- It is a much larger world than we know.
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- Much grander and more expansive than we even -could-
know, it is composed of times, spaces, and dimensions suspected and unsuspected...
but times, spaces and dimensions only beyond chaffing limits perhaps too
reflexively and fearfully self-imposed... or suspiciously imposed upon
us! In this larger reality, likely, swim the prerogatives, imperatives,
and unfathomed purposes of gargantuan cosmic beings, swift on any level
and -all- levels of that measure. Presently? -We- are but a mote in some
distracted God's hoary eye. We barely but exist.
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- That's -enough- as it turns out.
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- Be not too disheartened, discouraged or otherwise depressed,
good reader. To the contrary, rejoice! Be invigorated and energized, sir
and madam, be electrified with excitement concerning not a rebirth... but
a -new- birth of human intelligence, cognitive ability, and our elevated
place in an impending LARGER reality, slowly (quickly?) resolving as we
speak!
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- Truly, a new renaissance reveals itself (if the reader
would allow) -- one that will -not- take five hundred years to individually
actualize for -some- of the masses like the last one. It will happen soon,
very likely, in a matter of days, weeks, or months (for -all- the masses!),
if it does not occur more swiftly in hours, minutes or seconds!
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- This is what Academy Award nominated director/producer
William Gazecki brilliantly succeeds in doing with his landmark documentary,
"Crop Circles -- Quest for Truth". He delivers the (even skeptical!)
viewer, dazzlingly, to the threshold of that "new renaissance"
and informatively, -intelligently-... comprehensively... educates him with
concerned regard to a very measured, painstakingly recorded, photographed
and otherwise passionately studied... enigmatic series of *cereal* events!
In other words, Crop Circles are real, flatly, in the aggregate, and so
they are nowhere -near- as dismissible as a corrupted mainstream would
have its rank and file reflexively believe. Not by a -long- shot.
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- Moreover, hoaxed circles are dismissed as beneath contempt,
concern, and favorable consideration by Gazecki (and -this- writer!).
Of course there are hoaxed circles, he will readily admit! But that's
not the issue, he informs, and no time is wasted in the film on its discussion
save a few seconds in, pertinent, passing. One can go anywhere else, actually,
and be flam-boozled with knee-jerk dismissals of laughed at and derided
crAp-circles from both sides of the ufological aisle. Ufologist Dr. Kevin
Randle and CSICOP's Dr. Phil Klass, both card carrying "crAp-circle"
advocates, spring readily to mind.
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- But as Gazecki comments in a director's interview on
the DVD (and briefly in the film), how is it that these *hoaxers* "always
finish what they start", and where do they "-practice-"
this meticulous perfection of flawless execution? Where are the blunders
otherwise abundantly found in any other human execution of an extremely
complicated task?
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- Where? No! Tell me WHERE... is this army of genius artists
"without egos" (astoundingly selfless and uncontestablely talented
men and women)? They are REQUIRED to execute, flawlessly, delicate artistic
balances of line and curve, light and shadow, and other rules of artistry
(to include the sacred or eternal geometrical or the strict adherence to
the natural measure of the artistic "golden mean")? Verily,
who hoaxes 200 quality circles a year, world-wide, for the last ten years?
Who operates with no recognition, no pay-off -- no reward? Who? Clearly,
few to none. Not enough to make -all- these Crop Circles -- safe to say.
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- Most circles may -be- fake, respected reader. But MANY
are -not-. Seriously, says Gazecki. That should, at least, give one pause...
even if it does not help fuel a continuous personal epiphany as it does
for -this- writer.
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- Moving on, what's so convincing about Gazecki's documentary
is the completeness of its production package. If the watcher wants "Science",
it is there. It the watcher wants "History", it is there, too.
If the watcher wants the very experience of wandering around in a new
circle and perceiving the same kind excitement and energy that the principal
researchers feel... they can have it by the sprung-sided boxcar!
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- Science is reflected in the measurement of these enigmatic
circles, and it is science that determines the degree of the circle's complexity.
It is science that handily obliterates the now tedious argument that any
amount of erstwhile "Doug and Daves" would be stomping them out,
drunkenly, with a string and a board! Plant studies and soil analysis
by Doctor W.C. Levengood, among other competent and respected scientists,
indicates that the energy creating Crop Circles has seemingly magical growing
properties which are stunningly profound. Node length studies demonstrates
that an unknown energy is used (in some cases) that unevenly expands the
stalks of some crops to lay them down, evenly expands them to keep them
standing, or blows out the "node" of them altogether like an
exploding aerosol can (!) as some circles are materialized!
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- Other studies find strange magnetic properties and enigmatic
artifacts in the soil. They also detect a linear effect of these anomalous
energies and artifacts that tapers off from the center of the circle...
but still inexplicably manifests the effect all the way out to control
plants that are not even in the construction. The suggested scope of these
effects and the complexity of the energies producing them is HUGE, Gazecki
plainly demonstrates.
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- Other mysterious Crop Circle effects are determined to
have -measurable- linear distributions. Indeed, as Gazecki makes abundantly
clear, dozens of quality scientific investigations have been made, are
-not- conclusive, and are ongoing, still. Serious science comes up significantly
short, and is now compelled to break bread with spiritualists, who in turn
take meta-physicists and pragmatists into their intellectual beds... which
can only be a -good- thing, Gazecki illustrates.
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- History is accounted for in the filmed testimony of the
farmers involved, farmers who make every indication that the phenomenon
has been going on with them (and their neighbors) since they were children,
and then long before that! Lettered historians interviewed point to old
wood cuts and prints from the fifteenth century that talks about fairy
rings and devil's circles, thought (to this day, actually, in some parts
of the US!) to be playgrounds or meeting places for demons, witches, and
other satanic imps!
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- Earlier, before the common era, stone circles and mounds
were said to have perhaps been laid out on suddenly appearing Crop Circles
in an effort to keep the power of the circle contained beneath them or
to commemorate them in these hoary times gone long passed. In short, the
viewer gets a very clear picture of the historical evolution of the entire
phenomenon as Gazecki's film cunningly unfolds.
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- As a cinematic effort, the film is a masterpiece of tight
storytelling and stunning photography. I can understand, completely, why
Jeff Rense was virtually jumping up and down about it on his program --
Gazecki had it all in his film! Science, philosophy, and metaphysics meet
precipitously in cooperative meta-cognition the viewer is -present- for!
Many times I felt like I was down in the fields, myself, with the Crop
Circle principals (affectionately known as Croppies) -- seeing what they
saw and feeling what they felt!
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- To say the film was beautifully photographed is a massive
understatement! The play between the score and the visuals is nothing
short of breathtaking... nothing short of ongoing spiritual epiphany!
One could almost smell the rape seed oil as an early morning sun glittered
through crop stalks still standing. One could almost taste the dust being
kicked up with their -own- feet, or feel the damp chill of an English
summer dawn! In Gazecki's film the individual is more -participant- than
passive observer!
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- Flatly and frankly? The film was just a complete and
total enchantment on any level one cares to name!
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- I saw the film on television DVD and all the previously
described effects were plain -there-. I can only imagine what the feature
looks like on the wall to wall silver screen of a real theatre. I'm sure
that it would be a whole new experience, an experience very INCOMPLETELY
described in -this- article, to be sure! The reader -must- campaign to
see the film herself and demand that it comes to her town Cineplex. See
how this can be done at Mr. Gazecki's web site, found at: http://www.cropcirclesthemovie.com
or even purchase an inexpensive copy DVD (of the reader's own) to see again
and again!. Truly a few bucks -well- spent -- a small price to pay to
be abundantly informed on one of the most consciousness-changing, mysterious,
and baffling occurrences of our time!
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- Finishing up, this review of Mr. Gazecki's effort barely
scratches the surface of what is in store for the viewer as they take in
(or internalize) this film. The experience is as satisfying as a dinner
feast, full of interviews with competent, committed and dedicated men and
women who are educated, intelligent, aware, open-minded -- "with it",
in short (in every sense of the word), so the film can be taken just as
seriously as it was meant to be!
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- In all candor, one may, and should, take this film -very-
seriously. There is no hyperbole or histrionics found in an ardent contention
that watching this film -now- will go a LONG way towards preparing the
viewer for the larger reality mentioned, earlier, at the start of this
review and coming (inexorably) later. Michael Glickman, professor, author,
and lecturer (featured heavily in the film and who this writer wants to
-be- when he grows up...) suggests this clearly when he opines at the close
of the film (as it pertains to his certainty of a coming new reality or
age) that we, "are... on the... -edge- of it." Along with that
thoroughly convinced assertion, Glickman communicates a genuine optimism
(with regard to it) that -this- writer readily and enthusiastically echoes,
reaffirms, and otherwise heartily endorses. Real truth here, folks, is
this writer's assessment...
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- Without reservation, "CropCircles -- Quest for truth"
just may be the most significant piece of documentary film work -this-
writer has ever seen. I'm confident the reader will think so, too! Lastly?
They can't call them "crAp-circles" any more. No. William Gazecki
puts -that- nonsense to rest.
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- For AlienViews. Read on!
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