Crop circle researchers Ed and Kris Sherwood feel that the messages of the crop
circles reflect the language of literal and metaphorical symbolism, and that
they are directed at all of us.
The Sherwoods believe that, by exploring the crop circle phenomena with an open
mind, without fear and without assumptions, they have been able to gain insight
into their meaning.
In order to understand a particular crop circle, they feel, it is first
necessary to let go of preconceived ideas.
Crop Circle Themes
According to the Sherwoods, the crop-circle designs are symbolic and literal
metaphors that contain a wealth of encoded information. Sometimes, they
observe, the genuine crop circles are so deceptively simple-looking that one
might wonder if they really have something significant to say.
But the Sherwoods have concluded that even the simplest formations have
multiple layers of meaning. The designs in certain crop circles even seem to be
tied to sacred symbols from more than one culture.
"When we first look at a pattern, we might not immediately recognize it," Ed
explains, "or we might recognize some aspect of it, and go off to investigate
it which I think is what we are meant to do. You may explore connections and
associated symbols, and you may discover that one crop circle actually has
multiple layers of meaning, all cross-referencing each other."
Meteorological and dragon symbology at East Field
Ed has been researching crop circles since 1984, but it was not until 1990 that
he decoded one of them: the East Field formation, found at Wiltshire, England.
This experience completely changed his view of who and what creates crop
circles (the famous Wiltshire formation of July 11, 1990, pictured at right,
was made into an album cover to see larger image, click on the photo).
Ed believes that formations like the East Field pictogram were created from the
psychokinetic energy of the collective mind in conjunction with natural forces
and processes of the earth and cosmos.[1]
Ed came to feel that this particular design referred to dragons, leylines,
water, weather, and an intelligence known as "The Nine." The famous pictogram
of East Field may be made up of international meteorological symbols, and Ed
suggests that it symbolizes a forecast of the prevailing weather conditions
over East Field, before and after the crop-circle event.
This complex formation has claw-like and foot-like design features, and a
double dumb-bell design. Ed claims that clues to understanding the crop-circle
phenomenon can be found in exploring Eastern traditions in folklore and legends.
Additional clues exist in the fields of physics and metaphysics. "When you
explore Eastern traditions, you find that dragons rule the weather. So there,
you have meteorological symbols and dragon symbology overlaid and interlaced,
cross-referencing in a very intelligent way."
Dragons were the weather lords, in that they were the masters of the wind and
water. References to the Nine Dragons appear in many cultures the Nine
Dragons were revered in China. Also, the first religion of Egypt was based on
nine Creation Gods. One of the dragons/gods was deified more than the others
and represented the Messenger of Messengers. According to Ed Sherwood, the
sphinx of Giza depicts this messenger god.
Indigenous symbols in crop circles
Although crop circles have appeared mainly in Wiltshire, England, they have
also appeared in countries around the world. Many Native American tribes have
seen crop circles that reflect their own symbols and the fulfillment of their
prophecies.[2]
Colin Andrews spoke of a Hopi elder who said that a crop circle in the early
'90s was a symbol of Mother Earth crying because of the damage inflicted upon
her.[3]
In 1996, the Sherwoods were the only researchers to report on a crop circle
that appeared in Laguna Canyon, California. This formation was remarkable in
that although there were no telltale footprints or handprints of any kind near
it, the soil was so soft that any human activity around the site would have
left deep impressions. Ed photographed this formation, before he and Kris went
into it, to document this absence of prints.
The formation was created in a different medium than most others, occurring on
a hillside covered by many species of plants rather than in a crop field. An
analysis of the bent plants by W. C. Levengood, a noted biophysicist and expert
in crop-circle plant analysis, confirmed the authenticity of the formation.[4]
Most crop circles, as we have noted, originate in England. Here, only the
plants originated in England! "Even though it formed in California, and even
though there were numerous species of available plants, the pictogram was
delineated by two English plant species," Ed says, "bent in the way
characteristic of a genuine formation. But this formation looked more like a
petroglyph than a typical English crop-circle design."
And their investigation revealed compelling connections between the design and
the once indigenous peoples of the area, the Tongva Indians, whose sacred land
and gravesites were being bulldozed in March of 1996 to build a highway.
The formation was comprised of three glyphs, one of which resembled the sacred
sun-staff of the Chumash Indians. Could it be that the three glyphs related to
the "three warnings" of a local indigenous legend?
A hero named Chingichnish, a Tongva spiritual leader, appeared hundreds of
years ago to teach the people how to live in harmony with Nocuma, or the Great
Spirit.
Chingichnish said that Nocuma would give three warnings to people who failed to
respect the land. Beyond that, nature would take its course.The Laguna Canyon
pictogram, containing three glyphs, appeared at a site where there had been
considerable local protest against a toll-road construction which was making a
wide path through the last small piece of wilderness there.
The Sherwoods do not believe this was simply a coincidence. They suggest that
perhaps it was a warning that we need to change, or change will be brought
upon us.[5]
Origins of Crop Circles
The messages challenge us
The messages in crop circles seems to come, according to Ed and Kris, from a
level of consciousness that requires us not only to observe them but to
interact with them if we wish to decipher their meaning.
"We're meant to think, we're meant to investigate," the Sherwoods say. "We
think that the messages are coming from our collective consciousness. They
appear to us like dream symbols for things that have been suppressed from our
conscious minds, things we haven't been dealing with. They're symbolically
trying to draw our attention to these issues, the way poltergeist activity will
manifest.
"It's like a dream, but one which has been conceived by the collective
consciousness. The crop circle is made up of more information than our
conscious mind. That's why we tend to feel that it's conceived by something
greater than ourselves."
Three possible origins
The Sherwoods think that there are three sources for the crop circles.
Some are manmade;
Some generally simple circles, or sets of circles, with perhaps one or two
pictograms are made by extraterrestrials; and
The rest are made by Divine Intelligence.
Other researchers in the crop-circle community do not necessarily embrace this
perspective, and there even are times when it is not well tolerated. Here is
what Ed Sherwood had to say about this:
I've looked at hundreds of formations and I've also had multiple close
encounters with the phenomenon that I feel is creating most of the genuine
formations. We're not talking about extraterrestrial intelligence, we are
referring to something beyond that, which is greater and more fundamental the
very source of where we come from and even where they come from.
And I've noticed that in the last five or six years there has been a slight
change in other researchers' views. Some are slowly coming around to the idea
that maybe it's more than just the ET explanation.
In 1990 I started to share my views with crop-circle researchers. For years, I
encountered the opinion that the genuine formations were made by ET's. That's
putting it pretty simply. They thought a formation had to be either manmade or
extraterrestrial.
Others said that it was made by Gaia.
I felt very alone when I first started saying the creator was God or the
Infinite Intelligence of Life. That is something I've been saying publicly for
years now, and it may be the case now that more people are coming around to
seeing it that way.
Some known researchers are beginning to change their views. Those who were very
pro-extraterrestrial are now beginning to think the creators are the collective
consciousness a global poltergeist, but from an Infinite Source, expressing
Infinite Intelligence. It's not like an aggressive, angry poltergeist that's
coming from the collective consciousness of a single individual going through
an emotional crisis. It's a global, collective consciousness that is coming
into awareness, and is triggering a response from the infinite collective
consciousness of all life.
Because some crop circles have been considered hoaxes, some researchers have
jumped to the conclusion that they're all hoaxes. And this year, a number of
hoaxers admitted that they had made certain crop circles that had previously
been thought to be genuine.
As a result, some researchers have become so disillusioned that they have swung
like a pendulum to the opposite extreme and are now saying that all crop
circles are manmade. In spite of this, we maintain that some are made by
people, some are made by ETs, and some are made by this superconscious force of
creation.
The truth is often diverse and complex, and to find an answer to the origins
you have to be like a true scientist an inquirer, who doesn't believe in one
thing or another. You have to see what picture the information paints. Over
time it becomes clearer. The Sherwoods agree that Colin Andrews is probably
fairly close in his estimate that perhaps 80 percent of the crop circles made
in England during 1999 and 2000 were manmade.
"There are very active groups that are vehemently trying to discredit and fool
researchers," Kris says. "They want people to accept their formations as
genuine. Perhaps some of them are sponsored by people who have big interests in
making sure the genuine phenomenon isn't recognized."
The Sherwoods feel that the hoaxers believe in a genuine phenomenon, but don't
know what it is, and are not interested in finding out.
Ed and Kris have also encountered a tremendous lack of discernment within the
so-called "research community" to the point where they feel there are very few
people who can actually tell the genuine from manmade.
Determining authenticity
"Some people are inclined to call a crop circle genuine because they like it
not because it is really genuine," the Sherwoods feel. "Most people who look at
crop circles are moved at a deep emotional level, viewing them as an art form
and reacting to them as they would to paintings in an art gallery that they
find particularly moving."
But the Sherwoods consider many things when they try to determine the
authenticity of a crop circle. In addition to looking at the geometry, the
mathematics, and the symbolism in the design, they look at the physics and
logistics of how the circle was created. They also look at the energy both
natural and/or supernatural that might have had a physical effect on the
plants or the soil.
Here are their comments on methods of verification:
The way the crop is bent One indicator of a genuine crop circle is plants
that have been bent at ninety degrees and at the ground level, yet with no
cracks or breaks in the bend of the plant it almost looks like they've been
steamed into position, there's no damage at all.
Dowsing When people use dowsing rods to explore the energy that is present
in crop circles, it only works if they ask the right questions. Proper dowsers,
using a rod, rods, or a pendulum, ask questions where they get yes-or-no
answers, then go through a series of cross-referencing questions to test their
original results. Without correct questioning, dowsers could be picking up
their own energy, their expectations, or the expectations of other people who
are there or have been there. Since there are many things that can be detected
through dowsing, it is important to ask the right questions.
Luminosities
Ancient peoples were in touch with a kind of light phenomenon referred to as
Earth Lights. This may be the reason that they built stone circles in
particular places.
The Sherwoods use the term "luminosities" to express a similar phenomenon. They
say that there are basically two categories of luminosities, physical and
non-physical. The physical category involves light that is visible or that
would give you a reading on a magnetometer. The non-physical luminosities are
only perceived in an altered state of consciousness or by using photographic
equipment that picks up frequences outside of the visible range.
During the year 2000, in order to gather information about the luminosities
associated with Earth mysteries, Ed Sherwood organized more than 40
psychic-photography experiments in England. These were conducted at ancient
Sacred Sites, authentic crop circle formations, and within natural spaces
identified as vortexes points in the landscape where energy lines cross.
In these spaces, Ed and Kris Sherwood witnessed and recorded hundreds of
luminosities, using 35mm, HI-8 video, and digital cameras. They were enormously
successful in photographing luminosities that had been seen by everyone present
inside crop circle formations.[6]
Ed finds that people have to let go of mental distractions before they are able
to see the balls of light.
"We were in a crop circle at night, it was dark and we had just finished a
short meditation," Ed reports. "I started to walk around, using a manual flash,
flashing it towards what I sensed was the source of energy, which is what we
commonly do. There was a retired physicist in the group who probably wasn't
able to see the first few luminosities. When I suggested that he focus his
attention on a particular point in space, he soon began to see them. It's like
looking at a computerized picture where the designs are scrambled and
pixilated. You have to look at them and stare at them in a certain way to see
the three-dimensional image inside them."
Ed explains that we also have to use similar techniques when looking at the
physical world if we want to see it clearly. "You have to disassociate your
mind. I don't mean go cross-eyed, or look at the world bleary-eyed, but you
have to give complete attention to the subject matter.
Co-Creative Nature of Crop Circles
Ed feels that we psychokinetically co-create a positive or negative reality,
and that this creative factor is very much reflected in crop-circles. "The
genuine crop circle phenomenon is teaching us to awaken to the fact that we are
very powerful co-creative beings. When one person, or a group of people, or
sometimes millions of people become aware or are witnessing something, they
experience an awakening in their consciousness."
An interesting example is the coincidence of crop circles in England with a
solar eclipse in Mexico City on July 11, 1991. As the eclipse was occurring,
metallic objects of non-human origin appeared over Mexico City and other cities
around Mexico. And because so many people were also watching the eclipse, these
appearances were seen by hundreds of thousands of witnesses it was later
documented, Ed says, as the largest UFO sighting in recorded history. And these
sightings were interpreted as the fulfillment of a Mayan prophecy saying that
the sun god Quetzalcoatl would return "at the time of the sixth sun" July 11,
1991!
As these phenomena were occurring in Mexico before anyone knew about them
elsewhere crop circle formations started to appear in England. "We started to
get formations appearing in the wheat fields, clearly making a reference to
extraterrestrial vehicles," Ed says, and Kris adds, "They even called them
saucer-grams, because they looked like cross-sections of flying discs. But the
connection wasn't made that this was going on in Mexico and that the collective
conscious focus was being reflected in these saucer-grams in Wiltshire. There
is a real energetic connection between the area of Mexico's pyramids and
Wiltshire."
Ed remarks that a similar thing happened in 1994, when hundreds of thousands,
maybe a few million people worldwide were paying attention to the
Schumacher-Levy-9 comet that smashed into Jupiter. That was the first time,
aided by our current technology, that we were able to look at a comet hitting
one of our local planets.
"Planet Earth would not have survived even one of those twenty-one fragments
that hit Jupiter and here we were, watching this and learning things from it.
And as we were witnessing that even before we had the images of the impacts
in our conscious mind designs were appearing in wheat fields in Wiltshire and
Hampshire that clearly reflected what was happening on Jupiter.
"I think," Ed says, "that this Intelligence, the consciousness of the source of
the genuine formations, was greater than what we knew consciously at the time."
The Gog Magog Incident
For Ed and Kris, the most significant crop-circle formation of 2001 appeared
below the Gog Magog Hills near Cambridge, England. This elegant crop circle,
quickly named the Angel formation, was reported on July 25. And there is an
amazing story behind it.
Three days before the Angel appeared in the Gog Magog hills, Ed had conducted a
long-planned, synchronized group meditation, specifically asking for a response
from "the primary Source of non-manmade crop circle creation."
In the opening part of this meditation, which was held at a major ancient
Sacred Site in Wiltshire, Ed held up a spiritual offering to the Infinite Mind
and Intelligence of God: it was a medicine bundle, and on it was a crop-circle
symbol from 1994.
Fortunately, this meditation was independently and privately witnessed and
filmed by three US documentary filmmakers.
And three days later, the Angel appeared.
"It was a unique and amazing crop-circle formation in a wheat field near
Cambridge. And it incorporated the same symbol that had been on the medicine
bag offered in our group meditation three days earlier," Ed says.[7]
Crop Circles in the Year 2001
Other than the Gog Magog incident, the Sherwoods do not think that there are
any other significant formations in England this year that were not manmade.
In their view, "The crop-circle season of 2001 is unprecedented in this
respect. There were two multi-million dollar movies being made in England about
crop circles this year, one written and directed by Night Shyamalan, with ET's
creating pictogram signs.
"Unfortunately, crop-circle hoax teams were therefore in force. Some of them
were also clearly on the payroll, demonstrating their work. The same groups and
others, in keeping with more than a decade of deceitful circle-making, also
continued to enter fields without farmers' permission, and thus could not
openly admit their handiwork for fear of prosecution.
"We are aware of who they are and their particular style or profile of graphic
work their way of signing their formations, and their method of targeting the
views and beliefs of the more outspoken researchers, including ourselves. Thus,
we were not too surprised by their formations."
What's to Come?
Despite the extraordinary insights Ed and Kris Sherwood have offered in terms
of understanding crop circles, they agree that they remain a great mystery.
Although the Sherwoods have been studying crop circles for more then ten years
and have decoded the meaning of 150 formations, they feel that they cannot
predict what new designs will occur in the months and years to come.
The Sherwoods believe that there is an urgent need to become aware and
recognize the messages of the crop circles at this critical time in our
planet's evolution. They feel that the signs of a world in transition stand
before us, like a "Course in Miracles" from Humanity's Higher Self.
Footnotes:
From Let Us Remember Dragons: A Meterological Connection in Crop Circles by
Ed Sherwood.
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A detailed analysis of this crop circle can be found in Laguna Canyon Crop
Circle Formation by Ed and Kris Sherwood.
Further photos and information about capturing luminosities can be viewed at
A Millennium Research Psychic Photography Report 2000 by Ed and Kris Sherwood.
A complete report will be posted on the Sherwood's website. See also Crop
Circle Connector Gog Magog photo.
See Crop Circle Connector photos of The Face photo, and The Code.
An analysis of this formation will be posted on the Sherwood's website. See
the Crop Circle Connector's Milk Hill Formation photo.
Ed Sherwood is an internationally recognized English UFO
experiencer, crop-circle researcher, writer, and psychic. Ed has studied crop
circles since 1984 and has personally experienced most aspects of the
non-manmade phenomena including more than 100 anomalous aerial object
sightings, numerous psycho-interactive and psycho-kinetic events, unusual
acoustic, magnetic, and ion effects, plant anomalies, and more, both inside and
near crop-circle sites.
Kris Sherwood is an internationally known crop-circle researcher and writer.
Her research focuses on deciphering the symbols found in the genuine
formations. Her articles document supportive evidence of Ed's original research
findings that an Infinite Intelligence is interacting with our collective
consciousness to co-create the genuine crop circles.
Ed and Kris Sherwood's Millennium Research was founded in 1996 with the purpose
of creating a multimedia project aimed at documenting and sharing their
combined research of crop circles and related phenomena.
A number of articles and book excerpts by the Sherwoods can be found at their
Millennium Research website, including excerpts from a combined work in
progress titled The Word Is Nine: Crop Circle Metaphors. They can be reached
via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or by mail at Millennium Research, P.O.Box
2084, Santa Monica, CA 90406.
Most quotes in this article are from an interview conducted by Celeste Adams on
May 1, 2001. Additional quotes are from October 16, 2001.
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