Waving Wheat and Wobbly Churches
by Brian Damerell
I am really pleased to see the birth of the Medway Crop Circle website. It is the culmination of a lot of hard work from Andy (webmaster) and Graham (mastermind).
As a member of MCC Group, I have seen how much detail goes into each aspect of the research and investigation to keep the interest alive within the group and, to a certain extent, in the outside world. The meetings are carefully organised to bring everyone up-to-date with the latest news, not only from the UK ‘fields of gold’, but from across the planet.
Medway Crop Circle covers the world … and not much escapes the eagle eye of Mr G Tucker.
I hope that this enterprise of his becomes the ultimate reality of his devotion to the subject of the Crop Circle Phenomenon. Not wishing to embarrass him too much, I feel that so much of his life revolves around the circles that he deserves to succeed. I’m sure he will. The feedback has been very positive from so many personalities that we must all help to make this website the site that discerning ‘croppies’ come to first!
This brings me to a fascinating aspect connected with the subject, and also allows me to introduce myself in a manner that would allow others to see ‘where I am coming from’. What qualifications have I got to think I can write about a subject I knew nothing about five years ago? I’ll tell you …NONE … apart from having a ‘need to know’ attitude! Never taking anything at face value and not being afraid to ask questions.
Like most of our members I have sat through talks given by ‘gurus’ on all aspects of crop circles, spirituality, mathematical hypotheses connected to the wonderful formations we have witnessed over the years.
I have been entertained by people like Michael Glickman, Andy Thomas, Ian Baillie, Allan Brown and Karen Douglas who have always presented their talks with strength and humour. I have sat at Michael’s kitchen table in Wiltshire and been advised by him that the only way to get to know crop circles is to draw them. Not an easy thing to do, but I get a lot of pleasure trying to do just that. Then I think to myself, ‘If I can’t draw them on paper, how the heck do they get into the fields?’
But by taking the advice so freely given by those who have studied the subject, I have become aware that there is something going on that can be easily overlooked.
I recently told Graham that studying different aspects of crop circles is similar to trying to unravel the da Vinci code.
The designs that appear are not just random in art or position. We must look at the whole layout. Ask yourself “Is this large design complete, or is it part of a bigger picture covering a vast area, possibly continental?’
By looking through the database of past formations, I was astonished to see that one or two of the glyphs were ‘imperfect’ design-wise. OK! I know what comes next … they are never imperfect … so don’t get apoplectic about my statement.
What I mean is this … there are times when a glyph, or line of symbols, is placed in the field, and there is a misalignment of the centre-line. It appears to go straight and then, partway down the design, it deviates by a few degrees.
Remember the Belt of Orion layout of the three pyramids on the Giza plateau? They are almost in line … but not quite. When investigated and measured and compared with the stars, we saw a great example of ‘As above, So below’.
I don’t know whether or not this ‘mis-alignment’ of the centre-line of some of our Kent formations is going to be as gob-smackingly obvious, but as soon as I saw them I was reminded of some of the churches and cathedrals I have visited. Standing at the west door of the Church of St John the Baptist in Cirencester I was aware that there is a definite deviation of the centre-line of the nave from the crossing to the east end of the building.
Cathedrals in Lichfield and Bristol demonstrate the same ‘affliction’.
I have decided to explore this further but realise that, by advertising the fact here, on our website, someone else may beat me to it … or on the other hand information may come in towards me. Who knows?
Watch this space and I shall add my findings as I go along the way to knowledge.
Brian Damerell © 2006