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Pieces of Rainbows

We headed out in the zero of December to visit a friend. Some hours later, an unexpected surprise appeared. The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull was carried out to greet us and placed on the wooden coffee table in front of us in the dimmed light! I felt immediate vibrations all over my body!
How should I describe this energetic experience? I “felt” rather than heard a humming vibration emanating from the skull rather like an electric sixty cycle hum from an ancient radio I played in my childhood. Weren’t the first radios called crystal sets? Do crystals amplify vibrations?
Not touching the skull, but scooting forward, I peered down into its mystic silver depths. The crystal was clear, yet patterns appeared like untapped universes and oceans of water and stars, infinity deep.
I remember thinking, “This skull is out of this world!” How could human artists have crafted it? If humans fashioned it, they had divine guidance from unseen hands guided by light and unspoken directions. I reflected about my painting, tapping unseen energy from the universe and downloading it into solid light and liquid color. I didn’t think about painting the skull. I didn’t think.
Getting up, like a cat circling, I viewed the skull from every angle. Creeping slowly around the ancient artifact, I thought about how Tai Chi and Qigong practice helps to raise body, mind, and spirit to higher energy states through its ancient ritual forms, some say stemming from shamanic dances at the dawn of time.
Sitting down again, I peered once more into the mysterious depths of the skull absorbing its solidified light. Refractions of color split the night, prisms of light appeared and danced from within and without. These prisms were not arcs of rainbow color, but “pieces of rainbows” as if you’d take a scissors and slash random fragments in various sizes from neon rainbow paper, raw material for a future collage.

Time to Leave

Rising slowly to my feet, I felt connected to the earth by strong vibrations. Walking carefully, I felt I was treading on pincushions! The black velvet night shocked my body with its December chill. Settling into the passenger seat of the car, I quickly performed my “cool down” exercises from Tai Chi class so as to ground my energy and settle my soul which was wild with joy and wonder. Vibrations painted a day and night to remember.

Vision!

Bedtime settled over me like a warm quilt, dreamless sleep enveloped me. About four in the morning, I had a dream vision. The colors and energy were so vivid I awoke with a start! Even waking up could not fade the neon bright image. I had “received” a painting I had to materialize!
The skull image in the center of the vision burned into my consciousness. Looking straight at the skull, it was smiling – though some perceive the skull as female and some feel androgynous energy. The skull radiated neon white and the sunburst around it was vibrant yellow, hurting my eyes. Energy intense rose light appeared, framing the edges of the canvas. Rose is the color of unconditional love.
I lay awake for quite awhile. I knew, with the right timing and energy, I would paint the skull.

Pieces of Rainbows!

Some days later, I talked to my daughter by phone. I did not tell her about the adventure. I wanted her to be surprised!
“Mom, the other day while I practiced Tai Chi, I got rainbows! I knew you were sending them.” We often send and receive thoughts, colors, and images back and forth. “But they weren’t like regular rainbows, they were cut-up ones like someone took a scissors and cut them into random sizes!” I smiled, knowing those were images I had seen reflected in the skull.
“How bright were they?” I questioned.
“Oh, they were very bright, like neon color!” she answered.
I realized that these rainbows had been sent out unconsciously and not directly to my daughter. She tuned into the frequency band, and picked up the brilliantly painted images.

Painting the Vision

Months later, gripping my favorite ancient worn bristle brush was like picking up a magic sword. Today, the energy felt just right for painting. As I lifted the sword-brush, I felt intense vibrations streaming into me like lifting my sword for Tai Chi practice. I felt like I was in the presence of the skull itself. I had never had such an intense experience while painting. I prayed to my legions of angels to help me create and guide the brush. How would I paint the skull? With a lot of help!
I stood to paint, poised over the canvas, rotating the brush silently above the canvas without touching it. Picking up spiritual energy from the universe to translate it into solid color, I felt like a Zen calligrapher/painter, picking up vibrational guidelines ready to paint over invisible images and energy. Could I transmit and translate the healing feeling I felt?
I dipped the brush boldly into the titanium white and a smudge of cobalt blue. Its worn, uneven bristles crunched. Tracing over unseen light, I circled in the outline of the skull, a memory from my vision-dream. Slashing the strokes like a Tai Chi sword in action, the skull began to take shape. Picking up vibrant yellow, I stroked timidly around the aura the skull emitted. The yellow faded paler on the canvas than in my vision. I let the color paint itself. Rose light was next in bold slashes outward from the image to frame the edges.
Something mysterious happened. The bright paint whirled out from the skull, not in slashes, but in circles! I knew the otherworld was painting through me! I silently “heard” the hum again as the brush circled. White paint swirls completed circling around the edges, tying the image together like a birthday present. I signed my name. I quit!

Many years later, I saw the results of the photon camera photographs that had been done by the Seraphim Institute of the crystal skull and realized that they were surprisingly like my intuitive painting.

Meeting Anna Mitchell-Hedges

The phone rang. It was a friend coming to call and bringing Anna Mitchell-Hedges with him. What excitement! Angel paintings surrounded the skull image on the stone mantel. Anna, then ninety-five years old, entered and hugged me. We all sat down excitedly, and I showed the skull painting. Anna loved it.

The skull radiates love. Anna’s peaceful, joyful presence is like the energy of the skull itself. Someone commented that in one of the skull’s eyes “I” had painted the pupil in a heart shape.
I tried to photograph this energetic skull painting, but the pictures were cloudy. All the other paintings on the role of film were perfect. Vision or experience? Which is more powerful? I named the painting Crystal Vision.

Crystal Tiger: Out of the Blue

Next I started a second painting of the skull, a unique experience! Taking my ancient worn brush and French ultramarine blue, a deep and vibrant hue like sapphires in the night, I brushed in the canvas with sweeps and swirls. I imagined the skull that would appear later painted over the thoroughly dry blue background. Like diamond sparkles on black velvet, I would draw light from deep blue darkness. My previous paintings added darks and shadows over lightly toned backgrounds.
The lonely blue canvas rested for a year, I checked on it frequently and saw images to paint later. Then I carefully fashioned a faint skull vision with light strokes of radiant white oil paint. The result showed two different skulls superimposed into one. Which one would I highlight?
Neither! One day I was sitting at my computer typing away and listening to music while thinking about painting a white tiger. I had been thinking about this for some time. I read in Chinese mythology a white tiger represents the constellation we call Orion the Hunter. I thought about a textured tiger image carved from crystal. A head and shoulders tiger view suddenly “emerged” fully formed and in sharp detail from an inner vision.
Like an explosion, I pictured the shimmering blue canvas backdrop receiving the tiger and immediately I had the title of the painting: Crystal Tiger!
Excitedly, I prepared to paint the images right away before they escaped! I pictured painting the tiger with jewels of white light as a carved crystal image with the invisible skull as a swirl of star aura around big cat. I took a chisel brush and titanium white and carved in the tiger with sure strokes. The tiger smiled with open jaws as he painted himself against the blue night. Next, I added Sirius, the dog star, and Orion’s belt of three stars. Heading around the painting, I brushed in the Big Dipper and the polestar, Like a ridgepole of a house, the polestar represents a stable center. Ursa Major and Polaris, stillness and motion reflecting the ancient Chinese Taiji practice itself.
Brushing in two stars for the little known constellation Lynx added a catlike energy to balance Canis Major, the Celestial Wolf, belonging to Orion. The Pleiades made their appearance and Cassiopeia, the Queen, as well.
One of my Taiji students saw a crane flying when he looked at color photos of the crystal skull. I smudged a faint flying Chinese crane into the skull and highlighted the crystal a little. In China, the crane symbolizes health, strength, and longevity. It worked! A balance of aura and stars appeared!
Adding my signature, in faint green, the only color besides blue completed the crystal project projecting love (green), communication (blue), and truth (white). I had fun painting this picture. It is important to play with color and words like one plays with daily Taiji practice, helping to open the creative heart of the universe.
Some time later, I presented Crystal Tiger to Anna Mitchell-Hedges, then keeper of the skull. Anna loved the painting and its blue mysterious depths.
Recently Bill Homann, current keeper of the skull, told me that F.A. Mitchell-Hedges’s nickname was White Tiger! Another painted surprise, I had no idea about this connection! The carved tiger surfaced from my subconscious. “Out of the Blue” Crystal Tiger Roars!