Woah, that's deep...

So, like I was saying. The crop circle that was deemed 'crap' was this one. Though we were bummed that we didn't get to see one, we did go to a really, uhm, interesting (mind-stretching?)series of lectures, The Summer 2006 Lectures put on by a group called Temporary Temples. Three of the four speakers were really good. Slightly beyond our clear comprehension perhaps, but still very good to listen to. Michael Glickman is someone K is familiar with through her work for S (in LA). He spoke about the lovely and complex geometry found in crop circles and other sacred art. He is an excellent speaker, smooth and self-deprecating. The next speaker was Dan Vidler. He was a bit more down to earth, looking like a sleepier version of the singer of Coldplay. His topic was the ground-level structure of crop circles. Things got a lot more complicated and abstract when Jude Currivan spoke about multi-dimensional realities. It sounds very 'airy fairy' but it was a very matter-of-fact explanation of how the universe is interconnected, conscious and holographic. The final speaker shall be known as JDV. He spent the entire 30+ minutes without finishing a sentence or saying anything with real meaning. We are assuming that he was severely jet-lagged and that isn't how he normally is! His main point (we think) is that he never used to believe in crop circles but now he does.

The lectures took place in the Devizes, Wiltshire, town hall, which gave the whole thing quite a bit of clout. We were expecting it to be in some out-of-the-way pub hall with a whole bunch of slightly batty hippies wearing mismatched tie-dyes and Birkenstocks. It was great to see that the audience was mostly "normal" people like K and I. A group like that just might be able to convince the rest of the world that there is a lot more to crop circles than long-debunked hoaxes. One thing is for sure, there is no easy explanation for how/why they appear, but that's another story.












Things we ruminated on or came to understand during the course of these lectures:

-If the reciprocal of the past is the future, then the reciprocal of the present is nothing.

-There is a harmonic relationship between everything in the universe.

-Geometry is beautiful.

-There are a lot of crop circles that have squares in them or insinuate a square.










The next series of lectures is in July 2007. We definitely want to go again! Hopefully, there will be some crop circles this weekend. Suzanne is going to call us if there is.