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August 20, 2006: The Meaning of Crop Circles - Freddy Silva

Aug 20, 2006
2h 41m
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Art Bell welcomes crop circle researcher Freddy Silva, who abandoned a lucrative career to pursue a lifelong study of this global phenomenon. Silva explains that genuine circles exhibit cellular changes in plants and soil alterations requiring extreme temperatures and atmospheric pressure, effects he attributes to ultrasound and infrasound rather than microwave energy. He notes that about 85 percent of formations appear in southern England over the world's deepest chalk aquifer, with similar concentrations over limestone in the Canadian prairies.

Silva describes how a British psychic named Isabel Kingston began channeling information from a universal consciousness called the Watchers in the mid-1980s, accurately predicting the locations and designs of formations days before they appeared. He argues the circles carry archetypal messages encoded with sacred geometry that resonates with human DNA, functioning as a subconscious wake-up call from beings responding to humanity's collective plea for help.

The discussion takes a startling turn when Silva reveals that an American researcher built a replica of the famous Barbary Castle tetrahedron crop circle and reportedly achieved levitation. Silva believes the designs contain blueprints for energy devices capable of manipulating magnetism and gravity, knowledge he expects scientists to publicly confirm by 2007.

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    Ultrasound and infrasound, not microwaves, make crop circles: Silva argues genuine crop circles show cellular and crystalline soil changes requiring about five atmospheres of pressure and 1,500 degrees Celsius - effects he traces to ultrasound (around 250 MHz) coupled with infrasound below 20 Hz, not microwaves.

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    The mummified Canadian porcupine: Silva tells of the only confirmed crop-circle fatality: a 30-pound Canadian porcupine found at the end of a swirl trail on a Prairie farm, completely flattened, mummified and odorless because the infrasound had expelled all the water from its body.

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    South African tribes greet circles as gifts of the gods: Silva contrasts American farmers calling police and roping off circles with crime-scene tape against South African tribes who fence their formations and hold three-day festivals honoring the gods, suggesting the phenomenon is more 'welcome' where it is revered.

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    The Watchers, Isabel Kingston, and Silbury Hill: Silva recounts how English psychic and police consultant Isabel Kingston channeled a universal consciousness called the Watchers in 1985-87, who promised a sign within seven days at the foot of Silbury Hill - producing the first Celtic-cross crop circles, and then proceeded to predict subsequent designs and locations.

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    Barbary Castle tetrahedron and a home-built levitation device: Silva says the 1991 Barbary Castle tetrahedron formation encodes three speeds of light (a finding he claims predated mainstream science by over a decade) and that an unnamed American has built a six-foot 3D replica using its exact angles and is preparing to levitate it at home.

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