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Originally Posted by 371
OK- know what?
I'll take everything back, I said... just explain this to me:
What do they MEAN, and what are they FOR?
And don't give me the 'artistic expression' line...
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The circles were started by Doug and Dave as a way to see if people would believe it was a Saucer had landed. It certainly did givethat impression to people. However it developed into a research effort which then went on to say that perhaps whirlwinds or plasma vortex had created the circles even Gaia theories. These days circlemakers are happy for people to believe what ever they want to believe but it is sad that the whole subject has been beset by researchers who are peddling books and theories to make some money when it is clear to those researchers people make circles. The interpretations those researchers put on circles are often nothing to do with the intention that was put in by the circlemakers.
What do the circles represent, well ask most circlemakers and they would probably tell you they create designs which reflect current news events or spiritual ideas that will excite the minds of the people who visit them. Not all circlemakers are spiritually minded but they will still draw upon a database of ideas that we all know and see as spiritual and adapt these ideas into easier to make circle designs. When I say easier, that doesnt mean easy to understand for you or the man in the streetbut to an accomplished artist and circlemaker easy for us to make.
Designs may be literal such as pyramids with all seeing eyes. When a design is this literal its hard not to get the message of what it means. However what is sometimes lost is whether these images are supposed to promote or denegrate the idea that is put forward in the design. Such as in the case of the pyramid it was done by someone who hates freemasonry and yet they did this design, which is then ambigious to the meaning. Its almost as if they should have drawn a line through the pyramid as its just giving credit to freemasons otherwise. Subtleties like issues over designs like this are something which few people ever get to hear about.
Most of the designs are just inspired ideas which come to the circlemakers when they are playing around on paper with things that work well or seem visually different. Where the inspiration comes from for what to do and the honing process which allows a design to take off if open to question. However we know as circlemakers that some design ideas have been put down only to see others out on the same night doing a similar design even though those circlemakers had not shared their info. Tis came to a spectacular head when two teams ended up working on similarish design in the same field on the same night and they were working close to each other without knowing. I have had inspiration to do designs which other people have been meditating on. This elads me to think the designs are sometimes "asked for" but is that by us person to person telepathy or is it that we are all connecting into a higher mind or group conciousness for all humanity or are we being infuenced from somewhere else or something else... perhaps down from aliens even. Nobody can be sure at this stage.
All we know is that every year the idea of creating deisgns for other people to enthuse over excites the circlemakers. The thought of getting some unusual events or synchronicities makes the prospect even more appealing.