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SOUND CREATE DOES Crop CIRCLES? Experiments with plants and sound have produced effects similar to those analysed in and around crop circles, suggesting that particular sonic frequencies could be creating these beautiful, mysterious designs. uring the twilight days of 1998, small articles tucked away in the nether regions of the British press quietly announced "Unknown Force Was Behind Corn Circles, Claims Hoaxer". This dramatic U-turn by the surviving member of the infamous Doug and Dave duo—the English sexagenarians who from 1991 misled the world with tales of their crop-flattening prowess with planks of wood— illustrates that the hand of man materialised in crop circle lore long after the real phenomenon had manifested. Although hoaxers claim to have orchestrated the phenomenon in 1978, unpublished evi- dence at the time showed approximately 200 sporadic reports of crop circles around the world throughout the 1900s, with dozens of eyewitnesses reporting crop circles forming in a matter of seconds as far back as 1890. Several highly descriptive accounts were even documented in 1678 by Robert Plot, then curator of the Ashmolean Library in Oxford, England. If hoaxers are responsible for crop circles, then they appear to have mastered the art of time travel, in which case it is they who ought to be under scientific scrutiny. To date, some 10,000 crop circles have been catalogued in 29 countries worldwide, and their anomalous features continue to defy human replication: plants bent an inch above the soil, their cellular structure altered, their stems lightly burned around the base; alter- ations to the crystalline structure of the affected soil; evaporation of groundwater; alter- ation of the local electromagnetic field; and dowsable, long-lasting energy patterns, not to mention hundreds of 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 the coverage of research throughout the media, a popular myth has developed that all crop circles have been nothing more than a prank with a plank. By definition, a hoax is a forgery, and a forger requires an original from which to copy. So what is this "unknown force" that creates genuine crop circles? One answer may lie with sound. Sound and Sacred Geometry Traditionally, sound has been considered a prime universal force in the creation of matter. This concept is echoed in all faiths and traditions: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God", so the Bible, the Q'ran and the Rig Veda remind us. In a similar way, Hopi and Navajo religious traditions assert that, in ancient times, shamans could utter words onto sand and create patterns not dissimilar to the Hindu mandalas—those geometric paintings held to be expressions of vibrations from the unseen Universe. Consequently the Eastern faiths, Islam in particular, chose this sacred geometry to express the image of God. In the 12th century these geometric principles were encoded in the design of Gothic cathedrals, and their application is now known to enhance these buildings' sonic effects. Geometry, sound, resonance and vibration are fundamental to our supposedly physical world. When the primeval Hindu sound, the "OM" (from which is derived our modern term "hum"), is sung into a tonoscope (a device for converting the human voice into visible form), it is possible to see geometric shapes attributed with "sacredness". Under the microscope, even atoms are seen as harmonic resonators, and their structures are composed of geometric rhythms whose proportions are similar to the mathematical intervals governing the notes of the music scale. For example, the gap between the notes C and G—a musical fifth—can be represented geometrically as a pentagram. As the expression of number in space, geometry is inextricably linked to sound, since by Freddy Silva © 1997-2005 Email: lovely272@earthlink.net The Crop Circular website: http://www.lovely.clara.net The Crop Circular website: http://www.lovely.clara.net NEXUS = 49 Smashing the Myth that "All Crop Circles Are Hoaxes" Email: lovely272@earthlink.net AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com