New formation and website update!
Urgent Appeal For Donations. Can you Help This Week? We are trying our best to record the crop circles this year, but we need your help. Our new website will be launched on Monday the 20th. Details coming very soon in a special newsletter.
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Image Copyright Karen Alexander
Can you make a donation of £30.00 this week?
Click on the photo above to donate. We are flying every week now to bring you these images.
To make a donation click below on Help, or click the photo above. This will take you to our website where you can make a donation to help us continue to do what we do.
The crop circles are coming thick and fast, and we need your support to help us record the crop circles in the UK. Weare taking some long
flights.
Our new website will be launched on Monday the 20th July. All our new 2015 images will be there to see. Its been a long process but we are getting there. You can view more images on our Temporary Temples Press Facebook page in the meantime.
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Two Companions At The Rollrightstones.
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Image Copyright Steve Alexander
This crop circle event was reported on the 15th of July in a field of ripening wheat next to the Rollright Stones circle, north west of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. Although there have been
a handful of circles here in the past, this would be the first time we had flown there to photograph a circle. Upon arrival we could see there were in fact two formations in the same field.
The circles are in a field directly next to the stones. The first was a small ringed circle, which lay very close indeed to the stone circle, and the second larger formation sits relatively central in the field, but at the end of the field nearest the stone circle. The largest circle contained an elaborate design, centred on a pentagram (five-pointed star) with two crescent moon shapes, one large
and one small - the smaller one sitting at the centre of the design. The Pentagram is nicely realised, and has a celtic knot effect, as the arms seem to be partially above the large crescent shape and partially below it. The whole of the design then sits inside a large flattened circle. The larger formation measures approximately 150 -180ft in diameter and the small ringed circle was approximately 50-60ft in diameter.
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Image Copyright Steve Alexander
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Rollrightstones Formations In The Landscape.
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Image Copyright Steve Alexander
Traditionally, in sacred geometry, five is the number of life, growth and regeneration. Five and its close relations the Fibonacci sequence and Phi are found in the proportions, growth and regeneration patterns of all living things - from the humblest plant to the infinitely complex homo-sapien. It is also connected with the
planet venus, as the planet inscribes a pentagram around the Earth every eight years as it travels around the solar system. It is from this later correspondence, that it gets its prime association with the sacred feminine. With the addition of the crescent moons, this formation might be said to speak of the regeneration of the sacred feminine.
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The Smaller Of The Two Circles At The Rollrightstones.
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Image Copyright Steve Alexander
In this photo the Rollrightstones can be seen in the background.
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Image Copyright Steve Alexander
The Rollright Stones themselves, are a ring of relatively small standing stones. According to folklore, the stones are a king and his courtiers, petrified into stone by a witch! Its a
very pretty location and as we flew over we could see a small labyrinth in the grasses right next to the stones. In addition to the stone circle there are two other stone monuments nearby. The stone circle sits right next to a road, and on the other side of the road is a single standing megalith called the Kings Stone. Interestingly, although only over the road (literally), this stone lies in the county of Warwickshire - the road marking the boundary between the counties of Oxfordshire and
Warwickshire. The third stone monument is a dolman called the Whispering Knights - so named because of the way the stones lean into one another in a ‘conspiratorial’ posture. You can read much more about the Rollright Stones here.
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Don't forget to get your tickets for The Summer Crop Circle Lectures 2015. Summer Lectures Website To be
Updated Soon.
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Tickets now on sale for the 2015 event.
The Summer Lectures website is to be updated soon with the 2015 speakers list. We have been busy working on our new Temporarytemples website which will be launched in the near future, so things are a bit behind this year.
Dates: Friday 31st July – Sunday 2nd August 2015 Venue: Town Hall,
St. John’s Street, Devizes, Wilts, UK Our 2015 Programme at a glance: Friday 31st July 2015 – Day Crop Circle Coach Tour Friday 31st July 2015 – Evening Crop Circle Geometry Workshop Saturday & Sunday 1st & 2nd August 2015 – Main Lecture Programme Saturday 1st August 2015 – Evening Crop Circles & Consciousness Workshop Sunday 2nd August 2015 – Evening Conference Dinner The Summer Crop Circle Lectures is the world’s leading crop circle conference. Researchers and enthusiasts gather together from around the globe each summer to present and share new ideas, experiences and research into this enigmatic phenomenon. Our programme combines top national and international speakers, along with exciting newcomers to provide a broad collection of ideas and thinking on the subject. Above all, the weekend is a
celebration of the inspiration and influence these magnificent forms have had on our culture and it is an opportunity to meet new people and network with like-minded souls. Our conference is firmly centred around the crop circles, but that focus should not be confused with a narrowness of vision. The circles are considered alongside many other related subjects and disciplines, which makes for a stimulating, vibrant and wide-ranging programme.
Our venue has full disabled access and we provide light refreshments on site. We will also have a collection of trade stands, including all the latest crop circle photographs, films and books for sale. Don’t forget your pen for a signed copy! We look forward
to welcoming you to our event…
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Crop Circle/Sacred Sites Coach Tour 2015.
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Image copyright Dan Vidler.
Crop Circles/Wiltshire's Sacred Sites Coach Tour with Dan Vidler and Jonathan DeVierville. Both are enormously experienced crop circle researchers and tour
guides.
We pick up at the Bear Hotel in Devizes (next-door to our main conference venue). We leave at 9.30am sharp, and drop back at the Bear Hotel at 4.30pm (approx). We have limited places on this very popular tour, so please book early!
There can be no substitute for a first-hand visit to the crop circles. Spending time examining the fine detail inside the circles and soaking up their enigmatic spaces is a unique and amazing experience! Cautionary Note: For the first time in 9 years, we were unable to arrange permission to enter any circles for our 2014 tour. 2014 had seen only a handful circles in Wiltshire and of those that had appeared despite our very best efforts, the farmers did not want visitors. We did arrange an alternative itinerary and the tour went ahead, visiting Avebury Stone Circle and the Crop Circle Exhibition in Devizes Museum. Several well known researchers also helped out and spent time with those on
the tour. Who knows what 2015 will bring? We hope some circles for you all to visit! But we would like everyone booking this tour to know when they book that while we will do everything we can to ensure permission for our tour to visit we feel its only fair to tell you that cannot guarantee either crop circles, or cooperative farmers. So as per last year there will be an alternative itinerary in place should
we need it. As usual, we provide a delicious buffet lunch served in a local country village hall. Transport, tour guides, payments to farmers/attractions and your lunch are included in the ticket price. Transport will be an air-conditioned coach.
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The Crop Circle Summer Lectures - Geometry Workshop. Friday 31st July 2015.
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Friday Evening Geometry Workshop. Learn about number, proportion and meaning. Step by Step drawing instructions and all equipment provided.
Michael Glickman & Karen Alexander will be your guides through the realms of sacred geometry and drawing the crop circle forms. Michael has long been acknowledged as one of the foremost authorities on Crop Circle Geometry and Karen Alexander is well known for her beautiful drawings of the crop formations. Together they make a formidable
team! Explore the numbers, ratios and proportions found in the crop circle designs and then try your hand at drawing some crop circle patterns! This fascinating workshop will be a hands-on experience, with plenty of opportunity to try exercises with compass and straight edge - to feel (in your hands) the way the crop circle patterns come together. Don't worry if you are a novice, there will be plenty of help on hand and we will provide all your drawing
equipment! The workshop is to be led by circles researchers Michael Glickman and Karen Alexander who bring their considerable experience in this field to the event. This is always a hugely popular workshop so please book early, limited places are available! The workshop will be held in the Assembly Room on the upper floor of the Town Hall and will
run from 6.30pm - 8.30pm. Read More
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Please Support Us! How you Can
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Please help us raise money for our flights to record the crop circles in the UK...
We have always been committed to providing the best quality crop circle photography anywhere. Not only as a record of the phenomenon as it unfolds, but also as a legacy for future generations. High quality images are essential for the future and not only will hold more information, but will also show the
magnificence of the crop circles in the landscape and hopefully record the majesty and beauty of the circles for generations who were not there to witness them first hand. The cost of obtaining our high quality images each year is huge (running
in to thousands of pounds). We hire a small helicopter and use high-end digital SLRs to record the images. While it is true that there are cheaper methods for photographing the circles, there is a more damaging cost to the quality of pictures possible using there methods (drones etc.) where using expensive digital cameras would not be practical or possible. Because of our commitment to quality and our awareness of costs, we regularly review our practices and at the moment (as of 2015) we remain convinced that our current operating methods allow us to get the best images possible. It is through the sales of our year books, photos and other merchandise that meeting the cost of our photography possible. We also reply on our donors who very kindly help top up our flight fund each year. We never take any of our
supporters for granted and are constantly humbled and amazed at their generosity. Every sale and every donation, no matter how humble counts, and helps us continue to record this beautiful phenomenon. Here
are a few ways you can help (not all include sales or donations). 1. You can make a donation. Click on the button below to find out more about making a donation. 2. You can help by making purchases from our online shop. Sales of our products help directly finance our work. Many send gifts to friends and loved ones - all sales really do help. 3. If you are unable to make a donation or purchase yourself, perhaps you
know someone who might? Please pass on details of our website to anyone you know who might be able to help. 4. You can also help by publicizing our website on social networking sites or on your own website if you have one. We can supply graphics and banners for website adverts/inclusions. We would also be grateful if you could add us to your links page. Finally ... We'd like to say again that we very much appreciate all the support we receive from you and we never take it for granted. We are constantly astonished at the generosity of
your support, we simply couldn't do it without you. We are looking into some further fundraising plans, and we will keep you up to date with anything we put into place. If you would like to talk to us further you can email us at:
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