Form is No Other Than Emptiness

Form is no other than EmptinessEmptiness no other than FormForm is exactly EmptinessEmptiness exactly Form- Prajna Paramita Heart SutraIf you were going to run an intervention on mankind at disaster’sbrink, what would you do? If you were, say, a 5

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dimension non-human entitywith vastly superior intelligence and technological prowess, grounded withindeep spiritual awareness - with boundless compassion for the rapidlyunfolding fearfulness on Planet Earth - what could you and your brethren doto move us troubled humans toward a peaceable, sustainable existence?What would your action plan look like?It is abundantly evident to me that human populations, in the face oftheir enormous problems, are highly fearful, reactive and belligerent. Theyare susceptible to gross misinterpretation, denial and delusion. Predictably,any kindly approach from “on high” will be cynically received and thwarted by

many. Sending an intergalactic mothership to hover over the United Nationsheadquarters in New York, to boom down practical advice (in English ofcourse) seems an unlikely strategy to succeed in advancing noble humanbehavior. Our news media would be incapable of dealing with that sort ofevent. Talk radio would go even more insane. Many, many would automaticallyreact with terror, and the current political order would come unraveled.Advanced intelligences would know better, would not be so silly as to come athumans in so crude a fashion.Humankind would have to be approached very gently, lovingly, in waysthat do not frighten or alarm. The early strategy might well be to simplyraise awareness that intelligences beyond the reach of Homo Sapiensactually exist. That alone would initiate an epistemological revolution on theorder of Copernicus – who declared that the Earth was not the center of theUniverse – but rather just a tiny part of a larger, heliocentric system.Reconciling ourselves with the fact that we are but one form of consciousawareness among many in this Universe awaits us in the next revolution inour existence. That, in my evolving view, is the role of crop circles.

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It is with this perspective that ZuVuYah (Diana), my life partner, andI set out for Wiltshire, England, in the summer of 2009. We wanted toexplore the crop circle phenomenon, which has visited that area for unknowncenturies, but most intensively and under greatest scrutiny for the past 30 years. For every year, without fail, these formations have mysteriously andspontaneously appeared in the crop fields –always original, sometimes thematic, somewith magnificent rocket science complex-ity. Their origins cannot be wholly provedor disproved; the vast majority gounclaimed by humans. In 2009 some 60+crop formations manifested in south-western England, beginning with this onereported on April 14

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, near Avebury,Wiltshire, in oilseed rape, a tall, ratherbrittle, beautiful yellow flowering plant,from which canola is made. 118 ft across.

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, at the height of the season, after the oilseed,barley and oats had been harvested, and just as the wheat fields wererapidly ripening. Most crop circles appear in wheat, and several occurredduring the 11 days we were there. Here are a couple that we were privilegedto enter. These photos were taken by me from a small helicopter I hired foran hour for an aerial tour:Ogbourne Maizey, near Marlborough – reported July 29

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