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THE
HOAXING OF CROP CIRCLES
The
crop circle community is divided on the question of what proportion of crop
circles are hoaxed. Certainly a
substantial number are man-made, but it is also undeniable that many crop
circles seem too perfect and too intricate to be man-made.
In some crop circles the design is so original, and the pattern requires
the most detailed and complex interweaving of crop in order to create the
effect. With a lot of crop circles
the overall design can only be appreciated by being viewed from an airplane.
The aerial photographs reveal an artistic masterpiece, and it is simply
unbelievable that a group of people could create such a marvel using planks to
flatten the crop while working in the hours of darkness.
At ground level they have no opportunity to see what they are creating,
and in order to perfectly complete an intricate design that can only be
appreciated from the air, it would require a degree of planning, control and
regimentation that are beyond human capabilities.
Some
of the crop circles that appear in this book (the Alien & Disc, Arecibo
message, Crooked Solely, and the Mayan Wheel) have that originality of design
and quality of execution, as well as a sophisticated pattern that can only be
appreciated from the air. Just the
design alone would require an extremely gifted and original artist who
undoubtedly would have the talent to be a huge success in the art world.
To create such marvels in total
darkness using planks is quite simply impossible.
Just like many will insist that the Great Pyramid is man-made, although
in point of fact nobody actually knows how it could be done, everyone just
assumes that these crop circles must be man-made because there is no other
reasonable explanation. In relation
to the Mayan Wheel, in particular, there are several rumours circulating that it
was man-made. The rumours appear to
have some substance to them, and so we must assume that it was in fact man-made,
although nobody has actually come forward and claimed to have done it.
The
fact is that human beings rarely do anything unless there is some material
advantage to be had. People who
hoax crop circles remain anonymous, and they can make no money out of the
exercise, let alone do it for a living. So
why do they do it? Are we to
believe that there are groups of people out there who go to extraordinary
lengths to design these wonderful images, and then travel to remote places in
the middle of the night to carry out their design.
For the most part they run the risk that their new masterpiece will not
be seen at all. The Crooked Soley
crop circle, for example, was laid in a very remote spot and was spotted quite
by chance by the pilot of an airplane flying overhead, only hours before the
field was harvested. These crop
circles can be like flowers that bloom in the desert.
A masterpiece that can wither and die without ever being appreciated by
anyone. What is driving these
people to go out into the fields and expend all this effort when there is no
money in it for them, nor fame nor recognition.
In fact known crop circle hoaxers are ridiculed, and even despised, by
the crop circle community. Anyone
who comes forward and claims to have hoaxed a crop circle can really only expect
to encounter a mountain of abuse. So
why do they do it, and more importantly, how do they do it?
In
their book, Vernetzte Intelligenz, Fosar & Bludorf have a chapter
entitled ‘Blind masterbuilder and genetically engineered anthills’, which
holds the key to understanding the mentality of crop circle hoaxers.
When we talk of consciousness, as a rule we think automatically about our
human individual consciousness, that is also referred to in psychology as the
Ego. As a result we are overlooking
the fact that in nature there are wider forms of consciousness where groups of
organisms merge into a higher identity that is much more than the sum of the
individual members. We humans can
learn a lot from these higher consciousness structures of the lesser creatures.
So
that there may be no misunderstanding, Fosar & Bludorf explain what they
mean by the concept of group consciousness.
They are not simply talking about herd instinct, or ideology that seeks
to regiment mankind. The ‘blue
ants’ in China during the cultural revolution were, just like similar
organizations in other totalitarian systems, only a perverted excrescence, that
creates a human group consciousness in the service of a totalitarian regime.
It is completely different for animals.
Actually to depict the ideological human variety as ‘blue ants’ is
really to insult the ant species.
What
Fosar & Bludorf mean by croup consciousness became clear to them from one of
their patients in there hypnotherapy practice. This young man was in a trance and was describing a
hypercommunication experience after having had an encounter with a UFO.
This patient explained that he was the whole time locked into a kind of
collective thought process. Their
questions were disturbing him somewhat. He
was having difficulty describing his experience in retrospect during the
hypnosis session. Then suddenly he said: “The closest I can describe it is,
one is awake and the others sleep.” This
immediately recalled to Fosar & Bludorf the conditions in an insect
community, in which hundreds of thousands of insects work in harmony, while only
one of them remain in control, the queen. Their
patient had developed a consciousness where he saw himself as having surpassed
the rest of humanity. The rest of
humanity knew nothing about this ability of his to enter a higher level of
consciousness. He saw the rest of
them as sleeping while he was wide awake. That is to say, he saw himself as some sort of a super human
with extraordinary knowledge or insight. Perhaps
not even a human at all, but an alien that is living amongst humans.
It could well be that crop circle hoaxers see themselves in this way. They may regard themselves as merely people with a special message and they need to wake up mankind from its slumber. Maybe they actually regard themselves either as aliens or as having been visited by aliens and it becomes necessary for them to enter into a dialogue with the humans by means of these crop circles. When they are out there in the fields in the middle of the night hoaxing crop circles they may not see themselves as hoaxers at all, but as real aliens creating something extraordinary that will make us sleeping humans sit up and take notice. See Figure One.
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Figure
1.
Fosar
& Bludorf go on with their explanation about group consciousness.
It is like the internet. Millions
of people contribute information to this gigantic network, and it is possible
for anyone to retrieve information from it.
Nobody has any control over the process.
The fact that the capabilities of a group are more than the sum of its
individual members is not something we have realized in the modern computer age.
It is a fundamental fact of nature.
If there was not such a thing as a group consciousness, then there would
not be humanity, animals and plants as we know them, but only isolated living
beings.
The
smallest unit of life – the cell – has the capacity to survive as an
individual. About 3.5 billion years
ago the first living being on earth was an individual cell such as this.
It has been able to multiply a thousandfold in every drop of water.
In our typical human arrogance we call this form of life ‘primitive’,
and thus we forget that we ourselves, filled as we are with our own self-pride,
are just a composition of such cells.
Very
early in the process of evolution – namely about a billion years ago, these
individual cells began to bond together in groups. Probably the priority was to group together to have a common
protection against external threats. Still
today we find primitive organisms in the oceans that live together in swarms or
shoals. They present merely as a
fibre skeleton full of holes, and these holes are inhabited by microscopic
living beings. It is so to speak an
enormous living city for individual organisms that are not completely
differentiated, just the same organisms living on top of each other.
In
the next step towards genuine multi-celled organisms, the individual members of
such a group began to differentiate and to perform specialist functions.
This proved to be quite simple as well as useful for the evolutionary
process. Thus began the first
genuine multi-celled beings, the plants and animals that we know today including
of course human beings. These
creatures are capable of special transportation processes for oxygen and carbon
– the red blood cells – or special cells capable of storing calcium
carbonate and through them to construct a solid bone skeleton.
Other cells would act as conductors for electric impulses and therewith
information – the nerve cells. Other
cells can rhythmically draw together and expand.
They built up the musculature that enabled the body to move.
To
the list of fascinating specialist cells surely belongs the cells of the defence
system. They represent the police
and the fire service of the group, that look after the order and tidiness as
well as waste disposal. These cells
are partly free to move around in the body – the white blood corpuscles –
and can wander to and fro between the blood circulation and the body tissue.
Only
as a result of this higher specialization and harmonious cooperation can the
whole unit – the body – remain functioning and operational throughout life.
It is not a clockwork mechanism, as it was described in earlier times,
but an infinitely complex and subtle network of interaction between different
cells types. One can fully describe this network as a group consciousness.
Just try to pull out one of these cells from the harmonious whole, let it
try to enrich itself at the expense of the others, then you put the entire
community in acute danger – a cancer tumor will develop or some other
malignant growth.
On
the other hand, concerning the way the various animal species were able to
reproduce themselves over the course of millions of years, through genetic
mutations, like the experts of today maintain, it is scarcely conceivable that
this transition from a single cell to multi-celled macroscopic bodies could
really have happened as a result of chance mutations. How can bare mutations account for the hundreds of thousands
of independent cells joining together to form a new creature whose body has
cellular inner workings involving a complicated division of labour.
There must have also been some sort of group consciousness at work to
achieve this. This is not mere
philosophical speculation, because in fact the transition process from a
single-celled organism to a multi-celled organism has left us with a living
example that we can observe today. Unbelievable
as it may sound, there exists a certain species that can live sometimes as an
individual cell and at other times as a multi-celled organism.
This is the amoeba Dictyostelium, that scientists generally
affectionately refer to as ‘Dicty’.
This
single celled creature normally lives in the upper layers of the earth where it
closely resembles bacteria. They
have a voracious appetite and they can literally eat themselves out of house and
home. On account of the microscopic
size they have no chance to move on to new pastureland.
They simply are not fast enough to reach a new area before they starve to
death. But then something
extraordinary happens. More than 100,000 Dictys bond themselves together into a
single organism that can attain the size of a grain of sand, and under the
microscope resembles a tiny slug. This
form can creep about with a speed of about a millimeter an hour, and can thus
move on to greener pastures so to speak. But
that’s not all. In the short time
that this multi-celled body exists there develops a form of specialization
amongst the member cells. Now this
super-Dicty possesses primitive sensory organs and can react to light and heat.
Several thousand of these Dictys migrate into a kind of rudimentary sex
organ and attain the state of inactive spore.
These spores can be carried by wind or rain or by other animals to new
landscapes, while the other cells of the super-Dicty die out.
They have performed their task allowing a part of their clan to go and
live elsewhere. What we see here is
the group consciousness that can completely surpass its individual members.
It constructs itself into a higher organization and creates an enhanced
consciousness structure. This gives
the group possibilities for survival that the individual members did not have.
Genuine
group consciousness is highly adaptable, according to Fosar & Bludorf.
It enables a group of animals to react with lighting speed to changed
conditions in their environment. Many
species of animals are able to orchestrate or co-ordinate a combined or group
defence to a perceived threat, and thus achieve greater performance and effect
than an individual animal would be capable of.
We
know of many animal species that in one form or another live together in a
society, and the most impressive of these are the community or state building
insects, the bees, the ants and the termites.
These insects don’t simply use a form of social bonding for protection
and reproduction that is the case for many mammals that live together in
society. These insects manage to
create a higher existence as a whole unit.
All of us know about bee hives, ant hills and termite nests or mounds.
The individual insects in these complicated common abodes are completely
different from the mindless stereotyped ‘blue ants’.
In an insect community there is a remarkable division of labour between
workers. Some are responsible for the construction and maintenance of
the common abode. Others are
cleaners that handle the waste disposal. Still
others are the providers that busy themselves with food gathering.
Then there are the soldiers that are concerned with defending the
community and the nurse maids who care for the new born.
The
focal point of an insect community is always the queen (in the case of termites
there is a royal couple). She is
not simply concerned with reproduction, but also acts as the brain, the central
control, for the entire community. She
has as a rule a lifespan of many years, whilst the other individuals can die
after only a few weeks as a result of harder work or whatever. Here is to be found an analogy with the cells of the body.
Practically all body regions have cells that are continually dying off
and renewing themselves. These cells are regularly exhausted as a result of the
different physiological tasks they are performing.
Only the brain cells are long lasting and must serve their purpose
throughout the entire life of the individual.
(Recent research has shown that in certain specific brain regions the
growth of new cells is possible, but this is the exception rather than the rule
for brain cells).
Just
as the individual cell in the body is no longer capable of living, and once dead
it will be expelled by the body through natural cleansing processes, we see the
same sort of thing at work in communities of bees and termites.
The individuals die out while the community goes on.
System biologists describe the whole insect community as one single
individual. The individual members are not only dependent upon each
other, but within the community there can be mobility and adaptability.
This is, according to Fosar & Bludorf, what true group consciousness
is all about.
For
a long while it has remained a mystery to biologists how it is possible for
these bees and termites to build such monumental structures.
They must have some cleverly devised communication system whereby each
individual is instructed to do the right thing in its own place and thus allows
the building work to proceed in a planned and organized fashion as a whole.
In our human experience with construction projects, we know how difficult
this is to carry out in practice. For
example if we undertake to construct a tunnel where both ends have to meet in
the middle, then constant monitoring and control is necessary and there is much
communication between the different teams working from both ends in order for
the tunnel to join up precisely. So
how do the termites do it? They
have no speech, no mobile phones, no modern satellite positioning systems or
even rudimentary measuring and surveying equipment – and they also happen to
be blind.
Can
we believe that a group of say a thousand blind humans would ever be capable of
erecting a large structure beginning at different sides, even if they were given
precise verbal instructions which of course bees and termites are not capable
of. Even if they were able to
complete the project it is highly unlikely that it would end up a perfectly
integrated and harmonious whole. Fosar
& Bludorf suggest that the only way it would be possible for humans to do
this is if they were able to make use of a sense that is innate in them, but
that they are not actually aware of. A
sense that other animals have been using for millions of years – the group
consciousness.
When
we follow the various stages of the construction of a termite nest, we find
something very astounding. The
termites actually begin constructing from different places and they end up with
a unified structure that it is so exact, that it should really only be possible
for engineers and architects with sophisticated technology to achieve.
For a long while it was thought that maybe the sense of smell played a
part here – the so-called pheromones.
Commonly in the animal kingdom, from the tiniest insect to dogs who leave
behind their scent mark on the trunks of trees, the sense of smell is a very
important means of communication. We
suspect further that the bees and other insects are able to communicate with
their fellows where certain flowers are to be found for example through this
sense of smell. It is also known in the case of bees that they can give
directions and info about distances using precise dance movements.
Is it possible that the termites can also orientate themselves by the
sense of smell?
Fosar
& Bludorf refer to the work of the famous British biologist Rupert
Sheldrake, who maintains that the sense of smell can not be the explanation for
the astounding feats of termites. Sheldrake cites an experiment where a sheet of
glass was placed through the middle of a termite nest while it was still in the
construction phase. It would have
been impossible for any odour to penetrate this dividing obstacle.
Nevertheless the construction work went on as usual, and all the
components of the edifice were in exactly the right place, only the two sides
remained separated from each other by the sheet of glass.
As
far as Sheldrake is concerned if we were really to find out how the termites do
it, it would involve a much wider definition of what we know about group
consciousness. He ranks this
question so highly, and believes that the solution will so radically contradict
our current notions of group consciousness, that he lists research into this
mystery as being one of the seven experiments that could change the world.
In other words, once we know what the termites are capable of doing
simply through a group consciousness, we humans will also come to realize that
we must have these capabilities, and it will radically change our notions about
the nature of life.
Could
this be what is motivating these people who hoax crop circles.
Are they actually trying to demonstrate these group consciousness
techniques to us. In creating these
masterpieces in the fields during the hours of darkness are they not trying to
emulate the feats of the termites. Maybe
they have taken the theories of Rupert Sheldrake to heart and this is their way
of trying to change the world. Once
we realize how they are capable to perform super human feats to create these
extraordinary crop circles, not only will we have the solution to the problem
how the termites do it, but in addition we will realize that we humans likewise
have this capacity to utilize our group consciousness to
do extraordinary things. If
this is the case they are no more conscious of the actual crop circle they are
creating than is the termite conscious of the part it is playing in the overall
construction of the nest. They are
merely doing what they feel the drive to do.
Foasr
& Bludorf suggest that in order to explain the feats of the termites it is
necessary to extend what we know about the workings of group consciousness.
We have to be looking at hypercommunication at the level of our DNA.
Evidently by this means the individual termites are being fed information
that is being coordinated in their genes. Each individual merely plays its own pre-programmed part.
Essentially they are working blindly in a group project where they as
individuals have no idea whatsoever what they are doing.
It is some sort of common or group intelligence, a networked
intelligence, that is concerning itself with the precise measurements and
dimensions of the nest. It is suggested that similar processes are at work with
humans who are driven to go out into the fields at night to create crop circles.
The inspiration and impetus is coming from hypercommunication within the
DNA. They are participating in a
group consciousness that does not simply involve the group of individuals that
are actually doing the crop circle. The
hypercommunication in the DNA is common to all creatures (including plants).
So when they go out into the fields to hoax a crop circle they have a
group consciousness that is being driven by the DNA of all life here on earth.
Their simple act of doing a crop circle is part of the group
consciousness of us all – it is global. Perhaps
under these circumstances they can be excused for looking upon themselves as
superior beings. Some of them no
doubt even see it as playing god. Could
the alien in Figure 2 be actually contemplating a crop circle that has
made the news. The Mayan Wheel crop
circle, for example, made headlines in one of the British tabloids.
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Figure 2. The people who hoaxed the Mayan Wheel went to some pains to have it reported by the press. (Cartoon courtesy of Audrey Counsell)
Where
is the guiding influence in a termite community? ask Fosar & Bludorf.
The queen of the community is not only responsible for reproduction.
It is true she is constantly bringing offspring into the world, but she
also co-ordinates the activity of the entire community, and that notwithstanding
that she herself is never involved in the construction of the nest.
She is almost incapable of moving by reason of her bloated hind body.
Research has shown that the queen does not direct her subjects through
odorific signals, which was for a long time thought to be the case. When she is removed from the community the work of
construction goes on undiminished. The
communication with her subjects seems to occur outside of the normal realms of
time and space and indicates hypercommunication channels within the genetic
material. If the queen is killed
the activity of the entire community suddenly stops, as if no-one knows anymore
what they should be doing. It seems
to be insignificant whether the animals are present at the death of the queen,
and thus can become aware of her demise through sensory perception.
The
queen can be taken from the community so that her subjects can no longer have
any knowledge of her, and yet mysteriously the construction work will come to a
standstill as soon as she is killed. What
this demonstrates is that the construction of a termite nest does not simply
depend upon a pre-formulated stereotyped genetic program, but is rather a
complicated communication network that is necessary, something that none of the
known communication channels of the five senses can explain – it requires a
group consciousness based on hypercommunication in the DNA.
How else can the termites actually know that the queen is dead?
According to Fosar & Bludorf, this is the sole explanation for this
strange phenomenon. Hypercommunication
at the level of the DNA by means of magnetic wormholes that can operate outside
the restrictions of conventional time and space.
This is what the Phantom DNA Effect is telling us.
This hypercommunication is paranormal.
Again only such a phenomenon can explain the mastery of some of these
crop circles. The
hypercommunication in the DNA is giving these supposedly ordinary people, these
crop circle hoaxers, super-human powers and capabilities.
This
is surely an exciting research area. When
biologists can completely explain what is at work here, and still demonstrate
that it is in conformity with natural laws, then we really will be seeing an
experiment that can change the world. Our analytical scientific method that is always looking at
the individual parts rather than the broader picture is actually blocking us
from making important discoveries. The
question of group consciousness is a case in point. We are dealing here with the paranormal.
Fosar
& Bludorf cite another example of group consciousness in the insect world.
The American leaf cutter ant has been practising a form of shared
agricultural production for over 50 million years.
And for at least that long they have been exercising a form of genetic
engineering in order to clone mushrooms. These
ants don’t simply practise the simple arts of ‘hunting and gathering’, but
they cultivate in their nests a certain mushroom in order to feed the community.
They have developed a way to separate the cells of these mushrooms and to
artificially stimulate the parts. And
when after a certain time the mushrooms no longer taste good to them, they
exchange them with other ant communities that have related stocks.
It is clear that the individual ants, according to our human notions of
individual, know nothing about the process.
The insects are linked by a superordinate consciousness, similar to the
way our muscles are directed by our brain, and in this higher consciousness
knowledge about cloning and agricultural trade is stored.
Nobody
has better described these mysterious mechanisms better than the writer, Lewis
Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland. Fosar and Bludorf cite the following passage from another one
of Lewis Carroll’s books, Sylvie and Bruno, where a discussion takes
place between the story teller, Lady Muriel and the old Earl on the subject of
bees.
“You mentioned ‘division of labour’, just now,” I said. “Surely
it is carried to a wonderful perfection in a hive of bees?”
“So wonderful – so entirely super-human – ” said the Earl, and so
entirely inconsistent with the intelligence they show in other ways – that I
feel no doubt at all that it is pure Instinct, and not, as some
hold, a very high order of Reason. Look
at the utter stupidity of a bee, trying to find its way out of an open window!
It doesn’t try, in any reasonable sense of the word: it simply
bangs itself about! We should call
a puppy imbecile, that behaved so. And
yet we are asked to believe that its intellectual level is above Sir Isaac
Newton.!”
“Then you hold that pure Instinct contains no Reason at
all?”
“On the contrary,” said the Earl, “I hold that the work of a
bee-hive involves Reason of the highest order.
But none of it is done by the Bee.
God has reasoned it all out, and has put into the mind of the Bee the
conclusions, only, of the reasoning process.”
“But how do their minds come to work together?” I asked.
“Special pleading, special pleading!” Lady Muriel cried, in a most
unfilial tone of triumph. “Why, you yourself, said, just now, ‘the mind of the
Bee’!”
“But I did not say ‘minds’, my child,” the Earl
gently replied. “It has occurred to me, as the most probable solution of the
‘Bee’-mystery, that a swarm of Bees have only one mind among them.
We often see one mind animating a most complex collection of limbs and
organs, when joined together. How
do we know that any material connection is necessary?
May not mere neighbourhood be enough?
If so, a swarm of bees is simply a single animal whose many limbs are not
quite close together!”
Some
of the higher animals also display indications that there is a group
consciousness at work. It has been
known for a long time that dolphins are capable of a kind of language that is
more sophisticated than the sounds that other animals can make, and is even
comparable with human language. Their
speech consists of different whistling and cracking sounds that are for the most
part in the ultra-sound area, and are not audible to humans.
It seems however that they are capable of emulating human words and it is
quite clear that they understand the meaning of these words.
We
have not yet succeeded however in decoding this language that the dolphins use.
According to Fosar & Bludorf, the reason must be that we humans are going
about it in the wrong way. Scientists
only have recognized research methods at their disposal, and when they lose
their way or encounter a problem they proceed by trying to analyze the situation
by reducing the problem down into its component parts in the hope of learning
something from it. This method
means that often many subtle implications can go unnoticed.
Dolphins
seem to have some sort of premonition of events that are about to occur, and
they give the impression that there is a mental telepathy at work.
The well-known marine biologist, Dr John Lilly, constructed a test
apparatus in a dolphin aquarium where the dolphins were to be trained to press a
certain button. The dolphins
observed closely what Lilly was doing, and apparently they had worked out what
the test apparatus was for, even before it was functional.
In a playful fashion they began to press the button before Lilly had
started to operate it. When at last
it was ready and working, the dolphins were able to operate it perfectly.
It was as if the dolphins were able to ‘tap’ Lilly’s mind, and find
out what the test apparatus was supposed to do.
It
is well known that dolphins can use an underwater sonar ability by means of
which they can scan their surroundings by sending out ultra sonic waves.
There is a special organ that sits below their nasal passage.
This is a wide organ, the so-called Melon, that functions as a lens that
can take echo soundings. With this
underwater sonar, dolphins can not only find the position of fish, their size
and the distance away, but they also get a complete X-ray image of the inner
structure of the body of the fish they are tracking.
Essentially this is not so fantastic when we consider that doctors have
access to such equipment that can scan inner organs of the body by using
ultra-sound, without having to subject the patient to harmful X-ray technology.
Even so the echo sonar of the dolphin is so cleverly devised that human
technicians can only dream about emulating it.
Fosar
& Bludorf tell us that it has been suggested that the dolphin can use this
technology as a kind of scanner for the brain structure.
In this way they can compute the complete momentary structure of one of
their ilk and as a result they can have access to their thought processes.
Maybe they can also use this on humans.
Is this why they understand so well what we require of them? It is known that individual dolphins can not conceal anything
from the group. What one of their
number has found out, they all seem to know automatically.
This is where we can witness the higher workings of the group
consciousness. The individual
creatures have access to a higher intellectual capacity.
They are certainly not locked into a fixed role in their group, but they
can nevertheless exercise this extra capability in the service of the group.
Many
reports have been handed down from antiquity how dolphins have come to the
rescue of humans and on occasions have saved them from drowning.
It is not really clear how many of these reports are fables and how many
may actually be true. These days we try to use our close cooperation with dolphins
for therapeutic purposes, for instance to develop ways to treat autistic
children. It is clear that these
special abilities of the dolphin indicate that there are certainly other means
by which creatures can pass information from one to another, that can work at a
distance and are not dependent upon human speech or means of communication.
If dolphins have this ability there is no reason in principle why humans
can not also have it. In fact the phenomenon of mental telepathy is widely
documented amongst humans as well. This
is all part and parcel of the workings of the group consciousness.
Once
we appreciate that there is hypercommunication of information in the DNA, then
the mentality of crop circle hoaxers can become quite explicable.
They may not even be consciously aware of what they are doing, or why
they are doing it. Often the crop
circle that goes down is quite different and much more elaborate than the one
they actually thought they were creating. Crop
circle hoaxers report all sorts of weird electromagnetic disturbances, and
abnormal events and coincidences when they are engaged in this exercise of
pretending to be extraterrestrials. Surely
the group consciousness is capable of making them believe that they really are
extra-terrestrials, or at least that an alien is inhabiting their body and
giving them super-human abilities.
In
any event certain aspects of group consciousness is actually used by humans in
many walks of life. Fosar &
Bludorf mentioned the uses to which it is put in totalitarian governments to
direct the ideological fervour of the rank and file.
This is actually an exceptional example. We encounter the group consciousness mentality in almost
every walk of life - in society, in
sport, in commerce, in religion. Group
consciousness at a certain level occurs naturally for humans where we seem to
fall back on earlier instinctive behaviour patterns. A well known example is the fan groups of sporting
organizations. Also the military
makes use of it in its power and command structure.
They produce a group consciousness by switching off the free will of the
individual altogether. As a
consequence we can witness humans reverting to group consciousness structures
that must be described as primitive.
On
the other hand there are obviously many forms of collective endeavour that are
positive and give rise to team spirit and cooperation.
It is known that in this way things can be achieved by groups that would
not be possible for individuals working alone.
The first landing on the moon is a perfect example.
Ultimately only two men made the moon landing, but this would not have
been possible without the collaboration of an enormous number of people that
remained nameless on the ground. And
yet this has really nothing to do with the sort of group consciousness that
Fosar & Bludorf are talking about. It is significant if we remember back to
the 1960s and realize how hard the multitudes must have struggled without any
hope of sharing the privilege of being the first man to walk on the moon.
The fact is that for humans, teamwork normally means that the individuals
must learn to subordinate their own vanity and ego.
But still they perceive it as an advantage to themselves as individuals
when their group achieves something extraordinary.
With
animals the conscious potential of a group can often lead to benefits for the
individual as well, but we can only talk about a real group consciousness in
cases where the individual members remain completely unselfish to the point
where they will willingly sacrifice themselves in the interests of the group.
A true group consciousness that we humans could develop would still
entail some team spirit, but it must also involve the creation of a higher
consciousness that is not really at the disposal of the individual at all.
Ants as a group are capable of cloning mushrooms although it is obvious
that the individual ant could know nothing of this.
There is no telling to what heights mankind will climb when we are
capable of consciously and deliberately making use of our potential for this
higher form of group consciousness.
The
groups that go out into the fields to hoax crop circles have this higher group
consciousness that Fosar & Bludorf are talking about.
In that activity the individual members of the group are completely
unselfish, in as much that they as individuals have nothing to gain whatsoever.
In addition the group is sometimes able to achieve an artistic
masterpiece that would be well beyond the capabilities and talents of any
particular member. They really do
develop a higher consciousness when they are engaged in this exercise. The truly magnificent crop circles indicate that they have
managed to harness a paranormal or superhuman force that has enabled them to
achieve something that humans can not normally achieve.
So heightened is their group consciousness that they tend to think about
themselves as no longer being human at all.
Through them is flowing some sort of cosmic force, and they begin to see
themselves as extraterrestrial messengers from a superior intelligence bearing
important information for us mere mortals, information that can change our world
for the better.
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Figure 3. Crop circle hoaxers planning their next paranormal event that could change the world (Cartoon courtesy of Audrey Counsell)
