IS SPIRIT CALLING MODERN MAN TO AN INNER JOURNEY? PART TWO
Or What Is Really Behind Out of Body (OOB)/Near Death Experiences (NDE), UFO Abductions, and Crop Circles?
By Penny Warren, B.A., M.A., D.D.
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Introduction
In Part One of this article, we examined how out-of-body and near-death experiences called men to an inner journey and investigated the role of paranormal phenomenon under the New Covenant. We also discussed the stubbornness of the western culture to accept these supernatural occurrences.
Western mens disbelief in Spirit (John 4:21-22), the spiritual dimension of man (1 Thess. 5:23; Rom. 8:14), and spiritual creatures that exist distinct and different from those in the physical realm (Heb. 1:4-10), limits their possibilities and causes an unnecessary level of fear. All other cultures have historically realized the existence of a parallel world (or angelic creation) and appointed special people to interact with it for the benefit of the whole group. In Part One we discussed out-of-body and near death experiences in religious and modern times. In Part Two we shall discuss the Biblical and modern views of UFO abductions and crop circles.
Was the Messiah ever abducted?
As odd as if may sound, the Bible records an instance of abduction in the true sense when the Devil tested the Messiah in the Wilderness after John the Baptist baptized him (Matt. 4:8-11). The third satanic temptation involved Satan taking the Messiah up to a high mountain to show Him the Kingdoms of the world. Physically, the Messiahs body was geographically located in the Wilderness, but psychologically and spiritually Satan took the Messiahs inner man (Eph. 3:16) or consciousness to a state (not a place) where he showed him glorious cities. Satan hoped that the Messiah would worship him to obtain control of them. (Also see the Spirit of Righteousness take Enoch, Gen. 5:24 and Elijah, 2 Kings 2:9-11 body, soul, and spirit into another realm.)
The encounter does not provide an explanation of how the devil did this. The verse just describes the Messiah rebuking Satan and refusing his offer. When this Biblical instance is explored in the light of modern psychology, which we will discuss later in this article, it does reveal that incorporeal spirits can put thoughts in a mans mind that appear so genuine, he thinks he is experiencing them which is much like the process in hypnotism.
Did Ezekiel see a UFO?
We have mentioned in Part One of this article that Ezekiel saw a whirlwind like a great fiery cloud come out of the sky (Ezek. 1:4). What emerged from the midst was as alien as one could imagine.
Four creatures appeared with four faces, four wings, calfs feet. Their faces were of a man, a lion, an eagle, and an ox.
Ezekiels symbolic vision represented the four Hebrew banners camped around the tabernacle (See Angels, Part Two in the July/August 1996 issue of the PLIM REPORT.) Then Ezekiel saw a wheel within a wheel that lifted the four creatures up into heaven (Ezek. 1:5-17). He did not understand the vision and fell on his face for fear, but felt an inner calling to be receptive to this spiritual communication. He was not the first or last to see such an unearthly sight. The hottest topic on television now and a new fall series, "The Visitor," are about UFO abductions.
Are UFO abductions a new phenomenon?
Harvard psychiatrist John Mack says that one of the important questions in abduction research is whether the UFO phenomenon is new "or is but a modern chapter in a long story of humankind's relationship to vehicles and creatures appearing from the heavens that goes back to antiquity (Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, p. 3)."
A noted French UFO researcher Jacques Vallee claims to have found "the evidence of the existence of UFOs, not only in our time, but in earlier ages as well (Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact, Introduction, p. xiv). He writes that throughout the ages men of all cultures have sighted and written about fairies, elves, sylphs (sky nymphs), and ikals (little black beings) carrying off humans (p. 110-120). Legends in Mexico, Japan, France and Latin America depict sky creatures that stole away women, men, and children. Today eyewitnesses claim aliens from outer space are abducting and breeding with us.
Dr. Vallee states that the belief in the possibility of intermarriage between human and nonhuman races is a corollary to the apparitions in all historical contexts (Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. 124). Every civilization appears to have its own version and literal interpretation of the men of God (a superior race) joining with the daughters of men (the human community, Gen. 6:1-4).
Only Dr. Vallee is beginning to interpret UFO abductions as anything other than creatures from another planet.
If these objects have been seen from time immemorial, as I will show, and if their occupants have always performed similar actions along similar lines of behavior, then it is not reasonable to assume that they are simply extraterrestrial visitors. They must be something more. Perhaps they have always been there. On earth. With us (Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact, Introduction, p. xiv).
Dr. Vallee continues by saying that his colleagues find it hard to comprehend "something that isn't from here, yet isn't from another 'planet' either (Appendix 2, p. 276)."
As we investigate modern instances of UFO abductions, let's see if a common pattern emerges.
UFO Abductions
Although people have been reporting modern UFOs since 1947, a new phase of UFO contact for our time began in the 1960s when an interracial couple Barney and Betty Hill reported that aliens kidnapped them, took them aboard a space craft, and performed physical examinations on both of them.
J. Allen Hynek, the former chair of Northwesterns astronomy department and founder of Center for UFO Studies, who died in 1986, classified UFOs into two major categories based on the distance of the sighting: those seen at more than 500 feet away and those seen at 500 feet or less (Harpers Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experiences, p. 194.)
He divided the category seen at less than 500 feet into three classifications. A close encounter of the first kind involves simply sighting a UFO. A close encounter of the second kind contains visible evidence left, such as scorched earth or landing marks of the space ship. Close encounters of the third kind fall into two types.
What are close encounters of the third kind?
The first type is where the eyewitness sees and perhaps communicates with aliens. The second type involves either a planned or at random abduction and return of the eyewitness. The UFO abductions discussed in this article fall into the latter type.
Professor Hynek listed some common components in the abduction encounters, according to an article Is There Anybody Out There? by Jermome Clark, editor of the Center for UFO Studies newsletter, (Daily Northwestern Focus Magazine, April 16, 1997).
Professor Hynek stated that archetype abductions consist of several shared elements: hearing a noise or seeing a light, the appearance of aliens/non-human beings, paralysis, levitation to a space ship, and physical examinations or information sessions. John Mack was struck by "the consistency of the stories told by individuals who had not been in communication with each other, had come forth reluctantly, and feared the discrediting of their accounts or outright ridicule... (Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, p. 1)."
[Note: Because volumes of UFO abduction literature are available on genetic experiments, inter-specie breeding, and hybrid offspring, I will not focus on this aspect of the UFO experience except to make one comment. Dr. Vallee thinks that because the events, particularly the medical procedures, remembered by witnesses are so similar, these abduction components should be treated symbolically. (Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact, Introduction, p. 240). Dr. Vallee found it hard to believe that an advanced race could not extract blood, obtain skin samples, or remove ova or sperm without pain when our current technology can. Dr. Vallee made a comparison of the painful aspects of abductee's medical examinations, such as inserting needles into a woman's abdomen to obtain ovum or into the nasal passages and ears to insert devices, with pictures painted in the 15th century of demons torturing humans. A French calendar, the Kalendrier des Bergiers, depicts demons piercing their victims' abdomens with long needles (Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact, Introduction, p. 107).
I will instead highlight two cases that occurred in New York from the multitudes available to illustrate other aspects of alien abduction. See the following books for case studies on the genetic aspect of UFOs: Intruders by Budd Hopkins, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens by John E. Mack, M.D., or Beyond Reality by D. Scott Rogo.]
Experiencing UFO abductions may be the stimulus someone needs to call his attention to the invisible realm. This is what happened to Whitley Strieber.
What happens during UFO abductions?
Whitley Strieber describes his book Communion as one mans attempt to deal with a shattering assault from the unknown (Prelude, p. 13). The sense of powerlessness is the most striking emotion, besides fear, that surfaces while reading Mr. Striebers personal encounter with alien abduction. People from all walks of life came forward with similar stories after Communion was published in 1987.
People were being plagued with time loss and vague uneasy sensations that led them to seek professional help. Under hypnosis in most cases, the story of the UFO abduction came out. Once the person accepts that another intelligence exists who may be trying to communicate with him, he never views this material world the same again. In most instances this calling is quite traumatic.
What happened to Whitley Strieber?
Prior to his experience, Mr. Strieber, a novelist of imaginative thrillers, was an indifferent skeptic and non-believer. He never expected or requested to be called to an inner journey in such an unexpected and absurd way. The day after Christmas in 1985 as Mr. Strieber lay in bed, he claims that inhuman visitors came to his room in upstate New York, took him to a spaceship, and performed a rectal exam on him. During this ordeal Mr. Strieber angrily told his captors that they had no right to violate his humanity and treat him as an animal specimen. He was shocked when they responded that they indeed had the right (Communion, p. 83).
He awoke the next morning in his bed remembering nothing, but feeling uneasy. His personality shifted radically after that instance and finally deteriorated to a point where he was hypersensitive, easily confused, and impatient. Within a few days Mr. Strieber began to remember the details of his encounter. Fear and dread began to overwhelm him.
He randomly read a book on UFOs that his brother had sent him as a gift. He was stunned at how close the archetype abduction experience mirrored his own. He soon met with Budd Hopkins, a noted researcher in the field, and other abduction memories began to surface.
Mr. Strieber has written several other books, Transformation, The Secret School, Breakthrough, etc., that have chronicled his sequential UFO abductions since his first book, Communion. We learn in his later books that the aliens begin to abduct his son as he watches helplessly. His journey is continuing and he is informing us of his progress every step of the way.
Did another UFO abduction occur in New York?
A UFO abduction that occurred at the Brooklyn Bridge November 30, 1989 is most unusual because about 20 people claim to have witnessed it and were called to go public with their stories. Budd Hopkins wrote about this close encounter of the third kind in Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions. The eyewitness reported the same archetype abduction components noted by Professor Hynek. She asserted that during her physical examination aliens surgically implanted a device (which was later X-rayed) in her nose.
The eyewitness also claims that since she was a small child, aliens paired her with a human male with whom she developed a relationship outside of her waking consciousness and who she suspects fathered her youngest son. When she met the man as an adult, the memories and deep emotions almost wrecked her normal married life.
Then she found out that aliens were continuing their abductions by kidnapping her son and the boundaries of her familiar world eroded. She remembered the aliens telling her they had a right to treat her and her family like laboratory specimens.
Mr. Hopkins writes in his book the abduction represented a shocking and absolute intrusion upon the bedrock illusion of human control and empowerment (p. 43).
To have almost a score of witnesses, including the eye witness, contend that she levitated out of her 12th floor apartment about 3 a.m. accompanied by non-human creatures who took her into their space ship while a blue beam illuminated them implies one of four things.
Either all of these people experienced a group delusion (i.e., the Miracle of Fatima, 2 Thess. 2:11). They actually saw a physical event with their natural eyes which defies logic. They all saw a vision with their inner eyes that took place in another reality (Matt. 17:1-10). Or they all conspired for some unknown reason to perpetrate a hoax.
Mr. Hopkins states that he could not find any facts to support the last contention. The principle people involved in this UFO abduction sought out Mr. Hopkins to help them regain a hold on reality.
Could UFO abductions be occurring in a non-physical realm?
As we investigate the UFO abduction phenomenon, all eyewitnesses report that their physical bodies left one location and went to another geographical place. No eyewitness has ever mentioned the possibility that their soul or inner man could have experienced events in another reality or dimension. This materialistic view of the paranormal is the basis of the western mind that limits possibilities to the narrow windows of the senses & touching others only through these (The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist, p. 5).
In H. Spencer Lewis book Mental Poisoning, he proves that through hypnotism the body responds to thoughts in the mind. (See Mental Poisoning, Part 1 and 2 in the March/April 1993 and May/June 1993 PLIM REPORT.) If the mind believes an ink pen is a hot iron, the skin will begin to welt and blister (p. 47-51).
Dr. Lewis states: that if the human mind accepts an idea without question, without doubt, or without suspicion of any kind, it becomes not merely an accepted idea but a law or a command, or a principle that will logically fulfill its purpose and its nature without any further support in actuality or in psychological processes (p. 49). Most humans have experienced erotic dreams while sleeping alone in their beds that appear so real men actually ejaculate sperm and women exhibit signs of orgasms.
The UFO events also could have appeared so real, the physical body reflected wounds, pain, etc., from these encounters. [Note: Thoughts placed in a mans mind still has been unable to explain independent reports of people physically missing during the times of their abductions, scorch marks in grass, skin burns, or implants removed from parts of the body. These aspects of the UFO phenomenon are a mystery far from resolution]
If modern men saw themselves as spirit creatures, part of a spiritual realm inhabited by various types of spirit creatures that can project thoughts in our minds, images appearing real would not be so unusual.
What are the victim's view of the experience?
Eyewitnesses consistently report being literal tranquilized specimens unable to do little more than view the procedure powerlessly. If a spirit creature were projecting an image in a mans mind of being borrowed, involuntarily & used physically and then returned frightened, but not deliberately harmed, obvious reactions would occur (Intruders, Budd Hopkins, p. 277). These images would effectively produce thoughts of loss of control and the acceptance of a superior, indifferent intelligence.
Budd Hopkins has concluded that this depiction of aliens contrast drastically to the friendly Big Brothers (Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Day the Earth Stood Still) or evil conquerors (Independence Day or Men In Black) of the Hollywood variety. Although the UFOs dont appear to cause harm purposefully, they seem totally unaware of why a human would be outraged by this intrusion. Most abductees think these beings from space are truly alien because they do not understand the most predictable human emotions and responses.
Are alien abductions physical events?
Only recently, Jacques Vallee has begun to voice the theory that aliens encounters may not be entirely physical events in his book Dimensions, A Casebook of Alien Contact. Dr. Vallee stresses the constant, historical pattern of human response to these encounters rather than knowing whether UFOs are physical or not.
He states that UFO abductions have stable, invariant features that are more striking than the chameleon-like appearance of the visitors, which vary as a function of the cultural environment into which they are projected (p. 140).
Leprechauns and fairy people viewed near mounds of earth strikingly compare with the descriptions that modern men give of small non-human creatures coming from egg-shaped space ships. These images taken literally can cause men to doubt their sanity.
Where do UFO abductees go for help?
Since the western culture does not accept UFO abductions, OBE/NDE, possessions, Kundalini experiences (i.e. the Hindu spiritual awakening process), etc., when these supernatural occurrences occur, people have no where to turn for help. Fortunately, a new breed of mental health professionals have been called to help these people fit their impossible encounters into our currently agreed upon reality.
These new psychologists and psychiatrists contend that otherworldly experiences are legitimate and common place among the sane (The Other Side of the Unknown, OMNI, April 1993, p. 35-36). They believe that if any person has been traumatized by such events, he deserves the same psychological ministrations as those who suffer from anxiety, depression, or other post-traumatic stress disorder.
A wealth of health professionals, discussing the paranormal attend an annual conference called TREAT (the Treatment and Research of Experienced Anomalous Trauma). Among those who attend are psychiatrist Rima Laibow, John Wilson, professor of psychology at Cleveland State University, and Bonnie Greenwell, a California-based psychotherapist and author of Energies of Transformation.
Before this group was formed there were primarily two researchers in the field: New York artist Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs, a history professor at Temple University who like Hopkins, had become a kind of folk guru and de-facto therapist for UFO abduction victims (The Other Side of the Unknown, OMNI, April 1993, p. 37).
Why didnt professionals want to treat people traumatized by the supernatural?
Many professionals were not eager to risk their reputations by being associated with people who believed in aliens, especially since the culture says no such things exist. The experience of Harvard Medical School psychiatrist John Mack, whose colleagues tried to bar him from academia because of his interest in interviewing UFO abductees, did little to attract others to this area of research.
Laibow was the first to begin to change the professional therapists views about treating people traumatized by paranormal experiences when she gave the phenomenon a new respectable name experience anomalous trauma.
Wilson was not surprised that his peers were slow to accept anomalous trauma. Fifty years ago, mental health professionals didnt believe in childhood abuse. When kids or adults would report incest experiences, sexual molestation, or rape & They were told it was a fantasy; that doesnt happen it cant be real. It wasnt until the sixties that the American College of Pediatrics even did a study. Then sexual abuse finally became a fact. There is a parallel here to anomalous experience, whether its UFO abduction or demon possession, our culture says no (The Other Side of the Unknown, OMNI, April 1993, p. 40).
Detractors urge mental health workers to beware. Because therapists are no more immune to the calling than anyone else, they have to safeguard being lured or called to the unknown through their patients.
Can UFO abductees fight back?
Donna Higbee delivers another form of help that can empower UFO abductees. She has developed a number of visualization techniques and mental exercises based on a belief in an inner power. She writes that UFO abductees must understand that humans are spiritual beings, no less important in the scheme of things than any other life form in the universe. & no entity has the right to violate our bodies and minds and take away our free will. We need to protect ourselves from these intruders. (What would you do? The Research and Writings of Donna Higbee, http://users1.ee.net/pmaston/what_would.html).
Before we discuss the third and final supernatural occurrence in this article, crop circles, let us define them and see if the Bible has anything to say about unknown forces writing mysterious messages.
What are crop circles?
Crop Circles are unexplained designs that are imprinted over the span of usually one night in fields of mostly wheat & corn, but have also occurred in barley, oats, rape (canola) grass, trees, and even snow (CCC:What Are Crop Circles? http://denali.medberry.com/krishna/defined.html). Hieroglyphics in corn and wheat crops have caused great alarm and called many people to investigate fields during the spring and summer seasons throughout the world.
Most crop circles have been found in south England within a 40-mile radius of Stonehenge. Only Mainland China and South African have not reported crop circles in their countries. Note: For some dramatic photographs of crop circles visit the following sites: Crop Circle Connector, http://alpha.mic.dundee.ac.uk/ft/crop_circles/anasazi/connect.html, and Crop Circles from 1978-1996, http://alpha.mic.dundee.ac.uk/ft/crop_circles/1991/russell.html.
Does the Bible mention mysterious writings?
The sudden and inexplicable nature of patterns in the fields is reminiscent of the mysterious handwriting that suddenly appeared on the palace walls of a Babylonian king. Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzars grandson, was holding a drunken feast with the vessels from Solomons temple that his grandfather had taken while in Jerusalem before he burned it (I King 24:10-16; 25:8-9).
In the midst of this riotous celebration, the fingers of a mans hand appeared and wrote a message that only Daniel could decipher (Dan. 5:5-12). The news was not good. The days of Belshazzars reign in his kingdom were numbered and he was found wanting in the balances. The same night that Daniel interpreted the writing, Belzhazzars kingdom fell to the Medes and Persians.
The reader will have to decide if the messages written in the crops foretell the end of our world. (Note: Donna Higbee wonders whether it was just a coincident that a crop circle found in 1991 call the Mandlebrot set formation was a precise replica of the computerized form of a mathematical formula where order breaks down into chaos? Could the crop circle makers be trying to tell us something? Crop Circles Real or Hoax, by Donna Higbee, CHT, http://users1.ee.net/pmason/crop_circles.html.)
Has inexplicable writing ever occurred elsewhere?
Before we continue on with the examination of crop circles I want to briefly mention three other instances of sudden unprompted writings. They both revolve around the spirit realm.
First, ghosts or inhuman spirits have been documented to write on the wall of haunted houses. In the book Demonologist by Gerald Brittle that records the true story of a team of exorcists, Ed and Lorraine Warren, he describes an instance when Ed first saw blasphemous words and vulgar obscenities written on the mirrors and walls. He tried to wipe them off to spare his wife exposure to this indecent graffiti. But no sooner did I wipe them clean than they would appear again in front of my eyes. It soon became apparent to me this wasnt the work of human beingsor human spirits (p. 38). Remember the hierarchy that exists in the incorporeal realm. As Elohim can write messages for humans to see so can the lower angelic creatures and souls of men.
The second instance involves H. P. Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, who was world known for her paranormal powers. In her biography The Occult World of Madame Blavatsky compiled and edited by Daniel H. Caldwell, some of her friends claimed that she could cause writing to suddenly appear on blank paper.
Once Colonel Henry S. Olcott, her dear friend and co-founder of the Society, had bought a reporters notebook and brought it to Madame Blavatsky. She told him to put it back in his pocket. When he removed it the second time, he found writing therein and a picture.
To say the least the Colonel was astounded. He said that no one but myself had touched the book after it was purchased; I had had it in my pocket until it was shown to H.P.B., from the distance of two or three feet, had myself held it in my bosom, removed it a moment later when bidden and the writing had been done while the book was inside my waist-coat (p. 59). She repeated this feat in front of many reputable witnesses (see the writing that appeared in the book of William Q. Judge, New York attorney, p. 62).
Third, it should be noted that during the Spiritualist movement, many mediums performed automatic writing which was said to be dictated or directed from the Spirit world.
Again, we see that the spirit realm has caused writing to appear under many conditions. [Note: Jacques Vallee wrote of fairy-rings and nests made by fairy people and elves dancing in the grass (Passport to Magonia, Rings in the Moonlight, p. 31-18).] Let us return to the writings in crops.
How are fields with crop circles affected?
The fields where designs have appeared are peculiarly affected. The stalks have not been cut or broken, but bent down and they continue to grow at a 90-degree angle. Seeds from this grain grow 40% faster than their normal counterpart from the same field (CCC: Peculiarities, http://denali.medberry.com/krishna/pecs.html). Biophysicist and crop circle expert, Dr. William C. Levengood in Michigan believes rapid and intense energy (possibly microwave) causes the crop circle phenomenon (Crop Circles Real or Hoax, by Donna Higbee, CHT, http://users1.ee.net/pmason/crop_circles.html.). He has examined the cells of plants within the crop circle and noticed that they are greatly enlarged, due to the intense heating and expansion of the water within each cell. He has used microwave energy and heated plants for 40 seconds to find they become dehydrated and burn. Dr. Levengood speculates that since plants from within crop circles are not burned in any way but show the enlarged cell pits, then we have to assume the forming of these crop circles takes place in about 30-40 seconds. If the time were longer than that, the plant would literally be cooked & (Crop Circles Real or Hoax, by Donna Higbee, CHT, http://users1.ee.net/pmason/crop_circles.html.)
What other peculiarities occur in crop circles?
Researchers, such as Linda Moulton Howe who has received local, national and international awards for her film documentaries, helped coordinate 1992-1993 scientific investigations of the crop circle mystery in England, and authored Glimpses of Other Realities, Vol. 1 - Facts and Eyewitnesses and Strange Harvests in 1993, have noted many peculiar circumstances within crop circles. Equipment fails inexplicably in these fields and magnets go haywire. An energy emission emanates from crop circles at 5khz that remains for about two years. The Center for Crop Circle Studies in England and an organization called ADAS Ltd., working with the English Ministry of Argiculture, have found high levels of nitrogen in the soil of affected crops. The only way such an amount of nitrogen can appear is after receiving an extreme electrical charge (Crop Circles&they are real! By Sw. Virato, New Frontier: Crop Circles, http://www.newfrontier.com/2/cropcirc.html). Many people who visit crop circles report both positive and negative physical reactions during and after their visit. Patterns in fields appear in both populated areas and restricted military installations.
What do crop circles have to do with geometry?
Several geometric designs have been found in crop circles. After astronomer and mathematician Gerald Hawkins studied pictures of crop circles geometrically, he found that in many circles there was a consistent pattern of diatonic ratios that matched the white keys on a piano (Crop Circles Real or Hoax, by Donna Higbee, CHT, http://users1.ee.net/pmason/crop_circles.html.). Diatonic ratios are used in music theory to describe the scales of one note being higher in pitch than another. Hawkins said that the probability of diatonic ratios being found in crop circles is 25,000 to 1. Another researcher who played some of diatonic scales while standing in a crop circle heard static sounds in the air, saw lights hovering over the crop, and the next morning found another design in the field where he saw the lights.
How long have crop circles been sited?
The earliest crop circle reported was in 1678 in Hertfordshire, England. There appears to be a time when none were reported. The next design was reported in 1966 in Tully, England. During the seventies, reports of crop circles increased. In December 1989, 90 crop circles appeared at once in one Australian field. During the nineties, the designs changed from circles to rings, boxes, and key shapes and began appearing all over the world. After that time 200-300 have appeared yearly.
In September 1991 two Englishmen, Doug Bower and David Chorley, claimed to have created all the formations with a plank of wood and rope, but were proven frauds and admitted they were a hoax. During 1993 and afterwards the designs became more artistic (i.e., pictorgrams and glyphs) and increased in size.
Farmers found 10 petaled Mandala formations, scorpion bubbles, spider webs, spiral armed circles in the shapes of planets and stars that resembled galaxies, asteroid formations, geometrical symbols, and a DNA double helix pattern 648 feet long (Crop Circles-Chronology, http://indigo.ie/~dcd/chron.htm).
How are crop circles formed?
There are many theories about the origin of crop circles from natural occurrences to aliens, but the mystery has yet to be unfolded. Dr. Terence Meaden thinks crop circles are caused by unusual weather conditions that he calls the Plasma Vortex (Crop Circles-Chronology, http://indigo.ie/~dcd/chron.htm).
The size of these designs, their intricacy, and time in which they are completed, nearly eliminates the possibility of human intervention. Researchers have yet to find footprints leading into or out of the fields of cereal.
Dr. Collette M. Dowell, a naturopathic doctor and mathematical hobbyist who has been researching crop circles without funding on her own for the past six years believes intelligent life is behind the communications on wheat and barley. Dr. Dowells research on crop circle formation has been presented to the United Nations Parapsychology Department, published in the science journals of Borderland Science and the Louisiana Mounds Society. I believe that there is a form of intelligence, other than human, that is creating these patterns in the fields for some form of communications. I say this because they are deliberate attempts for humans to see pattern in fields. There is an obvious deliberate intention to get mans attention. & It seems as if they are multilevel coded. They involve sacred symbols and geometry, astronomical factors, earth magnetic fields, and consciousness itself (Crop Circles&they are real! By Sw. Virato, New Frontier: Crop Circles, http://www.newfrontier.com/2/cropcirc.html.)
Why arent crop circles reported more often?
The medias suppression or ridicule of the existence of crop circles shows a great fear of the unknown. They believe that if the masses of people were told about every symbol that appeared in the fields worldwide, sheer panic would set in. The newscasters could not tell the public: who made the designs, how they were made, or what they mean. Some think the government understands their meaning, but is hiding it from the public to prevent hysteria. The calling of some to discover what the circle makers want, however, appears greater than a government cover-up.
Conclusion
Without acknowledging Spirit (John 4:21-22), the angelic realm (Heb. 1:6), and that man is a spiritual creature (I Thess. 5:23), science will find no obvious answers for these three supernatural phenomena discussed in this articleout of body (OOB)/near death experiences (NDE), UFO abductions, and crop circles.
OOB/NDE are personal, subjective experiences that cause individuals to realize they can exist apart and separate from their physical bodies. UFO abductions are paranormal experiences where spirits (demonic or angelic) take the soul out of the body.
If crop circles are not proven to be some weird type of energy, then some type of spiritual intervention causes them. All three phenomenon cause men to look at reality a little differently then they did before their paranormal experience.
Since Yahweh knows that man cannot complete his development in the physical state, He is urging him to turn his attention to the spirit world where his learning can proceed and continue thereafter.
In short, these supernatural phenomenon are simply the beginning of a journey calling man to the spiritual realm. Paranormal experiences are a sign that man will be stuck eternally if he continues to focus on the physical.
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A. Out of Body Experience FAQ, by Jouni A. Smed ( HYPERLINK http://www3.eu.spiritweb.org/Spirit/obe-faq.html http://www3.eu.spiritweb.org/Spirit/obe-faq.html)
B. A Look At Lucid Dreaming and Out Of Body Experiences,
by Ian Wilson, ( HYPERLINK http://www3.eu.spiritweb.org/Spirit/obe-faq.html http://www3.eu.spiritweb.org/Spirit/obe-wilson.html)
C. The Monroe Institute, by Spiritweb Org, Promoting spiritual Consciousness on the Internet, (wysiwgy://12/ HYPERLINK http://www3.eu.spiritweb.org/Spirit/obe-faq.html http://www3.eu.spiritweb.org/Spirit/monroe-inst.html)
D. Robert Allan Monroe, ( HYPERLINK http://www.monroe-inst.com/programs/hemi-sync-faq.html http://www.monroe-inst.com/programs/hemi-sync.html) ( HYPERLINK http://www.monroeinstitute.org/bio/robert-monroe.html http://www.monroeinstitute.org/bio/robert-monroe.html)
E. Hemi-Sync® Audio Technology, ( HYPERLINK http://www.monroe-inst.com/programs/hemi-sync-faq.html http://www.monroe-inst.com/programs/hemi-sync.html)
F. FAQ about the Hemi-Sync® Process, ( HYPERLINK http://www.monroe-inst.com/programs/hemi-sync-faq.html http://www.monroe-inst.com/programs/hemi-sync-faq.html)
G. The Ketamine Konundrum, by James Kent, (http://www.lycaeum.org/~lux/alchem/konun.htm)
H. Using Ketamine to Induce the Near-Death Experience:
Mechanism of Action and Therapeutic Potential, by Dr Karl L.R. Jansen in Jahrbuch f. Ethnomedizin 1995, 55-79
( HYPERLINK http://www.lycaeum.org/drugs/synthetics/ketamine/Ketamine_near-death.html http://www.lycaeum.org/drugs/synthetics/ketamine/Ketamine_near-death.html)
I. A Conversation with Raymond Moody, HYPERLINK http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1995/April/RaymondMoody.html http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/1995/April/RaymondMoody.html
J. Crop Circles Real or Hoax, by Donna Higbee, CHT, http://users1.ee.net/pmason/crop_circles.html.
K. Crop Circles&they are real! By Sw. Virato, New Frontier: Crop Circles, http://www.newfrontier.com/2/cropcirc.html.
L. Crop Circles-Chronology, http://indigo.ie/~dcd/chron.htm
M. Crop Circle Connector, http://alpha.mic.dundee.ac.uk/ft/crop_circles/anasazi/connect.html.
N. Crop Circles from 1978-1996, http://alpha.mic.dundee.ac.uk/ft/crop_circles/1991/russell.html.
O. CCC: Peculiarities, http://denali.medberry.com/krishna/pecs.html.
P. Crop Circle Connector, http://alpha.mic.dundee.ac.uk/ft/crop_circles/anasazi/connect.html, and Crop Circles from 1978-1996, http://alpha.mic.dundee.ac.uk/ft/crop_circles/1991/russell.html.
Q. What would you do? The Research and Writings of Donna Higbee, http://users1.ee.net/pmaston/what_would.html
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