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One of the things that I personally have been doing over the last year or so is that
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the last 15 years or so is traveling around the United States and looking at crop circles.
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I am the director of an organization called the Independent Crop Circle Researchers Association.
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Archeology is sort of my second hobby. In looking at crop circles throughout the United
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States, we find that crop circles don't appear anywhere and everywhere, but crop circles
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tend to appear in conjunction with certain contextual features in the landscape. Over
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95 percent of the crop circle formations that we've looked at in the Midwest appear
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with three things in the landscape. They appear near power lines, and in 85 percent of the
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cases, the formations that we surveyed, the closest pole, telephone pole, whatever, to
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the crop circle has a transformer box on it. Not all power line poles have transformer
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boxes on it, but an overwhelming correlation seems to find those near to where crop circles
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form. Second thing that we find is that crop circles appear in close conjunction with water.
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A creek, a pond, a drainage ditch, right over the top of an aquifer. Our last speaker,
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Glenn Broughton, actually probably was the one that first discovered that idea. He made
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a map of crop circle formations in England in the early 1990s, which showed that all
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the crop circles were located along what's known as the green sand aquifer. That became
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a very important clue as to what may be going on with crop circles.
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The third thing is that crop circles seem to appear on the down slope or the bottom
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of a hill or the lowest point of the field. The vast majority of crop circles do that.
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In this case, this is the drainage area of the down slope of the hill. This crop circle
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actually was up in Canada that I investigated a few years ago. It had all of these pictured
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nicely all in one place. The fourth correlation, which is pretty high, is that 65 percent
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of the crop circle formations have been located very close to Native American mounds and earthworks
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or ancient archeological sites. We think that number is actually higher because so many
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mounds have been obliterated over the course of time. This piece right here is what we're
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going to talk about going forward here for the next few minutes.
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Some people here may know from listening to Freddie's talk or listening to Glenn and
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Cameron or just your own general knowledge about crop circles is that the greatest number
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of crop circles every year that are reported are in southern England amid a landscape of
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earthworks such as Avebury, Silbury Hill, Stonehenge, Carbary Castle, and many, many
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others. It turns out that the greatest number of crop circles reported in the United States
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each year also are being located amidst an ancient landscape of earthworks. Places like
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Scyp Mound, the Great Miamisburg Mound, Serpent Mound, Fort Hill, and many, many others here.
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The highest concentration of crop circles reported has actually been in the state of
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Ohio, in the Ohio Valley around where these earthworks are located. This particular crop
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circle, which we'll get to near the end, was very close to this Native American earthwork
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known as Scyp Mound and we'll talk about that later.
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Just to show you the similarities between the landscape in England and the landscape
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here, here's a picture of Silbury Hill, which is the largest intact man-made earthwork in
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all of Europe, and the Miamisburg Mound, which is not the largest of the earthworks, but
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the largest in the state of Ohio. They're roughly similar in terms of shape and form.
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Stonehenge, we've heard a number of things about Stonehenge this weekend. It's been
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built with astronomical alignments and code in it, and of course we just talked heavily
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about Scyp Mound and its astronomical alignments. But very similar sorts of ideas and concepts
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in terms of the earthworks and stuff. One of the things that people don't really recognize
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about Stonehenge is the outer earthwork portion of it. You can see the circle and the avenue
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there. We see these kinds of large geometric earthwork circles and squares and octagons
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throughout the Ohio Valley.
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Just like in the first part of the talk, we used Serpent Mound as sort of a case study
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for our understanding of what's going on with these ancient sites. We're going to use this
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crop circle formation as sort of our keystone to understanding what the connection may be
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between the crop circles and these ancient sites. This crop circle appeared literally
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across the street from Serpent Mound back in 2003. In the landscape here, here's Serpent
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Mound, here's Brush Creek, and if you remember the map, Brush Creek turns around and comes
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this direction, and Serpent Mound is right here, right on the top of that escarpment.
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There's a spring right over here, there are power lines. This, of course, is inside
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the crater, probably the only crop circle that's ever been reported inside a meteorite
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crater. One of the things that we know about this is that it's definitely not man-made.
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We did extensive scientific testing in this particular crop circle. I'm, again, a scientist
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by trade, so we go out and look at crop circles, and we do a bunch of different scientific
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tests on them. We will measure for the magnetic field strength, we will measure for the electric
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field strength, we'll measure for radioactivity, we will look at radio and microwave emissions,
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we will examine the plant structure to see if there are any changes to the plants. Sometimes
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we'll look at the magnetic content of the soil, and in this case, we can check the
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box on each one of those. I'm not going to go into all of the detail here. You can
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actually get this off of the ICCRA.org website. You can download a little PDF of the findings
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from the Serpent Mound crop circle, but all of this is just indicating that we found
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changes in the area of the crop circle, the flattened plants area, versus what we found
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outside of that in the field. One of the other things that we look at when we study crop
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circles is this was actually discovered by somebody that people may know in this audience.
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How many people remember Dr. Gerald Hawkins? Anybody? A handful of people. Dr. Gerald Hawkins
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importantly back in the early 1970s was the guy that figured out all of the astronomical
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alignments encoded at Stonehenge. He wrote several books about that. In his later years,
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he started looking at crop circles. One of the things that he found was that if there
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are a series of circles in the field of different sizes, you can take the diameter, measure
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the diameter of one and divide it into another and you can get a mathematical ratio. Those
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mathematical ratios weren't just any kind of ratio. They were very specific. They were
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diatonic ratios. Anybody know what a diatonic ratio is? It goes back to Pythagoras.
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Diatonic ratios are essentially today known as the musical intervals of the notes on
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a keyboard. As you go from C to D, D to E, E to F, you get a series of notes. Superman
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actually encoded several diatonic ratios in it and you could play those notes on a scale.
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I didn't put the video in here, but if you go out to YouTube, just type in Superman
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crop circle, you'll get a video of my colleague Ted Robertson playing those notes on a harpsichord
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of both this crop circle and this crop circle, which came down right near the Miami's
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Bird Mountain, which I just showed a picture of on a previous slide. You can listen to
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those after you leave here today. We've seen some of these geometric symbols, some of
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these ancient knowledge symbols incorporated into the designs of crop circles around the
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world. This particular one is encoding certain geometric principles in it. Ross mentioned
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that the Superman encoded the vesicle pisces. Well, Superman also incorporates the vesicle
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pisces. You can see that right here. It also incorporates a little known figure known
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as the vesicula, which is this figure here. This is on a ratio of 4 to 1.0717968. You
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have both of these ratios incorporated into the design of the central portion of it to
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kind of create that sort of cat's eye image of the central area. You can also use that
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two crescent circle in understanding higher mathematics. The vesicle pisces, for instance,
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incorporates the square root of 2, the square root of 3, the square root of 5, and so on.
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You can get higher order mathematics derived from that sacred geometry.
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You can also look at this design and see that it's based on the principle of that sort
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of flower of life geometric symbol. You're seeing step by step the stages of what you
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would consider to be the geometric lessons as you go along, as you incorporate your
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understanding of these geometric principles. You can look at various components of this
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particular crop circle design. One specific one is this crescent. This isn't just any
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kind of a crescent because there's a crescent right above it and there are two crescents
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right there. This is a very specific kind of crescent. It's called a lumula. Lumula
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has been known since ancient times as a tool to help you determine the positioning of
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stars in the sky. It's still being used today. Here's a modern one. It's called a planisphere.
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You can rotate it around for your day of the year and it will change the stars that are
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in the sky for your location. We see this sort of commonality of there's something
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going on here with this crop circle that's telling us to look at the sky.
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Cameron Broughton in the previous talk mentioned the idea of squaring the circle. She said,
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oh, I wish I had a picture of it. Well, here's one right here and here's another one right
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here. I had met a geometer who subsequently became a friend of mine. His name is Alan
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Brown. We were both speaking at a conference together a few years ago. Alan Brown was looking
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at a very specific type of crop circle in Ailin known as a Celtic cross pattern, which
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is essentially like five circles like on a dice. You have a little dice and you have
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a little five on it. Five little circles. One of the things that he found based on
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an idea from another crop circle researcher, Michael Glickman, was that these five circles
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may exhibit this idea of squaring the circle.
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This idea of squaring the circle is a problem that dates, it's like a philosophical problem
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that dates back to the time of the Egyptians at least. It's to construct a square from
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the perimeter distance of a circle. Now, sounds like Ross got a dog in the background. I
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know Ross doesn't have a dog, he has cats, so it must be from outside of his house.
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This figure of squaring the circle from the earliest days of the Egyptians to the modern
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day when Alan Brown started looking at these Celtic cross patterns in England was such
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that there were only six known ways of approximately squaring the circle. It turns out that pi
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is an irrational number, so you can't actually get an actual square, but you can get very
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close, better than 99% accuracy using six different methods.
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When Alan Brown started looking at these crop circles, Celtic cross patterns in England,
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which were appearing in the 1980s, he found that he could find new ways of squaring the
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circle that had never been seen previously. He then found approximately 50 new ways that
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had never been seen before of squaring the circle based on looking at the geometry of
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these Celtic cross patterns in England.
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When this crop circle, after I investigated it and we measured it out, I sent in the diagram
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and I said, well, there's the central circle and there are four circles on the outside,
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this is a Celtic cross pattern, can you apply your methodology and look at it? It does square
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the circle in two ways. I don't have time to go through all the steps, so forgive me,
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but these are actually slightly different based on the placements of these outer circles.
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There's what he calls a simple squared circle solution and a tangential squared circle solution.
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The first one is 99.6% accurate and the second one is 99.98% accurate.
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You get this final reconstruction of it and then you've got to go out to the field and
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lay it out, right? Think about that for a moment.
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The idea of squaring the circle as a philosophical concept, Dr. Carl Young, the famous psychoanalyst,
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remarked on it. He said that the squaring of the circle is one of the many archetypal
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motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. From the functional
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point of view, it could be called the archetype of wholeness.
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The quaternary of the one is what Young described as the schema of all images of God. It's
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seen in the Bible, Ezekiel, Daniel, Enoch, even in Egyptian mythology of Horus with the
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four sons. This quaternary of the one is related to the squaring of the circle and it's described
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as a motif of four, of three, one, two, three, and one, which is offset somehow differently.
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It's also described as having a dark half and a light half. If you look at that vesicular
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in the center, it's split right down the middle as having a dark half and a light half.
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Now Young says that symbolically, lightning depicts an overpowering change in the psychic
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condition associated with the quaternity and that this is a transformative process. In
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that transformation, Mercurius, the animal spirit, arises in the fire flash into the
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prima materia, or the primal substance of existence of the divine essence of God, like
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a fiery serpent. This is where the divine innermost birth of the soul takes place.
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Remember what Ross was talking about. This is the Cinnabar stage of transformation.
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Now Cinnabar, in its old and sort of European language, was known as the Ouroboros dragon,
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the sanguist draconis, or the dragon's blood, which is related to the philosopher's stone.
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Now in the philosopher's stone sleeps the animal spirit Mercurius, which is also known
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as the circle of the moon and the round and the square. Now Young talks about in this
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transformative process, there comes to be a turning point, an illuminating, transforming,
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fertilizing part of the process, and that the snake is the necessary part of the process
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of growth. Now Serpent Mound, if you go back to thinking about what the Hopewell levels
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of cosmology were, Serpent Mound is analogous to the Great Horned Serpent, where the snake
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was the Great Horned Serpent, or the underwater panther of Hopewell cosmology. The Horned
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Serpent was a spirit being connected to curing, medicine, and mythology, and it was a powerful
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underground manatee that was the guardian spirit of many Native Americans and liked
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to reside in rocks near water. Now traditionally the god of revelation, and that's lower r,
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not Bible revelation, but traditionally the god of revelation has the form of a snake,
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e.g. the Agathodaman, or the good daemon, encircling the equal cross. Now the Agathodaman
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was the pupil or teacher, depending on which mythology read, of Hermes or Mercurius, and
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to the Greeks was considered to be the guardian of the vines and the cornfields. Now if we
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look at another portion of the crop circle formation that appeared near Serpent Mound,
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one portion of it, that one offset by itself, had a ring around it, and that ring had a
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little tiny widening in its pathway. Well that widening is a symbol of the
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oraboros, or the oraboros dragon, the sanguius draconis. Serpent Mound itself is an analog
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for the constellation of Draco. We're seeing these same themes repeat over and over and
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over again between the crop circle design and the Serpent Mound formation. So let's
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deepen this sort of Thunderbird-Serpent connection a little bit more. A few years ago, as a
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scientist, we've been studying crop circles from this sort of very, as Ross termed it,
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exogenic sort of way of looking at things, and it's really a sort of limiting world
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view, right? Science has its boundaries. Well, I decided that I would start to apply different
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sort of methods of thought, including ancient Native American methods of thought, to our
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understanding of crop circles to see if we could gain some sort of better understanding
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of what's going on with crop circles. And I came upon this idea between the Serpent
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and the Thunderbird. Now the Thunderbird, dating back as far as people started documenting
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the mythologies of various Native American tribes, has been connected to the Horned
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Serpent, but there are also a whole sort of series of mythologies that are unto the Thunderbird
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itself, but that the Thunderbird is considered to be something like a god in the shape of
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a great eagle that feeds upon serpents, which it takes from under the earth. Now the Ojibwe
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believe that the Thunderbird, from time to time, sets forth into different parts of the
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world to search for serpents, and that when you see a thunderbolt strike a tree, a lightning
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striking a tree, the Indians believe that the Thunderbird had shot its fiery arrow
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at the serpent through its eyes, and that it was attempting to get the serpent. Now
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this legend was ritually reenacted amongst various Native American tribes as part of
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an earth renewal process, and that they believe that this process happened on an annual basis.
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So it turns out that the Midewinwin, which is an Algonquin sort of secret society, considered
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the Thunderbird as a messenger to the spirit world, and that the Thunderbird lived in
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the four quarters, remember our quartering of time and space concept, and that they
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are the messengers of the four winds, and that they were always four of them. Now while
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all things in nature move clockwise, the Thunderbird is said to move counterclockwise,
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and I came across this artifact from the west coast of the United States, which if you look
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at the face of it, this is actually a wall, you kind of stick a string through the middle
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of it and you wind it up and you spin it, and it makes the Thunderbird look like that.
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Now if you look at that image for a moment, you'll notice that that is the identical
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appearance to the hourglass effect that we see in crop circles on the landscape. You'll
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see as they're spun flat, they exhibit this hourglass shape. Now at the lunch break,
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I ran up to my room and I threw in three additional slides, because in the first morning talk
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of Glenn Kreisberg, he showed this picture, and he didn't really talk about why that
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is important. This comes from an archeologist by the name of Herman Bender up in Wisconsin,
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and Herman Bender has been looking at effigy mounds and petroform sites up in the state
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of Wisconsin, and this comes from a place known as the Colterman site. Now the Colterman
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site was important because when Herman Bender looked at it, he found that the effigy mounds,
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which are here, which are earthworks placed in the landscape in the shape of animals,
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they overlaid this older stone figure in the landscape. Now they also found there that
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one of the stones had a petroglyph inscription on it in the shape of a thunderbird. So Herman
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Bender was pretty intrigued, and he looked at it, and it turns out to be a combination
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of the constellations of Scorpius and Libra combined. And this little red one right in
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the center is actually where the planet Mars goes through that constellation on a yearly
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basis. Now they didn't just lay it out, they laid it out as a mirror image, remember,
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as above, reflected below. It's a mirror image of it, and they got the colors of the
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stones to match the colors of the stars in the sky. So when you go out into the sky,
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into the landscape, into these forested areas, into the east coast, or anywhere you find
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these stones in the landscape, don't move the stones, because you're going to lose
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this kind of information. Don't move the stones. Now, it turns out that that figure
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of the constellation of Libra and Scorpius combined in Native American lore is a figure
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known as the Star Being. And that Star Being was considered to be the harbinger of the
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annual return of the thunderbirds. So when that figure arose in the sky in the spring,
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the Native Americans knew that the thunderbirds were going to return. It's a very important
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sort of mythological figure. Well, it turns out this Coltomans site, I don't have time
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to go into all of it, but the Coltomans site was the location whereby we had the report
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of the last crop circle I witnessed by someone. Back in 2003, two months before the Serpent
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Mound crop circle came down by Serpent Mound, a crop circle came down right near the Coltomans
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Petroform site, and a guy actually watched it go down. Not man-made. Three different
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circles swirled down in about 12 seconds. We have pictures of it at the table in the
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back if you want to look at it, or if you go out to the ICCRA.org, you can see that
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crop circle there. Now, what's that? Yes, Art Rantella. Art Rantella was the eyewitness.
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Now, interestingly enough, this idea of Scorpius and Libra combined, literally and symbolically
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in its relationship with Orion in the sky, re-enacts the movement of the thunderbirds.
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crossed the landscape. That's exactly how these constellations move in the sky. They
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follow that, and at the end of that is when you have that great Earth renewal ceremony.
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Of course, the Native Americans did not connect the star patterns like what we've been saying
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throughout the evening. The modern constellations that we're talking about of Scorpius and
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Libra and Draco, they connected the dots differently. They had their own star asterisms in the
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sky. Constellations were fixed, actually fairly recently, based on older traditions. The
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modern constellations, the 88 of them that are known, were agreed upon by astronomers
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at the International Astronomical Union meeting in 1931. That's somewhat modern. A bunch
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of constellations that you see when you open up these star books and stuff are actually
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modern inventions. There were older traditions of constellations that were quite a bit different
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than modern constellations that we know today. The Native Americans, of course, connected
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the dots wholly differently. The Chinese connected the dots wholly differently. You go to different
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cultures around the world that were isolated from one another, and they essentially connected
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the dots differently. The stories attached to some of those are somewhat related to one
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another. It turns out that the constellation of Draco, according to the Lakota, who in
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their past moved from the Ohio Valley. They moved from ancient times from the Ohio Valley
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up into Wisconsin, and then from Wisconsin out to the Western Plains states. The Lakota
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