Crop Circle Wisdom: Simple Teachings from the Circlemakers

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Summary: Beautiful Photographs. Period.
Review: I actually like this little hard cover book (just 5x7") quite a lot. It contains many, many colored photographs of some very lovely and intricate crop circles including some of the best close-up detail photos I've seen. The author clearly shares my deep love for these mysterious and mystical creations. The text was overly New Age for my taste and consisted entirely of "teachings" that Ms.Clarke was guided by Spirit to communicate. There are no comments about the symbolism shown in the crop circles. Instead there is a separate "teaching" to go along with each of the chosen photographs, such as joy, non-judgement, power, unity, harmony, respect, etc. All of the teaching buzz-words are good concepts and might be very useful for meditation or what have you. I'm not judging the concepts, but the little mini-essays that accompany each of the topics are not the slightest bit profound and fall short of the goal of actually "teaching" anything. Ms. Clarke terms herself a "croppie" and has spent a lot of time studying and visiting and guiding in the crop circles. Her writing shows her to be a sweet and gentle soul, filled with child-like wonder and the ability to go inward and reflect without judgement. If someone would have given this book to me as a gift, I would have been grateful indeed. It's lovely. I feel the price being asked for this book is way too high for what the book delivers, however. There are many other good books available with equally lovely photographs but with better and more useful text. If you are looking for information or details about the crop circles themselves, this book will not help you out. If it was bigger it would be a coffee table book, as it is, it is a high priced mini gift book. The photos are 5 star but the text is 1 star so I'm going in the middle with this one. 3 stars.