The Power Of Questions

How Crop Circles Inspire Us To Grow

I'm still surprised to meet someone who hasn't heard about crop circles, which is fairly often. After all, how would most people know about them? You don't see reports on the news....

My mother first told me about them twelve years ago, when she read something in a magazine and rushed off to see one. (Yes, regular readers by now will get that my mother is quite 'switched on'...) For those uninitiated, crop circles are designs that mysteriously appear most often between May and September in the south west of England in wheat fields. However they have also popped up all through the year, around the world, and in rice, corn, maize, and even in trees!

Crop circles are, even after years of scientific research, a mystery. A small percentage of crop formations are human-made. These are called 'hoaxes' by those interested in the real thing and are easy to spot. The genuine ones turn up within seconds, sometimes the size of football pitches and geometrically perfect in fields that are far from flat. Seen from above, these beautiful designs are exquisitely detailed. Up close, the flattened crops appear to have been 'microwaved' from the inside out at the place they bend. The wheat stalks are also intricately woven together in swirls and swoops in a way that would take a person weeks.

Nobody has an explanation. Only theory. Scientists agree that there is some kind of electromagnetic force involved. There are often reports of lights moving around the sky close to the formations as well as military aircraft buzzing about, seemingly at times to be chasing the 'lights'. I have had personal experience of physical sensation occurring, as well as a sort of spiritual or perceptual epiphany while standing inside a crop circle. My husband, Jeff, become strongly physically affected by one particular crop formation, each time when he wasn't aware of being situated near it! I have known of people who have been healed of illness and discomfort after visiting a crop formation, as well as heard of groups meditating on specific shapes and locations, and having a crop formation turn up within minutes in the shape and location that had been meditated on. The list goes on...

So, could it possibly be extra-terrestrial activity or is it the crops themselves creating the formations? Is it some kind of electromagnetic outburst, or messages of some kind? Are these formations simply a result of our own thought? What has all this got to do with personal power?

Many researchers have really compelling theories. Whatever crop circles are, the general agreement is that they come out of some kind of intelligence, that they have unusual energetic properties, and that they invite us to open our minds and experience our world differently. They invite us to ask questions, and questions are a direct route to expanded awareness and therefore a greater understanding of our world and how we fit in. When we ask questions, especially when being confronted with something we really don't understand, we move into an open-ness, and that openness is the spice of really powerful shift.

Film actor Diane Keaton was quoted many years ago as saying "Curiosity is underrated." That stuck with me. My mother engages life through curiosity much of the time. I would watch her when I was a child ask question after question of those around her in just about every situation. Being around her was, and is, a chance to grow because she invites awareness, not only for herself, but for everyone else, including the questionee.

So, when a mystery comes along, like these beautiful crop formations, we grow. We become aware of greater possibilities and richer horizons and that is ingredient for connecting with our power. When we stand open and in awe of the world, we can be in alignment with the really creative parts of ourselves, which are the parts that manifest our most amazing experiences, and so the cyle continues...

Curiosity sent my mother to the crop circles, as well as thousands of other people year after year. The annual conventions bring in hundreds of brilliant and diverse speakers, scientists, artists, historians, geologists, geometrists, astrologists, ufologists, every kind of 'ist' you can imagine, and it brings in lay-people like me and my mother, all of us simply there to ask questions and to expand.

© 2007 Justina Vail Evans