Philosophy is written in this grand book  -

I mean the Universe      -

Which stands continually open to our gaze .

But it cannot be understood

unless one first learns to comprehend the language

And interpret the characters in which it is written .

It is written in the language of mathematics ,

And its characters are triangles,circles,and

other geometric figures ,

Without which it is humanly impossible to

understand a single word of it

Galileo Galilei,   Saggiatore  1623

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Freddy Silva is one of the world's leading experts on crop circles and sacred space, and best-selling

author of Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles, hailed by many as the

most comprehensive book ever written on this fascinating and multi-disciplinary phenomenon.

He is a researcher, international lecturer, and a life-long student of Earth Mysteries, Sacred Space

and ancient systems of knowledge. Freddy has appeared in TV documentaries for The History

Channel and Discovery Channel, as well as numerous video documentaries, and guested on radio

shows throughout the US

Below is an excerpt from his book . . .

Cymatics is the study of vibrational wave patterns. 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 before

him, 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 patterns, the tetrahedron at Barbury Castle

in 1991, the spider's web mandala at Avebury from 1994, even the highly structured star fractals of

1997. Other photos demonstrate the construction geometry encoded within the crop circles' skeleton.

Visually, then, there is little room to deny the connection. But what evidence is there of sound in crop

circles at a physical level?

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

lays 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 the noise was

mechanical in nature and beating at a frequency of 5.0-5.2 kHz.

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 obsolete. 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 it 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 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.

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

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 60º 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% higher, the epidermal walls were

thicker, and the palisade cells were longer and broader than control specimens, sometimes by as

much as 50%. Similar biophysical changes are known to occur in plants collected from crop circles.

Tests performed since 1989 by American physicist Dr. W. 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.

Yet 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 crop circle stalks. Oddly enough, Smith speculated at the

time that sound energy also increased molecular activity in plants, three decades before it was found

in crop circle samples by Levengood.

Since a sudden and abnormal burst of growth is also known to occur in crop circle 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 Measures and Weinberger

applied was identical 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?

Interestingly, ultrasound is capable of interacting with physical elements to such 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. 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. His empirical data shows

how the level of background readings drop abruptly when he crosses the threshold of a formation.

Close to the centre, readings hover in the vacinity of 260-320 MHz.

However, just as crop circles have made a quantum leap in mathematical complexity over the past

two years, so readings have recently 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.

Such extremely high frequencies are known to affect the state of awareness and consciousness in

humans. Interestingly, people visiting crop formations often notice this, where even simple left brain

functions such as counting are affected. When tuned in the MHz range ultrasound also prevents

damage to sensitive tissues, so its healing properties are used in treating muscular ailments, and

cases of people reporting healings when inside crop circles are becoming commonplace. One long-

time sufferer of Parkinson's Disease reported being cured overnight.

Below 20 Hz sound becomes infrasonic, and such frequencies are directly involved with biological

processes. It is well known that long exposure to infrasound can cause unpleasant conditions such

as fatigue and nausea, and such symptoms are reported by visitors to crop circles. When combined

with high-pressure, the acoustic power created by infrasound is in the order of kilowatts. In the case

of plants, this pressure boils the water held inside the stems in a nanosecond. As water heats it

expands, and a close look at crop circle plants reveals tiny holes in their nodes where this

superheated water has escaped. With a hollow cavity near the base, and the stems made subtle like

molten glass by the heat, the now top-heavy plants collapse into their new horizontal position.

Since this 'vapour cavitation' also creates local temperature increases of hundreds of thousands of

degrees for a fraction of a second it is not now difficult to see why millions of gallons of groundwater

disappear within the area of a crop circle, or why the plants have a cooked, malty odour. Combine

this with Levengood's discovery of microscopic blow-holes in the plants' cell wall pits (indicating the

rapid boiling of water inside the plant), and everything starts to fall into place.

This infrasonic/ultrasonic 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. Since

infrasound is also 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-type glyph appeared

in the very same field.

Finally, vapour cavitation is accompanied by a sudden spark of light called sonoluminescence,

caused by the production of electrical discharges as the water/vapour 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.

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 honour their histories through song

and music, their healing rituals performed with sound or rhythm. This relationship is further extended

in Buddhist mandalas, whose elaborate geometries 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 is believed to have reversed the

state of morality in Victorian England, just as the anarchic overtones of Punk corralled 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 awareness of those who come into

contact with them.

If sound is one of the formative principles behind crop circles, it is not surprising that they are leaving

psychological impressions on those whose antenna is extended and receptive to their tune.

Text © Freddy Silva 1997. No reproduction without prior permission.  

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