Is the earth involved in this phenomenon?
This too seems to be the case. Leylines play an important part in this phenomenon. These energy lines seem to attract (or conduct) the crop circle energy. Most crop circles can be found at places where many leylines are (and especially where they cross, thus forming leycentres), like for instance in the famous East Field at Alton Barnes, at power places like Oliver's Castle, Barbury Castle, Windmill Hill, Silbury Hill and Stonehenge).
Dutch crop circle researchers Robert Boerman and Jan-Willem Bobbink discovered that crop circles actually add leylines to the landscape. It seems that crop circles are some kind of energy injection to the earth.
The red lines in this diagram represent the many leylines that the researchers found in a crop formation at Stadskanaal (NL) in 2001. (For more information about leylines in crop circles, see the many field reports on the website of the DCCA).
Another possibility is - like some people think - that the earth is a living organism: an intelligent being who has gone into action against the systematical exhaustion and pollution she is suffering.
Whatever may be the exact case, our planet absolutely plays a crucial part in the crop circle phenomenon. At any rate in the receiving way: she receives the pattern in her fields, thus obtaining more energy lines, her soil composition changes, and her crop's germination and growth patterns change. Some researchers - I am one of them - are convinced that the circle making energy enters deeply into the ground. This energy can be measured and is regularly noticed by pilots who fly over crop circles. At a height up to 300 meters, many of them have had problems with failing measuring equipment flying directly over crop circles. I suspect that this energy penetrates into the earth as deeply as it reaches into the sky. I believe the crop circle forms the centre of this energy tube.
When I flew over the Woodborough Hill formation in 2000 (see photograph below), I tried in vain to make a photo of the alignement of the hill, the small circle, and the large formation. My camera simply refused to take the picture. Inspite of many attempts, I just couldn't manage. It is a common phenomenon that cameras fail in crop circles, but to actually experience it high up in the sky, was quite strange. It made me aware of the fact that the circles' energy reaches into the sky like an enormeous invisible column, and that it quite likely enters deeply into the ground as well.
This might explain an observation of Canadian crop circle researcher Chad Deetken, who - sitting in a Canadian formation - witnessed a goup of geese approaching in their usual V-shape. Just before flying over the crop formation, the group split into two. One part flew left of the formation, the other part flew right of the formation, after which they went back to their V-shape, leaving the formation behind...
