November 9, 2003: Explaining Crop Circles - Dr. Simeon Hein | Solar Flare Cycles - Ramon Lopez
The main interview features Dr. Simeon Hein, director of the Institute for Resonance in Boulder, Colorado, who studies subtle energy sciences including crop circles and remote viewing. He describes witnessing genuine psychokinesis in Japan, where a man bent spoons by looking at them and made watch hands spin without touching them. The local magicians union forced the practitioner to label his demonstrations as magic to avoid what they called unfair competition.
Dr. Hein presents his most controversial finding: man-made crop circles produce the same anomalous electrostatic effects as those of unknown origin, with voltage changes up to 2,000 volts measured inside formations only twelve feet across. He argues that the geometric shape pressed into living plant material generates subtle energy fields regardless of who created the circle, suggesting that all crop circles, whether made by human artists or unknown forces, function as resonant structures that produce measurable electromagnetic phenomena.
Key Moments
Solar wind magnetic field has doubled in 100 years: Professor Ramon Lopez tells Art that the solar wind's magnetic field has measurably doubled in strength over the past 100 years, and that this slow underlying intensification - not comets - is what's behind the unprecedented sunspots and flares appearing during what should be solar minimum.
Comets are not behind the sunspots: Lopez directly rebuts the popular comet-causes-flares theory: comets do hit or graze the sun and vaporize, but nothing in the solar system is going to affect what causes monstrous sunspots - that comes from deep inside the sun's own dynamics.
Man-made crop circles produce real anomalous fields: Dr. Simeon Hein describes watching Matt Williams's team make a daylight crop circle and discovering that their electrostatic meter - which they had been using as a 'litmus test' to distinguish real from hoax circles - jumped hundreds, sometimes thousands of volts inside the human-made formations too.
Piezoelectric pressure and the wheat capacitor: Art proposes that flattening tall dry wheat creates a giant piezoelectric pressure event, and Hein agrees - quoting Colin Andrews on how standing wheat acts as a capacitor with air as insulator until the stalks lay flat and start to swirl, generating electrostatic currents that may cause the anomalous effects regardless of whether the circle is human-made or otherwise.
Art proposes the hangar experiment: Live on the air, Art designs a falsifiable experiment: build an artificial electrostatic field in a hangar, shape it like a known anomalous crop circle, place subjects inside at varying voltages, and measure for paranormal phenomena to rule the field in or out as the causative agent.