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crop circles appeared in Australia, they have also manifested on plants by subjecting them tc throughout Aboriginal myths, just as their geometries have heavy metal music made the plan appeared in ancient Aboriginal rock paintings. die, whereas classical music lull But back to that 5 kHz connection, since it has taken me ona __ speakers. But in the case of Hit journey of extraordinary connections, particularly regarding the _ played by the sitar player Ravi SI way in which sound interacts with plants and soil. Back in the of 60° to the vertical, perhaps t 1950s, American agricultural researcher George Smith found that come to recreating that right-angl exposing corn to sound frequencies produced a higher heat con- _ genuine crop circles. tent in soil as well as a slight burnt appearance in the plants. Such Interestingly, applications of ] effects are consistent with the : soil of crop circles, where the affected area appears noticeably drier—in some cases, baked— compared with the rest of the field, even 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 particular sound fre- quencies also increased molecu- lar activity in plants. Three decades later, such activity was indeed discovered in plant samples taken from crop circles. Tests performed since 1989 by Michigan-based physicist Dr W. Levengood consistently show how the energy creating crop circles affects seed embryo and plant growth and elongates the plants' nodes, even altering the pattern of their crystalline structure. The sudden and abnormal growth in plants affected by the energy of crop circles was attributed by Levengood to microwaves. However, microwaves have the ability to render biological systems sterile, and an overdose will even kill organisms. Crop circle plants, on the other hand, are certainly alive and well, so there is another answer. Already conversant with dis- coveries by Russian scientists that certain sound frequencies noticeably affected the growth of plants and seeds, Mary Measures and Pearl Weinberger experimented with sound at the University of Ottawa through- out the 1960s. They succeeded Figure 2b: Pythagoras’ Circular Lambdoma, which contains all musical in accelerating growth in wheat, ratios. Diagram © Robert Faulkrod. but the sound also produced a resonant effect in the plants' cells, higher the frequency, the greater | thereby affecting their metabolism. And the frequency applied Such extremely high frequenc: was identical to the crop circle trilling noise: 5 kHz. awareness and consciousness in | Perhaps the greatest connection linking sound to the manifesta- —_ mations often report this. tion of crop circles lies in their greatest anomaly: the permanent Such effects are traditionally : bending of the plants’ stems. In 1968, laboratory experiments at stone circles in particular—and i Temple Buell College, Colorado, measured the effects of music sound has been detected at ston on plants by subjecting them to different tones. Exposure to heavy metal music made the plants tilt in the opposite direction or die, whereas classical music lulled the plants to lean toward the speakers. But in the case of Hindu devotional music—the type played by the sitar player Ravi Shankar—the stems bent in excess of 60° to the vertical, perhaps the closest any human has ever come to recreating that right-angle bend common to plant stems in genuine crop circles. Interestingly, applications of Indian devotional song to plants during the 1930s at Annamalai University, India, also showed a number of similar biophysical changes to those which occurred in plants collected from crop circles and analysed by Dr Levengood. 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 by applying firm and gentle pres- sure and, given the intricacy and complexity of latter-day patterns, with a fine degree of precision? _ - Ultrasound Interestingly, ultrasound is capable of interacting with physical elements to such an incredible degree. It can be aimed like a laser 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 abili- ty to be directed. This requires frequencies in the high MHz range, such as those detected for over a decade inside crop circles. The readings generally hover in the vicinity of 260-320 MHz. However, the frequen- cies inside them appear to increase each year, and relative to the increase in their geomet- ric complexity. This mirrors Jenny's experiments, which show that a relationship exists between the complexity of cymatic geometries in propor- doma, which contains all musical tion to the dispensed sound fre- quencies. In other words, the higher the frequency, the greater the geometric intricacy. Such extremely high frequencies are known to affect states of awareness and consciousness in humans, and visitors to crop for- mations often report this. Such effects are traditionally associated with sacred spaces— stone circles in particular—and it is interesting to note that ultra- sound has been detected at stone circles and standing stones in ampshire, UK, formed July 1995. NEXUS = 51 Figure 2a: Crop circle at Andover, Hampshire, UK, formed July 1995. AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com