Sunday 10th Oct - Lecture 2 – Peter van den Burg & Melanie McCalmont.

Peter van Den Burg has been researching crop circles since 2007. Primarily their geometric properties, gradually expanding his search to the relation crop circles have with the surrounding landscape. His drawings have been featured on the Temporary Temples website for the last two years. He lives in Norway with his dog Nico.

Melanine McCalmont is a US geographer and non-fiction author based in Colorado who has studied the geography of the crop circles since 1997. Melanie has a Master’s Degree in the Geography of Communication from the Univ of Wisconsin. Her field analyzes why and how people communicate in places/locations, what tools they choose, and how those choices create shared meaning and function. Melanie visited the Wiltshire circles in 2010 and attended one of our early conferences.

Presentation: The use of written language is an effective symbolic tool to communicate vast amounts of information with a minimum use of space. Crop circles with apparent “writing” have appeared, either spontaneously or in response to our writing. Since the authors of the crop circle phenomenon are capable of communicating this way, this session asks: Why do they choose to show us writing-like symbols? And why are there so few circles with writing? What is this trying to teach us? In this presentation, we will analyse a few examples and place them in a broader context of communication. We will look deeply at two formations with writing, and discuss what next steps could be?

Temporary Temples Online Crop Circle Conference 2021

Exploring the Crop Circle Phenomenon Online! Hope to see you once again. Saturday the 2nd of October to Sunday the 31st of October 2021. See Times Below.

Saturday the 2nd of October to Sunday the 31st of October 2021

All lecture sessions begin at 6.00pm and finish at 7.30pm, UK time  – 60 mins for the lectures + 30 mins for questions.
The Workshops will begin at 5.00pm UK time, and run for 2 hours and 2.5 hours respectively. 

All times are British Summer time (BST) apart from the 31st when we will move back to GMT

Tickets: 

Each Lecture £10.00

Introduction to Crop Circle Geometry Workshop (2-hours): £25.00

Introduction to Crop Circles & Consciousness Workshop (2.5 hours): £30.00

Full Conference Ticket £120.00 (Discount for Full Event!)

Note – the full-ticket price includes a small £15.00 discount for those booking for the entire event.

You can attend as little or as much of the conference as you wish. You can purchase each lecture or workshop individually. See website for more details. 

Online Conference Schedule at a Glance:

Saturday 2nd Oct      Workshop 1-  An introduction to Crop Circle Geometry 

Sunday 3rd Oct         Workshop 2 –  An introduction to Crop Circles & Consciousness

Saturday 9th Oct       Lecture 1 – Dan Vidler

Sunday 10th Oct       Lecture 2 – Peter van den Burg & Melanie McCalmont

Saturday 16th Oct     Lecture 3 – Robin Heath

Sunday 17th Oct       Lecture 4 – Dr Jonathan-Paul  DeVierville

Saturday 23rd Oct     Lecture 5 – Geoff Fitzpatrick

Sunday 24th Oct       Lecture 6 – Andy McGrillen & Dan Z from ‘That UFO Podcast’ 

Saturday 30th Oct     Lecture 7 – Scott Onstott 

Sunday 31st Oct       Lecture 8 – Karen Alexander 

Accessing Recordings of our Lectures & Workshops

We will be recording the all lectures and the geometry workshop and these will be made available as downloadable videos via a Google Drive link. 

We will be using the ZOOM app for our all online sessions. If you’ve never used ZOOM before we will send you full instructions for downloading and using the app when you book. The ZOOM app is free to download and you will not need a paying account to take part. You can use ZOOM on most devices, we recommend using your PC or laptop for the best view of the presentations. 

Everything you need to know is on our website