Rereading my last posting on the Barbury Castle Stepped Spiral I realise that the overwhelming significance of Pi and its appearance now merits further discussion.

Before starting this I should report that there have been some queries as to the precise timing of my work. Bear in mind that both the spiral of the Barbury Castle 1991 formation and the role of Pi in the crop circle narrative have been twin obsessions of mine for many years. To say that Barbury 2 attracted my interest would be a colossal understatement! The following notes are simply to clarify the record.

Karen Alexander e-mailed me on 5th June with her intuition that the small circle near the centre might be a decimal point and that the three outer rings might be an ellipsis. The following morning, the 6th, I discovered how Pi was incorporated into the spiral and, later on the 6th, Karen was contacted by Peter Leadbetter who had made the same discovery. I spoke to him on the 7th. 

I am a researcher looking for insights and not a journalist seeking scoops. While I am delighted to have been one of the people who fell on this find early, I am even more delighted that the information is now freely available to all. But it seems certain that the estimable Michael Reed was the first and should be congratulated.

Since ancient times and through many cultures, geometric forms have held powerful symbolic meaning. The circle was held to represent God, heaven or the spiritual domain while the square symbolised the world or the material realm. 

Philosophers and geometers thus saw the ancient conundrum of Squaring the Circle (or, as I prefer, Circling the Square) as a way of representing, and a step towards achieving, a reconciliation between heaven and earth. Geometrically, the task of constructing a square whose perimeter is the same as the circumference of a circle is daunting. Even more so when it is understood that Pi, the Constant used in all calculations involving circles, spheres or cylinders and even ovals, is an irrational or infinite number. Realising that is to accept that the circle may never be precisely squared.  Earth, by definition,  can never be exactly congruent with heaven.

This need not diminish our aspirations, however. Sacred Geometers worked tirelessly to resolve the apparently unresolvable. We, or at least the optimists among us, can do the same.

The crop circles have referred to both the Squaring of the Circle and Pi since the outset. Allan Brown has demonstrated that most of the Quintuplet or dice five-spot formations squared the circle, often revealing previously unknown methods.  In the 2000 season I suggested that many formations were powerfully reiterating Pi and I made a DVD, The Pi Hypothesis, to cover this work. 

Why, then, do I hold the 2008 Barbury Castle stepped spiral to be so crucial a revelation and so important a contribution to our research?

The crop circles seem to be showing us that we are stuck at the material phase of our development.  We truly do still believe that all our problems are susceptible  to a mechanical/technical response. The irony, of course, is that all our problems are caused by our reliance on mechanical/technical solutions.

Presented with the breathtaking images of the crop circles, wretched humanity, fixed in its material view of the cosmos, sees them as blueprints for free-energy devices, anti-gravity engines, ET technology or star charts predicting alignments or disclosing their authors’ origins. We cannot see beyond our squareness. We are fixed in our limited Cartesian, Newtonian, evidence-based world view. We are stuck with the weight of centuries of constrained thinking which prevents our moving from the square of the material world towards the circle of spirit.    

Pi, the mediator between the world and heaven, is shown so clearly, not because we poor earthlings need a lesson in mathematics. Every school kid knows what Pi is. Since 1990 there have been many crop circles which seemed to carry meaning or which lent themselves to a specific interpretation. But there has never been a formation as clear, articulate and inarguable as Barbury Castle 2008.

Why then might this number, which certainly they know we are familiar with, be telegraphed here so forcefully?

 

Pi is the symbolic key which mediates between dimensions. Perhaps they want us to seize it. Perhaps they want us to square our own circles.  MG