Freddy Silva
Articles as seen in Science to Sage
March 2012
THE SEVEN GATES OF PARADISE There is one very good reason why temples have long been associated with a state of bliss. Through a combination of stone
effulgent power of a creator god descended
and geometry and the cunning harnessing of
known example of a mountain as a sacred site is Su-meru, or Mount Meru, which represents at the same time an allegorical structure of the universe as well as the highest spiritual
natural forces, they became places of power where a person is enabled to pierce a veil into worlds and levels of reality that access a vast sea of information and expanded potential. In Egypt and Central America these sacred buildings are even referred to as a living entity, as a god, and where the initiate can be “transformed into a god, into a bright star.” For this singular reason, then, the temple has occupied a central stage in human spirituality. Human-constructed temples have their
They are mirrors of natural forces at play, forces that once upon a time were origin in the landscape.
perceived, then synthesized and concretized into structures that represent the perfection of the universe. The most ancient of temples – particularly the stoic men-hirs (“standing stone”) – are reflections of the sacred mountain, which even in the oldest of scriptures such as the Tamil Puranas, was considered to house the energy of the god Siva. The sacred mountain was reflected in the Sivalingam, a phallic sacred stone, the
from the sky and manifested on Earth. Sacred mountains have been magnets for pilgrimage and veneration for thousands of years. In eastern religious lore, the best
achievement sought by adepts in the physical, spiritual and m e t a p h y s i c a l cosmology of Hindus, Buddhists and Jains. The roots of Jainism, in particular, are as old as mountains themselves, and its influence is noted in many other religions. Interestingly, these faiths share similar spiritual philosophies:
A men-hir, the simplest of all temples, is a mirror image of the sacred mountain in which the effulgent power of a creator god resides.
the practice of self-effort in progressing the soul towards divine consciousness through non-violence, and the conquering of inner struggles (commonly known as the seven deadly sins).
To help overcome the conditions of the material world that prevent the experiencing of a state of oneness, initiates of the temple traditionally sourced the energy of such places of power and integrated with the spirit of place, helping them disentangle from such negative limitations as fear, anger, envy, and so forth. Once enlightenment was reached they attained a state of bliss, or as many of us describe it, paradise. Interestingly, this simple observation helps us locate that much-desired land. ‘Paradise’ originates from the word pairidaeza in Avestan – the sacred language of Zoroastrianism – and literally means “a walled enclosure.” According to local traditions, a Jain who has mastered discipline over the physical world and achieved the state of godliness is called a Jina. As this word migrated west it became the arabic Djinn, along with its derivative Allah-Djinn or Aladdin. Back in the days when Asia Minor was Assyria, this Djinn was considered a supernatural being. And not surprising, since the root j-n-n means “hidden.” However, it is also the root of jannah, the Islamic concept of paradise. Its derivative in Portuguese – a language brimming with Arabic – is janela, “a window, an opening in a wall.” If we follow this dizzying etymological trail, then, paradise appears to be a hidden but demarcated space, separated from the ordinary and troublesome world, but we can reach this ‘walled enclosure’ through ‘an opening in the wall’. Paradise is, admittedly, what every living human being strives for, be it in the now or in the afterlife. As far as the temple-builders were concerned, there was no better time than the present, inasmuch as they engineered walled enclosures called temples that demarcate one world from the next. Could these temples be windows into paradise? They may just be. Measurements of energy around the perimeter of temples in Britain and Egypt show that such places concentrate measurable levels of electromagnetism, particularly at the entrances which serve to direct this energy into the inner sanctum of the site, sometimes as much as twice the rate of the surrounding land. For lack of a better word, the entrance is the window into the walled enclosure. Being electromagnetic by nature and composed of two-thirds water, the main beneficiary of this spiritual engineering is the human body, which is suitably entranced. When the pilgrim walks into a temple it is effectively walking into a highly charged version of itself. Additionally, every temple is also sited above or beside water, and when geomagnetism is rotated or spiraled it generates an electromagnetic charge in this fluid.
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Inscriptions in Egyptian temples describe the buildings as places where the individual can be ‘transformed into a god, into a bright star’.
Samples of water from holy wells and other sacred places do show an increase in the liquid’s vorticular motion as compared to ordinary water. By implication, the process produces a corresponding effect in the human body. Furthermore, the type of stone used in temples contains large amounts of magnetite, creating a weak, yet massive magnetic environment. This in turn stimulates the iron that flows through the blood in the veins of the body as well as the magnetite suspended inside the skull. Any excitation of the local electromagnetic field can also influence the body’s state of awareness, primarily through stimulation of the pineal gland, leading to visions, heightened imagination and altered states. In other words, the stimulation of the human energy field in a temple allows the recipient to be able to receive information more readily from more subtle levels of reality. Such affects induce oneness between mind, body, spirit, and God, a shamanic experience that leads to a blissful state of oneness with all levels of creation. In other words, paradise. And it was precisely the experience the temple builders had in mind, because in inscriptions on temple walls from Teotihuacan to Giza state that the building exists to transform the ordinary human into a god, into a shining star. So, in creating places of power, the ancients created sanctuaries where paradise can be experienced on Earth. It is natural to assume that the builders of such elaborate and carefully engineered environments would also invest a significant amount of effort in protecting them from harm. It appears they did. In the Funerary Texts at the temple complex of Saqqara there is a curious passage in which it is stated that “seven degrees of perfection enable passage from earth to heaven.” This instruction is widely interpreted as referring to a series of challenges the soul needs to pass before gaining entry into the otherworld. Then again, with Egyptians being so fond of allegory and metaphor, I wondered if the phrase alludes to some doorway or protective barrier the individual crosses when they enter the temple; a passage from earth to heaven suggests a crossing from the profane, material world into a heavenly otherworld, which is precisely the purpose of the temple. But why should there be ‘seven degrees of perfection’: does the visitor undergo a process of purification? Possibly. If you recall, the temple was considered a mirror of heaven on Earth, the material dwelling place of a god as well as its physical embodiment. Consequently the purity of energy of the temple was everything, and defilement of the sanctum, physically or otherwise, was seen as a precursor to the downfall of the spirituality of the individual, and hence, the collapse of the entire tribe.
Hartmann noticed that the intersecting points of the network – the knots – are influenced by underground veins of water as well as magnetic forces emanating naturally from the earth.
The step pyramid of Saqqara, created by Imhotep, an architect of the gods.
The more I looked at the ‘seven gates’ as an allegory, the more the idea of a protective device made sense. Besides, energy measurements conducted in and around stone circles in Britain have proved the existence of a force field around such temples – in essence, there exists an invisible yet define threshold between profane and sacred space.
There exists a kind of woven electromagnetic grid over the entire face of the globe. There is further evidence to support this possibility.
Bearing the name of one of the men who discovered it, Dr. Ernst Hartmann, this grid is composed of small rectangular ‘nets’, and appears as a structure rising from the earth, each line 9 inches thick and spaced at intervals of 6 feet 6 inches by 8 feet, magnetically oriented; the dimensions are very close to the mathematical roots of the Great Pyramid.1 Hartmann noticed that the intersecting points of the network – the knots – are influenced by underground veins of water as well as magnetic forces emanating naturally from the earth. Consequently, he found that the knots alter in strength from time to time and that a relationship exists between the location of the knots and the adverse health of people who work or sleep on them. Dowsers have been aware of this geopathic stress for centuries, and it is not uncommon for them to be hired to alter the location of the Hartmann net on a property, by embedding conductors such as metal rods into the ground, which stretch the electromagnetic net away from desired locations. It is the dowser’s equivalent of what ancient Egyptian temple builders used to call ‘the piercing the snake’, the practice of anchoring or moving the earth’s electromagnetic lines of force to achieve a desired energetic effect at a specific location, particularly the site of a future temple. Conversely, the holes of the Hartmann net are places of neutral space where the weather is perfect. Could a relationship exist between temples and the stretching of this net? Nothing more came of these musings until I read a fascinating research document by the geobiologist Blanche Merz, in which she conducted readings at temples in Europe, Egypt and India, and found the Hartmann net to be stretched around the temples like a protective membrane. As Merz wrote: “the gigantic Pharaonic structures have this in common: the Hartmann network forms a veritable dam of 18 geomagnetic lines around the perimeter of the buildings.”2 Celebrated temples such as Saqqara, Karnak, Luxor, Kom Ombu, as well as the pyramids, enjoy an immense neutral zone, much in the same way as the henge monuments in Britain circulate electromagnetic forces which concentrate the energy inside the temples and in a controlled manner that is beneficial to people. All these places are listed in the Edfu Building Texts as the original primordial mounds of the gods. Merz went on to find other energy hotspots at Chartres cathedral, the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, and a plethora of Indian sacred sites; in Tibet she found that stupas marked with nagas (serpents) identify the position of Hartmann knots, and that telluric energy is transmitted via these upright stones.3
So, in creating places of power, the ancients created sanctuaries where paradise can be experienced on Earth. The entrance to the Field of Reeds, Saqqara.
Naturally, this revived my interest in the ‘seven degrees of perfection’ and the possibility they might be referring to thresholds of some kind. As it happens, in Egyptian mythology, the passage of the soul into heaven is made through a place called Sekhet Ianu, the “Field of Reeds”, a land of paradise where the spirit spends eternity; we simply know it today as the Elyssian Fields. Egyptian mythology states that to reach this much-desired land one must pass through a series of gates.4 During a visit to the temple complex at Saqqara I had the opportunity to study the passageway leading from the profane world and into the grand courtyard and its evocative stepped pyramid, engineered by Imhotep, an architect of the gods. This passageway is unique in that it is a colonnade of 18 reeds separated by narrow alcoves. Each of the alcoves discharges an alternating field of positive- and negatively-charged force which serves both as a barrier into the temple while at the same time influencing the body’s electromagnetic circuitry. In essence, as one walks down the preparatory entrance into Saqqara, one is suitably entranced prior to making contact with the courtyard of the temple and its mansion of the gods. In its time, this was the procedure necessary for dispelling negative thoughts and feelings one may be harboring prior to entering the sacred abode. Or as the Funerary Texts put it, one had “to master oneself before crossing the threshold of each gate.” 5 The numerical relationship between the 18 reeds and the 18 Hartmann lines protecting the perimeter of the temples is unmistakable. But for me, the revelation lay in the readings of the alternating energy field along the passageway, for they consisted of exactly seven positive-charged currents.
The seven positive charged nodes along the passageway into Saqqara.
Suddenly an answer to the ‘seven degrees of perfection’ loomed near. Merz’ own research revealed that at the very wide thresholds preceding the initiatory rooms of the temples, the Hartmann net traverses the entrances with seven tightly-packed grid lines protecting “the passage from the known to unknown.” 6 I found this spiritual engineering isn’t reserved just for Egyptian temples. In Ireland, the entrance to the ceremonial chamber at Newgrange is similarly protected by alternating energy currents, with seven positively-charged lines anchored on either side of the chambered passageway before reaching the inner sanctum.7 Coincidentally, Merz found the same system of seven energy lines protecting the passage to the altar at Chartres Cathedral, which also happens to be the location of the original temple on this site.
Entrance to Newgrange, Ireland
It seems these precautions were undertaken in different parts of the world, not just for the protection of the site, but also as a preparatory area for the initiate to pause and reflect prior to crossing the threshold between visible and invisible, much like the ritual a Muslim pilgrim as he winds seven times in an ever-decreasing spiral around the Ka’Ba before touching this stone called the “Soul-Body.” The greater purpose of the temple builders was to induce a closer bond between the initiate and the unseen universe. Temples were designated as repositories of the knowledge of the gods, and that ‘imbibing’ such knowledge empowered the individual to be free – that is, free from the illusions of the world of matter. Under such conditions any individual is able to live life fully aware, precisely as the Rig Veda states. Total self-empowerment through total self-realization. This ideal would eventually bring the original temple builders and the benevolent guardians of the temple into direct conflict with organized religion, which abhors anyone savouring direct contact with the divine. Few tales portray the fight for the domination of the human soul better than the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, their own sojourn in paradise, and that apple they ate from the Tree of Knowledge. Anyone raised in the Christian faith knows the story all too well. But in the account of Genesis given in the Gnostic gospels of Nag Hammadi, which precede the four canonical gospels carefully selected by the Catholic Church,4 the serpent appears as the benevolent hero of mankind, and the god portrayed in the story is a shadow of the god of Light: “What did God say to you?” the serpent asked Eve. “Was it, do not eat from the tree of knowledge?”
Eve replied, “He said, not only do not eat from it, but do not touch it lest you die.” The serpent reassured her, saying, “Do not be afraid. With death you shall not die; for it was out of jealousy that he said this to you. Rather your eyes shall open and you shall come to be like gods, recognizing evil and good.” 8 The Gnostic writings then describe that once Adam and Eve had eaten of the Tree of Knowledge they experienced enlightenment, precisely as one does, and the knowledge empowered them to discover spiritual transfiguration.
All of this is in stark contrast to what many have been traditionally taught. Thanks to the machinations of the Church, the attainment of knowledge gets Adam and Eve booted out of paradise, the apple is labeled forbidden fruit, and worse, the whole episode is presided by a serpent who was doing fine as a symbol of telluric forces until the Church turned it into a tool of the devil. And just like that, knowledge becomes evil, and coming into contact with it removes you from a state of bliss. And yet “drinking” of this knowledge and applying it was precisely the reason why we sought out places of power on the land to begin with, and why creator gods with benevolent intentions would later imprint ”the knowledge” at sacred places, so we can travel to them whenever we forget that we too are gods, by experiencing, even if for a few moments, the taste of paradise.
References 1. Robert Hartmann, Wetter, Boden, Mensch, brochure no. 13, 1983, Eberbach am Necktar 2. Blanche Merz, Points of Cosmic Energy, C.W. Daniel and Co., Saffron Walden, 1985, pp.32-33 3. ibid, p.83 4. E.A. Wallis-Budge, The Egyptian Heaven and Hell, Keagan Paul, London, 1937, p.37 5. ibid 6. Merz, op.cit., pp.33-34 7. Also in Michael Poynder, Pi In The Sky, Rider, London, 1992, p.88 8. James Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library, E.J. Bill, New York, 1988, pp.165, 184 Based on material from the new book, ‘Legacy of the Gods: The Origin of Sacred Sites and the Rebirth of Ancient Wisdom’, by Freddy Silva © 2010, 2011 Freddy Silva Available at www.invisibletemple.com
PA R A D I S E
TINTERN ABBEY, Wales
When Russian scientists measured the brainwaves of people inside Gothic cathedrals and Egyptian pyramids, they noticed how the surrounding environment created a force which stimulated brainwaves 4000% above normal waking state.
PORTALS TO PARADISE
Similar experiments at Delphi and Stonehenge showed how the frequency of these sacred environments is approximately 7.8 Hz: the frequency of the human brain in a state of receptivity, the kind of state enjoyed by psychics and healers when they are at work.
Knowing that sacred sites are located at magnetic hotspots helps to understand why these places have such a profound affect on our senses. But their design is also part of the spiritual technology. Temples are generally located above blind springs. These underground courses of water interact with a local magnetic field to spirals of energy which rise out of the ground. Their locations are often marked by menhirs, dolmens and other large standing stones. STONEHENGE, England
A spinning motion of energy generates an EM charge in water and creates a local magnetic field. This can influence the human body to an extraordinary degree: by influencing the iron contained in blood, and the movement of blood itself through the veins, since blood also requires spin to move around the body. Furthermore, anyone interacting with a weak magnetic field starts to feel changes in their state of awareness, since the spin motion of energy also stimulates and vibrates the pineal gland, not to mention the millions of particles of magnetite suspended in the liquid surrounding the brain. So, as you prepare to enter a sacred site your body is being conditioned to accept more penetrating forms of energy. And since the subtle energy properties of a temple suggest it is also a living organism, the site reads a pilgrim's electrical field like a credit card. If there is sympathetic resonance
F R E D D Y S I LVA
between the person entering the site and the site itself, then an immediate bond takes place between both organisms.
GALLERY DINAS BRAN, Wales
Since the human body is a positively and negatively-charged electrical circuit, the alteration of a nearby electro-magnetic field will have a corresponding affect on its state of awareness. When building sacred sites, the choice of stone was considered for its amount of quartz: a highly programmable and piezo-electric compound. Any amount of pressure on quartz-bearing rock produces a subtle EM field. And that is where the temple-building technology reveals itself: human DNA is sensitive to such alterations of local EM fields. Entering a temple rich in subtle energies allows for an exchange of information between the stones and the human edifice. It is well documented that many standing stones in Britain can and do give off high electrical charges, especially when they have not been grounded for many years. Dowsers are especially prone to these effects since they tend to come into the contact with standing stones in remote places, out of curiosity. It is not unusual to hear of people touching these splendid stones, in the process grounding them, and the resulting static charge throwing a person back some twelve feet! ŠFreddy Silva. No unauthorized reproduction.
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Mother is Calling. Heal
Back in 1990, an emotive crop circle appeared in southern England. To the Hopi elders who later saw its image, they called it
"Mother is crying". For
indeed the glyph gave the impression of a wilting planet with four drooping feathers (symbolizing the prime elements), as if the Earth was expressing its state of mind. Now, almost two decades later, new evidence shows how this event, and many others since, is yet another unmistakable sign of how our host planet engages in an intimate communication. And that communication has been going on for thousands of years.
The Earth is covered with a vast network of sacred spaces: standing stones, dolmens, stone circles, and pyramids. Many have posited that these places are unique, in that they are repositories of subtle energies, and these energies have a possible link to developing human consciousness, and specifically the awakening of human cellular memory.
Studies conducted at stone chambers, such as Ireland’s Newgrange mound, and many needles of stone show these places emit electromagnetic (EM) frequencies, and very often they interact with the local magnetic field, sending compasses pointing as much as 180 degrees from magnetic north. One study at Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire using a magnetomer survey of the area shows how this energy spirals into the sacred site like a cosmic sinkhole. Traditionally, such places were regarded as meeting points between the gods, the Earth and its inhabitants. In other words, they were places of communication, or communes. In the Iberian peninsula they are called ‘betilo’, which stems from the Semitic ‘beth-el’ or ‘house of god’. In Portugal, stone chambers are ‘antas’, from the Latin ‘anotare’, meaning ‘to mark or locate’. These places have a rich history of healing as well as altered states, and possibly not as a result of a fertile imagination. Because the human body is also electromagnetic, every organ, every tissue, every cell in our human temple emits a frequency. Therefore, coming into contact with an altered EM field influences the actions taking place within our cellular structure. Tests monitoring brainwave activity in sacred sites demonstrate there is indeed an influence, particularly on right-brain activity– that part of us that works with the creative and the intuitive. Inside Gothic cathedrals–which were built on ancient temples, sometimes incorporating their very standing stones– this influence on our state of awareness can be as much as 4000% above normal waking state. A second facet of this energy is how each sacred site generates a series of energetic ripples from a central point, typically the altar. Like a stone dropped into a still pond, these invisible ripples can be mapped. When traced onto a computer, their spatial relationships reveal a concealed geometric relationship, and more often than not in the form of pentagrams and hexagrams. Such geometry was imprinted in the relationship of the walls and other physical features of Gothic cathedrals, Egyptian temples, even the ground plan of Stonehenge. And although not evident at first sight, the same is true of the most enigmatic structure on the Giza Plateau, the Bent Pyramid.
Ripples of Energy
Ripples of energy generated by a menhir conform to pentagonal and hexagonal relationships.
To Alter
Ripples of Energy
Ripples of energy generated by a menhir conform to pentagonal and hexagonal relationships.
Although considered “a mistake” by orthodox archaeology, this colossal structure actually hides its true nature well. For if one unfolds the top bend of the pyramid, like the petals of a flower, the shape each ‘petal’ creates on a horizontal plane is the unmistakable geometry of the pentagram; the same is true of the bottom bend, which unfolds to express the shape of the hexagram. So, what is so significant about pentagrams and hexagrams? Traditionally, the pentagram has been associated with biological life, for the points of the pentagram subtend the form of nature’s very own spiral of life, the Golden Ratio. And of all geometric shapes, living organisms, from the simplest single-cell diatoms to the complex human form, expand their cell structure according to the algorithms of this spiral. It would seem, then, that the pentagram is the structure behind the living world, precisely as Leonardo DaVinci posited when he drew the figure of the outstretched man encompassed within a pentagram. Conversely, when organisms solidify– as in the case of crystals, or water freezing into ice– their crystalline structures take on the shape of the hexagram. So, whereas the pentagram is seen as mutable, expansive, creative, and female, the hexagram is considered fixed, rational, and male.
Crystalline Structure
Your DNA
This male-female, pentagonal-hexagonal bond exists very close to home. Looking down the barrel of a microscope, the crystalline structure of human DNA displays a bonding pattern arranged in alternating crystals shaped like pentagrams and hexagrams. Since biogeometry is a physical expression of living energy, two like geometrical energy fields would not only attract one another, they would influence each other to the point where information is exchanged. A common analogy is the way two strangers in a room form an attraction and fall in love. By the same token, a pilgrim walking into a cathedral, a pyramid or even a stone circle is attracted to and exchanges information with that host environment. So, perhaps it is not surprising that such sites are associated with the alteration of consciousness and healing, because the energy generated by their geometric structures interacts with people at a fundamental, biological level. And considering the Latin root of ‘religion’– religio, meaning ‘reconnect with source’– people are literally having religious experiences at these sites of veneration. Yet the implications of the pentagram-hexagram connection go beyond the human form and its interacting relationship with the geometry of temples and their energy fields. Since geometry is an expression of number in space, numerically the pentagram/hexagram relationship translates to a ratio of 6:5. This is a very important ratio. On Earth, the 6:5 ratio appears thus: 21,600 (the number of nautical miles around the equator) relative to the Earth’s retrograde processional cycle of 25,920 years (the time it takes the planet to complete it full ‘wobble’ at the poles). And it is this harmonic that generates the energetic conditions for self-aware life to evolve on a planet. In other words, life that is both rational and intuitive– human life.
Now, if you were an ‘outside’ intelligence attempting to interact with the Earth and its upright crystalline beings, or indeed the host planet communicating with its human guests– you would choose the most efficient and direct method of communication possible. And the common language of the Universe is based on light, geometry, and its derivative, number. It may surprise many that for the best part of 300 years crop circles have been appearing beside ancient sacred sites, no matter in which of the 29 countries they have manifested thus far. Of importance here is how the said agriglyphs bear an uncanny resemblance to the local temples, both in their geometry as well as their subtle energy fields, and in the way they interact with their pilgrims. Hundreds of reports have been filed by people who have had experiences in crop circles, often citing 'healing', 'awakening', 'mental clarity', and so forth– the kinds of effects one hears from visitors to sacred sites. And while sceptics are quick to point out such affects are psychosomatic, the evidence not only suggests otherwise but that an exchange of information is taking place between two organisms. Eyewitness accounts by farmers, police and locals often describe a tube of light penetrating through the clouds to create a crop formation. Some of the reports go back to the 1890s, and describe a process that lasts about fifteen seconds. These tubes of light were photographed by myself prior to an event in 1998, at Tawsmead Copse, Wiltshire. Unbeknown to me, at the moment I was recording the event six miles away, a local woman out walking her dog was witnessing it barely a hundred yards in front of her. She described it as a "descending tube of light, like a cookie cutter, which swirled the wheat in front of me for about fifteen seconds, then went back up. Then the next day the crop circle appeared at that very same spot."
Crop Circles Temples from the Sky
But unlike dozens of similar eyewitness accounts, the energy did not create the crop circle at the time: the flattening of plants took place some hours later, suggesting that the light (EM) contained information that imprinted into the Earth, and later, the Earth responded with a geometric pattern. Such an event suggests that the crop circles are not just inputs of energy but also triggers that awaken a response within the living Earth. The presence of light in the creation of crop circles raises serious implications, because the light spectrum carries signals that organisms require for receiving information, particularly human DNA. Such bioelectromagnetic signals operate at the extreme ends of the EM spectrum – the type of frequencies recorded in crop circles. Any excitation of this bioelectromagnetic field is transmitted to the DNA, and in laboratory experiments in China genetic information has already been successfully transmitted from one organism to another. Furthermore, this frequency range detected in crop circles appears to ally with a part of the human body that is dormant. Mapped by Valerie Hunt in the 1970s, the frequency range of the human body covers a wide span, yet there is a range– 250-320 MHz- where nothing seems to happen, the human temple is utterly silent. By comparison, the predominant range of frequencies detected inside the crop circles seems to cover a range of 260-320 MHz. And the sharp rise in these occurs at the perimeter of the flattened crop, suggesting that people are entering a kind of shielded area that differs substantially from the rest of the field. People are essentially entering a temple.
There are additional clues demonstrating Mother Earth is speaking to her children through some of the crop circles, and this communication is going into our cellular memory via the pentagonal/hexagonal geometry of our cells. Crop circles are, by and large, geometric forms; even some of the simplest circular markings are linked together by an invisible and harmonic geometric array, suggesting that the physical geometric pattern is the expression of an underlying energy. Such a process already exists in cymatics, where high-speed cameras have filmed sound ‘physicalizing’ as geometric forms in liquid. Ironically, many of the images look identical to the latter-day crop circles. But it is the prevalence of pentagonal and hexagonal geometries in crop circles that makes a deeper connection with our host planet and, by implication, ourselves. Those geometries are occurring not just in their physical design, like any temple they are also bound within their blueprint, and like a Gothic cathedral, hidden to the eye. This connection extends to the energy fields emanating from within the crop circle. Measurements clearly show how, just like dolmens and standing stones, crop circles emit a subtle energy field resembling ripples in a pond. And just as with their stone counterparts, these fields are governed by invisible geometric arrays that favor hexagrams and pentagrams. So, clearly crop circles and sacred sites are places where the Earth and the unseen Universe express their thoughts. And the sentiment is transferred to the human body through an array of EM frequencies and sympathetic resonance based on geometry. But there is one final element at work: sound. Creation is based on the concept that all atoms and molecules are in a state of vibration. This led all religions and faiths around the world to adopt the notion that “in the beginning was the Word, and the word was God”. Sound has been revered for millennia as the method by which all life is formed, and after a decade of research I, too, reached the conclusion that sound is a fundamental force behind the manifestation of crop circles.
There are additional clues demonstrating Mother Earth is speaking to her children through some of the crop circles, and this communication is going into our cellular memory via the pentagonal/hexagonal geometry of our cells.
Which brings us back to that incredible event in 1998, at Tawsmead Copse, when an eyewitness and this photographer caught a crop circle in the making, a seven-pointed geometric shape.
That glyph was itself a metaphor for sound, since
the heptagon is synonymous with the seven pure notes of the music scale, the de-re-mi, and so on.
As my colleagues and I stood in
appreciation of the intricacies inside that crop circle, we heard a series of musical notes around us, and recorded them. Little did I realize at the time that this was yet another moment when Mother was summoning her children, and spellbound, we wandered towards one of her creations, ever closer to her bosom. And here lies the final connection to the pentagramhexagram. As it turns out, the geometric/numeric ratio 6:5 is not just the ratio of the Earth and the geometry of DNA, it also happens to be a musical interval called the Minor Third. It is the frequency interval between the notes E-flat and C. And when played, they sound exactly like a call many of us have heard at least once in our lives, regardless of cultural background. For these are the two tones that a mother utters when she beckons her children. They are the notes most often used in lullabies. They are the first summoning tones in native American flute music. And this ratio is expressed in the forms of the pentagram and hexagram, the same forms that are inherent in the geometry of sacred sites, cathedrals and crop circles, not to mention their pulsating, living energy fields.
And thus with these tones we are summoned to hear, to heal, to communicate. If indeed the crop circles are a conscious act of Earth Mother calling to her children, she’s doing so in a way that, like the best mothers, is best achieved through gentleness and elegance. Even though, as expressed by the ‘Mother Is Crying’ crop glyph, she does so while quietly uttering her own pain. ©Freddy Silva. No unauthorized reproduction.
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Can temples transform ordinary humans into extraordinary beings? Ancient texts throughout the world speak of sacred sites as living entities where people are ‘transformed into gods, into bright stars’. And evidence shows how such places of power are indeed built at magnetically sensitive locations, and according to an ncient design that is capable of altering a person’s state of consciousness. In this ground-breaking book, researcher and international speaker Freddy Silva examines the origins of sacred sites and what makes them so, from pre-diluvial mansions of the gods to the resurgence of “the knowledge” via the Knights Templar and the Gothic cathedrals, even the design of the capital of America. Since at least 15,000 BC, various groups of initiates sharing a singular vision have encoded a spiritual technology around the world. Their
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aim? The self-empowerment of the individual and the transfiguration of the soul, to maintain a society in balance with itself and with the cosmos – indefinitely. As such, the temple builders sought to transmit a body of knowledge that offers a solution to our loss of confidence in spirit, so that we may become masters of our selves. Not only did sacred sites become repositories of an incredible spiritual science, they would also serve as an insurance policy for times when humans needed to be reminded that they too are gods. This legacy is our common wealth.
Cymatic crop circle. The plants are bent six inches from the top. Goodworth Clatford, UK 1994.
November 2011
Freddy Silva IS SOUND CREATING CROP CIRCLES?
Tetrahedron’ crop glyph. Barbury Castle, UK 1991, Photo by Freddy Silva. Sound frequency captured in liquid, resembling the Barbury crop glyph. Cymatic image taken from: Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomena & Vibration, (Combined Vols. I & II) by Dr. Hans Jenny. © 2001 MACROmedia Publishing. Used by permission. www.cymaticsource.com
What causes plants to bend an inch above soil and gently lay down in precise spiral forms, with no physical signs of damage? What force creates light burn marks on the surface of the stems, alters their cellular structure, and the crystalline structure of the underlying soil; alters the local electro-magnetic field, depletes the local watershed, shifts the local magnetic field by 4-degrees, and leaves measurable effects on water samples and the human biological field?
Right - Blown node, showing hole created by superheated water leaving the stem. Left - Stem from crop circle showing charring effect caused by short, intense burst of heat, as generated by infrasound.
Welcome to the world of crop circles. Over 10,000 of these geometric shapes have been catalogued since the early 1900s, with dozens of eyewitnesses as far back as 1890 reporting them forming in a matter of seconds; several descriptive accounts are even documented in 1678 by Robert Plot, then curator of the Ashmolean Library in Oxford. So much, then, for the widely perpetuated myth that the phenomenon is the creation of two old guys and a plank of wood.
By definition, a hoax is a forgery. But forgeries require originals from which to copy, so what unknown force creates the genuine crop circles?
One answer is sound.
Sound has traditionally been considered the prime Universal creative force, as echoed in all the world's faiths and traditions: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God', St. John reminds us. Hopi and Navajo traditions assert that in ancient times shamans would utter words onto sand and create patterns, a concept not dissimilar to the Hindu mandalas which are said to be expressions of the breath of God. Consequently, the Eastern faiths—Islam in particular—chose sacred geometry to express the image of God, a practice later applied in Gothic cathedrals to enhance their acoustics and, as discovered recently, to stimulate heightened states of awareness. Sacred geometry lies behind the atomic structures of plants and crystals, and these geometric harmonics are mathematically interrelated with the notes of the pure music scale. Physical reality, it seems, is governed by geometric arrays related to sound. In 1992, the late Prof. Gerald Hawkins discovered four new geometric theorems encoded in crop circles. More significantly, he discovered a previously unknown fifth theorem from which he could derive the other four. Despite an open challenge to over half a million mathematicians, none were able to create such a theorem. Yet shortly after Hawkins’ discovery (but before its publication), this theorem materialized as a crop circle in southern England.
Crystalline structure of wheat: normal (top); crop circle (bottom).
As the expression of number in space, geometry is inextricably linked to music, since its laws govern the mathematical intervals that make up the notes in the western music scale—the diatonic ratios. Since Hawkins' theorems also generate these ratios, a link now exists between crop circles and musical notes, which are the by-product of sound frequency. Soon, crop circles bearing unmistakable associations with sound began to appear: One expressed the Lambdoma, a diagram defining the relationships between musical harmonics and mathematical ratios; then, an unusual formation—in which the barley plants were bent six inches from the top—gave the proverbial nod to sound, for it represented a cymatic pattern.
Cymatic crop circle. The plants are bent six inches from the top. Goodworth Clatford, UK 1994. Photo by Freddy Silva
Cymatics is the study of vibrational wave patterns. One of its pupils was Swiss scientist Hans Jenny who captured on film the transmission of sound through liquids and powders. He observed how increasing sound vibration created geometric shapes, from simple circles and concentric rings to complex tetrahedrons, mandalas and other sacred geometric forms. Jenny’s work provides a connection to crop circles since many of the vibrational patterns in his experiments mimic their designs. Some are blatant imitations, such as the circle surrounded by concentric rings, typical of early 1980s crop circles; a tetrahedron from 1991; even the highly structured hexagonal star fractals of 1997.
Visually, then, the connection is undeniable. But what evidence links sound and crop circles at a physical level? Several accounts exist of a trilling sound heard by witnesses to crop circles forming. This unusual noise was captured on magnetic tape and analyzed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The conclusion? The noise was not a type of bird or insect, and contained a harmonic frequency of 5.0-5.2 kHz. Whilst recording an interview inside a crop circle the same trilling sound was accidentally captured by a BBC cameraman shortly before it rendered his $60,000 camera obsolete. And as entire busloads of circles tourists have discovered since, electrical equipment fares poorly inside crop circles.
Interestingly, in their ceremonies to contact the ‘sky spirits’, the Aborigines swing a ‘bora’ – a piece of wood carved in the shape of a vesica piscis and attached to a string– and the noise generated by this instrument is practically identical to the crop circle hum. Perhaps the greatest connection linking sound to crop circles lies in their greatest anomaly: the bending of the plants' stems. Experiments into the effects of music on plants at Anamalai University, India, and Temple Buell College, Colorado, reveal that exposure to Hindu devotional music bends stems in excess of 60º to the vertical. Similar changes are known to occur in plants collected from crop circles: tests performed by the physicist Dr. W. Levengood in Michigan consistently show how the energy creating crop circles affects seed embryo and plant growth, elongates the plant's nodes, even alters the plants’ chromosomes. Tests at Ottawa University exposing corn to sound frequencies produced a higher heat content in soil and a slight charring of the plants – an effect consistent with the 'baked soil' observed in crop circles, where the affected area appears noticeably drier despite overnight rain; the same applies to the charring at the base of their stalks. Indeed, exposing wheat to sound accelerates plant growth, and the frequency used in such experiments is identical to the crop circles’ trilling noise. Sound as the modus operandi of crop circles now seems 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 designs, with a fine degree of control? Interestingly, ultrasound interacts with physical elements to such a degree because it can be focused like a laser. This requires frequencies in the MHz range, the kind detected inside crop circles. Such frequencies can also affect states of awareness–something that visitors in crop formations notice, particularly left brain functions such as counting. This effect is often experienced in temples such as stone circles where, coincidentally, ultrasound has been detected. Over the last six years, frequency readings in crop circles have jumped, from around 320 MHz to 640 Mhz, and so, too, has their geometric complexity. This coincides with Jenny's sound 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.
Equilateral version of Hawkins’ fifth crop circle theorem was found in the crop glyph’s embedded geometry. The theorem had neither been published nor revealed to the public. Uitchfield, UK 1995, Photo by Freddy Silva.
Interestingly, when tuned in the MHz range, ultrasound prevents damage to sensitive tissues, so its healing properties are today used in hospitals. Since the mid-1990s hundreds of cases of people reporting healings inside crop circles have been documented, including the disappearance of a 99% malignant retinal tumor. Below 20 Hz sound becomes infrasonic, and such frequencies affect biological processes. Here, the acoustic pressure of infrasound can boil the water inside a stem in one nanosecond. As water heats it expands, and crop circle plants reveal tiny holes in their nodes where this superheated water has escaped. This leaves a hollow cavity near their base. Top-heavy, and made subtle like molten glass by the heat, the plants collapse into their new horizontal position. This ‘vapor cavitation’ creates local temperature increases of hundreds of thousands of degrees, evaporates millions of gallons of groundwater, and gives plants a malty, cooked odor. Combine this with Levengood's discovery of microscopic blow-holes in the plants' cell wall pits (indicating the rapid boiling of water), and things start to fall into place. Since infrasound is also capable of atomizing water molecules to create a fine mist, it is noted that a number of farmers have witnessed “a series of columns of mist” rising from within new crop circles on their land. Finally, the lower the operating frequency of infrasound, the greater the disruption to chromosomes. Every summer, crop circle plants are sent blind to Dr. Levengood, and some inevitably show unmistakable disruption to their chromosomes. Yet give him samples taken from man-made formations and he finds 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 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 honor their histories through song and music, their healing rituals performed with sound or rhythm; this relationship is further exhibited in Buddhist mandalas, which are used to alter states of awareness. Perhaps it is not by coincidence that crop circles mirror these intricate patterns, nor that they bear an uncanny resemblance to Jenny's materializations of sound.
If sound is creating crop circles, is it not possible that they are arousing our consciousness? After all, it's through music that whole human experiences are celebrated and carried from generation to generation. It is probable that it is for this reason that the cochlea in the human ear is shaped like 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. The historian David Tame revealed how 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 after contact with crop circles is similarly documented: a pictogram at Alton Barnes, England, in 1990 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 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.
Crop glyph containing unusual ratchet subdivided into the eight parts of the octave. From this is extracted the Pythagorean Lambdoma (right), a diagram containing all the harmonics of the musical scale Photo by Freddy Silva.
Gaia-metry, or geo-metry, is the measure of the Earth. In ancient times, the correct estimation of the physical
Since the temples were designed as analogs of universal principles,
properties of the host planet was paramount to the success of the temple. As with other planets, the Earth was seen as an expression of super-physical consciousness, the
designing them according to the same geometric proportions bound in the planet was to imbue the temple with soul. And so, just like the Earth, the temple was also
manifestation of spirit and of God: a living organism.
regarded as a living organism.
Mysterium Cosmographicum
The ancients figured out that the apparently physical world was constructed from atoms and molecules, and that each and every one was governed by patterns of order that favoured balanced geometric relationships, a view now held by modern physics.
Furthermore, by studying the heavens, and the orbits of p l a n e t s i n p a r t i c u l a r, t h e ancients deduced that each mean orbit related one to another in orderly geometric relationships.
Since the planets were
considered to be living bodies or akousmata (“resonant beings”) they were attributed the titles of Gods. And from that point, geometry became sacred. Therefore, the geometry of life– biogeometry– was incorporated into the fabric of temples the world over. Much of it is occult (‘hidden from the eye’), and yet its presence can be felt by the atoms and molecules of the human body which are built on identical geometric platforms. To enter an ancient temple is to enter oneself is to know thy Self.
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Some of the most celebrated uses of geometry are found in those deceptively simple buildings, the pyramids of Egypt. The Great Pyramid at Giza incorporates a most unusual slope angle of approximately 51.49º, which neatly references that most unusual of regular geometric figures, the seven-pointed heptagon. Unlike all other regular geometric figures, the heptagon is the only one whose angles cannot bisect a circle to a whole number, and so it has traditionally been associated with sound, the unknowable, and the seeking of wisdom. It has also been described as the geometry of the soul.
The enigmatic Bent Pyramid at Dashur, often portrayed by orthodox archeologists as ‘a mistake’, is equally encoded with an invisible geometry, and an important one at that. When unfolded like the petal of a flower, the top slope angle reveals a pentagon, the bottom slope a hexagon.
This combination of geometries is inherent in the design of the crystalline structure of human DNA. Since biogeometry is an eddy of energy, or a material expression of consciousness, the energy field of a person walking into the Bent Pyramid is influenced by the actions taking place within that geometric framework.
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The iron girder structure (known as the charpente de fer supporting the roof of Chartres Cathedral (view from western end)
Chartres cathedral
The same effects are true in Gothic cathedrals and their complex geometry, Chartres being one of the finest examples. Russian scientists monitoring EEG brainwave patterns inside the nave of Chartres discovered that the building’s special harmonics have a noticeable affect on peoples’ states of awareness. When combined with Gregorian chant—the kind of music these churches were designed to amplify—people’s brainwaves went up as much as 4000% above normal waking state.
At Stonehenge, the relatively simple series of rings and horseshoe alignments that typify the world’s most famous stone circle belie the fact that the positioning of its stones is governed by a complex geometric blueprint. In fact, it may be the only temple in the world that incorporates multiple sacred geometries: triangular, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, and heptagonal. Stonehenge is the classic example of an organic temple, built and expanded over the course of some 4000 years, serving to amplify the specific needs and subtle energy requirements of the era. Consequently, only parts of the temple were in use at any given ceremony: adepts would enter the temple with a specific purpose, and consciously ‘awaken’ only those geometries that served the intent of the moment. It is also worth noting that, when the temple is not in use or being misused, its subtle energy field shuts down. This is particularly so when thousands of tourists and their clicking cameras and camcorders are present, blissfully unaware of the true purpose of the site. Without the single-minded intent and respect, all that stands in front of them is nothing more than a bunch of upright, inanimate rocks. But thanks to a common framework in biogeometry, the energy exchange between the stone temple and the human temple only takes place whenever there is sympathetic resonance between the two, and when the intent of the participants matches that of the temple with which they are interacting.
In our era, the new geometric temples are the enigmatic crop circles. Despite the vast amounts of money spent by special interest groups in debunking the subject, crop circles have been scientifically validated as a genuine phenomenon, and that it is intelligently guided.
Like pyramids and Gothic cathedrals, genuine crop circles share the same occult geometric framework, and quite often the shape one sees in the flattened crop conceals a far different geometry. As with the Bent Pyramid, the crop circles favour the use of pentagonal and hexagonal geometry, and so it is not surprising that hundreds of documented cases describe alterations of awareness in people who interact with the designs, as well as healings. Indeed, sacred sites around the world share the same rich tradition. Chartres cathedral
It seems rather timely that, just as the sacred sites are experiencing a sudden resurgence in interest, so the crop circles have sprouted in 29 countries. And wherever they manifest—from the fields of southern Britain to the prairies of Alberta and the rice paddies of Japan—they always do so beside ancient sacred sites. ŠFreddy Silva. No unauthorized reproduction.
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P h o t o g r a p h y
Self Similar
The One & The Many
Shapes & Edges
How is it that ancient civilizations were able to maintain their cultures in perfect equilibrium for thousands of years but ours become dysfunctional within a few decades? One answer is to look at the legacy of ancient temples, oracles and sacred sites they left behind. By understanding sacred sites we can learn what they do for us, to us, how and why. This requires looking beyond the obvious physical façade, and into the layers of coding, metaphor and subtle force. That’s when you arrive at the true temple, the invisible temple. For several decades I've walked countless temples around the world, taking in both their spatial and special qualities. After a while it became apparent that sacred sites are speaking. A mythical, invisible spirit of place is aware of your presence and purpose. Like a credit card reader it scans your human energy field, and should the PIN match, you engage in an intimate conversation. Thus begins the relationship with the genus loci, the spirit of place. Eventually you realize there is a library of knowledge being shared. Its contents are boundless and timeless, the sum of all there is: Universal codes of energy, ancient systems of knowledge, measure and proportion, and how these can be applied at any given moment in our lives to enhance our earthly potential. Depending on what you are seeking, the experience will alter your consciousness. Which is precisely the purpose of such places of power. The elements that make nature tick —magnetism, water, stone, sacred geometry, sacred measure, sound— converge at sacred sites. By carefully blending these principles together, it is possible to open a portal of connectivity to other levels of reality. It is even possible to apply the same principles today to construct a temple wherever you are. And that is precisely what our ancestors were up to when they created a grid of tens of thousands of temples all over the world.
As you walk through this site... http://www.invisibletemple.com/ ...I hope you become more aware of the qualities that define sacred space from profane space, and that you will use this information in a way that is positive and, ultimately, beneficial to all living things on Earth. Including yourself.
© Freddy Silva 1996, 2011 Extracts from Secrets In The Fields: The Science And Mysticism of Crop Circles, by Freddy Silva. BIO Freddy Silva is one of the world’s leading researchers of sacred sites, ancient systems of knowledge, and the interaction between temples and consciousness. His new book is Common Wealth: The Origin of Sacred Sites and the Rebirth of Ancient Wisdom. He has also directed three documentaries. He lectures internationally, with keynote presentations at the International Science and Consciousness Conference, the International Society For The Study Of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine, and Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E, in addition to appearances on Discovery Channel, BBC, and radio shows such as Coast To Coast. Described by the CEO of Universal Light Expo as “perhaps the best metaphysical speaker in the world right now.” Main website www.invisibletemple.com e Cymatic photos from ‘Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomena and Vibration’, © 2001 MACROmedia Publishing (used by permission). Website www.Cymaticsource.com