Jimi H.
Paranormal Adept
Mr. Andrews pushed all my New Age-radar buttons, and not in a good way, I'm afraid.
First of all, he didn't get anything scientific right.
For instance, as is typical with New Age thinking, his understanding of 'energy' is not how science understands energy. To explain briefly what I mean:
When a ball is kicked into the air, it has a certain amount of potential energy when it reaches the maximum height and starts dropping. That's because of gravity's pull on its mass. The ball does not have any tangible 'energy' in the sense that you could take the energy and put the energy in a box and give it to someone else to make an energy field or anything like that. That's pure science fiction.
Just like the 'energy vortices' of Sedona is fiction, and impossible to deal with in a scientific manner because, well, it's simply unscientific. Energy is a potential, it's not a 'thing'.
Oh and about vortices, Andrews explains that a plasma-vortex may be used to push down some rows of corn. But hey, this is not Star Trek, this is a corn-field.. And where's the evidence? I honestly think it would be easier for the aliens to use a board of wood and a string than to use a 'plasma vortex' to do the same job, I cannot fathom how one might flatten corn with a vortex of plasma, or why it would make any sense to use such a device, from an energy conservation or mechanical point.
Yes, I admit I get annoyed by frivolous argumentation and ask myself: how can someone investigate for years and years and claim to be scientifically oriented but then not get the most basic scientific concepts right? Answer: Because it's science from a New Age viewpoint. But the truth is, New Age is decidedly anti-scientific, while it arguably exploits and perverts scientific language. If they just said 'God', that's fine, that's honest, but distorting the scientific language to speak about energy, in its broadest sense, is uncool.
I guess this introduction suggests where I come down on his crop circle conclusions, as presented in the interview: To me, he did not make any conclusions based on anything tangible, he just rattled off theories about energy this and consciousness that. So, if he investigated that many circles, I think he either found nothing of actual interest, or he focuses on the wrong things when it comes to presenting it in a scientific manner.
About his childhood dream and later regression, it again revealed his unscientific bent. He said that the green circle of super-growing grass in his backyard was evidence of his dreams as a 5 year old. But that's wrong. The info about what happened in his dream, as recalled in regressive hypnosis did not originate in his 5 year old mind, it originated in his paranormally/New Age infused adult mind, and his mind has no doubt been brewing on those dreams ever since he was 5, so it's hard to imagine what his subconscious might have formed.
I think the extra green spot in his garden is a sign that some previous owner of the house had a round chickencoop in that spot, or some other natural fertilizer was dispensed at a previous time. Or, it's a patch that was seeded with a seperate breed of grass seeds from the rest of the garden, perhaps because a round building was taken down and new grass seeds had been strewn. Of course, it may be discussed in his book, I don't know.
Also, if he was told by 'them' that 4 common plants revealed the truth about the coming environmental catastrophe, what has he done to follow that lead, to carry that truth to the world and get it investigated? Really, I think the aliens would be better off just giving it up, instead of speaking in riddles like Gollum, no?
I'm sorry to be so harsh, but this is how I see it..
-edited for spelling and unnecessary banter
First of all, he didn't get anything scientific right.
For instance, as is typical with New Age thinking, his understanding of 'energy' is not how science understands energy. To explain briefly what I mean:
When a ball is kicked into the air, it has a certain amount of potential energy when it reaches the maximum height and starts dropping. That's because of gravity's pull on its mass. The ball does not have any tangible 'energy' in the sense that you could take the energy and put the energy in a box and give it to someone else to make an energy field or anything like that. That's pure science fiction.
Just like the 'energy vortices' of Sedona is fiction, and impossible to deal with in a scientific manner because, well, it's simply unscientific. Energy is a potential, it's not a 'thing'.
Oh and about vortices, Andrews explains that a plasma-vortex may be used to push down some rows of corn. But hey, this is not Star Trek, this is a corn-field.. And where's the evidence? I honestly think it would be easier for the aliens to use a board of wood and a string than to use a 'plasma vortex' to do the same job, I cannot fathom how one might flatten corn with a vortex of plasma, or why it would make any sense to use such a device, from an energy conservation or mechanical point.
Yes, I admit I get annoyed by frivolous argumentation and ask myself: how can someone investigate for years and years and claim to be scientifically oriented but then not get the most basic scientific concepts right? Answer: Because it's science from a New Age viewpoint. But the truth is, New Age is decidedly anti-scientific, while it arguably exploits and perverts scientific language. If they just said 'God', that's fine, that's honest, but distorting the scientific language to speak about energy, in its broadest sense, is uncool.
I guess this introduction suggests where I come down on his crop circle conclusions, as presented in the interview: To me, he did not make any conclusions based on anything tangible, he just rattled off theories about energy this and consciousness that. So, if he investigated that many circles, I think he either found nothing of actual interest, or he focuses on the wrong things when it comes to presenting it in a scientific manner.
About his childhood dream and later regression, it again revealed his unscientific bent. He said that the green circle of super-growing grass in his backyard was evidence of his dreams as a 5 year old. But that's wrong. The info about what happened in his dream, as recalled in regressive hypnosis did not originate in his 5 year old mind, it originated in his paranormally/New Age infused adult mind, and his mind has no doubt been brewing on those dreams ever since he was 5, so it's hard to imagine what his subconscious might have formed.
I think the extra green spot in his garden is a sign that some previous owner of the house had a round chickencoop in that spot, or some other natural fertilizer was dispensed at a previous time. Or, it's a patch that was seeded with a seperate breed of grass seeds from the rest of the garden, perhaps because a round building was taken down and new grass seeds had been strewn. Of course, it may be discussed in his book, I don't know.
Also, if he was told by 'them' that 4 common plants revealed the truth about the coming environmental catastrophe, what has he done to follow that lead, to carry that truth to the world and get it investigated? Really, I think the aliens would be better off just giving it up, instead of speaking in riddles like Gollum, no?
I'm sorry to be so harsh, but this is how I see it..
-edited for spelling and unnecessary banter
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And if they know about situationist humor?