I had a very interesting reaction to this crop circle.
First thing I noticed was the 3D spheres. With a little concentration, I then saw the cog shapes. Then it switched back and forth. I felt the definite sensation of perceptual phasing which reminded me of something I read about 4th Density consciousness and how, from the point of view of perception, you could "not see" earth until you wanted to.
At this point, some things I read from Don Juan's lessons on 'not-doing' (observing shadows of leaves and the shapes of the spaces between them as an exercise of 'gazing'), the figure-ground drawings, the intellectual phase-locking that creates the social reality, the quotes of Paul von Ward in The Solarian Legacy (on line wave) about the group-mind that establishes the boundaries of what is possible in the YCYOR field and the matter-spirit thread are all trying to blend together in my mind.
My reaction was "whew!", I think I've been studying too much, at which point this came to mind:
[quote author=http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/wave12a.htm]
If you strive perpetually to gain and gather knowledge, you provide yourself with protection from every
possible negative occurrence that could ever happen. Do you know why this is? The more knowledge you
have, the more awareness you have as to how to protect yourself.[/quote]
I looked at the crop circle again and I sort of 'saw' how it might be that we get trapped in those certain illusions that establishes our habitual mental outlooks.
It seems like at some point early in life, we see things as they really are, but a "first time" comes when we must really concentrate in order to see something (about life) the way someone said it is. Then, we internalize this view where it becomes actively and habitually reinforced through 'belief'.
What is/was actually there is still there in it's entirety, only we 'select out' certain things to be prominent; certain things that seem to 'slant' in a certain direction, and only give peripheral attention to the remaining things - a single pattern that represents, to us, "the way it is".
I had already conceptualized this idea, but this crop circle seems to have given me the actual visceral realization or impact of it.