Mysterious Lights, Crop circles and the Fairy Faith

[Noah's Dove]

Linda Moulton Howe, author of the book," Mysterious Lights and Crop
Circles" believes and mentioned on the Coast to Coast radio talk show
that there is stong evidence there is a non-human intelligence at work
to create genuine crop glypths.

The question is what is this non human
agent? Perhaps the following research notes and quotes may shed some
light on what we are dealing with. She mentioned two words during her
interview:
" deception" and "angelic" which she felt is related to crop circles
..she also mentioned the number 666 and the names Gog and Magog and
read the following from the Bible.

"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of
his prison,
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters
of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the
number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp
of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God
out of heaven, and devoured them." (Revelations 20:7-9)

Gog and Magog are also names of places in England where unique and
peculiar
crop-circles can be found in some years.

There have been recent crop circles which measure 666 ft across. A few
years ago people found a crop circle with a pattern of three sixs.
Researhers
who went into the circle said they felt very bad vibes and engeries.

Could all this be clues to who the crop-circle makers are?

In the past when circles where found in fields of grass or
crop...people said that these circles were made by the fairies...In the
book the Fairy Faith in Celtic countries the origin of the fairies is
discussed. One belief mentioned in the book and in the CBC tv
production "The Fairy Faith" is that the fairies were once the angels
of God who were cast out of heaven with the fall of Lucifer. If the
biblical record is true then perhaps the unseen crop-circle makers may
indeed be creating the crop circles to mislead, deceive and misdirect
people.

Fairy lights sometimes called 'Will of the Wisps" have been seen by
folk in the moors of England when followed may lead people to be lost
and sometimes to their death.

About the Author
Linda Moulton Howe is a graduate of Stanford University with a Masters
Degree in Communication. She has devoted her documentary film,
television and radio career to productions concerning science, medicine
and the environment.

Ms. Howe has received many local, national and international awards
for her documentaries, including three regional Emmy's, a national Emmy
nomination, Colorado's Florence Sabin Award for "outstanding
contribution to public health," Aviation & Space Writers Association
Award for Writing Excellence in television, and a Chicago Film Festival
Golden Plaque. Some of her honored films have included Fire In The
Water about hydrogen as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels; A
Radioactive Water about uranium contamination of public drinking water
in a Denver suburb; and A Strange Harvest about the worldwide animal
mutilation mystery which has haunted the United States and other
countries since the late 1960s - and continues to date. She continues
to produce reports for television and radio, including news about
science, the environment and unusual phenomena for the nationally
syndicated radio series Dreamland and Coast to Coast hosted by Art
Bell. She has appeared on many national and international television
news and documentary programs including CBS's Day & Date; FOX's Strange
Universe; CNN's Larry King Live; and NBC's network special and
companion tape for The Mysterious Origin's of Man.

> The Mystical Fairy Faith -fad or deceptive reality?
>
> In our times there is a surprising revival of sorts going on. This
> revival is the post modern fairy faith. There are signs of it in
> several feature films*, festivals, art work, books, Fairy shops and
> numerous web sites, if you are observant you should spot some
> indications of it in the malls of America and other English countries.
> ..there are all kinds of fairy things for sale: cards, calendars,
> fairy ornaments, fairy costumes, candle holders, fairy statues for
> gardens, fairy video games like Zelda for the N64 and Game Cube system,
> etc.
>
> This last June the Third Fairy Congress was held in the
> Cascade Mountains of Washington state. Some of the speakers were from
> the Findhorn New
> Age community of Scotland. Workshops included talks on how to contact
> nature spirits (fairies) for guidance and help.

> Presently there are
> more and more books teaching people how to etablish communicate and
> contact faeries for instance:
>
>
> The Book of Faeries: A Guide to the World of Elves, Pixies, Goblins,
> and Other Magic Spirits by Francis Melville
>
> Fairy Spells: Seeing and Communicating With the Fairies
> by Claire Nahmad
>
> A Witchs Guide to Faery Folk: Reclaiming Our Working Relationship With
> Invisible Helpers (Llewellyns New Age Series)
> by Authors: Edain McCoy , Edain McCoy
>
> Other books are listed on Amazon.com
>
> Some casual observers
> who have noticed this growing interest in faeries
> consider it a fad. Is it just an innocent fad as some say or
> is there a reality and a darker side to the world of fairie?
>
> The following news clip, quotes from articles and information web links
> may answer this question.
>
>
> *some films with fairy theme or fairy encounters
>
> The National Film Board of Canada's production, The Fairy Faith
> Fairy Tale a True Story
> Photography Fairies
> The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
> Legend
> Willow
> Ladybrinth
> Peter Pan -the new movie
> Elf
>
>
> A Fairy Affair
>
> Elusive folk and their followers to alight in Sedona for all-day
> festival
>
> Michael Kiefer
> The Arizona Republic
> May. 6, 2003 12:00 AM
>
> Amy Ford sees fairies.
>
> Some are as small as houseflies, others 18 feet tall. They're pixielike
> or feminine, sometimes androgynous, and once, she claims, she woke up
> in the woods near Cornville to find herself held captive.
>
> "It was just like Gulliver's Travels," she says. "The fairies had tied
> me down with dried grass," while one laughed right in her face.
>
> "It scared the crap out of me."
>
> Ford claims she's seen fairies all her life, and though she won't say
> exactly how long that is, it looks to be 30-some years. She's a
> musician and astrologer from Scottsdale, short and buxom with long,
> dark hair and darker eyes. And though she seems reasonably sane, she
> acknowledges, "I'm wired way different."
>
> Ford is part of a growing subculture of fairy folk, not all of whom
> claim to see fairies - though that number is bigger than you might
> expect. The concept has allure for children, folklorists and
> all-purpose whimsical folk, as well. There is fairy music, much of it
> borrowing Celtic sounds and rhythms; there are T-shirts with fairy
> pictures that sell big at teenage boutiques, and fairy cards and
> posters in New Age bookstores. And a British artist named Brian Froud
> has sold more than 8 million large-format books of paintings of
> fairies, which he, like most fairy folk, spell the old-fashioned way:
> "faeries."
>
> "Faeryland is like the sea," Froud says. "It's like the tide, and
> sometimes the tide is out a long way and Faeryland is very difficult to
> reach. And sometimes the tide is in. And it does seem to me that the
> tide was out for some years, but it's really come in now."
>
> That tide has come in far enough that promoters expect more than 4,000
> people to attend an all-day Faerieworlds Festival on Saturday at Sedona
> Cultural Park. The festival will include music, multimedia shows, live
> interactive performances and, especially, Froud and his artwork.
>
> The expected attendees will be true believers like Ford, but also
> Renaissance Faire fans, families with young children, masqueraders, New
> Age dabblers, Goth kids who have "discovered Faery," as one promoter
> put it, and even "folks factioning out of the old Grateful Dead days
> who don't have anywhere to go."
>
> Fairies originated in Celtic folklore, and, more often than not, they
> were frightening, otherworldly forest beings that were blamed for
> unexplainable events, such as ill children, people turned mad and dark
> thoughts.
>
> "They're about expression of things in everyday life that we can't
> express openly," says Ari Berk, a professor of folklore at Central
> Michigan University. "Fairies have always spoken to the human desire to
> have some kind of conversation with the environment around them."
>
> They've populated art and literature for centuries, not just as fairy
> tales, but also in Shakespeare and in the poetry of William Butler
> Yeats. More recently, they appear in the Lord of the Rings films, as
> the elves.
>
> Although children are naturally drawn to fairy tales, the current pop
> phenomenon is not really about children. Froud's art, for example, is
> not only well researched but very adult.
>
> "Fairies have been relegated to the nursery for far too long," Froud
> says. "That's a 20th-century point of view really. Fairies have always
> been dangerous creatures. That's why they had to be placated. That's
> why little gifts were left out at night, little saucers of milk, or,
> otherwise, your cattle died, or, indeed, your children were stolen or
> people died. The word 'stroke' comes from 'elf stroke' because a fairy
> had touched you. So fairies have always been dangerous. And one way
> that people have tried to make them safer is to turn them into fairy
> stories, something that was safe, and say, 'Oh it's just for children,
> isn't it?' "
>
> Froud, 56, lives in Dartmoor, England, an area he says is slightly wild
> and desolate, and whose landscape influenced his palette.
>
> "When I looked at trees and rocks and hills when I moved to the
> country, I wondered what the inside of them looked like," Froud says.
> "And as I was wondering that, then I started painting fairies, and they
> were indeed at the souls of trees and landscapes."
>
> He was inspired by illustrations of fairy tales and did a lot of
> research with his collaborator, Alan Lee, for his first book, Faeries,
> which they published in 1978. It has sold more than 5 million copies,
> including more than 100,000 since last October, when a 25th-anniversary
> edition was published.
>
> Froud followed up with several other titles, including Good Faeries/Bad
> Faeries, whose paintings sometimes verge on the erotic, with lithesome
> near nudes, a merging of several tingling and anticipatory fantasies,
> and decidedly not for children. His art was the inspiration for the Jim
> Henson films The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, and Froud's wife, Wendy,
> was one of the puppetmakers who designed Yoda for the Star Wars films.
>
> Since he began painting fairies, Froud says they now present themselves
> to him as, he believes, they present themselves to others. The
> paintings, he says, are like maps that allow people to safely go on
> their fairy journey, as he puts it.
>
> "A lot of people go on the journey and don't return because they lapse
> into madness," he says.
>
> Saturday's festival in Sedona promises plenty of controlled madness.
>
> "Right now, everything's so heavy and intense on the planet that I
> think people need a fantasy to go to where they feel like they have
> power, where they feel they have something to go to," says Emilio
> Miller-Lopez, one of the festival's organizers. "What our events offer
> people is a chance to participate. Everybody's part of the show."
>
> Miller-Lopez is a spritely fellow of 28 with a shaggy gnome's beard and
> a shock of hair long enough to evoke memories of the early 1970s. His
> wife, Kelly, 27, has cascading Maid Marian locks and glittery makeup.
> Both dress elfin, in earth tones and billowing sleeves. They draw
> stares even in Sedona.
>
> The couple perform in Woodland, a band with Celtic-music roots and a
> rich New Age sound, which will play at the festival. Kelly says she has
> seen fairies since she was a child, and she first latched onto Brian
> Froud's work when she saw The Dark Crystal and then bought the Faeries
> books, which she eventually showed to her husband. Together, they
> sought out Froud's agent, Robert Gould, who is also a fantasy artist,
> well known as the illustrator for Michael Moor____'s Elric of Melnibone
> novels.
>
> Working with Gould's company, Imaginosis, they staged multimedia fairy
> shows in Prescott, Santa Fe and Los Angeles. Fairy fans turned out in
> droves.
>
> "It was incredible," Gould says. "People were standing in line for an
> hour. Everyone was in costume. Families came. It was pretty wild."
>
> The Santa Fe show took place on Halloween, and the upcoming Sedona
> festival is just after May Day, which, as Kelly Miller-Lopez explains,
> are those times of the year when the veil is thinnest between the real
> world and the fairy world and human-fairy encounters are more likely.
>
> Gould would like to take the show on the road and maybe develop it into
> a Cirque du Soleil-style of interactive performance.
>
> As for the people who claim to see fairies, even Froud is not sure how
> many really do.
>
> "It took me a long time to actually work that out," he says. People
> constantly ask him how they can see them, too.
>
> "You don't use your eyes," he answers. "You see a fairy through your
> heart."
>
>
> Fairies have been attributed many origins, from natural causes to the
> darkest element. Here are some theories:
>
> Fallen Angels: In the lore of Scandinavia, Scotland, and Ireland, when
> God cast out the arrogant angels from heaven, they became the evil
> spirits that plague mankind, tormenting us and inflicting us with harm.
> The ones who fell into hell and into caves and abysses became devils
> and death-maidens. However, those who fell onto the earth became
> goblins, imps, dwarfs, thumblings, alps, noon-and-evening-ghosts, and
> will-o'-the-wisps. Those who fell into the forests became the
> wood-spirits who live there: the hey-men, the wild-men, the forest-men,
> the wild-women, and the forest-women. Finally, those who fell into the
> water became water spirits: water-men, mermaids, and merwomen. These
> angels were condemned to remain where they were, becoming the faeries
> of seas and rivers, the earth, and the air.
>
>
> Nature spirits : in most pagan religions, supernatural forces are
> associated with animals, the five elements and the Goddess. Sometimes
> the fairies were called Goddesses themselves. In several folk ballads
> the Fairy Queen is adressed as 'Queen of Heaven.' Welsh fairies were
> known as 'the Mother's Blessing.' Breton peasants called the fairies
> Godmothers.
>
>
> The following is from the book "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries'
> published in 1911/ and a quote form a web site on theories of fairy
> origins.
>
>
> http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ffcc/
>
> Taking Evidence (Section I, Chapter II, part 2)
>
>
> III. IN SCOTLAND
>
>
>
> Introduction by ALEXANDER CARMICHAEL, Hon. LL.D. of the University of
> Edinburgh; author of Carmina Gadelica.
>
> The belief in fairies was once common throughout Scotland -- Highland
> and Lowland. It is now much less prevalent even in the Highlands and
> Islands, where such beliefs linger longer than they do in the Lowlands.
> But it still lives among the old people, and is privately entertained
> here and there even among younger people; and some who hold the belief
> declare that they themselves have seen fairies.
>
> Various theories have been advanced as to the origin of
>
> [85]
>
> fairies and as to the belief in them. The most concrete form in which
> the belief has been urged has been by the Rev. Robert Kirk, minister of
> Aberfoyle, in Perthshire. (1) Another theory of the origin of fairies I
> took down in the island of Miunghlaidh (Minglay); and, though I have
> given it in Carmina Gadelica, it is sufficiently interesting to be
> quoted here. During October 1871, Roderick Macneill, known as 'Ruaraidh
> mac Dhomhuil, then ninety-two years of age, told it in Gaelic to the
> late J. F. Campbell of Islay and the writer, when they were
> storm-stayed in the precipitous island of Miunghlaidh, Barra :--
>
> 'The Proud Angel fomented a rebellion among the angels of heaven,
> where he had been a leading light. He declared that he would go and
> found a kingdom for himself. When going out at the door of heaven the
> Proud Angel brought prickly lightning and biting lightning out of the
> doorstep with his heels. Many angels followed him -- so many that at
> last the Son called out, "Father! Father! the city is being emptied!"
> whereupon the Father ordered that the gates of heaven and the gates of
> hell should be closed. This was instantly done. And those who were in
> were in, and those who were out were out; while the hosts who had left
> heaven and had not reached hell flew into the holes of the earth, like
> the stormy petrels. These are the Fairy Folk -- ever since doomed to
> live under the ground, and only allowed to emerge where and when the
> King permits. They are never allowed abroad on Thursday, that being
> Columba's Day; nor on Friday, that being the Son's Day; nor on
> Saturday, that being Mary's Day; nor on Sunday, that being the Lord's
> Day.
>
> God be between me and every fairy,
> Every ill wish and every druidry;
> To-day is Thursday on sea and land,
> I trust in the King that they do not hear me.
>
> (1) It was the belief of the Rev. Robert Kirk, as expressed by him in
> his Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies, that the fairy
> tribes are a distinct order of created beings possessing human-like
> intelligence and supernormal powers, who live and move about in this
> world invisible to all save men and women of the second-sight (see this
> study, pp. 89, 91 n).
>
> [86]
>
> On certain nights when their bruthain (bowers) are open and their lamps
> are lit, and the song and the dance are moving merrily, the fairies may
> be heard singing lightheartedly : -
>
> Not of the seed of Adam are we,
> Nor is Abraham our father;
> But of the seed of the Proud Angel,
> Driven forth from Heaven.'
>
>
> The Fairy King
>
> Who's he that doth travel the woods late by night?
> It is the father, his son by his side.
> A-holding the little boy all in his arm,
> he's wrapped him up tightly, he's keeping him warm.
>
> ?My son, pray tell me, what frightens you so??
> ?Beholdst thou not, father, the Fairy King's glow?
> With his crown made of fire, his shimmering frock??
> ?My son, this is naught but a phantom of fog.?
>
> My lovely child, come follow me!
> Most pleasant games I'll play with thee.
> The flowers are bright where the river runs down,
> my mother's got many a glistening gown.
>
> ?My father, my father, pray canst thou not hear,
> the Fairy King's promises, soft in my ear??
> ?O don't be afraid, little stupid, be calm!
> 'Tis naught but the wind that is shaking the elm.?
>
> Willst thou, fairest manchild, not come and be mine?
> My daughters will dress you in satin so fine.
> At night, when my daughters are leading the ball
> there's laughter and singing and joy in my hall.
>
> ?O father, my father, pray canst thou not see,
> the Fairy King's daughters are smiling at me??
> ?My boy, little boy, I can tell you quite sure,
> 'tis naught but the willows that wave by the moor.?
>
> I love your fair features, your grace I behold,
> and if you're not willing, you'll never grow old.
> ?My father, my father, he's touching my arm!
> The Fairy King's holding me, doing me harm!?
>
> The father a-shudders, he speeds like the wind,
> a-clutching his son, never looking behind,
> he reaches his home at his horse's last breath -
> but the face of his son now is shadowed by death.
>
> ?
>
> After Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ?Der Erlk?nig?
> Brought into English by Maja Ilisch and Andrea Tavenrath
>

[Tim K.]

"Noah's Dove" <noah...@lighspeed.ca> wrote in message
news:141220040029597829%noah...@lighspeed.ca...

> About the Author
> Linda Moulton Howe is a graduate of Stanford University with a Masters
> Degree in Communication.

Which in no way makes her an authority on anything but communication.
Certainly not science. She's just another fuckwit who believes in kooky
shit for which there are many sane explanations.