This article by Geoff Stray appeared in SC 71, December 1997. SC is Southern Circular - The Journal of Crop Circles And Beyond. Now with updates Nov. '03 & June '04
Hieroglyphs of Dimensional Interface.
Following Dave Dickson's article in SC 69 on the forthcoming evolutionary leap, I'd like to expand on a point he mentioned - the end of linear time.
The most enduring feature of crop formations is the one after which they were first named: the circle. Circles suggest rotation and therefore cycles of repetition. The circle not only defines the movements of the Earth around the Sun, but also the cycles of time by which we measure them.
From 1978, quintuplets started to appear and are still appearing in 1997. Although they are suggestive of a sun and planets, I have also noticed that they are similar to the Aztec Calendar Stone, depicting the five ages called "Suns"; the larger central circle represents the Fifth Sun and is surrounded by the four previous Suns. These were ages which ended in cataclysm, when the magnetic field of the Sun reversed, according to recent research by Maurice Cotterell and Adrian Gilbert. However, John Major Jenkins has demonstrated that Gilbert and Cotterell's theory is seriously faulted!! Anyway, the knowledge seems to have been held in a purer form by the earlier Mayans. The Mexican UFO wave, complete with "corn-on-the-cob-circles" which started on the day of the solar eclipse in July 1991, was apparently predicted by the Mayans, and although Britt and Lee Elders correlated 1991 with the end of the Fifth Sun, (this has now been shown to be untrue - the Maya did not predict the 1999 eclipse!!), other researchers have said it ends in 2012, when the Mayan calendar ends.
It is interesting, then, that Michael Glickman has interpreted the 1997 Etchilhampton 'Grid' formation as a pointer to 2012 (see SC 68), with its 30 X 26 grid indicating the 30 26-week periods between 1997 and 2012. What Michael didn't mention is that the 780 squares of the grid are exactly divisible by the TZOLKIN, or Mayan Sacred Calendar, which is a grid of 260 squares of sides 13 X 20. Three Tzolkins fit into the crop grid - two fit straight in and the third after bisection. Actually, the grid seems to relate to a "map" called "Psi Bank Warp and Holonomic Woof", consisting of eight Tzolkins joined together, showing relationships between the Mayan calendar, the I Ching, and the 64 DNA codons, in a book called Earth Ascending by Jose Arguelles (page 121). Arguelles' research into the Mayan calendar, plus physics, philosophy, geomancy and the I Ching convinced him that Mankind is creating a "noosphere" or mind layer around the Earth, which is evolving towards Teilhard de Chardin's 'Omega Point of Planetary Awakening' in 2012. Unfortunately, Arguelles went on to create a day count called Dreamspell, based around a 54-day error that he made in his next book, The Mayan Factor. People are now calling this "The Mayan Calendar" but it is currently 48 days off the True Count, and every four years ignores February 29th, getting one day closer to the True Count. When he published Earth Ascending in 1984, he was unaware of the work of the McKenna brothers, who had published a book in 1975 called The Invisible Landscape, with details of a sophisticated mathematical analysis of the I Ching. The brothers concluded that the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching oracle, or 'Book of Changes', was originally used as a calendar and portrays 64 timewaves which interact to form a "modular hierarchy" of 26 levels. The modular hierarchy is a fractal (according to Robert Anton Wilson, it is a Mandelbrot fractal, however, I have seen no evidence for this, except that it is a fractal, and Benoit Mandelbrot first coined the term fractal), where each of the levels is 64 times greater than the one below. When the fractal was mapped against history, the end-of-time climax where the waves all peak together was found to be 2012. The McKennas were not aware until later that this is the end of the Mayan calendar!
1991 gave us a Mandelbrot fractal in the cornfields of Cambridgeshire, a diagram illustrating the complex mathematics of chaos theory, which "describes natural processes in terms of an unseen or non-physical dimension". It also illustrates (if Wilson is correct), the modular wave hierarchy encoded in The I Ching that implies our imminent encounter with this unseen dimension in 2012.
Less than a month before the Mandelbrot arrived, a triangular 'craft' and balls of light were seen over Barbury Castle in Wiltshire, the night the famous triangular formation appeared there. The design has since been called " the alchemical version of the Mandelbrot Set" and therefore (by association), also implies the End of Time in 2012.
The strange thing is, that Jon King, who since became editor of UFO Reality magazine, had a bizarre extra-dimensional experience in 1980, following which he became convinced that a large triangular area of the West Country is some kind of dimensional gateway. He published a booklet about it in 1986 called The Aquarian Triangle. In the booklet, he said that this triangle would soon be the recipient of "light codings" or "energy codings" preceding human interaction with the creators of the codings. In 1989 Jon and some friends went to Barbury Castle, which is at the exact centre of the Aquarian Triangle, and did a ceremony to visualize the "mothership" landing there. Two years later, the triangular formation arrived at Barbury and was almost identical in shape to the Aquarian Triangle. A version of the schedule given to Jon King was published in the semi-fictional "TUMI" column in UFO Reality, issue 4, and gives a timetable of events in the forthcoming dimensional shift programme, culminating in a dimensional interface in 2011, de-cloaking in 2012, and Earthshift in 2013 (however, by this point it is possible that the Jose Arguelles' The Mayan Factor and Jim Hurtak's Keys of Enoch could have influenced King's interpretation of events).
"The Strange Attractor" Hackpen Hill, Wiltshire, 18/8/97 Photo: Steve Alexander
So, the crop formations continue to evolve, complexify and increase, with fractal formations increasing too. 1996 gave us the Stonehenge Julia Set and the Avebury triple Julia Set, with a record-breaking number of circles. 1997 gave us the Silbury Hill Koch snowflake, and the Milk Hill super-Koch snowflake, breaking the record again. The final formation of 1997 was the "Strange Attractor" fractal at Hackpen Hill. This is a term from chaos theory that means "an irreducible invariant set that attracts the trajectories of all nearby points". It is a term that Terrence McKenna has used to describe the 'Omega Point' - which sucks our evolutionary trajectory towards it, like the plughole at the end of time.
I am currently wrestling to correlate information about complex sunspot cycles, which will (according to Gilbert & Cotterell), have wound the sun's magnetic field to the point of mega-reversal in 2012 (other researchers have found evidence of a solar mega-cycle, despite Gilbert & Cotterell's errors); with the effects of sunspots on the endocrine glands (which relate to chakras); on esoteric use of endocrine products; on ancient Egyptian techniques of arousing dormant functions of endocrine glands to produce a fourth-dimensional body. Somewhere in this lot is the answer. I'll keep you posted!
GS
