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Michael Glickman on Crop Circles After more than twenty years of focused involvement with the crop circles I am delighted to confess that I do not know what is going on here. I have many ideas, hypotheses and speculations but I realise (and perhaps this is the charm of this phenomenon) that they are all hollow! Anyone who claims “to know”, anyone who professes “certainties”, is either a fool or a liar.

This, I suppose, is as clear a statement of my position as is possible. I have been fascinated, indeed obsessed with this enigmatic mystery for an embarrassing amount of time.

I hope to use this site as a vehicle for my observations and analyses, my intuitions and commentaries, my surprises and, occasionally, disappointments for as long as possible. But never, I hope, my conclusions.

Looking back, I realise it is not simply the geometry that intrigues me. I constantly sense an order behind the geometry and an intent behind that order. The pursuit of the source and origin of that intent, its programme, its goal and ultimately its identity must surely be the obligation of everyone interested in crop circles. This will be the underlying driver of this site.

There will be no answers but I hope to amplify and clarify some of the questions.

My intention is to post a major blog every two or three weeks and shorter comments whenever needs arise.

None of this would have been possible without the work of my extraordinary web designer James Beeson at Lightworker Design, and my numerous pals, supporters, readers and members of my editorial committee. You know who you are and I thank you all.

MICHAEL

Recent thoughts

January 25th 2014 @ 09:59
Culmination

When I saw the Salinas/Chualar, California formation I was, like many of us, impressed. Out of nowhere the word “culmination” attached itself and stayed. The date seemed important; the crop circle phenomenon is aware of our calendar and has often made use of it. A huge and elaborate formation at the very end of 2013 and the insistence of culmination led me to believe that this was a powerful signal of an ending, a symbolic conclusion to the bleak train wreck of the 2013 season.

The other reason I was impressed was the assurance and the intent of the design.

I was fooled. It is not the first time and it will not be the last. It is a small reassurance to know that it is the highest aspiration of the man-made gang to mislead us. But this was the emperor of all deceptions. A micro chip development company called nVidia (not invidious) set up a PR scam to publicise the launch of their new chip. A large crop circle broadly replicating the chip in question was stomped into a field. The farmer was paid and lied about it. A photographer flew overhead, took pictures and made a video. She was paid to lie about it. Two young men, driving by at night, made a video of (pre-arranged) flashing green lights and went in the field, to excitedly “discovering” the crop circle. They were paid and they lied.

And finally, our very own Rob Irving and John Lundberg were flown to California to plank it down. They were paid $30,000.
In the nVidia produced video we see Irving and Lundberg proudly discussing their activity. Like Williams they appear cheerless, depressed and dead-eyed. It is pitiful that, at their age, this is all they have to show. They talk portentously of their role as “artists”. They are confidence tricksters, con-men, and con artists. In the real art world they would be forgers – a criminal activity. Irving speaks of “a creative partnership between us and our audience.” He is both pretentious and deluded.
This is why “culmination” is such an appropriate word now. This event marks the ultimate essence of the hoax endeavour. Limitless cash, maximum deceit, widespread lying and hollow, pompous ponouncements.
Could anything more clearly expose the whole vile enterprise? Could anyone any longer be serious about man made circles

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