The power and the passion: Lucy Pringle’s great crop circle crusade
‘There is often an extraordinary feeling of sanctity within the circles … I find this experience incredibly humbling, as though I have been touched by the Hand of God…’ Lucy Pringle, 2019
I got to know crop circle investigators Lucy Pringle and James Lyons while working as a journalist in the west of England when, from 2005–2012, I reported frequently on the long-standing mystery and, one summer’s day, I joined Lucy’s research team in Wiltshire.
That morning, in July 2011, it was decided to go to the latest crop formation which had been reported, below the Barbury Castle hill camp, near Wroughton, only the day before.
Now described in a new book — The Energies of Crop Circles: The science and power of a mysterious intelligence by Lucy with James (Destiny Books, UK £19.99 / US $18.99, May 2019) — the most striking outcome of the day concerned David Greenwood, then a Parkinson’s Disease sufferer of six years, who said afterwards there was no doubt that, while walking in the crop circle, his Parkinson’s symptoms disappeared, to return only on his way home.
