(2019-05-22, 03:11 AM)Ninshub Wrote: I don't think any are genuine after looking into it a few years ago on Skeptiko, but there seems nevertheless to be anomalous experiences connected to them, whatever the cause is. I think that's the consensus of psi-inclined folk who have studied the phenomenon.
I'm most interested in the fact that multiple reports include the world suddenly becoming more "dreamlike" when physically close to either ships or entities. Given the
numerous connections I've found between dreams, projection and the physical world.
"The cure for bad information is more information."
During the peak season of crop circles there was an article in the Fortean Times interviewing about a dozen crop circle makers and they often said that they had witnessed strange phenomena while making a crop circle. So maybe the ritual of creating one of these things is conducive to attracting or producing weird events, but I'm pretty sure that all but the simplest crop circles are man made.
In an effort to challenge my beliefs, I tried not believing in anything. It did not work. I found that I was constitutionally incapable of kicking all my beliefs to the curb.
So I decided to try the opposite, believe in everything.That approach was somewhat more obtainable, but the closest I could come, was a sort of hierarchy of beliefs.
For example the belief that I can walk thru walls is very low on my system.
On the other hand I'm alright with the possibility that some but not all crop circles are genuine.
(2019-05-21, 07:03 AM)Chris Wrote: Do people here really think crop circles are genuine?
I don't know, haven't looked deeply into it. But like my sadly very slow exploration into mediumship, I would need to travel to the circles themselves to judge.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell