PROJECT "VISION" 1996
Lars Uwe Ittig experiments with the mental and spiritual aspects of circle formation
Erweiterte deutsche Version dieses Berichtes
Lars Uwe Ittig experiments with the mental and spiritual aspects of circle formation
Erweiterte deutsche Version dieses Berichtes
My interest in crop circles began in the summer of '93 when I had some UFO sightings while making a crop circle symbol. I realised that the crop circles were no joke, and in the following years I laid out some "forgeries" with the permission of farmers. On the one hand I wanted to repeat the UFO sightings which I had had in '93 and on the other, I wanted to compare my own creations with the crop circle symbols in England. As a result I can say that no UFOs returned in '94 and '95 (except for one small light which appeared in June '94 while I was laying out a circle, and which flew in a zig-zagging way about us - but no one was sure whether it was a UFO or satellite).
The second result came from a study of the aerial photos a friend of mine took of the symbols I had laid out. By comparison, these never had the beauty or perfection of the symbols in England. Furthermore, it was very difficult to lay out complex symbols in the dark of night. You cannot really see what you are doing there because you can only see on the horizontal plane. For exact work you would need to also see from above, but that is not possible. Lastly, I can say that it is very exhausting to press down the crop for some circles because you have to do it very quickly (the dark period of night is very short) - you need some hours to lay out a symbol of a maximum length of nearly 30 metres.
So I began to think about the power which could cause these spiralling circles in the ripening crops. I came to the conclusion that these symbols have a mental and spiritual message - so could they be caused by mental energies from a level where this is the usual kind of communication? That was the simple question.
For the new experiment I chose a field near the Extern Stones, an important and historical place for Germany. No one except myself and some members of the FGK knew the exact location of the field for this project. I then wrote to many different newspapers and magazines in Germany asking them to print a request for volunteers for the project, to whom I wanted to send a photograph of the field which had stuck on it black paper circles in the form of the "requested" symbol (see diagram). The notice was printed in two newspapers (in Kiel and Berlin) and two magazines, but only four people phoned to say they wanted to take part in the experiment.
(One angry man told me that only brilliant people like Uri Geller could create a crop circle symbol by mental energies, and the Parapsychological Institute in Freiburg held the opinion that the experiment was as likely to succeed as an attempt to twist the Eiffel Tower in Paris through 30º by mental energy - in other words, to them it was not possible.)
The mental concentration was targetted on this field and on an exact date - 13th July - when the symbol should appear. I had the idea that the appearance of the crop circle could maybe be seen and filmed by a night camera (why not?).
I was invited to take part in a television discussion programme on UFOs to be recorded in Dresden on 26th June and broadcast by the ARD on 6th August, and spoke about my crop circle project. I stayed for two days in Dresden and travelled back on 29th June.
The day before I went to Dresden a woman had phoned me because she wanted to take part in the mental concentration on my symbol. I sent her the sketch and the photos of the Extern Stones and the field. On Monday, 1st July I received a letter from her dated 28th June: she was able to visualise things when she meditated with closed eyes and on 27th June had meditated on the symbol.
While she visualised the sketch of the symbol she suddenly saw a fire-wheel in her mind. The wheel began to move slowly, anticlockwise, but then became faster and faster. She began to see four small circles as small fire-wheels around the big firewheel, although they were rather indistinct by comparison. Presently she was able to see a time of the clock before the visualisation ended. Very, interesting, I thought.
On 2nd July I took the train to visit the farmer who owns the field near the Extern Stones. The weather was very bad - it was raining - and when I met the farmer I asked him not to harvest the field too soon. He suddenly took me into the garden and pointed to a field on a hill. He asked me, "What's up there?" I was really shocked. It was the crop circle formation which we wanted in another field - and this formation was huge! It had been first seen by the farmer on 29th June, after a night of continuous rain. The field is about 900 metres north-west of the project field. The main circle (see photo) was 30m diameter, while the right hand side and bottom circles were 15m and the top and left hand side circles 11 m diameter. The top, right and bottom circles were separated from the main circle by 1 m while the left circle (somewhat out of position) was 3m away from it. There was a 1.10m grapeshot circle further to the left of this satellite.
When you stood in the circles you could see that the energy which had formed them had not been very strong: the crop was bent at an angle of 20-25º (and not broken, as in my forgeries). There were some standing stalks in the formation, which was very amazing.
What about the theory that crop circles are formed by mental energies - a result of the fact that these symbols show mental and spiritual processes for the human being? It would be a good idea to repeat this experiment in South England, because there are more people who want to take part in this "mental forming". It is no accident, I am certain, but was the enormous mental energies of our minds which formed these crop circles.
