Daniel Carter's List: Spiral Over Norway

"Thoughts on the Norway Spiral
Daniel Pinchbeck



Two nights ago, an extraordinary event took place over the night sky in Norway: A white spiral that emanated a bright blue spiraling beam before it disappeared into a black circular hole, apparently witnessed by thousands of people across the country. Authorities have issued a conventional explanation, proposing this amazing apparition was caused by a failed Russian missile test. However, this seems extremely unlikely – in the category of explanations that includes the theory that the most complex and virtuosic crop circles were the products of board and rope, or that Building 7 of the World Trade Center fell as a result of the Twin Towers collapse.

The magnificent spiral spectacle manifested one night before President Obama’s speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, in Oslo, and during the Copenhagen conference on climate change. It therefore seems to be a kind of focusing event for human consciousness. Following the works of the Russian scientist Alexey Dmitriev and others, Mark Heley, author of The Everything Guide to 2012, proposes that such an event could be plasma phenomena -- plasma that is artificially induced and intelligently guided. It is possible that such an apparition is somehow co-created or imprinted by the collective field of the human psyche. Whatever the case, it is hard to escape the impression that the Norway Spiral is a kind of thought-form that took tangible form and inscribed itself in the atmosphere.

The Norway spiral has resonance with the Hopi prophecies of the Blue Star Kachina, which appears at the end of the Fourth World -- if not that signifying event itself, perhaps a foreshadowing or retro-causal echo of it. The spiral seems like a message, invitation, or indication that the earth and its inhabitants are on the threshold of a deep transformation. While most of my work over the last years has been an effort to understand this transformation and help myself and others prepare for it, I admit to feeling, if anything, an increasing