What On Earth?: Inside the Crop Circles Mystery

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What On Earth?: Inside the Crop Circles Mystery

Against the backdrop of the breathtaking crop circle phenomenon, storyteller Suzanne Taylor engages with an array of people who devote much of their lives to it. This fascinating community of visionary artists, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, and educators from around the world, who converge on southern England each summer when the circles are appearing, paint pictures of the creative genius being expressed in farmlands as they try to make sense of why they are being delivered and how the world can ignore such wonders.

Although “real” crop circles can’t be made by people, the objective of the film isn’t to convince viewers of this. That would take a whole other movie. As far as figuring out how crop circles get here, the film doesn’t do that, either. We don’t know where the deliveries come from or the method by which they are sent. We just know that every year we get scores of them in some 40 countries around the world.

The film shows how intelligent the source is - how it runs rings around us, dazzling us with communications that let us see how brainy it is. Also, the movie deals with how the circles make us think about life. What is real? What is art? What is the nature of proof? What are the limitations of science? What is the place of humanity in the cosmos? “Theses are all big questions, and we don’t have a forum for big questions today,” says John Martineau, the brilliant geometer who showed the world there is a mathematical teaching being delivered in these crop formations.

You will see that we cannot dismiss the possibility that we are being visited by a non-human agency. And you'll come away from the movie thinking about what that would do for us. If we knew we were not the only intelligence in the universe, we would be one humanity in relation "the other," and, as someone in the movie says, "That could be what saves this civilization."

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