Corn Circles
Corn Circles
A medic’s history, examination and diagnosis of the crop circle phenomenon
On return from the Search for the Feathered Serpent in 1993, after seven years of amazing adventures, I found myself inevitably drawn to live with my partner Julie and my first child Zana who was now 7 months old along with her older half sibling twins 5 y o David and Marisa, who were not doing well with my itinerant life style unable to settle into a single school. The writing was on the wall when a 2nd set of twins, Jono & Julius were conceived, so the family moved to the Far North of NZ and Dr. Van Dorp settled into his Profession as a rural GP and Obstetrician, then Kaupapa Maori Medical Services Officer, and finally rural hospital specialist from mid 1994 for the next couple of decades.
An Instant Family 1995
In the years 1999, 2000, and 2001 however, I made three journeys to the crop circles of England, intrigued with this strange phenomenon and wanting to find out just what it was. On the third journey in 2001 I led a small group of New Zealanders to the Crop Circles, and the Glastonbury Crop Circle Symposium, and with a drive to the tip of Cornwall to check out the stone circles and meet the famous blacksmith and author Hamish Miller with his wife Ba Russell. The most intriguing outcome for the group, who on arrival in the crop circle country had lunch at the Red Lion Inn in the Village of Avebury and asked the invisible crop circle makers for a circle with a kiwi flavour “maybe something like a koru spiral” in the field of wheat they could see in front of them, was 2 weeks later when there appeared in that very field a small circle that indeed had a kiwi flavour, and was recognised by my Maori language tutor as an ‘Ira Tangata spiral’ – the icon in Maori wood carving that represents ‘a fertilised seed’ .
On return from the crop circle journey I started work writing the story of the journey, and made several public talks about the crop circle phenomenon, observing over the years that the year of 2001 had been the peak year in terms of numbers in the English wheat fields, and also in the complexity of the patterns, for example in the intriguing face and message that turned up alongside the Chilbolton Radio telescope, and appeared to be a direct answer to the message sent into space in 1973 by Carl Sagan and the SETI organisation.
Then keeping an eye on the phenomenon over the next decade or so I gradually made progress on the book till it was finally completed in 2016 after another journey in 2013, 12 years after the fertilised seed circle. The purpose of this journey was to ask the crop circle makers what had grown out of the fertilised seed and we were rewarded with a 9-petalled flower, a beautiful example of a 9-sided Bahá’í Temple known as a Mashriqu’l-Adkhár, translated from the Persian as ‘a Dawning Place of the Remembrance of God’
For those who would like to have a good overview of the crop circle phenomenon as it appeared in England and around the world in the last few decades, and its synchronous connection with certain awake individuals and events on the planet, and how the phenomenon interacts using the same fractal mathematics that are incorporated in the stone circles and monuments in southern England, this book is highly recommended. Most of the photos in the book are from Lucy Pringle’s archive of aerial photos she has collected over many decades of observing the phenomenon.