The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls

‘We have put thought form into pure language within that which you call “the crystal skull”…

‘Much of the world that we created, we created with mind. Mind creates matter. You will understand this and crystal technology will be given to those who understand it in more detail … that crystal is a living substance and you can infuse mind with matter…’

So it seemed that the crystal skull had been made by an advanced civilization using thought. But it was all a little confusing, to say the least. I was about to ask why the crystal had been shaped into the form of a skull when the voice continued, in the same manner:

‘This receptacle is crystallized because you, within the third dimension, need to see, to hear and to touch… Its form makes it easier for mind to attach to mind, without what you call personality… But you respect the personality, the head, the enclosure of your brain … so this form of the receptacle has been guarded and guided for manyan age… The Earth life of this receptacle is 17,000 years… It has been handed down from generation to generation, polished with sand and hair … and no harm will come to it.’

So the reason the crystal had been made into the shape of a skull was so that it would be respected and cared for over the years. I was about to ask if there were any other crystal skulls, as the legend had said, but once more the voice spoke before I was even able to open my mouth:

‘You are seeking information as to the other receptacles of mind… There will be other receptacles found … for there are many … for no one man and no one mind were given all knowledge… Each of the receptacles contains the information of where the others are… ‘We would give you one where we left markings upon the Earth [some have since suggested this may be the area of the Nazca Lines of Peru, although there are obviously many other alternative possibilities] … and high in the mountains… There will be one of blue in the region you call “South America”… There will be another found when the lost civilization that you call “Atlantis” rises to you … and we would urge you to explore the ocean bed … we would urge you to explore the discoveries in the area you call “Bimini” … But we will direct you… we will show you that which you call a “temple”… This was an area of communication between the Earth and other systems… When all receptacles are placed together you will be keepers of wondrous knowledge… Light and sound will be the key, when the right vibration is produced you will have the information you require… But the time is not yet… There are still some that have not yet been given form … and others which remain safely under your ocean bed… But you shall not find them all, as you say “at this time”… It would be too dangerous for man to have this information … too early in his evolution … because mankind still seeks to better all the original destruction of our time.’

I did not really understand all of this somewhat cryptic information, but I was curious as to why the crystal skulls had been made in the first place. Yet again, the voice anticipated my question:

‘The receptacle has been given this form to encourage the mind of oneness and to reduce your desire for separation… Your mind seeks separation… We sought to leave you with the concept of oneness, but your mind seeks only separation. As you say, ‘As you seek so shall ye find.” And already the process of separation has begun. You have already begun the separation but there will be more. You have a desire to separate that will lead to your own destruction… Separation causes annihilation and death. We can already feel the influence of this separation as violence… There is much violence occurring within your planet. Violence against men, violence against nature … violence against the Earth.’

Again, I didn’t really understand these rather cryptic remarks and I was more interested in whether the crystal skull could tell us anything about mankind’s history. The answer came:

‘We understand that you come seeking in quest of the beginnings of man. We wish to tell you that your own origins were thought in form, and that you have to cast your eyes up and not down. There will be many discoveries pointing to this acknowledgement within the next 5, 10, 15 years… And the beginnings of what you call your civilization are over 15,000 years before the acknowledgement of that which you call Atlantis. For there is also much evidence of our civilization still beneath your oceans. Already there are discoveries near Bimini. But there will be many more discoveries over the next 5, 10, 15 years, which will point you towards the right direction… There will be more discoveries in South America, in Australia and in Egypt. In that which you call your deserts you will find much knowledge. But you will find traces of our civilization through most parts of your land masses and there is much beneath your seas, especially beneath the oceans which you call “the Atlantic,” “the Indian” and that which you call “the Dead Sea”. There, closest to your Earth’s surface, and soon to be discovered, are remnants of our civilization… These discoveries will confuse and cause much disharmony, but they will be needed to reduce the mind of separation.

‘But many of these discoveries will not be permitted at this time. We can only permit that which will not cause too much havoc for your minds. We came to your Earth from a different world. From other dimensions we came into this dimension. We came to experience, needing to experience density. That which we first heralded had nothing of the density of what you call a “body”. The life on this Earth plane was primitive in form, but we took upon ourselves the physical form which is recognizable to you. We sought only to experience material density and to bring knowledge and enlightenment. But we did not confine ourselves to any one what you call “geographical location”. There were many, and many of our relics and of our teachings are still to be found scattered amidst your land masses and your sea masses.’

I was keen to know exactly who these ‘we’ were that the voice of the skull seemed to be talking about when it continued:

‘But there are still many among you who seek to find where in your universe we are to be found. But still you cling to the idea that we are of the third dimension and you still cannot grasp the idea that we are of the other dimensions, beyond your rudimentary space-time relativity.’

The voice then proceeded to divulge some rather cryptic information about space and time:

‘We would tell you that the essence of time is an illusion. Time has been created, in fact, by a higher intelligence as a form of control upon the brain and function of the body image. This is a safeguard against corruption of matter but, in essence, is non-existent. Thought exists independently of the body and brain, but time is the creation of matter. Thought is without time. Time, as a mechanism, was introduced to material and current mind only, not to thought or spirit, to keep you bound within the third dimension, and within the perimeters of the small planet you call “Earth”. We would urge you to explore with truth and understanding that which the mind is capable of understanding and not that which the brain is restricted to.

‘Time is related to you as numbers. We offer to you that number and time have no depth. These are merely programmed into the current mind as safeguards, to keep you in time and space. They are a function not really of mind, but of brain. And they are really a dysfunction of brain, to keep you tied to the physical dimensions of the three-dimensional world. The relativities you call “number,” “time” and “space” are a function of the brain related only to the third dimension. This current mind keeps you a prisoner in time and space, in the material, physical world you call reality. But the delusion of time must remain for a period. Do you understand?’

I was not at all sure that I did. Instead I was still trying to work out whose voice this really was and why the crystal skulls had been created in the first place. The voice went on:

‘We have come now to warn you, because the separation has already begun. The destruction is already beginning to take place. The mind of separation has taken hold and some serious things have already taken place. For you, with your primitive knowledge, have already started something which now cannot be reversed. It was started through your scientists playing with and bending sound and light waves and that which you call “particles” into your atmosphere. You will have noticed that there are many destructive waves now hitting your planet. There will be more destruction brought about by atmosphere intervention, unusual weather patterns and rapid climatic change, and there will be movement of your land masses also.

‘We wish to tell you that your civilization has grossly misunderstood the use of light and sound and matter. That is why you have only uncovered that which is closest to you.

‘But, even now your scientists and your governments play with toys that they do not understand. They play with light and sound and that which you call “particles” and “radiation,” and they will rain havoc. But because the reaction is not immediate and not obviously near to yourselves, you continue and you continue until this very planet will erupt and destroy.

‘As we have said, your current mind seeks only separation. Youhave a desire to separate that will lead only to your own destruction. For this is the same mind that caused the Great Flood and caused the previous destruction of many a land mass. But this destruction has begun to happen again already. And we can already feel the influence of this separation in our world. But, at present, you are unaware of this separation because it is of your own making. But we tell you that your Earth will undertake great changes…

Even the body of your planet will change, as with your weather, as with all to do with your Earth as you now know it. There will be changes upon this Earth in the form of the human, the animal and that form you know as “vegetation” and that form which you know as “land mass” and that which you know as “atmosphere”.

‘There will be a disaster that is of great consequence. But, in essence, your “disaster,” as you would term it, has already begun. You will find much death amongst your life upon the planet. You will find that which is grown in the ground will cause much change and you will see that which feeds upon the ground will end up with much death. You will see much destruction due to what you call “radiation” and you will find much pestilence in that which now flies upon your planet. There will be eruptions and disruptions of weather patterns, and much separating of atmospheres. You will have much wind … and your livestock will die in great numbers. Your waters will rise where they should not rise and your land will be sinking underneath the waves. Land masses will disappear and seas and oceans will rise.

‘There will be a great splitting of the Earth … from within the Earth. The magnetic field will shift and is already shifting now. The Earth will be split asunder and the discharge will wander through the Earth and into the atmosphere. The atmosphere is already entering a state of negative pollution. This is what you are doing with your negative energies on the Earth.

‘And this is why we left these receptacles for you to find, in your time “long ago” when we realized that so many had forgotten their original purpose of incarnation into this physical dimension. When we realized that the mind of separation would take hold and that there would be a great catastrophe on this Earth, we chose to return to our own original dimension, but we left behind the legacy of ourminds. We knew there would be those whose knowledge and seeking and spiritual progression would turn them towards this path. We knew that because of the disaster that would befall this planet, there would be those who would be needed to call upon their reincarnational memories to heal, to counsel and to love a world gone mad, a world without knowledge, a world without hope, where the fires of destruction would reign.

‘But when the time comes it will be the duty of all those who seek spiritual knowledge to instruct others when the Earth moves from its axis. Within this receptacle, and the others we have left you, lies that which you will need. Our knowledge, here crystallized, will be imparted when the right time arrives. It was determined that through these receptacles the minds of one would be activated and would present themselves when your Earth was in need. And this is now beginning to happen, as you say “at this time” and “in this place”. We are here to tell you that there is … will be … and has already begun, a great change within your Mother Earth. We urge you to make known to mankind the things which we are to give you, in the hope that the holocaust can be reduced. For although what is given cannot now be changed, its effects can be much diffused.’

At this point the voice explained that it was going to leave us now because it could sense that the physical body it was using, presumably meaning Carole, was getting very tired and so it would have to go. A long humming sound began again and as it faded away Carole slumped into her chair, completely exhausted and unable to speak for some minutes. It took a few glasses of water to get her to speak again, in a long drawl, like someone drunk. When she eventually came round she seemed completely unaware of the events that had just passed and was unable to answer any more questions.

We were completely baffled as to what to make of the information Carole had channelled. We had originally been sceptical enough about the idea of psychic communication with spirit beings, let alone beings from another planet or ‘dimension’, whatever that meant, warning us about imminent disaster on a global scale. But our cynicism had already been tempered by what we had heard about Carole’s valuable police work and by the fact that Carole herself seemed genuine and honest.

Everyone around us treated the information we heard with a great degree of seriousness and respect, and there was something about the predictions made that had an alarming but still undeniable ring of truth. Indeed, these became even more unnerving when John showed us transcripts of Carole’s channelling sessions with the skull from the 1980s. The channelled information always seemed to have been quite consistent. In a session recorded in 1987 the voice had predicted, ‘Livestock will die in great numbers.’ This seemed to have particular relevance for us now, having just come from Britain, where the BSE crisis had now led to the slaughter of tens of thousands of cattle.

Around nine months later, the prediction about the Earth’s magnetic field shifting also took on a sobering degree of truth when we read in an issue of New Scientist that it had just been discovered that the magnetic field is indeed beginning to shift. There are even some scientists who now predict that the whole axis of the Earth might be about to do a complete flip.

At the time, however, we didn’t know what to make of everything we had heard. Was this really ‘the voice of the skull’ speaking through Carole? We just couldn’t say. But these strange words remained in our minds as we resumed our more everyday approach to the mystery of where the crystal skulls had really come from.

8. THE CURSE OF THE SKULL (#ulink_ba5f52ed-61fa-55a3-8425-807dc2a82258)

The debate over the true origins of the crystal skulls was to take a new turn when one of the world’s most powerful museums became embroiled in the controversy.

After our trip to Anna Mitchell-Hedges, we put in a call to the British Museum back in London. We wanted to see how their plans for testing their skull were progressing. But Elizabeth Carmichael now put us in touch with Dr Jane Walsh, Mesoamerican specialist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, because she had become interested in crystal skulls when one had turned up at her office unexpectedly. We were intrigued. It seemed that Carole Wilson’s channelled prediction that some of the other crystal skulls would soon be rediscovered was coming true.

The Smithsonian’s crystal skull had come into their possession only very recently, and under very sad and mysterious circumstances. It had just arrived one day at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, having been sent through the post by an anonymous donor. Dr Walsh told us the story:

‘I got a call one afternoon from Richard Ahlborn, who is the curator over at American History. He said, “I’ve got something here theDepartment of Anthropology might be interested in.”

‘At first he didn’t say what it was but I got the impression from the tone of his voice that whatever it was he seemed very keen to get it off his hands. Then he explained that he had received in the mail a box, which had a crystal skull inside it.

‘The skull had arrived accompanied by an unsigned handwritten note which read simply: “Dear Sir, This Aztec crystal skull, purported to be part of the [Mexican President] Porfirio Díaz collection, was purchased in Mexico City in 1960… I am offering it to the Smithsonian without any consideration. Naturally, I wish to remain anonymous…”

‘Richard asked me if I would be interested in taking it. Unaware of the pitfalls that lay ahead, I said, “Yes, by all means, I’ll come right over and pick it up.”

‘But Richard said, ‘No, no, it’s too heavy. I’ll deliver it.”

‘So he called me and said he was downstairs. On the way down I stopped off at one of the technician’s offices and asked for a cart to pick it up. The technician wanted to know what I needed the cart for. So I explained that I needed it to pick up a crystal skull and I received the rather ominous warning, “Don’t look it in the eye – they’re cursed!”’

Undeterred, Dr Walsh wheeled the skull back to her office. And so it was that she found herself the caretaker of the world’s largest, and probably the ugliest, known crystal skull. We looked with interest at the photographs she sent us. Larger than life, the skull is about 10” (25.5 cm) high, 8.25” (22.8 cm) wide and weighs a phenomenal 31 lb (14 kg). Unlike the Mitchell-Hedges and British Museum skulls, it is not clear, but very cloudy. Also unlike the Mitchell-Hedges’ skull, but like the British Museum one, this skull has no separate jaw-bone.

One particularly curious feature of the skull is the fact that despite its massive weight it is actually completely hollow, so that you can look right through its eye sockets deep into its empty interior. It looks almost like a peculiar Halloween lantern, as if a candle might once have been placed within it which could be glimpsed only through the eye sockets. The skull has a smooth finish but is lacking in detail and its features are only crudely represented. But, whatever the quality of its craftsmanship, this skull is by no means a beautiful object. To me it looked rather ugly, whilst Ceri said she found it ‘positively disturbing’, ‘like looking at the mere shell of a human being’. The overall impression it gives is of a strange, almost non-human face. Ceri said it looked as though it were the image of some earlier period of human development and certainly from one particular angle it does look almost Neanderthal (see plate no. 9 (#litres_trial_promo)). But is this skull really cursed? Could we really not look it in the eye? And where had it come from?

Jane Walsh said she had had the skull in her office for quite a while now and had looked it in the eye many a time. ‘Nothing’s happened so far. I haven’t experienced any curses or anything,’ she said lightly.

But there was something about the arrival of the skull which some considered evidence of it being cursed. For why did its mysterious donor wish to remain anonymous?

Investigations in this area had uncovered some rather disturbing information. Attempts to track down the anonymous donor had led instead to his lawyer. The reason for this, as the lawyer explained, was that the donor himself, whose name he could not reveal, was now dead. After sending in the skull he had committed suicide. His lawyer explained that since coming into possession of the crystal skull this man had experienced a whole series of awful tragedies – his wife had died, his son had a terrible accident that left him brain dead and he had gone bankrupt. Finally, he had decided to end it all.

The question was, did all this have anything to do with the curse of the skull? Dr Walsh seemed quite convinced that the anonymous donor had simply decided to take his own life as a result of the tragedies that had befallen him and that these tragedies had nothing to do with the crystal skull.

However, Dr Walsh had noticed something rather strange that had been happening ever since the skull had come into her possession:

‘I don’t believe the skull is cursed… But, since I’ve had it in the office it seems to attract other skulls because I’ve gotten calls and had people bring in several other skulls and I keep hearing of new ones.’

The surprising thing was that what Jane Walsh had been experiencing was very similar to what had been happening to us. As we continued our investigations we kept finding that each time we heard about a crystal skull, its owner or someone associated with it would put us in touch with someone else who would know of another one.