The numbers are not enough
During the spring of 2015 I had a dream in which a dear, not long departed friend had said to me “The Numbers are Not Enough”. As dreams and synchronicities have long played a role in my involvement with the crop circles, I paid
attention.
Number, shape, form, proportion and geometry are the language of the crop circles, of that there can be little doubt. They are their very fabric and framework, their flesh and bones if you
will.
One of the biggest lessons I have learned through the many years of my involvement with the crop circles is that numbers do not just signify quantities; although that is how most of us understand number in our abstract and fragmented world, but that they also, most
importantly, have qualities. This was a revelation to me, someone who had sometimes found engaging with number and mathematics at school bewildering. That number was rich in meaning, purpose and philosophy made them warmer, more connected and less austere. Numbers ceased to be empty, cold, and calculating and instead became full of ancient wisdom, dare I say at times full of magic, but most of all they became
sacred.
The particular qualities associated with each number are not a matter of tradition, custom or superstition. What makes the realisation that number has meaning so powerful is that these meanings come from direct observation. When we look at how number shapes,
nature, ourselves and the universe, we begin to understand experientially how number is a language in itself and how it is a language not just of quantities and units, but also a language of archetypes. Number itself is the embodiment of those universal archetypes that underpin the whole fabric of creation.
We can see these numbers everyday in the patterns of nature; in the petals of a flower, the branching or root system of a tree, or the geometry and proportions of the human body. We see them in the honeycomb of the beehive and in the spiralling of weather systems,
galaxies and even in the cross section of the humble cabbage.
The numbers, shapes, proportions and geometries you will see in the crop circles are not just pretty, clever constructs. Many also hold a deep and profound meanings that go beyond mathematical concepts such as pi, the golden section, or Euclid’s second theorem
(all found many times in crop circle design incidentally). Within these concepts we may also glimpse archetypes such as the unity of the Divine, the sacred Marriage of Heaven and Earth and the multiplicity, novelty and complexity of life.
However, all this said, and every jot of it true, there is another fundamental to the crop circle phenomenon that has been every bit a part of the fabric of the subject as the number, proportion and geometry of the formations – and that is Psyche. Almost since
their modern inception the crop circles have evoked feelings within, and awoken many to the concepts of synchronicity, entanglement and the deep connectedness of all things.
It started with stories of people who would be travelling through the countryside and say to themselves, “oh that would be a great field for a crop circle”, only for there to be one next time they were travelling by the same field. Or by stories of how researchers
who said “all crop circles do this” to suddenly find the next one to appear broke all their rules. Coincidences of locations, dates, numbers and shapes have become so prevalent that they have entered into crop circle lore, as have stories of those who have dreamed or mediated on circles only to them see them manifest in the fields.
In so many ways the crop circles have become a welcome and much needed anathema to our modern day isolationist, fragmented and nihilistic society. In many cases those meaningful coincidences have been a platform for a journey into our relationship with the world,
the universe and the nature of reality that is truly paradigm challenging.
As my dream indicated, the numbers maybe important – but they are not enough. One also has to integrate the psyche into the mix to truly grasp the crop circle phenomenon. If the archetypes alluded to by the geometry of the circles are indeed a part of the fabric of
creation, then as part of that creation, they underpin us too. It seems only by combining the two will we ever truly understand the hold crop circles have upon us and where they might ultimately take us.
Geoff and I very much look forward to sharing with you all our great passion for sacred geometry and the crop circle
phenomenon!
