The following article contains excerpts from the upcoming book
Secrets in the Fields by Freddy Silva, to be published in September 2002.
Images in this article are by Freddy Silva, Hans Wiedmer, Lucy Princle, Colin
Andrews, and Steve Alexander. Click to see enlargements with explanatory
legends (except for the Lamdoma, which was not available in a larger size).
Pranks with Planks
During the twilight days of December 1998, small articles tucked away in the
nether regions of the British press quietly announced "Unknown Force Was Behind
Corn Circles, Claims Hoaxer" (click on picture for larger picture of one such
article with text). This dramatic U-turn by Doug Bower, the surviving member of
the infamous Doug & Dave duo who since 1991 have misled the world with tales
of their crop flattening prowess with planks of wood illustrates that the
hand of man materialized in crop circle lore long after the real phenomenon
manifested.
Modern hoaxers claim that they applied boot to wheat in 1978, yet crop circles
have appeared sporadically throughout the world since the early 1900s, with
dozens of eyewitnesses even reporting crop circles forming in a matter of
seconds as far back as 1890; several descriptive accounts were even documented
in 1678 by Robert Plot, then curator of the Ashmolean. If hoaxers are
responsible, they also appear to have mastered the art of time travel, in which
case it is they who should be under scientific scrutiny.
To date some 10,000 crop circles have been catalogued worldwide, and their
anomalous features continue to be irreplecatable: plants bent an inch above
soil and gently laid down in geometrically-precise patterns with no physical
signs of damage, altered cellular structure and soil chemistry, discrepancies
in background radiation, alteration of the local electromagnetic field, massive
depletion of the watershed, and dowsable, long-lasting energy patterns, not to
mention measured effects on the human biological field. So much, then, for two
guys and a piece of wood.
But thanks to a virtual embargo on research coverage throughout the media, a
popular myth has developed that all crop circles have been nothing more than a
prank with a plank.
By definition, hoaxes are forgeries. And forgeries require originals from which
to copy. So what is this "unknown force" that creates genuine crop circles?
Music: The Unknown Force?
Echoed in all the world's faiths and traditions, universal matter was created
by sound: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God," St. John
reminds us. When our ancestors chose to symbolize this action of physical
Creation they chose to do so with geometry: the circle as a representation of
God, followed by the two overlapping circles as the act of separation between
thought and matter.
It is from the womb of this symbol the vesica piscis that all geometric
forms common to sacred geometry are born. Modern science has shown that these
geometric rhythms lie at the center of atomic structures.
When Andrew Gladzewski carried out research into atomic patterns, plants,
crystals, and harmonics in music, he concluded that atoms are harmonic
resonators, proving that physical reality is actually governed by geometric
arrays based on sound frequencies.
Even that primeval Hindu sound, the OM, from which is derived our modern term
"hum," when sung into a tonoscope produces the very geometric shapes attributed
with "sacredness." Perhaps the most important of these shapes is the hexagon,
upon which the Egyptian matrix named the Flower of Life is based. This series
of outwardly-rotating divisions of the circle accommodate the branches of the
building blocks of life, the amino acids.
This Flower of Life has subsequently manifested as a crop circle. As the
expression of number in space, geometry is inextricably linked to music, since
the laws of geometry govern the mathematical intervals that make up the notes
in the western music scale the diatonic ratios. This is why the ancient
Egyptians referred to geometry as "frozen music."
Crop Circles Yield New Mathematical Theorems
In the February 1992 edition of Science News, Prof. Gerald Hawkins used the
principles of Euclidean geometry to prove that four theorems can be derived
from the relationships of elements in crop circles. More significantly, he
discovered a fifth theorem from which he could derive the other four.
Despite an open challenge, over half a million subscribers have been unable to
create such a theorem, which Euclid himself only hinted at twenty-three
centuries earlier in his thirteen treatises on mathematics. So it came as a
slight surprise when its equilateral version materialized as 160,000 square
feet of flattened barley at Litchfield, Hampshire, in 1995.
Since Hawkins's Euclidean theorems also produce diatonic ratios, a link exists
between crop circles and musical notes, themselves the by-product of the
harmonic laws of sound frequency.
Soon, crop circles bearing unmistakable associations with sound began to
appear. One contained a curious ratchet feature from which is constructed a
musical diagram also dating to the Egyptians: the Lambdoma. Also known as the
Pythagorean Table, it defines the exact relationships between musical harmonics
and mathematical ratios.
In 1996 another crop circle demonstrated the combination of two important
figures the 3-4-5 triangle, and the Golden Mean producing the geometric
diagram necessary to produce musical ratios.
But it was a convincing formation at Goodwood Clatford which had its plants
bent six inches from the top that gave the proverbial nod to sound, for here
was a representation of a cymatic pattern etched in 5000 square feet of barley.
Crop Circles and the Science of Cymatics
Cymatics is the study of vibrational wave patterns (see our March article
Cymatics and the New Age of Miracles). One of its earliest pupils was Margaret
Watts-Hughes who, in 1891, captured precise geometric patterns on film as she
sang sustained notes into a device containing lycopodium powder.
But it would be another seventy six years before Swiss scientist Hans Jenny
published the first of his painstaking studies on the transmission of sound
through physical mediums, this time in the shape of monitored electronic
frequencies.
He observed how sound vibration created geometric shapes a low frequency
produced a simple circle encompassed by rings, whereas a higher frequency
increased the number of concentric rings around a central circle. As the
frequencies rose so, too, did the complexity of shapes, to the point where
tetrahedrons, mandalas, and other sacred forms could be discerned. Like
Margaret Watts-Hughes before him, Hans Jenny enabled humanity to observe
"frozen music."
Jenny also provided a physical connection to the creation of crop circles,
since many of the vibrational patterns found in his photos mimic their designs.
Some are blatant imitations, such as the circle surrounded by concentric rings
typical of early '80s crop circle patterns: the tetrahedron at Barbury Castle
in 1991, the spider's web mandala at Avebury from 1994, and even the
highly-structured star fractals of 1997.
Other photos demonstrate the construction geometry encoded within the crop
circle's skeleton.
Visually, then, there is little room to deny the connection between crop circle
patterns and cymatics. But what evidence is there of sound in crop circles at a
physical level?
The Sounds of the Circles
Many accounts exist of a trilling sound heard by people prior to witnessing
crop circles forming. The reports describe a sudden stillness in the air, the
morning birdsong superseded by a trilling sound, and the banging together of
wheat heads despite an absence of wind. A whole section of crop then lies down
in spiral fashion the whole episode lasting less than fifteen seconds.
Circles researcher Colin Andrews came across the trilling noise himself when,
in mild frustration during his search to find a single answer to the
phenomenon, he beseeched the heavens, "God, if only you could tell me how these
things are created." The reply he received was eventually captured on magnetic
tape.
Subsequent analysis at Sussex University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
concluded that the noise was mechanical in nature, and beating at a frequency
of 5.0-5.2kHz. Whilst recording an interview inside a crop circle, the same
sound was heard by a BBC cameraman shortly before it rendered a £30,000 TV
camera inoperable.
Interestingly, when the sound made another appearance during group research
inside another formation it exhibited qualities of non-linear movement, and
behaved in tandem with specific requests, sometimes on a psychic level.
Since the sound made in crop circles also has the ability to transmit on radio
frequencies and interfere with electronic equipment, birds and insects can be
ruled out; and although skeptics are quick to accuse researchers that the
recorded sound is, in fact, the grasshopper warbler, stroboscopic analysis of
both voice prints revealed vast differences between this bird and the bizarre
noise. Besides, these birds frequent marshes, not vast, open fields of cereal
crop.
Interestingly, the Aborigines relate to this trilling sound. During their
ceremonies to contact in their words the Sky Spirits, a "bora," consisting
of a specially-shaped piece of wood, is attached to the end of a long string
and whirled, creating a noise practically identical to the crop circle hum.
One has to wonder where the inspiration for this device came from, who these
Sky Spirits were, and what on earth made the timeless Aborigines associate this
noise with them. That was, until it was discovered that not only have crop
circles appeared in Australia many throughout the 1960s but their
manifestation figures in Aboriginal lore, just as their geometries appear in
rock paintings.
In 1998 sounds of a more melodic kind were heard and recorded inside a
formation by three witnesses (or is it earwitnesses?); the design was founded
on sevenfold geometry, a representation of the intervals in the diatonic music
scale.
Several months later I came across a diagram called the Web of Athena, in which
all the points of the heptagon are connected. Despite the jumble of lines, the
diagram consists of just three line lengths, and by juxtaposing these onto a
stringed instrument, the exact same notes were recreated.
Sound "Effects"
But perhaps the greatest connection linking sound to the manifestation of crop
circles lies in their greatest anomaly: the permanent bending of the plants'
stems. In Canada during the 1960s, laboratory experiments measured the effects
of music on plants by subjecting them to different strains of tones. Exposure
to heavy metal music made the plants tilt in the opposite direction, whereas
classical music lulled the plants toward the speakers. But in the case of Hindu
devotional music and the songs of Ravi Shankar, in particular the stems
bent in excess of 60 degrees to the horizontal perhaps the closest any human
has ever come anywhere to achieving that right angle common to genuine crop
circles.
Further experiments at Annamalai University applying Indian devotional song
generated additional effects: the number of stomata in the experimental plants
was 66 percent higher, the epidermal walls were thicker, and the palisade cells
were longer and broader than control specimens, sometimes by as much as 50
percent.
Biophysical changes are known to occur in plants collected from crop circles.
Tests performed since 1989 by American physicist Dr. W. C. Levengood
consistently show how the energy creating crop circles is able to affect seed
embryo and plant growth, elongate the plant's nodes, even alter the pattern of
the chromosomes themselves.
But the effect extends beyond plants. Agricultural researcher George Smith
found that exposing corn to sound frequencies produced a higher heat content in
soil, as well as a slight burnt appearance in the plants. The effect is
consistent with the slight "baking" regularly observed in crop circles, where
the affected area appears noticeably drier than the rest of the field despite
overnight rain; the same applies to the "slight burning" at the base of
affected stalks.
Oddly enough, Smith speculated at the time that sound energy also increased
molecular activity in plants three decades before this effect was found in
crop circle samples by Levengood. Since a sudden and abnormal burst of growth
is also known to occur in affected plants, it was postulated that microwave was
the culprit behind the creation of crop circles. However, microwave has the
ability to render biological systems sterile, and a certain dose will even kill
organisms. Yet the crop circles' plants are alive and well.
After four years of experiments on regular wheat at the University of Ottawa,
Mary Measures and Pearl Weinberger found accelerated growth in laboratory
samples, and postulated that the sound frequency they applied had produced a
resonant effect in the plants' cells, thereby affecting their metabolism. The
frequency that Measures and Weinberger applied was identical to the crop circle
trilling noise.
Sound as one energy source capable of creating crop circles now becomes very
feasible. But what type of sound coaxes plants to bend and lie down, applying
firm and gentle pressure and, given the intricacy and complexity of latterday
patterns, with a fine degree of control?
Ultrasound and Infrasound Effects
Interestingly, ultrasound is capable of interacting with physical elements to
an incredible degree. It can be aimed, focused, and reflected almost like a
light beam, and specific frequencies can be focused to cause certain kinds of
molecules to vibrate while others nearby are left unmoved; in laboratory
experiments, a flame has been extinguished by the application of such
frequencies. The higher the frequency of ultrasound, the greater its ability to
be directed.
This requires frequencies in the high MHz range, such as those detected in crop
circles by Paul Vigay, who has undertaken experiments also to gauge
discrepancies in electromagnetic frequency. Paul's empirical data shows how the
level of background readings drops abruptly when he crosses the threshold of a
formation. Close to the center, readings hover in the vacinity of 260-320 MHz.
But just as crop circles have made a quantum leap in mathematical complexity
over the past two years, readings have jumped to 540 MHz. Incredibly, this
coincides with Jenny's experiments which show that a relationship exists
between the rising complexity of cymatic geometries in proportion to the rise
of dispensed frequency. In other words, the level of frequency, whether in a
laboratory or a field, correlates with the increase in design intricacy.
These extremely high frequencies ally with the mind-field and have been shown
to affect the state of awareness and consciousness in humans. Reports of such
have been compiled from hundreds of people visiting formations, where even
simple left brain functions such as counting are affected.
When tuned in the MHz range, ultrasound prevents damage to sensitive tissues,
so its healing properties are used in treating muscular ailments; these
conditions also are synonymous with crop circle reports, the effects being
relative to the age of each formation and duration of stay for the individual
involved.
Below 20 Hz, sound becomes infrasonic, and such frequencies are directly
involved with biological processes. When infrasonic frequencies are combined
with high pressure, permanent changes are produced in receiving materials,
since the acoustic power created by infrasound is in the order of kilowatts
(which explains why long exposure in certain crop circles causes unpleasant
conditions such as fatigue and nausea).
In water, infrasound creates heat which tears apart the molecules to form
vapor. In the case of plants, whose stems are filled with water, the
vaporization creates a void which collapses the area instantaneously as the
energy is released. This action, called "vapor cavitation," also creates local
temperature increases of hundreds of thousands of degrees for a fraction of a
second.
Now, cut the base stem of a crop circle plant and you will notice a cooked
odor. Combine this with millions of gallons of missing groundwater, as well as
Levengood's discovery of microscopic blow-holes in the plants' cell wall pits
(indicating a rapid boiling of water inside the plant), and everything starts
to fall into place.
This process also creates a hissing sound. And if you are fortunate enough to
visit a crop circle within a few hours of its appearance, you will find
yourself surrounded by this hisssing sound until you leave.
Since infrasound is capable of atomizing water molecules and creating a fine
mist, it should be mentioned that in 1996 a farmer out harvesting his field at
Etchilhampton saw what he describes as "a series of columns of mist rising like
cannonshot from the field next door." Mist looks very out-of-place in a wheat
field in mid-afternoon on a dry, summer's day. Yet shortly after the incident a
series of thirteen circles connected by a three quarter-mile long avenue and a
Sanskrit glyph appeared in the very same field.
Finally, cavitation is accompanied by a sudden spark of light called
sonoluminescence, caused by the production of electrical discharges as the
water/vapor is ionized. And the lower the operating frequency, the greater the
effect. In a laboratory, 18 Hz has been used as the lowest safety threshold
below which the pressure formed by infrasound is known to produce disruption to
chromosomes.
Every summer, crop circle plants of every variety are sent blind to Dr.
Levengood, and some inevitably show unmistakable disruption to their
chromosomes. Yet give him samples deliberately produced by field forgers and
he'll find something really unusual: perfectly normal plants.
Crop Circles and the Soul of the World
The musical scale, constructed on the harmonics of sacred geometry, and now
found within the framework of crop circles, represents the mathematical
structure of the Soul of the World because it embodies the essence of the
Universe. So it's no coincidence that a large percentage of crop circles can be
identified with and by ancient cultures, who to this day honor their
histories through song and music, their healing rituals performed with sound
and rhythm.
This relationship of sound to the sacred is further extended in Buddhist
mandalas, whose elaborate geometries are claimed to be the physicalization of
chants which are used to alter states of consciousness.
Perhaps it is not by coincidence that crop circle designs mirror these
intricate patterns, just as they bear an uncanny familiarity to Jenny's
materializations of sound.
If sound vibrations are both encoded into and generated by crop circles, is it
not possible that they, too, can arouse the individual at a spiritual level?
After all, it's through music that whole human experiences are celebrated and
carried from generation to generation. It is very probable that it is for this
reason that the very shape of the human ear more specifically the cochlea
is a spiral constructed according to the harmonic laws of tone, just as the
same spiral forms the primary basis from which thousands of crop circles have
sprung.
Music is a carrier for social change. The effects of Handel's music are
believed to have reversed the state of morality in Victorian England, just as
the anarchic overtones of Punk corraled disillusioned youth into fighting an
establishment that held no tolerance for those who stepped outside the system.
The effects in people's states of awareness through contact with crop circles
is similarly documented. In 1990 a pictogram at Alton Barnes sported the
trident of Shiva the Transformer. Ironically, it was through exposure to this
crop circle that millions around the world were transformed, just as images of
crop circles today continue to enlighten the consciousness of those who come
into contact with them.
As Monteverdi once remarked, "the end of all good music is to affect the soul."
If sound is one of the formative principles behind crop circles, it is not
surprising that they are leaving psychological impressions on those whose
antennae are extended and receptive to their tune.
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