| The question as it was posed: | | | | your own spiritual development, in your reality does |
| Going through your posts has been very re- assuring. | | | | you no real long term harm, but how long are you |
| Could you please write about crop circles, nasca lines - | | | | going to languish, mired in distorted and false beliefs |
| such geometrical designs of great magnitude...They | | | | before you begin a search for understanding of real |
| baffle me. | | | | truths? Rhetorical question of course. |
| This question is not so unusual, since many of you are | | | | This is not an article about God, but I can't pass up an |
| looking for proofs of extraterrestrial life, ghosts, spirits, | | | | opportunity to mention one of those things that I have |
| and other para normal and supernatural occurrences. | | | | said again and again, at this stage of the evolution of |
| In a way this is not unusual, since man has always | | | | your species, there are truths that you KNOW but you |
| sensed the existence of something more than that | | | | don't KNOW that you KNOW, so I will take the liberty |
| which meets the eye, so to speak. The human species | | | | now to remind you of one of them. God surrounds |
| sought out these non-physical, seemingly supernatural | | | | you on all sides, not just up, He touches you in the |
| phenomenon since the era of the cave man and | | | | breath of the summer breeze that touches your |
| searched for realities that appeared to be below the | | | | cheek from the sides. He resides in the sand between |
| perceptions of the natural man. He created his gods in | | | | your toes on an isolated beach down under your feet.. |
| his minds eye in his search for understanding There is | | | | God smiles within the smile of a loved one, and within |
| something fascinating about mysterious things that you | | | | the adoration of your favorite pet that touches your |
| don't understand. You all want to believe that the earth | | | | deepest emotions from the inside. So why do you still |
| has been visited by alien beings, and it has, but aliens | | | | assume that God lives on a cloud, sitting on some |
| did not create the Nasca Lines or the Crop Circles. For | | | | golden throne in heaven? Here is what you KNOW |
| those of you who are not up to date on Crop Circles | | | | that you do not allow yourself to really know; there is |
| and Nasca Lines, the following are the "Wikipedia" | | | | no heaven as you think of it, but God, my friends, is |
| definitions. The Crop Circles explanation speaks for | | | | everything that is NOT YOU, and everything that IS |
| itself, so I will discuss the Nasca Lines here. | | | | YOU. (This hints that all consciousness, not only human, |
| The Nazca Lines: are a series of ancient geoglyphs | | | | but the consciousness of all living things, carries a touch |
| located in the Nazca Desert of Peru. That has been | | | | of Divinity within its very being. |
| designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The high, | | | | Of course, many of you are going to say, "I KNEW |
| arid plateau stretches more than 50 mi. between the | | | | THAT", and indeed you did, so why are you like sheep; |
| towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de | | | | being led by those who perpetuate myths and legends |
| Jumana. Although some local geoglyphs resemble | | | | that are worn out and highly disadvantageous to your |
| Paracas motifs, scholars believe the Nazca Lines | | | | spiritual progress. |
| were created by the Nazca culture between 200 | | | | These primitive beliefs served their purpose for the |
| BCE and 700 CE. The hundreds of individual figures | | | | children and the natives, but you are no longer children |
| range in complexity from simple lines to stylized | | | | or natives and they were never meant to be leaned |
| hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks or orcas, | | | | on forever like some spiritualistic crutch to save you |
| llamas, and lizards. The lines are shallow designs made | | | | from eternal damnation. You are meant to evolve |
| in the ground by removing the ubiquitous reddish | | | | beyond children's tales and to begin to understand the |
| pebbles and uncovering the whitish ground beneath. | | | | true nature of God and your reality. |
| Hundreds are simple lines or geometric shapes; more | | | | Now, back to the Nasca Lines. Since much powerful, |
| than seventy are designs of animal, bird, fish or human | | | | natural phenomenon seemed to come from the skies, |
| figures. The largest figures are over 660 ft. across. | | | | and since the Nasca peoples were very creative and |
| Crop Circles: In 1991, two men from Southampton, | | | | had at their disposal, a wonderful natural source for |
| England, announced that they had conceived the idea | | | | creative expression in the rocks and earth of the |
| as a prank at a pub near Winchester, Hampshire, | | | | Peruvian Pampas, they naturally came upon the idea |
| during an evening in 1976. Inspired by the 1966 Tully | | | | to honor these heavenly gods by creating works of |
| Saucer Nests, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley made | | | | art in the earth that could be viewed from space. |
| their crop circles using planks, rope, hats and wire as | | | | Since these gods were seen as powerful, they |
| their only tools: using a four-foot-long plank attached to | | | | translated this powerfulness as bigness and since such |
| a rope, they easily created circles eight feet in | | | | powerful examples of destruction came from the |
| diameter. The two men were able to make a 40-foot | | | | mysteries of the heavens, it was only natural that they |
| (12 m) circle in 15 minutes. | | | | would assume that the gods resided somewhere UP |
| There is one thing that the Nasca Lines and Crop | | | | in space. |
| Circles have in common, they are and were made by | | | | So, it seemed perfectly sensible to create big, large |
| humans not aliens visiting this planet with intent to | | | | works of art as offerings that could be seen from their |
| confuse the poor ignorant savages of the times by | | | | gods in space. In short, the Nasca lines are images |
| leaving symbols that would have meaning only to | | | | created to honor those all powerful gods and in a way, |
| those indigenous people of the Pampas. I know you | | | | the Peruvian Pampas is their natural museum |
| would prefer if I said that they were made by aliens | | | | containing their work as offerings to their gods. |
| visiting earth in space vehicles in ancient times who | | | | There is another reason that has never been |
| were seen as gods, but such is not the case. The | | | | mentioned. Since these indigenous peoples were not |
| Nasca Lines were made by the inhabitants of the | | | | hampered with a rigid, unyielding ego consciousness as |
| Nasca region at that time and they were far from | | | | you are today, they were far better at utilizing the |
| ignorant savages. These people were not stupid by | | | | dream state as a launching pad for the projection of |
| any means and their culture, although undeveloped in | | | | their consciousness out of the body for purposes that |
| politics and the sciences, were to some extent, more in | | | | were quite taken for granted in those times, for they |
| tune with the true potentials of the harmonious, | | | | understood the co-operation of the inner and exterior |
| integrated characteristics of the human species than | | | | abilities in equal balance of a properly tuned |
| you are today. | | | | consciousness. In very practical terms, they did much |
| These peoples understood the mobility of | | | | of their work in the dream state, projecting their |
| consciousness and the connections of the outer self | | | | consciousness "out of their body" above the |
| with the inner subjective self that could not be | | | | surrounding countryside, finding new sources of water |
| expressed in the physical body. Their religions were | | | | and food and migration routes of the animals. |
| more to the point than yours today, in that they did not | | | | You do this today in your seeming "lucid dreams", but |
| look to finding God outside of themselves thorough | | | | the knowledge of your nightly dream excursions has |
| intermediaries with golden robes, holy water and | | | | gone underground, where the Nasca peoples used this |
| promises of salvation, and may I add, with questionable | | | | ability consciously and with much facility and |
| motives. This understanding was shortsighted in one | | | | satisfaction. This ability of the human personality to |
| way because although they did rely on their pursuit of | | | | release its consciousness from the domination of the |
| their deities through their own cognisance and | | | | ego centered human body for short periods of time, is |
| understanding, sometimes those pursuits led them | | | | a natural attribute that you too use, but usually don't |
| astray. | | | | remember. Since it is normally, but not always, done |
| The Nasca people saw the stars in the skies, | | | | from the dream state, you usually don't remember it |
| wondered at the comets and the movement of the | | | | the next day upon awakening. When you consider a |
| planets, they endured the thunder and violent storms | | | | friend in the dream state, you sometimes actually |
| emanating from the heavens, the tornadoes, the | | | | project your astral form to their presence, this form |
| hurricanes and floods and believed that these were | | | | sometimes can be seen or felt by them, and |
| punishments from and angry God. They also luxuriated | | | | sometimes not. Some will remember your visit in the |
| in the warmth of the sunshine and knew that it was a | | | | morning, but not remember exactly how or why. |
| gift from their God. So, they did what you still do today, | | | | The Nascans had the ability, using the dream state and |
| they assumed that their God resided somewhere, | | | | states of "altered consciousness" to project their |
| somehow in the skies, perhaps relaxing on a cloud and | | | | consciousness into the heavens to great heights |
| so they paid homage to the unknown reality of a god | | | | above the earth, and view the earth below with some |
| who was UP. | | | | discernment. They would share these dream |
| Your evangelistic religions and other religions too | | | | observations with others within the tribe, comparing |
| numerous to mention, still today, practice raising your | | | | notes, so to speak, and making decisions and |
| eyes and arms to the skies when you pray, not | | | | adjustments based on those observations. In that |
| understanding any more than these peoples of 100 BC | | | | manner, they were able to appraise the progress of |
| to 600 AD, that in a vast universe, the words up or | | | | their massive artistic creations from an advantageous |
| down are meaningless, where up becomes down and | | | | perspective and make necessary corrections when |
| sideways is everywhere and "All That Is" is infinite. In | | | | needed. They then, had the ability to appreciate their |
| that respect, you too are primitive, and have | | | | massive creations in ways you do not. |
| progressed precious little since those ancient times in | | | | For the record, there are ancient lost ariel maps of |
| your pursuits of religion. God could just as well, live | | | | areas of the world that still exist today that used |
| DOWN as UP and you could kneel and spread your | | | | precisely this method of "out of body projection" |
| arms sideways to pay homage to your God as well | | | | drawn centuries before any known method of flight |
| as stare at and raise your arms to the sky in praise. | | | | existed. |
| Now, your tacit refusal to take the responsibility for | | | | |