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EARTHQUEST NEWS
The Andrew Collins Newsletter
Vol. 11 No.3 (August 2008)
Andrew
recently on a hill at Warminster, Wiltshire, where sky watchers came to witness
incredible aerial phenomenon from 1965 through till the end of the 1970s. Note
the poignant graffiti and the stencils of the Julia set crop formation which appeared
in a field near Stonehenge back in 1996.
Psychic
Questing Weekender
We still have places on the Psychic Questing Weekender in September, where those taking part will be taught the ways of the shaman - the psychic quester - both in the classroom and out in the landscape. I have to get my head around all of this myself, but I can say categorically that the weekend will be something special. Psychic questing is a way of life, not a religion or a philosophy, even though you need to accept and believe in certain things to make it work. There is much I want to say and do, and so come down to Avebury and be part of it. The dates are Saturday/Sunday, September 20/21 (autumn equinox). Tickets are £20 each. For more information click here.
The
New Circlemakers
 Cover of the old book. | I can reveal that I have just emerged from four solid weeks of writing, and am taking in air before plunging myself back into another seven months of intensive writing. I have completely re-written my 1992 book THE CIRCLEMAKERS, which was about UFOs, crop circles, ancient sites, alien abductions, fairy encounters and the human mind. It was written back then (80,000 words) in six weeks, and after another three months of production it was out on the streets, selling all 5,000 copies in just three months. It has never been republished, although a Japanese edition appeared, complete with extra sections I didn't even write! Anyway, I was asked to re-edit it for publication by an American publisher, and on reading the scanned OCR Word document I realized the whole thing would have to be completely re-written to make any sense in 2008. Plus the publishers asked that the entire first-person style be changed, which was another mammoth task. In the end, I just wrote a new book, dropping in chunks from the original book in order to keep the continuity. The finished result is something else! |
THE NEW CIRCLEMAKERS, which is probably what it is going to be called, is released in October by The ARE Press of Virginia Beach, VA, to coincide with a key-note presentation I shall be giving at the ARE's annual Ancient Mysteries conference. I have managed to incorporate into it all the very latest science into fifth dimensional environments, plasma life forms and microscopic black holes, and, heh, Cygnus X-3 even gets to play a role in a manner I could never have anticipated. For your information only here is the back cover blurb, which, if you are anything like me, I feel should interest you:
"Crop
circles are one of the most maligned yet fascinating mysteries of our times. Evidence
from history and folklore demonstrates that they were appearing not only in the
fields of England from the seventeenth century onwards, but that they also featured
in the culture myths of the Native American peoples. Invariably their appearance
was accompanied by strange aerial objects or nocturnal fires. To the superstitious
they were the circles of devils, fairies and the star-folk, and those who entered
them were ever afterwards condemned to misery and ill health.
"In
the 1950s and 1960s crop circles were the 'nests' of flying saucers, causing changes
to soil and crops, and emitting unusual radiations. In modern times, they have
evolved into majestic crop formations of incredible complexity and beauty, and
many now believe they are the key to future times - signs of transformation as
we head towards the much anticipated events of 2012. Yet who makes the crop circles,
and why? Is it aliens, nature spirits or human crop artists, who themselves believe
they are being guided by higher forces to fulfil the greater destiny of the crop
circle enigma?
"THE NEW CIRCLEMAKERS explores all these ideas, and
provides compelling answers which reveal that humanity is participating in a much
greater show in which we are but puppets to a higher intelligence of undoubted
non-terrestrial origin, yet one that wears many masks, from the fairies of old
to the grays or "visitors" of ufology and the Watchers, the angels both
fallen and heavenly, of Judaeo-Christian tradition.
"These same non-terrestrial
intelligences are witnessed today as the mysterious aerial objects we call UFOs,
and lie behind the alien abduction or missing time experience ascribed in past
ages to the fairy folk. Yet cutting edge science today exposes these intelligences
as conscious plasma-based life existing in fifth-dimensional environments outside
of normal space-time. Moreover, there is now mounting evidence to suppose that
these truly alien intelligences, some perhaps even connected with neutron stars
elsewhere in the galaxy, have been behind human evolution for 10,000s of years,
and might even have made us what we are today - modern human beings."
Writing this material, especially in the area where 99 percent of crop formations appear each year, has obviously been a benefit (I assume), but certainly I can say that my passion for the crop circle enigma has returned in a way I never thought possible, especially after exiting the whole affair back in 1995 (and stating I would never go back to it again). However, this I realize is all a personal experience, and one which some people might not share, or understand.
Now
That's Weird Conference
I
gave a presentation about UFO abductions as fifth-dimensional experiences at the
recent "Now That's Weird" conference in Glastonbury in July, and after
having spoken at length about Britain's premier missing time, car stop, abduction
case, which occurred one night on the lanes of Aveley, West Essex, in October
1974, I ended the proceedings by bringing on stage a very special guest. This
was John Day, the father and head of the family that suffered the three hours
missing time. This was the first time ever that he had appeared on stage with
me regarding the case, and I am happy to say he was well received.
I was
so glad to hear that the presentation was being recorded for a future DVD, since
this was a very special moment, as the investigations surrounding this case changed
my life forever. Beforehand I was a punk rocker whose whole life revolved around
London, gigs and getting boozed up. Somehow in the middle of all this, I became
a vegetarian, found I was ecologically minded, discovered prehistoric sites, started
to study psychic phenomena and realized that I had to make a difference in this
world. This is the knock-on effect of alien abductees, whether consciously or
merely by association. I sense that something similar has been going on for quite
literally 100,000s of years, and might just be behind certain facets of human
evolution. This is something expressed in the new book:
"In
The Cygnus Mystery I championed the theory, proposed as early as 1973 by astronomer
and science writer Carl Sagan, that cosmic rays have been essential to the evolution
of human kind, due principally to the mutating effect of cosmic radiation on DNA,
the building block of life. However, I now feel that there might have been additional
stellar-based factors behind human evolution. For aside from diet, nutrition and
migration, it could well be that the suspected gravity shock waves that herald
the arrival-from neutron stars in particular-of other forms of EM radiation, including
cosmic rays, causes extreme tension beneath the earth's surface. This leads not
simply to geophysical events such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes, but
also to UFO sightings, close encounters and abduction scenarios. This would include
Africa's Rift Valley, where some 200,000 years ago in the region of Lake Turkama,
on the border between Kenya and Ethiopia, modern humans emerged for the first
time, and where around 70,000-60,000 years ago, a time of extremely high cosmic
ray activity, the first migrations out of Africa occurred. This area is riddled
with faulting of the sort that might easily have produced such anomalous phenomena,
which in turn caused sudden advancements in human intellect and creativity that
allowed the inhabitants of the region to pull ahead of their nearest rivals to
become our earliest ancestors. This I believe was due in part to their exposure
to powerful plasma constructs where fifth-dimensional environments and an alien
mindset existed.
"Our ancestors were changed in the same manner that
the minds of John Day and his family were following their own close encounter
with a plasma construct-what (Trevor James) Constable would have referred to as
an orgone bioform-on the roads of West Essex back in 1974. Such contact with non-terrestrial
intelligences led to advances in human understanding that climaxed with the earliest
migrations from this region into other parts of the ancient world. With these
migrations went an understanding of the subtle relationship that existed between
human kind and non-human intelligences associated with mysterious lights, which
we must assume appeared in whatever guise was deemed acceptable to the different
tribes' long-held beliefs in supernatural beings.
"Our first ancestors
are likely to have venerated primordial animal forms such as the snake, which
is currently humanity's oldest known symbol of worship. This is evidenced from
the discovery of a ritual cave in Botswana's Tsodilo Hills, where excavations
in 2006 revealed that the indigenous San bushmen have been coming here uninterrupted
for up to 70,000 years in order to venerate the snake in the form of a snake-like
rock. In San mythology humankind is descended from a python, an unconscious expression
perhaps of the serpent-like DNA inside us all, which might just have evolved through
a deep connection with plasma life forms of a non-terrestrial origin."
As
you can see THE NEW CIRCLEMAKERS is not a book of pretty pictures, even though
there is a full plates section that provides an evolution of the phenomenon from
its earliest times through to the recent formation that appeared just north of
the Avebury henge on July 15th, 2008.
| One of the final pieces of evidence I found just as I had to send off the completed manuscript to the United States is that Robert Plot, the seventeenth-century English naturalist, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University and first curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, was the first ever crop circle researcher. In his 1686 work THE NATURAL HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE, he cites appearances of what can only be described as flattened circles of flora, as well as other geometric ground patterns. These he investigates and concludes were created by downward bursts of lightning, pre-empting Terence Meaden's plasma vortex theory for crop circles by 300 years. The entire section he dedicates over to this section includes some weird woodcuts, which show what we might call today crop formations being made by some divine power associated with lightning. All this is so new that I hardly know how to interpret it, although I think that the only obvious conclusion is that crop circles existed back then, as they do today. |
One of the strange drawings from Robert Plot's NATURAL HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE (1686), showing his idea of how geometric ground patterns are created. |
Fields
of the Nephilim
Well,
at the moment I have a chest infection, which I got following a hedonistic weekend
in the company of the gothic rock band Fields of the Nephilim, during their two
capacity gigs at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on July 12/13. I know I should
have been working, but it was an opportunity for Sue and I to support an old friend,
just in the same way that people support me when I have events. The gigs were
brilliant, and I was happy to spend some time chatting with long time Nephilim
fan Ville Valo, the lead singer with Finnish rock band Him. He was there the whole
weekend just taking in the atmosphere and watching the gigs.
Fields of
the Nephilim end their triumphant year as headliners for two major festivals -
Waregem Gothic festival in Belgium on Saturday, July 26 and the M'era Luna festival
at Hildesheim, Germany, on August 9/10.
By the way, THE NEW CIRCLEMAKERS contains a brand new take on exactly what the relationship is between the Watchers of the book of Enoch and "the Watchers" of very similar appearance encountered by contactees and abductees during close encounter and abduction experiences. As readers of my books will know, I am not happy with Zecharia Sitchin's view that the Watchers and Nephilim are spacemen who came here from a twelfth planet called Nibiru some 250,000 years ago, and quite literally manufactured modern humans in order to create a labour force for mining operations.
I
think there is a connection between the Enochian Watchers (as the shamanic elite
behind the Neolithic revolution in the Near East) and the identites of some non-terrestrial
intelligences. However, it is a more subtle process, and originates with the Watchers'
own suspected connections with the mysterious lights we call UFOs.
Edge Media Television
I am recording an interview with Edge Media Television (Sky Channel 211) on alien abductions for Ross Hemsworth's new weekly "Now That's Weird" TV show. It should go out one Saturday in August, being repeated the following Monday. I don't have the exact dates, but for further information, go to the television network's website at edgemediatv.com.
Crop
Circles Summer Lectures
I shall doing an all new Cygnus Mystery presentation with a crop circle slant at the Crop Circles Summer Lectures in Marlborough, Wiltshire, on Sunday, August 3rd. For more information go to Steven Alexander and Karen Douglas's Temporary Temples website at temporarytemples.co.uk, or the Summer Lectures website at summerlectures.co.uk. I shall be doing a signing of THE CYGNUS MYSTERY after I come offstage.
What's
Next
Well,
having abandoned THE BLACK ALCHEMIST to do BENEATH THE PYRAMIDS, and having abandoned
that to do THE NEW CIRCLEMAKERS, I shall return as soon as possible to "the
Egypt book" as I call it. However, the transition from plasma aliens in fifth
dimensional environments to digging beneath the sands of the Giza plateau is a
big leap, so I am letting my current chest infection provide me with a transition
phase before I start writing again. However, the book has to be done by the end
of the year, so I have to get back to it soon.
Britain's Closest Encounters
Has
anyone seen that god awful TV documentary series "Britain's Closest Encounters"
on the UK's Channel 5? My God, this sort of thing makes my blood boil. Here we
have what should in theory be an objective account of some of Britain's most classic
UFO cases of the past 50 years (e.g. Berwyn Mountains, 1974; Ripperstone Farm,
Dyfed, 1977; Todmorten, 1980; Rendelsham Forest, 1980), and instead we get fairly
honest reporting before some old school sceptic comes out of the woodwork (the
list includes Chris French, Andy Roberts and astronomer Ian Ridpath), who then
dismiss these profound UFO events as merely torchlight, a lighthouse beam, aircraft
lights, some meteors, a joker in a spacesuit, or a little bit of confusion here
and there. This was the type of programme on our screens back in the 1970s when
it was extremely subversive (or anorak even) to believe in UFOs. I had no idea
that the same attitude prevails today. Of course, 95 percent of all UFO sightings
can be explained either as natural or manmade phenomena, but there is enough left
to tell us that something very special is going on in our world, and we need to
understand what.
If governments in places such as France, Belgium and Mexico
are happy to accept that UFOs are real, and that other governments should come
clean about what they know about the subject, then surely we should be adopting
a much more inquisitive approach to the phenomenon. Why? Well, because until we
do there will never be any real answers to what is going on. We have already wasted
60 years of opportunity, so why waste more. No one is saying that every UFO is
real, only that the small percent that even the British Government concluded were
real in their Condign Report, released through the freedom of information act
in 2005, pose a very real problem to our understanding of science.
There
is objectivity, and then there is stupidity. The former is necessary, the latter
makes me want to throw a brick at the television.
That's it for now.
Andrew
Collins