2012 Crop Circles

[dreamrider]

I visited the crop circle at burrow Hill Fort, Rock lane, nr Corley, Warwickshire earlier today - there are photos a few pages back here. (sorry, I tried attaching an image and pressing insert image button - but no photo came forth!).

I have visited crop circles before, mainly back in 2008, and understand that everyone has a different idea as to their authenticity and potential meaning.

Fwiw, based on my personal observations, feeling and dowsing, my own interpretations are:

Both the larger and the smaller circles may be symbolic of Earth.

The smaller one has a solitary wheat stem growing in the centre (not quite ripened unlike the adjoining crop - see ground photos on link below) which I interpret as Earth almost ready for the harvest.

The larger one (which I had previously thought to be the Sun until I dowsed) I also interpret as Earth 'opening up' or blooming.


_http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/rocklane/rocklane2012a.html


Also, whilst standing in the larger circle and gazing up I noticed a white passenger jet - but when I turned around a only a few seconds later, it wasn't there anymore, despite the clear blue sky in its path???  Strange! I am sure I recall Laura mentioning something similar.

[Windmill knight]

Couple more:

_http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/Etchilhampton2/etchilhampton2012b.html



_http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/allington2/allington2012b.html

[Kios]

Couple more:

_http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/Etchilhampton2/etchilhampton2012b.html

_http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/Etchilhampton2/i392-EtchOb.jpg

_http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/allington2/allington2012b.html

The first one have been already posted

Now I really wonder the symbolism  of the second one, is it a known shape ? It seems familiar in a way.

[Nicolas]

Couple more:

_http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/Etchilhampton2/etchilhampton2012b.html

This one gave me the impression of Earth moving into a new density.

[melatonin]

Couple more:

_http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/Etchilhampton2/etchilhampton2012b.html



_http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/allington2/allington2012b.html

Im reading that bottom one as a secound sun approaching from behind our moon/sun eclipse. In fact its done twice. Once with the smaller circles, and another time with the larger ones, the large cross being the approaching secound sun in the secound instance.

Edited - Changed the word secound with bottom.

[cassandra]

 I thought the bottom picture could represent the realm boarder intersection, with the two circles either merging or one moving away, as Earth moves into 4D, or two Earths, one 3D, one 4D, moving away into their two separate densities.
The large circle could represent the density "boarder".

[dreamrider]

The bottom crop circle feels like the scarab beetle to me, which reminded me of the following:

from session 05.12.94

Q: (L) The scarab is a dung beetle. It rolls dung into little balls. Am I onto something here?

A: Continue.

Q: (L) And supposedly the scarab symbolized eternal life because it represented the rolling of the sun... oh dear, wait a minute... the rolling of the sun across the sky is what the Egyptians understood... but what the dung beetle really does is simply rolls dung up into little balls... is this the operation you are talking about... the rolling of dung into little balls?

A: Close.

Q: (L) Well, that's all I know about the scarab so you are going to have to help me out here.

A: Life cycle.

As the 'beetle' rolls away the 'old earth' - it reveals a 'new earth' (or density beneath) on the cross (4D) ? All part of the Grand Cycle perhaps.

[Kios]

The bottom crop circle feels like the scarab beetle to me, which reminded me of the following:

from session 05.12.94

Q: (L) The scarab is a dung beetle. It rolls dung into little balls. Am I onto something here?

A: Continue.

Q: (L) And supposedly the scarab symbolized eternal life because it represented the rolling of the sun... oh dear, wait a minute... the rolling of the sun across the sky is what the Egyptians understood... but what the dung beetle really does is simply rolls dung up into little balls... is this the operation you are talking about... the rolling of dung into little balls?

A: Close.

Q: (L) Well, that's all I know about the scarab so you are going to have to help me out here.

A: Life cycle.

As the 'beetle' rolls away the 'old earth' - it reveals a 'new earth' (or density beneath) on the cross (4D) ? All part of the Grand Cycle perhaps.

Interesting point of view indeed, I still can't put my finger on what bells it rings in me, it is religious in a way but I really can't remember yet. I'll dream on it tonight, we will see

[Perceval]

Couple more:

_http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/Etchilhampton2/etchilhampton2012b.html

This one gave me the impression of Earth moving into a new density.

It's a cosmic doomsday clock, and it's showing 12 midnight.....   

[Kios]

It's a cosmic doomsday clock, and it's showing 12 midnight.....   

Ooooh so it is not the coming of the pepperoni pizza era !?? 

[Orange Scorpion]

Forgive me if I'm generating noise, I searched the forum and no one has yet mentioned the following crop circle.



Featured in Wiltshire on 26 July.

I've seen this crop circle in the Spanish version of Sott.net

http://es.sott.net/articles/show/15007-Las-neuronas-espejo-aparecen-en-los-circulos-de-las-cosechas-mas-extrano-de-los-ultimos-anos

The article is of Ufopoliscom and links this crop circle with mirror neurons... I found it really interesting. I come running to the forum to see if you were discussing this matter, but I have not found anything.


What is the meaning of this crop circle? What is it trying to tell us?








This reminded me that Laura wrote recently about empathy and mirror neurons.

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,28383.msg353889.html#msg353889

Jean Decety, a scientist at the University of Chicago,  has broken down empathy into four components.

1) The ability to share someone else's emotions.
2) Awareness of yourself and of other people - and knowledge of where you "end" and the others "begin", i.e. appropriate boundaries.
3) The mental capacity to set your own perspective aside and to view things from the perspective of another.
4) The ability to consciously control your own emotions.

Decety tells us that empathy is formed by combinations of all four of these components. If any one of the components isn't kicking in either because of genetics or dysfunctional thought patterns, i.e. programs, selfish emotional reactions, being around people who manipulate reactions out of you under false pretenses, stress, etc., one's "empathy" can be all wrong.  When you are empathizing with the wrong people or situations for the wrong reasons, your behavior can deteriorate and you lose your ability to interact with others in a healthy way. One of these unhealthy ways of experiencing empathy is to have too much - to be unable to separate yourself from another, to not know the boundaries of your own feelings and desires.

Another point is that it is possible to turn empathy on and off as has been studied by neuroscientist Yawei Cheng.  Cheng realized that it would not be possible for truly empathic doctors, nurses, and other health care persons to go through their jobs every day if they felt the personal distress that normal people feel every time they see another person in distress (for that work, see studies on mirror neurons).  So, some studies were done. It seems that the brains of individuals who work in health care react very differently to seeing situations that, in others, would make the mirror neurons jump like crazy.  What happened was that a part of the brain retrieved a memory that triggered the brain's command central to shut down the ability to empathize with someone else's pain.  At the same time, it increased the signal to the part of the brain that makes us aware that someone else is just that: someone else, not the self.  The brain was amping up the part that says: that's somebody else, not you! Fuggedaboutit! 

Obviously, doing this very often can have repercussions.

What this suggests is that people who have to deal with suffering each and every day (assuming they aren't sadistic psychopaths to begin with) somehow learn to disconnect their personal emotions when they are undesirable and could interfere with efficient functioning.  The one-two action of dampening emotions and ramping up the separate-person-signals makes this possible. Interestingly, it is the right frontoparietal network that permits us to distinguish ourselves from others.  Lesions or low/absent functioning in this part of the brain is associated with psychopathy.  Possibly, creating imprinted circuits that repeatedly shut down emotions could permanently affect this part of the brain and could even effect epigenetic changes on future children.

Obviously, people in the caring professions who are in them because they actually care, obviously don't go to some sort of school to teach themselves how to damp their emotions and amplify the perceptions of boundaries; they sort of learn it by trial and error, by exposure, by experience, sort of like blinking.  But this can be a tricky thing because without awareness, one can turn off empathy entirely...

However, having said all that, the ability to be able to exert top-down control over bottom-up emotional swarms is crucial to those individuals who seek to be of service to others. Being the driver of your carriage means that other people's moods and emotions do not control your moods and emotions.  So, what to do?

There are two basic ways of reacting to the suffering of others:

1) Empathic distress. Empathic distress is the natural response of most empathic people.  This can lead to two outcomes:
          a) Feeling guilty if we try to avoid or abandon the hurt person.
          b) Being overwhelmed ourselves and burning out which means we only hurt ourselves and do not help the other person. This is why care-givers train themselves to turn off the empathy which can have way more severe consequences including increasing callousness, emotional exhaustion, depression, etc.

2) Empathic Concern: transforming empathic reactions to compassion which leads to action. That is, you can learn to immerse yourself in the pain of others for the purpose of being galvanized to action.

Now, have a look at this:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/247956-Compassion-Meditation-May-Be-Key-to-Better-Caregiving

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering. Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

When some empathic caregivers are exposed to others' suffering day after day, their continuous partaking in this suffering might become overwhelming and can lead to burnout. Other caregivers may react by shutting down their empathic feeling and drawing an emotional curtain between themselves and their patients. Both these reactions are far from optimal.

Could mind training and meditation on altruistic love and compassion serve as an antidote to burnout? An example of this is the caregiver who naturally displays overflowing kindness and warmth toward his patients and does not experience any burnout.

Experienced Buddhist meditators have reported that when they focused for some time on what they called "stand-alone empathy" (visualizing intense suffering affecting someone else and resonating empathically with that suffering) without allowing compassion and altruistic love to grow in their minds, they soon experienced burnout.

However, when they added a powerful feeling of unconditional love and compassion, the negative, distressing aspects of empathy disappeared and were replaced by compassionate courage and a resolve to do whatever they could to soothe others' suffering. It would therefore seems that there is no such thing as "compassion fatigue," as burnout is often called, but only an "empathy fatigue" that can be remedied by cultivating compassion.

Neuroscientist Tania Singer, in collaboration with such meditators, is planning to train caregivers in cultivating loving-kindness in a secular way based on Buddhist techniques. This would to allow caregivers, nurses, and doctors to continue to offer altruistic services to those in pain without themselves suffering from empathic distress.

That is one of the things that the SOTT editors work with every day: being able to view horror and suffering repeatedly, and having something of an outlet to actually work on doing something about it. 

What happens then, after awhile is that compassion for the cosmos at large grows and while there is no stemming of the flow of love and compassion, it just simply becomes harder and harder for things out there to trigger negative emotions within.

(See: "The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Empathy" in "Empathy in Mental Illness, edited by Tom F.D. Farrow and Peter W. R. Woodruff - 2007 - Cambridge University Press)

I ask the moderators to delete my message if I'm going in the wrong direction.

[Perceval]

It's a cosmic doomsday clock, and it's showing 12 midnight.....   

Ooooh so it is not the coming of the pepperoni pizza era !?? 

No pepperoni pizza until you've had your doomsday! 

[Iarrthoir Firinne]

Perceval, I do so love your humour - you are so funny!   

[truth seeker]

Couple more:

_http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2012/Etchilhampton2/etchilhampton2012b.html

This one gave me the impression of Earth moving into a new density.

It's a cosmic doomsday clock, and it's showing 12 midnight.....   

I'm thinking it's upside down and that perhaps it symbolizes the raising of consciousness. The half circle reminds me of a halo. If the circle represents a head (or even a body), the smaller circles may be the opening up of the third eye which then connects to the crown. A representation of an 'uplink' to the creative divine. Another thought is that it may represent a kind of compass... For what it's worth.

 

I ask the moderators to delete my message if I'm going in the wrong direction.

No need to worry, Orange Scorpion. There's nothing wrong with putting information out there for others to consider and possibly network about.

[cassandra]

It's a cosmic doomsday clock, and it's showing 12 midnight.....   

Ooooh so it is not the coming of the pepperoni pizza era !?? 

No pepperoni pizza until you've had your doomsday! 

Yes, they've finally had it with us, the tables are about to turn, and we're all going to be eaten by giant pizzas!