I have recently had the pleasure, the honor and gift of spending time with Stanley Messenger. Messenger lives in Glastonbury, England, often thought to be the place of King Arthur¹s Camelot. Stanley has studied crop circles for a long time. He makes a convincing argument that these phenomena are created by Higher Beings who strive to work with us to help us, and above all to warn us, that we must relate differently to the earth and to each other. Failing this, we will ride the slippery slope to complete self-destruction.

Stanley Messenger (a man in his 80's) is a student of the not well enough known Austrian genius, Rudolph Steiner. Steiner, a clairvoyant from his earliest life, was chosen to be the archivist for the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Through Goethe's writings, Steiner, as well as Goethe, could see the world by identifying with objects and thus finding their way into the essence of the objects. This is a topsy-turvy way of seeing things when compared to our present scientific orientation--and indeed, our fixation to Western science. It is because of this orientation that Botany organizes plants according to outer features. But Goethe, and Steiner after him, looked within the plant to find the basic pattern of all plants (the archetype) through which physical creation appears. The archetypal pattern, is not limited, of course, just to plants, this is true of animals; this is true of humans; this is true of all material manifestation.

This has tremendous implication. It means that there is a causative realm that lives in the subtle atmosphere, invisible to our eyes and our senses, but nevertheless active, powerful and fully creative. It is as if (in that plane) a stencil exists through which the creative energy of the highest being is poured, to then manifest as a form on planet earth. This means, too, that when Goethe, Steiner, or we fully identify with any object (mineral, plant, animal or human) we get into the essence of that object or subject. This becomes the source of the greatest wisdom. When accomplished, it leads us into a new way of looking at the world, seeing in the world, relating to the world and to all of its inhabitants.

Because we have fixated our minds to the material and the separate, we have become free to destroy that living Being, the Earth. The consequences are disastrous. Not only have we gotten well along in destroying our mother (the Earth) but each other as well -- through fantastic cruelties, continuing wars, mass killings, and neglect of those many who are impoverished to the point of starvation. It would not be possible to do this if we were to reorient ourselves and live in that higher causative plane, for then, when we do it to "them" we do it to "us." As John Donne said, "Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." We are all related. More than just related, we are contained in each other.

About Messenger

Messenger gives such good evidence that crop circles reveal a phenomenon that is beyond the possible in terms of our present scientific orientation. The designs appear in such perfect geometric patterns that they could not have been created overnight by anything human. Additionally, the complication of their patterns has increased as time goes on. As man learns, the crop circles reflect and replicate that learning. For example, it wasn't long ago that we discovered fractals. After that, some of the crop circles took on the geometric forms of fractals. Additional evidence for their having been actualized by something "beyond human" is shown in the fact that though the stalks of the wheat or corn or barley are bent over, none of them are damaged, nor is their growth impaired. In terms of human manufacture, this is something that is not possible on such a massive scale.

Messenger has gone on to describe his experiences (and those of others) upon entering into a crop circle. One begins to feel certain things: sometimes a loss of power in the muscles; at other times an ineffable bliss; at further times, messages enter from High Beings such as the Archangel Michael. These are messages of love and of a desire to unite with us, to help us in our time of need. Messenger also points to something that is becoming more and more evident to us as we become familiar with the subtle planes: thoughts and energies on the subtle planes are, in a sense, "concrete." So are the devas who create Nature; and so, too, are the higher beings who are seeking to contact us and identify with us.

Therefore, the message from the crop circles is not only that we must enlarge our way of thinking and our orientation toward each other and the earth, but it is also an appeal to us to reach for the loving help of those higher beings. This would include our identification with our Mother Earth. We would become enlightened enough to create a new and truly loving relationship with the planet, the world, the universe.

Further, there is possibility that the crop circles are created by us (!), by the causative power that resides within us as we recognize the power of our own subtle energies and give credence to their reality. We do this in our dreams, but in fact we have the power to do this in our waking life.

Perhaps crop circles are the result of our own thinking in combination with the energies of those higher beings who are trying to give messages to us, and to combine with us. Perhaps they are a warning to us that we must drop the blinders that create our fixation to a five-sense sensory view of the world -- and enter into the more "really real" domain of the subtle-causative-creative. This, too, is the kingdom of Love.

Maurie D. Pressman, M.D. is the author of Enter the Supermind and co-author (with Patricia Joudry) of Twin Souls: A Guide to Finding Your True Spiritual Partner, reprinted by Hazelden in tandem with Transitions.

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