Patty Greer lay down in a crop circle nine years ago and arose a changed woman.
What began as a mystical experience progressed into a scientific investigation of electromagnetic fields and other measurable properties of crop circles. Greer described her impassioned and purposeful investigation as “blending science and metaphysics to explain the crop circle reality.”
Greer was suffering from a physical ailment no doctors were able to successfully treat or diagnose. She'd been a musician for decades, but her hands were all of a sudden disabled without apparent cause. Her hardened callouses, which allowed her to pull sweet melodies from the strings of her harp, turned to open sores.
She later attributed her illness to mercury poisoning from dental fillings, but at the time she had no idea and sought alternative treatments when all else failed. This is what first brought her to England’s crop circles in 2006.
She had heard the region surrounding the ancient Avebury Stone Circle—where more than 90 percent of the world’s crop circles have been documented—described as a spiritually powerful healing place. With nothing to lose, she packed up and left on her own for a nine-week sojourn to see if the puzzling depressions left in fields of wheat and maize could somehow help her to heal.
