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Tales of High Strangeness from Crop Circle activist David Kingston Part 2
Joseph Burkes MD 2015, edited 2018
Introduction:
I met David Kingston in 1997 in Southern England. He was a crop circle investigator. In addition, he served as a tour guide of what are called “sacred sites” such as the Paleolithic stone circles at Stonehenge and Avebury. I will always remember his great dedication to both the contact and the UFO truth movements, his energy as an organizer and his kindness as a host. While visiting with David, he told me about a intriguing conversation that he had with a young American writer who was confessed crop circle hoaxer. His name is Mr. James Schnabel. A talented author, perhaps best known for his well-researched 1997 book “Remote Viewers”, Mr. Schnabel was a major player in the campaign to “debunk” investigations into the crop circle phenomenon. Apparently, he became quite skilled at hoaxing crop formations in an attempt “to prove” that the phenomenon was merely man-made. It was around the time that two elderly men popularly known as “Doug and Dave” made the ambitious claim that they were responsible for virtually all the crop formations during the previous decade. In 1992, Jim Schnabel won second prize in a crop circle-making contest held for hoaxers.
Rumors that the Security Services were Operating against Crop Circle Investigators.
During the early 1990s, many crop circle investigators were concerned that paid intelligence operatives were carrying out disruptions of their studies into the genuine phenomenon. One enterprising investigative writer went by the name of Armen Victorian. By using a ruse during a taped phone conversation with Mr. Schnabel, Victorian managed to get Schnabel to admit that he was part of just such an intelligence operation. Mr. Schnabel later claimed that he was aware that the caller was trying to trick him and that he went along with Victorian as a joke. The tape and transcript of the Victorian-Schnabel interview in my opinion told a very different story. Reviewing the audio file in preparation for sharing this story many years ago, I was left with the distinct impression that Mr. Schnabel was on the level when he described an international intelligence operation to disrupt crop circle investigations because of a fear in high places that the genuine circles were being created by sinister and possibly even satanic forces.
A Counter-intelligence Operative Comes Clean
With this as an introduction, let us return to what I heard from David Kingston while I was visiting with him in 1997. He told me that sometime in the mid 1990s, Jim Schnabel had attended a public lecture and slide presentation in which David and another crop circle investigator were the speakers. (I can’t recall the name of David’s co-worker; it might have been Paul Vigay.) After the presentation was over, Jim reportedly took David and the other presenter aside and told them the following story. He confessed that as the result of a very disturbing experience, he would no longer be hoaxing circles. The following narrative is in my opinion a re-affirmation of the incredible psi capabilities of a non-human intelligence responsible for genuine crop circles.
According to David, Jim told him that it was his custom as leader of a group of hoaxers to meet his team well in advance of the time they had scheduled to go out into the fields to create a crop formation. At such meetings, over some food and a couple of beers, with paper and pen they designed the specific pattern to be created. As a group they agreed on which field would be the best place for their mischief.
Consciousness Link Was Revealed by the Genuine Crop Circle Makers
As the story goes, on at least one occasion when they arrived at their selected target under the cover of darkness, Jim was surprised to find already cut into the crops the exact pattern that they had previously agreed to create. Convinced that there had to be a security leak, Jim decided to change the plan. He announced to his team that he alone would design the formation. No collective drawings were made, and he alone would choose the targeted field. Sharing this information with no one, he led the team out into the field. To his shock and dismay, the exact configuration that he alone had mentally designed was once again already cut into field!
According to David, Jim Schnabel described himself as a devote Christian. David told me that this shocking incident probably challenged some of Jim’s most basic religious beliefs and was very upsetting for the young man. For these reasons, Jim possibly felt compelled to share the story with others who were knowledgeable about the power and scope of the genuine phenomenon. In any case, Jim was reportedly speaking “off the record” and asked that they not publicize his account of why he would not be hoaxing crop circles anymore.
After my summer visit to England in 1997, I unfortunately did not keep up with David’s activities. Responsibilities at home and my medical work mostly kept me out of the UFO field for almost a decade. I had wanted to find out from David the name of the other investigator who was present when Jim Schnabel shared the details of his upsetting experience as a crop circle hoaxer. Now it’s too late. David is gone and this report becomes just another rumor. If true however, it is another amazing demonstration of how non-human intelligence, as it has been said, “can access your consciousness as readily as you or I access light at home by turning on a wall switch.”
For additional “Tales of High Strangeness” from the Contact Underground, the following links are provided.
Part 1: David Kingston Tells me About Strange Visitors That Only Wanted to Chat About Human Initiated Contact. “The women were extremely beautiful and elegantly dressed, but they appeared to have no knowledge of how to apply cosmetics… Their lipstick was smeared, and the eyebrow makeup had been misapplied. This detail seemed totally incongruous with the rest of their appearance that communicated wealth, intelligence and style.” For complete narrative click on the hyperlink below.
My first “contact download” occurred during fieldwork in Joshua Tree. It was associated with a telepathic communication that accurately predicted the parameters of a sighting that occurred later that night.
While volunteering as a contact team leader in the 1990s, I experienced what are called “contact downloads.” They were like emotionally powerful dreams that surprisingly occurred while I was awake. One involved my challenging the “beings” who were “communicating” to me telepathically. Their response was something I shall never forget.
One “contact download” that I experienced shook me to my core. As a fellow contact worker advised me, “The “ETs” really know how to push our emotional buttons.
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