What Ezekiel and Mother Mary Have in Common with Crop Circles

Crop circles are phenomenal modern manifestations -- enormous designs in grain fields, mostly in England, appearing instantly with no known human origin, perfectly executed artwork often with deeply symbolic and mysterious meaning. The grain is not trampled or killed, but carefully folded over as if it had always been growing that way. 

Here is a photo of one of the most recent crop circles, which appeared one week ago today:

I'll come back around to point out some unique aspects of this particular crop circle and why I feel finding this photo of it today was more than mere random coincidence.

This morning a friend divulged to me that when she was 11 years old, waiting in front of the school cafeteria doors with other 5th grade students, suddenly she felt invisible and wondered if the other students would notice she had disappeared. Then a man who looked just like Alfred E. Newman, the Mad magazine boy, with the same big crack between his two front teeth, appeared in front of her face, smiling impishly. He telepathically conveyed to her that she would have a hard, lonely life, but that eventually she would understand why, and to be patient and endure. When he disappeared, her arms felt like balloons blowing up and her whole body seemed to become larger and larger until finally she was back to normal and the doors of the cafeteria opened and she shuffled in with all the other children wondering what the hell just happened.

She might have never told me that story if two inspirations had not come to me earlier in the day. First, when I woke up, I got the idea to write about mysterious beings appearing to convey important messages to certain individuals. I remembered the seven short, monk-like men in long brown robes who appeared to Penny Kelly in 1980 and for the next couple of years showed her the future of the world (with an emphasis on America), including glimpses of what we are now experiencing. (I think of them as the seven dwarves, although she does not make this comparison in her book.) Here is a quote from her book, Robes, that I re-read recently when CoronaVirus and the race riots starting gripping the world with fear:

"Here and there, angry, screaming people threw rocks and sticks at office buildings. Elsewhere, people streamed out of factories and offices, unable to get out fast enough as bombs exploded from within. I continued to watch and although things did not get better, they did not become catastrophic either. Nevertheless, by degrees, I noticed that people seemed afraid to drive anywhere or go out of their neighborhood, sometimes even their houses. Fewer and fewer were going to the markets or malls, sending their children to school, visiting shops and restaurants, or any of the other places where large numbers of people had gathered to relax or do their daily business only a few years earlier. It appeared to be unsafe everywhere. Schools, hospitals, malls, and other public places had become favorite targets of destruction."

The robed beings are experts in knowing and portraying future events. Penny Kelly also had an amazing experience with a mysterious group of elves on her farm in Michigan, which she writes about in her book "The Elves of Lily Hill Farm". The elves partnered with her to produce much higher than expected yields per acre of wine grapes from her land.

Remembering Penny's dwarves and elves early this morning led to memories of Arten and Pursah, a man and a woman in modern attire who appeared in 1991 on Gary Renard's sofa when he opened his eyes after one of his daily meditation sessions in his recliner. They visited him about 17 times over the next 9 years, teaching Gary many spiritual lessons that he eventually wrote about in his illuminating book, The Disappearance of the Universe. They told him about the wonders and principles of A Course In Miracles, of which he is now a well-known teacher.

Next I recalled the "Blue Avians", tall feathered humanoids with bird-like heads, who sometimes appear to Corey Goode, often whisking him off in blue spheres to some cosmic mission in another part of the solar system. Pictograms of these beings appear on many ancient Egyptian artifacts, and Corey is not the only one in modern times who interacts with these beings. Carol Morgan allows her voice to be used by a Blue Avian using the name Xena Allen to communicate urgent, uplifting advice to anyone who cares to listen.

With all these stories from current times, the plausibility is greatly increased that the mother of Jesus may actually, as reported, have been visited by an angelic being who manifested before her to tell her how important to the world was the son she would soon bear. The same being was also said to appear before the father of John the Baptist with a similar message at about the same time.

The prophet Ezekiel had an experience in which it seemed like "the heavens opened", revealing four scarcely explainable beings with four faces, four wings, four arms, and four feet. These were light beings, whose bodies shone bright like fire. They had fire and flashes of lightning between them and they moved like lightning. Ezekiel wrote that the spirits of these beings were contained in some kind of living device next to each one, which he could only describe as wheels within wheels, with lots of eyes on their rims. Each of the four beings had one of these devices beside them, and they all moved together in each of the four directions without turning. They thundered loudly when they moved.

Above these four-faced light beings with their gyroscope-like living, spiritual transport devices, there was another light being sitting on a throne who shone bright with all the colors of the rainbow radiating around him. The experience of seeing and hearing this being's voice was so overwhelming, Ezekiel fell to the ground. With this dramatic introduction, Ezekiel then begins relaying the message he claims to have received from this grand divine being.

Although this story seems grandiose and might make you wonder if this was a literary technique to make the Israelites pay attention to Ezekiel's message, that would still not explain why I would think of his vision this morning, then shortly thereafter happen across the above-pictured wheel-within-a-wheel crop circle with eye-like smaller circles around the rims. (Above -- look again!) Not only do I seldom think about the Bible stories I learned in childhood, but I seldom look at crop circle photos nowadays. (See https://temporarytemples.co.uk/  for more details and photos.)

The second inspiration of the day leading to my friend telling me her childhood meeting with the Mad guy is that I wanted to ask her if she wanted to sit and meditate together this morning. We may do that another Sunday, but my invitation led to a very interesting conversation in which she told me the Mad guy story and also mentioned she has a strong desire for more Simplicity in her life. At the moment she said that, I was in arms reach of my copy of the business card I received from the Fort Myers Society of Friends (Quakers), which has the principles of Quakerism printed on the back, the top one being Simplicity! 

The reason I asked her if she wanted to meditate with me is that, with all the virtual meetings nowadays, I miss the experience of meditating and sharing in person with others like I have been doing whenever possible on Sunday mornings with my Friend friends. Turns out she had attended one Friends meeting for worship long ago and also enjoyed the experience.

It is our natural right (God-given, if you will), reflected in the US Constitution, to peaceably assemble. Although I am not (yet) a Quaker member, I am working every Sunday morning (while most Quakers are holding their virtual meetings for worship), to organize a small group of like-minded worshipers to meet in person here in Brooksville, Florida where I now live. 

In talking with another friend about my desire for such a worship group, I found out about a phenomena Hindus call "darshan", from the Sanskrit word "darsana", which means sight, vision, appearance. This is the divine blessing that comes from the mere appearance of a divine being. In the Quaker tradition, the light of God shines in every human, so it stands to reason we can have a "darshan" in any meeting at any time. However, in my experience, I have more often had these moments with like-minded humans, and usually much more powerfully in person than online.

There is something very energetically "touching" about being in close physical proximity to other beings and seeing the expressions on their faces that is lost with the current government recommendation to cover your face and avoid others. I am surprised at how quick most people have been to adopt this practice or to implement this as a policy for their businesses or churches. Organizing a local Friends meeting for worship is one of my ways of pushing back against the authoritarian attempts at restriction.

When synchronicities like all these happen to me, which is more often than I can even track, I know I am receiving guidance from divine, invisible beings who have my best interests, and the world's, at heart. From time to time these spiritual beings manifest themselves, their messages, and their artwork to us humans, who are heroically dealing with our self-imposed amnesia.