“What on Earth?” -- Inside the crop circle mystery
IT’S WRITERS ENGAGING WITH FRIENDS HERE, AND ON FRIDAYS I’M GOING TO GET FRIENDLIER BY SENDING YOU SOME FAVORITES “FROM THE ARCHIVES,” TUNING YOU INTO THINGS I’VE DONE THAT GOT ME WHERE I AM.
I’m drawn to what could make radical differences, and today say hello to the crop circles. Overnight they could change the world. If other intelligences can visit us they are well beyond us, and the humbling we’d get from that, where we’d no longer be the big cheese in the universe, would serve us well. I made a documentary about the phenomenon and don’t believe what is being widely reported now, that all circles have been human made.
Watch What on Earth? and discover the mystery that remains: Prime Video | Vimeo on demand
What On Earth?
Against the backdrop of the crop circle phenomenon, I engage with a fascinating community of visionary artists, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, and educators from around the world, who converged on southern England each summer dealing with the creative genius being expressed in farmlands, trying to make sense of why the circles were being delivered and how the world could ignore such wonders.
The film shows how intelligent the source is, dazzling us with what lets us see how brainy it is. Also, the movie deals with how the circles make us think about life. What is real? What is art? What is the nature of proof? What are the limitations of science? What is the place of humanity in the cosmos? “These are all big questions, and we don’t have a forum for big questions today,” says John Martineau, the brilliant geometer who showed there was mathematical wizardry in the fields.
You can’t dismiss the possibility of visitation by a non-human agency and you’ll come away from the movie thinking about what that could do for us. If we knew we weren’t the only intelligence in the universe, we would be one humanity in relation to “the other,” and, as someone in the movie says, “That could be what saves this civilization.”
The trailer:
A good review in The New York Times.
A report on the Denver PBS pledge drive, a big success they repeated several times.
Much more on the website crop circle page.
TIP F0R TOMORROW: Get tuned into Brian Thomas Swimme, my main inspiration, and to Matthew Fox, a collaborator of Brian’s who’s also especially wonderful.
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I love that type still talking about this! My copy of “What on Earth” is a treasured possession.