Engaging the Crop Circle Phenomenon: Online Seminar
A four-part event presented two-weekly online
Hosted & presented by Karen Alexander & Prof. Jonthan-Paul DeVierville
Sundays: 28th April | 12th May | 26th May & 2nd June 2024
2-hourly sessions 6 – 8pm UK time
Tickets £75.00
If you have any difficulties booking your ticket please email us.
Welcome to our brand new event!
This brand new event was born from our Engaging the Crop Circle Phenomenon series of lectures. We have decided to call this event a seminar rather than workshop, as it will be a collaborative event in which we dive deeply into the communicative aspects of the crop circle phenomenon. We aim to better recognise the ways in which we might engage the phenomenon and the ways in which it might be already engaging us.
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Crop Circle discussion group
Dates and Times
Here are the all important dates and times for this event:
Each session will run for 2-hours each and will be held online using the Zoom App.
The sessions will run from 6pm – 8pm UK time *(BST). Please check for the equivalent where you are.
Each session will be held every two weeks.
The event will therefore run over a period of 8 weeks.
The dates are:
Session 1 | Sunday 28th April 2024
Session 2 | Sunday 12th May 2024
Session 3 | Sunday 26th May 2024
Session 4 | Sunday 2nd June 2024
*BST: British Summer Time
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Foundation
This event was born from the foundation set-out in the Engaging the Crop Circle Phenomenon Lecture Series, parts 1, 2 & 3.
If you haven’t seen these lectures don’t worry, you can still take part in this event. But if you would like to see them beforehand, they are available to purchase as videos (with accompanying materials) from this website, using the links below. Each lecture is priced at £20.
Lecture 1 – Charley Knoll & Other Stories
A historical look at some of the first explorations of the role consciousness played in the crop circle phenomenon.
Lecture 2 – The Call: an eleven-step guide to engaging the crop circle phenomenon
A novel theory about the way in which the crop circles engage human consciousness
Lecture 3 – Presentation and Gesture: Core Messaging in the Crop Circle Phenomenon
An exploration and discussion about the differing ways the crop circle phenomenon communicates and what we might infer from that.
Introduction
It is clear that the crop circle phenomenon speaks in many different ways. Whether that is through their shapes, geometry, dates and locations, or a whole strata of communication types, from the most obvious to the very subtle.
The Engaging the Crop Circle Phenomenon lecture series set out to explore these methods of communication in some detail. From early clues and experimentation, attempting to map the process of engagement, to exploring the more subtle ‘body language’ cues that the phenomenon exhibits. All of these lectures drew upon both Karen’s personal experiences and the experiences of others who had come into contact with the phenomenon.
It is clear from this work that the heart of the messaging of the phenomenon lies in the personal experiences of these who engage it. By exploring those engagements further and more widely we can build a more refined picture of these communications. This seminar hopes to do just that by inviting those drawn to the phenomenon to both share their own thoughts and experiences and to interact with other experiencers so that we can learn from one another.
This seminar is not workshop or necessarily a teaching or lecture event, rather, it is an opportunity come together as a collegiate cohort. Our aim is to bring together a community of those engaging the crop circle phenomenon to further our understanding of how this phenomenon communicates with us both individually and culturally.
No ‘expertise’ is needed to attend this event. All you need are your thoughts and stories about the crop circles you may have seen or read about to be able to contribute. This is an open invitation to anyone who has an interest or a calling to this phenomenon.
Aims
- We aim to bring together a community of people who are actively engaging the phenomenon
- To further research into the messaging inherent within the phenomenon
- To further explore the idea of human communication/engagement with the phenomenon
- To recognise and discover the way in which the phenomenon speaks to us, both personally and culturally.
- To compare and contrast perceived and received messaging for a deeper understanding of the phenomenon.
Structure
Our seminar will be divided into three parts, working over four sessions.
1. Personal Portfolios
We will firstly work to develop a personal portfolio in three parts:
- Portfolio of Participation
- Portfolio of Practice
- Portfolio of Engagement
This will be a personal document that charts your journey and relationship to the crop circle phenomenon. You do not need to be deeply involved, or experienced with the crop circles, you don’t even need to have visited a crop circle. We will begin with your first contact with the phenomenon, whether that was in the media (news or film), a book you read, a person you met, or an event you attended. We will then explore the effect it had on you, what were your first thoughts about the phenomenon, then move forward in time charting subsequent contacts, how your thinking about the crop circles has changed, what influenced you in those times. We will explore the crop circles that you have been particularly drawn to and why, any synchronicities you may have experienced in relation to the phenomenon, pertinent dreams, or experiences of high-strangeness you may have had.
Participation
Your story, the history and development of your involvement, the evolution of your relationship to the phenomenon.
Practice
The ways in which you have engaged the crop circle subject which might include (but not limited to); reading, drawing, learning, events, meditations or visiting the circles.
Engagement
We will look at the crop circles that you have particularly been drawn to. The evolution of your thinking in regard to the crop circles, your experiences, synchronicities, dreams, intuitions, high strangeness and more subtle forms of engagement.
We will be looking to identify ways in which you may have already had some form of subtle contact with the phenomenon that you may not have recognised. We will also have the privilege of listening to the experiences of others and learning from their experiences of the crop circles.
We will explore as a group the process of creating your portfolios including the….
- Collection
- Selection
- Reflection
- Projection
… of materials.
There will be plenty of ideas and support to group members on how to create their portfolio. As each of our sessions are scheduled for every two weeks, it will give ample time for everyone to consider and create each stage of their portfolio. This should be a fun, revealing and fascinating process!
It’s hoped these portfolios will become an ongoing, developing and growing project in which our engagements can be traced, contemplated and better understood. Collectively as a group, we hope to then facilitate a deeper and wider understanding of how communication between ourselves and the phenomenon works. This will be an active piece of research in which everyone participates.
2. Dialogue Circles
These portfolios will then be discussed as a group using Dialogue Circles in which we use key methodologies from the idea of ‘Bohm Dialogue’ (conceived by David Bohm). In general terms these are free-thinking and free-flowing discussions in which the unconscious plays a part and the group works towards alignment, wholeness and new understandings in a setting of non-judgemental, or biased discussion. We will learn much more about these exciting methods during the seminar.
Summary & Programme
Each session will include formal presentations from your hosts and group dialogue circles – all in an easy, collegiate atmosphere where everyone brings something to the table.
Each session runs from 6pm – 8pm UK time. You will need to check the time equivalent where you are.
Session 1 | Sunday 28th April 2024 | runtime 2-hours
Welcome
Introduction (Hosts)
Opening Circle (Group Introductions)
Presentations: Creating a Portfolio of Participation
Presentations: Dialogue Circles – how do they work?
Group Questions
Session 2 | Session 2 | Sunday 12th May 2024 | runtime 2-hours
Welcome
Dialogue Circle 1 | Portfolios of Participation
Presentations: Creating a Portfolio of Practice
Group Questions
Session 3 | Sunday 26th May 2024 | runtime 2-hours
Welcome
Dialogue Circle 2 | Portfolios of Practice
Presentations: Creating a Portfolio of Engagement
Group Questions
Session 4 | Session 4 | Sunday 2nd June 2024 | runtime 2-hours
Welcome
Dialogue Circle 3 | Portfolios of Engagement
Group Summary
What Next?
Farewells
Accessing our online events
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Accessing Recordings of our Events
We will be recording some elements of this event and they will be made available as downloadable videos via a Google Drive link – for you to enjoy again after the workshop has concluded.
Booking Your Ticket
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Tickets for this event are £75.00 each
This covers:
- All 4 x 2-hour online sessions – a total of 8 hours over 8 weeks
- Access to PDFs of any presentations and materials used in the course
- Access to video recordings of the sessions
Concessions?
We do have a small number of concessions for those on a low income. Please email us for details.
Pay in Instalments?
We’re happy to arrange payments in instalments please email us for further details.
What happens when you’ve booked your ticket?
Important Notes:
You will receive an immediate acknowledgement of your booking in an automatic email. After that you will be contacted nearer the time of the commencement of the event with details and links for joining the first session.
In this second email we will also send you information about how to download Zoom and how to use the programme. You will also receive a Zoom Meeting ID number and password which will get you access to the live online sessions.
If you have not heard from us please check your Junk email folder – sometimes these emails can get placed in there in error. You can also add our email address to your contacts/address book in your email program, this will help the emails not be filtered into your Junk folder. Our email address is: events@temporarytemples.co.uk
Questions?
We welcome any questions you might have. Please email us we’ll be pleased to help if we can.
About your Hosts
Karen Alexander Karen is a long time circles researcher of over 30 years (1990-present day), who has for many years brought a thoughtful and introspective touch to researching the crop circles. A highly respected and influential speaker and writer, her work seamlessly fuses sacred art, spirituality, psychology and philosophy – the scholarly and the intuitive. Karen is perhaps best known as the writer behind the annually published Crop Circle Year Books (1999 – 2021) and Crop Circles: Signs, Wonders & Mysteries (Arcturus/Bear, 2006 & updated in 2009 & 2013). She is also known for her hand drawn images and paintings of the crop circles which are widely admired and collected. Karen has a background in counselling and psychotherapy and has facilitated and taken part in a number of groups and projects over the last 30 years looking specifically into crop circles and their connection with consciousness.
Dr. Jonathan-Paul DeVierville is Professor Emeritus of The Humanities, History and Interdisciplinary Studies (from the Department of Social Sciences at St. Philips College, Texas). He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Professional Counsellor. He is the former director of The Alamo Plaza Spa in San Antonio, Texas and is a regular teacher and speaker on Spa Culture all over the globe. Jonathan-Paul has taught analytical, depth and archetypal psychology and clinical psychotherapy at the post-graduate level and has a particular interest in dream work. In addition to all this he is a committed crop circle experiencer and researcher, with over 20 years of first-hand experience in the field.