which we never fully leave. We're being introduced experientially to a widening spectrum of reality-wavelengths and consciousness- catalysts.

It is probably unnecessary to dream of meeting up with a space-craft, ETs or spiritual beings: their reality has come to us, and thousands have now plunged into it. May I encourage croppies to give increasing attention to the space within formations? Perhaps we need to begin developing a consensual system for recognising, describing and calibrating what we subjectively experience there. Without the empty innermost of a kettle and a mug, there would be no cups of tea after lengthy field trips! Without the empty innermost of crop formations there would be no formations at all.

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