Reports of Unidentified Flying Object: The English Corn Circles in 1988 – A Religious Perspective?
There is also another perspective to the Circles that de serves mention, even though most people will consider such an approach quite beyond the pale. This is the interpretation given by religious groups such as New Era, which believe that the Circles portend the coming of the New Age. Associated with this group, though not part of it, is the medium Isabelle Kingston.
In March 1987, when she had been working with a group of students on Silbury Hill, she channeled messages which purported to come from “The Watchers,” a higher intelligence referred to as “beings from other areas”· It should be stressed that similar messages from supposedly extra terrestrial entities known as “The Watchers” or “The Guardians” are not new and have been reported for many years.
Isabelle Kingston’s channeled message indicated that the building of the Hill of Sil (Silbury Hill) was originally commandeered by these beings. “Sil” is apparently de rived from the word meaning “Shining Being” Temples such as Silbury Hill were allegedly built with the intention that they should last until this time in history to help humanity. The Avebury Sanctuary, in particular, was apparently alive with a pure energy that links all places of power around the globe.
Two weeks before the Circles appeared at Silbury Hill, Isabelle Kingston says that she was told that “they” would appear there, and she then channeled a further message addressed to her group of healers, who had asked about the meaning of the Circles. They were told that these had made them aware of the presence of ”The Watchers, ” and that these guardians had been linked with humanity in or der to bring the power necessary ”to build the new Jerusalem.” ”The Watchers” had been coming here for many years but until now Man’s awareness did not recognize the signs. England lay at the center of the great “Pyramid of Light” that will be guiding humanity’s understanding. “The Watchers” was the name of a collective intelligence guiding human mortals. It was an intelligence from out side the planet, not linked to angelic beings, but part of the “cosmic consciousness . “
The symmetric pattern of the Circles allegedly indicates where the power enters the Earth’s magnetic field Silbury Hill draws such cosmic power. There were ley lines running through the Earth, and at various points lines of power were energized. “You are witnessing the coming of the New Age, ” the medium was informed.
It is difficult to see why there should be any connection between the presumably pagan ancient sites of Salisbury Plain and the Christian religion, from which derive the references to the ”new Jerusalem. ” But perhaps one should not quibble over minor details. Clearly, acceptance of channeled messages like this requires an act of faith, and equally clearly they will be dismissed as pure fantasy by those who are guided solely by orthodox Western science of the 1980s. Nevertheless, I think that omission of this part of the story of the 1988 Circles would be a mistake.
Besides New Era, there are other groups that claim to summon up Earth energies by various methods and which use dowsing to detect certain symbolic patterns of religious significance on hillsides in Wales and Cornwall.
These would presumably be visible, like the Circles, had the places where they are found been sown with suitable crops. One cannot help wondering whether these people, if they have the power they claim, are those who made the mysterious footprints on the Silbury Hill Circles or indeed whether they were in some way involved in the creation of these Circles.
Certainly one should not overlook the symbolism that the Circles embody, and this is most apparent in the final part of the 1988 Circles story. This episode is just as curious as the Silbury Hill saga, and once again the reader will have to decide whether this, too, might have a religious dimension.