This crazy crop design wasn’t made by aliens on an acid trip, but a drug addict who was trying to outrun the cops.

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Robert Anton Wilson wore many academic hats, which included futurology, anarchy, and conspiracy theory research. He was also a prolific American writer, whose career spanned thirty-five years. His best-known work was the Illuminatus Trilogy (co-authored with Robert Shea), a satire about American conspiracy theories. Most of his work covered a wide berth of New Age topics, such as UFOs, crop circles, occult practices, etc.

Wilson didn’t believe in beliefs, but rather in probabilities. “Belief is the death of thought,” he once said.

In fact, he shunned dogmatic beliefs because he felt that they led to fascist behavior. In his book, Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death, he used the example of militant feminism to demonstrate how dogmatic adherence to any belief system can result in intolerant and even dangerous ideologies.

On October 2, 2006, Douglas Rushkoff appealed to the blogosphere for donations to Wilson, who was in severe financial trouble due to ailing health. Slashdot, Boing Boing, and the Church of the Subgenius wrote about Wilson’s plight. By October 10th, their efforts succeeded in raising enough money to support Wilson financially for at least 6 months.

Sadly, this generosity couldn’t help Wilson’s health which continued to deteriorate. Doctors gave him between two days and two months to live. Robert Anton Wilson died yesterday at age 74 from post-polio syndrome. Five days earlier, he closed his final message on his blog by saying, “Please pardon my levity, I don’t see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.”

Crop circles have appeared throughout the world long before the infamous Dave and Doug duo began misleading the world about their grain-stomping pranks in 1991. The earliest accounts of crop circle formations were documented by Robert Plot, then curator of the Ashmolean, in 1678. Dozens of eyewitnesses reported these crop circles forming in a matter of seconds as early as 1890.

To date some 10,000 crop circles have been catalogued worldwide, and their anomalous features continue to be irreplecatable: plants bent an inch above soil and gently laid down in geometrically-precise patterns with no physical signs of damage, light burn marks at the base of stems, altered cellular structure and soil chemistry, discrepancies in background radiation, alteration of the local electromagnetic field, depletion of the local watershed, and dowsable, long-lasting energy patterns, not to mention measured effects on the human biological field. So much, then, for two guys and a piece of wood. But thanks to a virtual embargo on research coverage throughout the media, a popular myth has developed that all crop circles have been nothing more than a prank with a plank.

The above quote was taken from an extract of Secrets in the Fields. Scientists believe that they may have the answer to the cause of these crop circle formation–sound. Click on the links to read about their discoveries.

Many witnesses have described hearing a trilling sound, followed by a sudden stillness in the air. They would watch the wheat heads bang together, despite this stillness. Then a whole section of crop flattens to the ground in a spiral pattern in less than fifteen seconds.

Can you imagine being there and watching this happen?

This summer has seen a sharp decrease in the appearances of crop circles. Several theories are brewing as to the cause of the decrease. Hot weather sounds the most logical to me because I believe that these creations are caused by humans and not extraterrestrials.

Another theory is that farmers are sick of getting their fields trampled and are destroying the circles as they appear. That makes perfect sense. Although these creations are beautiful, I can’t imagine the amount of money these farmers lose every year.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, UFO enthusiasts fear that the aliens have given up on us and moved on to another galaxy. With all the political upheaval going on right now, who can blame them? I’d get the heck out of Dodge, too.

Source: Daily Mail