Nothing revealed: the skull on British TV

The (channel) five documentary “Revealed” that ran on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 (repeated on June 29), titled “Legend of The Crystal Skulls” was – alas – another documentary trying to offer bogus revelations, in obvious efforts to make the documentary more than it was. At a time when dozens of documentaries are done on the skull, it is hard for lower-budget productions to get sold and hype is often the preferred method of the sales pitch. Alas, it is a sign of our times that television makers feel their documentaries need to be the absolute this, or absolute that – when it isn’t by a long shot.
We feel particularly aggrieved by the documentary makers’ depiction of Anna Mitchell-Hedges as a liar, which they somehow felt necessary to hammer home the point they hoped to make. But it is particularly annoying to see how throughout the length of the documentary, there were dozens of inaccuracies and false claims. Jane Walsh herself is probably not all too pleased either by the words put in her mouth, namely that she was the one that uncovered the 1943 Sotheby sale records for the skull, or the implied references to the MAN 1936 article discovery.

The gravest of errors committed by the documentary is that it accepted the false premise that pre-Columbian cultures did not have any tools to make the skulls. It is none other than Michael Coe who has said this statement should not be taken as dogma, yet it is precisely that which several researchers, whether Jane Walsh, Margaret Sax, or television producers such as those making this documentary, hold. It is similar to the stance archaeologists have held – and largely continue to hold – that earthquakes have never been responsible for the demise of cities or civilisations, whereas there is overwhelming scientific evidence that they are. But denial…
Furthermore, the full verdict of the Hewlett-Packard and British Museum claims – both of whom did extensive testing on the skulls, unlike the few hours Walsh has spent with the skull – were not all fully put together and explained, as if they did not matter.

However, there is worse. This picture shows to what length a director or editor will go to support arguments by false imagery.

They who accuse Mike and Anna Mitchell-Hedges of falsifying their evidence have fallen into their own trap. Thomas Gann has been airbrushed out of the original picture and it was actually he, not Mitchell-Hedges, who used the dynamite. Mitchell-Hedges favoured the method of burning back the vegetation as it was so dense… Dynamite was – however much modern archaeologists seem to hate it – a method their predecessors used to excavate with.
Unless we are accused of inventing these claims, we quote what was said about Gann: “He couldn’t get into the temples very easily and was wondering what was in the centre and the easiest thing was to blow it up,” says Mas. “Perhaps that’s why they named the site the falling stones. Everything collapsed and he didn’t find anything. It’s a shame.”
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Then there is Harvard University’s R.E. Merwin who visited the site in 1914 and made off with three priceless ball-court markers, which are now on display in Harvard’s Peabody Museum. It seems Mitchell-Hedges was an amateur – derived from the Latin word for “love” – in the true sense of the word, and no other sense.

The end conclusion is therefore simple: the producers have tampered with copyrighted material to suit their own case, in the most circumspect of manners: in this case the villain was airbrushed out and the one man left standing was to blame alongside his so called “bankroll”!
Furthermore, Lady Richmond-Brown was not twisted into coming on the trip; she was diagnosed with cancer and in that respect, as Mitchell-Hedges put it, “had nothing to loose”. She did return for a second visit, but was too ill for the third. She wrote her own book (Unknown Tribes Uncharted Seas), as did Jane Harvey Houlson (Blue Blaze). Both were ecstatic from their experiences with Mitchell-Hedges, but such supportive evidence was not used in the documentary.

Though we understand that documentaries want to provide a lot of airtime to scientists, in the case of Jane Walsh, we need to underline she is not an expert on Mitchell-Hedges, nor has she ever met Anna. Many of her statements as made in this documentary are personal assumptions and not firm facts themselves. Walsh gets the meeting of Sammy & Mitchell-Hedges off track and makes a yea or nay “assumption” that she had been adopted by Mitchell-Hedges. She was adopted and the papers were filed in Panama. While Mitchell Hedges retuned to the UK he “sometimes” left Anna with an English family on the island of Taboga in the Bay of Panama.
Jane Walsh also says the Anna was short of money after her father died. The man was a millionaire and was very good at pirating and hiding his wealth, as he did most of his personal information! We need to remember that the 1920s were far different than today, and jungle tribes did not accept VISA, nor could one quickly transfer money from England to Mexico or elsewhere, if needed as a matter of urgency.
It has taken years to piece together most of his life from archive material that has lain around in old trunks for many a dusty year. In a letter dated May 1944 (i.e. during World War II) he tells one of his brothers that he has the largest single collection of silver in the UK… one hundred and fifty thousands ounces of silver and not a piece older than 1819. That is 4.18 tonnes, with the majority dated to between 1600 and 1780.
The 1960 B/W BBC film ( a very short clip of a greater viewing of the silver was shown in the channel five documentary) showing Anna displaying all the Mitchell-Hedges silver collection was in itself a mass of brilliant display of opulence and wealth. When you add it up it comes to over £200,000, which is a lot of money in those days. Anna broke? Definitely not so!

The documentary also has several factual errors. The Sotheby’s sale was not reported correctly: Mitchell-Hedges did buy the Crystal Skull at auction for £400, outbidding the British Museum. It was reported in the daily newspaper of the time. Also in a letter to his brother in December 1943 he states: “‘The Collection’ grows and grows. You possibly saw in the papers that I acquired that amazing Crystal Skull that was formally in the ‘Sydney Burney collection’. It is fashioned from a single block of rock crystal, exactly life size. Scientist put it at around 1800 BC and they estimate that it took five generations passing from father to son to complete. It is anthropologically perfect in every detail. A superb piece of craftsmanship. There is only one other in the world like it which is in the British Museum, and it is acknowledge not to be as fine as this”.
In another letter he says “this is one item that no amount of money will induce me to sell and I have had three American museums trying [...] The Anthropological journal Man has nearly devoted an entire issue to it.” In the same letter he refers to the Skull as being “world famous”. So why, when he is totally open, does he write in his book “I have reasons for not revealing” … unless he wants you to look deeper?

There are two very obvious opportunities missed here that in themselves present a mystery. The Crystal Skull was in an auction that was totally out of character with its genre. Also, Mitchell-Hedges, the art collector, had no interest at all in crystals or any artefacts of that nature, but nevertheless had to go to London very early by train and bid for it. Why does a man whose sole interest is in silver suddenly switch tracks and go for a unique piece of crystal in a furniture sale where all other items are “Chinese Porcelain - Needlework & Furniture - Important Oriental Rugs”? Unless, of course, it is as Anna said, and it was because her father was greatly surprised to learn that his Skull was placed at auction and had to react quickly to get it back.
Furthermore, there is suggestion in the documentary that Mitchell-Hedges had no prior knowledge of crystal skulls. If that were the case, then what to make of the references in his only book of fiction “White Tiger”, published in 1931 (i.e. 13 years prior to the auction), where he speaks of “Crystal Heads” as part of the Treasure of the Aztecs? This information was passed to Picturefilms, the producers of this documentary, who decided not to use this evidence. If that avenue was explored, it might have been a documentary of genuine interest, rather than the bogus revelations dished up instead.

Finally, the documentary’s conclusions were muddled in the extreme. It is a known fact that the skull existed in 1934 (as indicated in the MAN 1936 article that was used in the documentary), yet the documentary seems to allege that in 1924 the technology did not exist to create this skull, when Anna said she had found the skull – begging the question what precisely changed, technology or otherwise, between 1924 and 1934. Some viewers also came away with the impression that the documentary seemed to be arguing the skull was made in the 1950s, which is of course preposterous. In short, the documentary conclusions had all the hallmarks of one-liners, strung together in a muddled manner, so that the holes in the argument might not be seen by the viewer. We hope the viewer is more intelligent…

Tags: channel five | crystal skull | falsified evidence | Jane Walsh | Mitchell-Hedges | Smithsonian

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.

Dahlis Roy

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In 1931, F.A. Mitchell-Hedges published a novel, “The White Tiger”. The novel relates the adventures of “White Tiger” – a nickname some would give to Mitchell-Hedges himself – in Central America, where White Tiger, an English ex-pat, becomes the leader of a local Indian tribe. As part of his initiation and preparation for coronation, he is shown the treasure of the Aztecs, over which the tribe guards.
The treasure contains “crystal heads”, which is of course of interest as Mitchell-Hedges’ name would become associated with the most famous of crystal skulls. Coincidence, or did Mitchell-Hedges use a work of fiction to reveal how the skull came to be in his possession?

CHAPTER XVI
THE TREASURE OF THE AZTECS

LATER the White Tiger learned that there was no mystery in the disappearance of his Indians. Too terror-stricken to utter a sound, they had been led away by the silent-footed Maya while he was engrossed in his thoughts. They were taken care of in another part of the city—only the high priest, his personal attendants and the White Tiger occupying this section of the citadel, which was sacred to those initiated into the higher mysteries of their religion.
Undisturbed, cut off from the world, all these strange people had their appointed work. To some was allotted the task of keeping the space round the city clear, and the buildings in good repair. Others devoted their lives to astronomy and mathematics, in which sciences they excelled. They had evolved a calendric system more perfect than our present Gregorian. It had started on a date 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, synchronising with our date 3373 B.C. and had functioned without the loss of a single day from that remote period up to the present.
As the days lengthened into weeks the White Tiger learned much ; their language and customs—religion—and even more than this. He gained a knowledge, though only slight, of the occult.
The mystery of how they had known of his coming—even the exact time of his arrival—and had prepared accordingly to receive him, he could never solve. Neither could he ever ‘ understand how they moved gigantic blocks of stone weighing many tons. Over this a veil of secrecy was drawn. That in some fashion they were cognisant of events taking place in the outside world, was certain. That they practised esoteric rites, and could employ light-rays, he was convinced. He suspected strongly that the secret of levitation, or suspension of gravity locally, was known to the higher adepts. Why they chose to withhold their knowledge, and why they withheld their power from the world was a mystery known only to themselves.
Quick at languages, he rapidly mastered the Maya tongue; and then one morning the High Priest announced that the time had arrived for his initiation. He explained there must be a public ceremony, that before all the assembled Maya he should be proclaimed king in the ancient custom. His coming had been foretold by the gods, who had commanded that he should be obeyed. Further, it was decreed that the vast treasure entrusted to the Maya by the last of the Aztecs should be placed in his keeping.
The gods had spoken. When the moon was at its full the ceremony of coronation should take place.
And so it came to pass. Not a cloud marred the beauty of the night when the White Tiger, dressed from head to foot in a long embroidered garment and wearing the royal mask and towering head-dress, passed along the white roadway between the pyramids. Behind followed the priests, nobles and lesser orders, whilst last of all came the women. A few hundred in all—a pitiful handful. Yet this remnant of a once-powerful civilisation that had numbered millions still retained its ancient dignity.
Slowly the White Tiger advanced. He made a regal figure as he took the place appointed to the ruler of the Maya at the summit of one of the flat-topped pyramids overlooking the arena, where stood the people.
The rays of the moon struck down, illuminating the scene with a ghostly light. The silence was broken by the incantations of the High Priest. The religious ceremony, long drawn-out, was brought to a conclusion by the offering up of the customary sacrifices to the gods of the Maya—a food-offering to Cuculcan, the god of Fertility—the slaughtering of a beast to Cimi, god of Death, but the ancient sacrifice of the maidens was, by order of the White Tiger, abolished.
Then as he rose to his full height, the High Priest drew near and hung round his neck the royal insignia—an enormous jade disc, and placed in his left hand a strange emblem carved from the same stone. The fingers of his right were then clasped round the hilt of an obsidian dagger encrusted with jade. The priest made a sign and the people bowed to the ground, and so remained silent and motionless whilst, with only the priest in attendance, the White Tiger descended from the pyramid and returned along the sacred road to the temple which had now become his residence.
The climax however was yet to come. As they passed into the temple, the priest impressively led him to one of the massive walls, placing his hand in a certain manner upon what appeared to be a solid block of stone. At his touch it rolled slowly back disclosing a flight of steps down which they passed. A lamp which the priest carried flung weird patches of light into the darkness. On and on down countless steps—into the very bowels of the earth until again the priest pressed the apparently solid rock barring their progress. With scarcely a sound the stone block turned as easily as if on oiled hinges and before them yawned a long tunnel. Passing through this they descended another flight of steps. For a third time the priest touched the wall and a huge stone rolled aside. Then in the dim light of the lantern the White Tiger saw that he was in an immense vault cut out of the living rock.
Before him, piled in endless confusion, lay the treasure of the Aztecs.
Gold chalices, bowls, jars and other vessels of every size and shape; immense plaques and strange ornaments all glittered dully. Of precious stones there were none, but many rare chalchihuitl (jadeite pendants). Masks of obsidian and shells beautifully inlaid were all heaped together with heads carved from solid blocks of crystal, Legend had not exaggerated the treasure of the Aztecs. Almost boundless wealth lay at the disposal of the White Tiger. [emphases added]
Bloodshed, rape and sickening torture, that the wretched Aztecs had undergone at the hands of the Spanish Conquistadores, had failed to wring from them this secret hiding-place. True to the oath which had they had sworn to their gods they had died rather than that their hated conquerors should benefit.
With this vast fortune a man could rise to any height, indulge in any luxury, purchase any title, and become one of the exalted of the earth. But the Indians judged, and rightly, that to the White Lord these things were of no account, and that only for their regeneration would this treasure be used.
The High Priest ceremoniously placed all at the disposal of El Tigre Blanco and instructed him how to gain entrance to the vault. Then turning, the two men left the chamber, the great stone doors rolling back into place behind them.
That night there came to the White Tiger strange dreams—vivid and disturbing in their realism. Blood and fighting, distorted heaps of dead, groans of the dying, quivering bodies rolling in agony. Spectral figures hurried past with gaping wounds and faces impressed with the stamp of death. The scene changed, and now he stood in a palace surrounded by his guards, while he received the ministers of foreign powers—he, the President of a great republic.
The dream of power was abruptly broken. A form appeared —tall, fair, with soft grey eyes and ash-gold hair. Her arms were stretched out to him, pleading. He could hear her whispered words—” I know it is not Good-bye, beloved. Have you forgotten ? ” Suddenly unseen hands snatched her away while her cry of despair rang through his brain. He started from his troubled sleep, the sweat pouring down him. He sat up and a low groan broke from his lips. It was horribly real. Of the bloodshed and his ultimate triumph as the President of a republic he knew and cared nothing. It could be but the fantasy of a disordered mind; but the girl ! the wound, never properly healed, was re-opened. Those words impressed for ever on his mind—” I know it is not Good-bye, beloved”—what could it mean ?
What was the significance of those unseen hands tearing her from him ? Why the despairing cry ? He shivered in sudden fear. Was she dead ? Had her spirit come to him in farewell ?
He rose, dressed and passed into the open. The day was breaking and in the early light the pyramids looked ghostly, and a cold wind whispered across them. Alone in this vast citadel, the resting-place of kings, priests and nobles, whose autocratic word had been obeyed by the Maya through thousands of years long past, he shuddered as over him swept the knowledge that no matter to what heights he might rise, to what power he might attain, what wealth might be his—all would be Dead Sea fruit; each step up the ladder of success would but add to his bitterness, his incompleteness, his utter loneliness. He knew that only if once more he might bold in his arms the dear form that had clung to him on that unforgettable night in the garden of Whiteleaf Manor, and know the indefinable wonder of her soft lips on his—then, and then only would he understand the real meaning of living. He turned. At his side stood the High Priest, enquiry in his eyes.
“Vision has come to me also,” he remarked simply. “Great your future, but red is the road you must travel. Nor shall you attain to the height which I prophesy without much suffering. Failure will be near. Man of blood, hand in hand with you shall Death stalk. At a time when the shadow of eternal night hovers over you, then to you will come the one you have lost and in union you shall become complete and fulfil your destiny. With his dying breath the Emperor Montezuma foretold your coming. The treasure is yours, so take freely what you desire, for it is decreed that this day you depart to that destiny which the gods have appointed. Come—even yet there is much to learn.”
And together they passed within the temple.
The further mystical rites in which the White Tiger was initiated will never be known. Hours elapsed, and when he emerged into the open and stood on the white roadway leading from the lost city, his face showed the strain of a great ordeal, but hope shone in his eyes.
His Indians were waiting, heavily laden with the golden treasure. The entire population was assembled. The ceremony of farewell was simple, as led by the High Priest they broke into a chant—a song of triumph.
As it died away they prostrated themselves and in silence the White Tiger set out to face once more the ruthless jungle.

 

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Several years ago, Frank Dorland aired the story of the Mitchell-Hedges skull and brought it on to the Joe Pyne show. Joe Pyne was an American radio and television talk show host who pioneered the confrontational style of hosting, in which the host advocates a viewpoint and argues with guests and audience members. Quite often, his opinions weren’t all that enlightened or enlightening.
I had my Swanson’s Hungry Man TV dinner in the toaster oven. It must have been sometime after 1969. When Frank Dorland entered, the studio audience gasped audibly at what he carried under his arm. It was the crystal Skull of Doom. Dorland was immaculately attired in a very expensive Pierre Cardin suit that crackled blue hot in the cathode ray black & white TV tube with its simple mounts and tau and gold thread console with knobs and channel changer reminiscent of a sci-fi flick interplanetary device called an interocetor.
My TV tray rattled as I got up to retrieve my Hungry Man dinner. I re-entered the living room just in the nick of time to observe “Mr. Camera” focusing in on the Crystal Skull like the lead in sequeying from the monologue to the Outer Limits. “The signpost up ahead” effectively bode ill as Joe Pyne, a one legged ex-marine drill sergeant with a permanent slot in his bulldog jowl for a stagey which all but muffled his clockwork quips for anything resembling the cut of the ordinary. “Sounds to me like highway robbery or like a pinko commie plot!”
This sure fire fizzled into the size of Pyne’s palpable embarrassment matching the crestfallen part of his otherwise brassy arrogance by a short and curlies hair’s breath, with Dorland regarding Pyne with the patience of a sage grandfather on a museum jaunt with a snot nose nephew firmly holding him by the short and curlies.

Dorland effectively met all of Joe’s verbal uppercuts finally leaning over to tug at Pyne’s sweaty arm to inform him that the skull didn’t take kindly to negative energy and tended to invert same with a magnifying effect on whoever seemed hostile to it.
Joe’s last heckle was interrupted by Mr. Camera #1 crashing into a tripod spotlight while Mr Camera #2 jumped to the dais upon which the Crystal Skull’s exquisitely wrought terrifying countenance had quietly reposed seconds before.
Then, Joe Pyne suddenly turned ashen at what we witnessed and I viewed that day.
The skull erupted from inside like a squid ejecting a cloud of ink which to be visible against the black satiny sheen of its container opened on hinges would have to have been on the halftone grey to color scale of B&W live TV, a nearly burgundy colored purplish violet hue similar to the color of Itz.
Now, this Itz is the “Translinguistic fluid” spoken of by Terrence McKenna as quoted by Daniel Pinchbeck in 2012: The Year of the Mayan Prophecy. The Mayan Wizard-king was considered the chief professor of Itz, the cosmic sap or magical fluid of shamans and alchemists akin or identical to the violet tinged “Translinguistic fluid” sought by the McKennas, which can be used to heal or kill.

When I read of this in Pinchbeck and then read of the Amethyst Crystal Skull, the apparently hitherto mere derivative function that amethyst would afford for example, scrying become crystal clear to wit. The crystal skull had been elicited to manifest the chief function of its evil twin, the amethyst skull, which was probably utilized for death dealing psychic blows to already induced Mayans like the Juju in a bottle wards off West Indian trespassers when displayed on a tree warning potential burglars that the house is the residence of a practitioner of Voodoo, and most probably an Auriesha to a caboe of considerable power as his/her ally.

It took Joe Pyne one year to die. Big daddy Tom Donahue delivered Joe’s epitaph on the KYA radio show. Sadly the live show was before video-tape and I even more unfortunately never realized what was going on until Philip Coppens’ in Nexus 15.3 on Crystal Skulls blindly corroborated Pinchbeck’s citing McKenna and quoting from David Frededel, Linda Schele and Joy Parker’s text in Mayan Cosmos: “For the ancient Maya human beings released their [soul-stuff] from their bodies when they let their blood. Through blood letting they conjured (Tzuk) the Way and the chru the companion spirits and gods.”

My father was a jeweler and if not for my Picassoid stubby digits I would have gone to gemology and become a watchmaker like him. However, being an artist and by inclination interested in art history I caught the splendors of the Dresden Exhibit at the palace of the legion of Honour in San Francisco when it venued there. I was so impressed with the reconstruction of the green room that some years later as an ostensible art agent/art consultant residing in Prague I visited the still visibly war ravaged Dresden, then still in East Germany, in the summer of 1990. I studied the Kunst Kammer in Prague, 114 folios of “every object made by the hand of Plou”, even focusing upon a silvered centaur which I had remembered from the exhibition at SEPL San Francisco Palace of the Legion of Honour. I also began to work on a theory which like a spark under a retort distilling sulphur mercury perennially attended on the back burner of my cognizance transmuted the fabulous, reducing it to the albedo ash of normalcy.

I know from my studies of the Kunst Kummer inventory of 1611 that several or more crystalline objects of a most impressive craftsmanship were listed. However, no crystal skulls! Mostly dismantling my earlier suspicion that the Mitchell-Hedges Skull might have been carved from a piece of Calaveras Quartz traded by Franciscan monks otherwise confiscated by conquistadors and sent to Philip II of Spain then forwarded to the Castrucci brothers, artisans and carvers of crystal for Rudolf II Holy Roman Emperor, was the quote from the Hewlett-Packard follow-up by Larry LaBarre that the quartz is very hard, measuring nine out of a possible ten on the Mohs scale, meaning that only a diamond would be able to cut it.
To my knowledge the Castrucci as employees of the Rudolfine workshops, wealthy as he (Rudolf II) was, did not have access to diamond mines. However, there is a particular grainy sand in the water camp region of the CR, which is of such a quality that is also quartz and it (I had thought) might have been utilized, though I would dispute that it would take seventy years or longer. Whoever carved this crystalline marvel must have obtained diamonds to cut with, especially as there must be a question mark whether there were sand sized particles in sufficient quantity. I think the Castruccis can be safely disqualified. But who can’t?

Keith Hendricks

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F.A. Mitchell-Hedges
Member of the Maya Committee of the British Museum

Internationally famous explorer whom the Indians named “El Tigre Blanco”

MITCHELL-HEDGES has given over thirty-seven thousand specimens of great historical and educational value to various museums; yet has never been financed by any one. He is without question one of the greatest of scientific explorers – and among the explorers he is probably the finest speaker. Despite his scientific attainments he is a man of action, a great speaker and an outstanding personality. Named by the Indians, who at once fear and revere him as “’El Tigre Blanco” (The White Tiger) he, with his intrepid assistant and secretary, Jane Houlson, have had adventures almost too fantastic to chronicle.
His previous books, “Battles With Giant Fish,” “The Land of Wonder and Fear.” etc., together with his radio experiences, have caused him to be known from one end of this country to another, yet until now he has never been offered for an extended lecture tour.
It is our pleasure to present Mr. F. A. Mitchell-Hedges as one of the most important adventurers, scientists and lecturers of his day.

 

LECTURE SUBJECTS
Illustrated With Magnificently Colored Lantern Slides

THE LAND OF WONDER AND FEAR
Life among the Zutuhilc Indian living in the region of Lake Atitlan. Bloodless revolutions some not so bloodless. Impenetrable jungle, unexplored territory where rivers debauch from the bowels of the earth and volcanoes are ever active, belching forth smoke, molten lava and lire.

BATTLES WITH GIANT FISH
Some of the most remarkable pictures ever taken of great fish and the great adventures involved in their taking. Pictures of the death-ray, poison-grouper (certain death within three to six minutes to anyone it strikes), the barracuda, the liger shark, the sea scorpion, living horrors of the lovely tropical waters.

THE LOST WORLD
The jungle gives up her treasures. A deserted city of ghostly mystery is found. A white woman, unwillingly invests herself with occult powers. Adventures among the Maya Kekchi descendant of the once highly cultured Maya race.

MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN HAILS “THE LOST WORLD” AS A DISCOVERY WHICH “WILL COMPEL ARCHAEOLOGISTS TO RECONSTRUCT THEIR PRESENT IDEAS REGARDING THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.”

 

F. A. MITCHELL-HEDGES
WHO would believe that prehistoric tribes of people still dwell on the American continent? Tribes whose manner of living has not advanced as far as the Stone Age. Who have never seen a white man, have never beard of a ship, a railroad, money, the Great War, or the United Stales of America. Who dwell in complete seclusion because they take every precaution to keep their village hidden. Who by the word of their gods savagely oppose any stranger seeking entrance to their territory. Yet some of these primitive natives live in the shadow of magnificent ruins of a once great civilization that flourished before the time of Christ and has since completely vanished from the lace of the earth.
HOW did Mitchell-Hedges find his way into these hidden places, walled in by thousands of square miles of solid jungle? Why did the natives accept this strange while man, name him “El Tigre Blanco,” allow him to take part in their strange ceremonies and rituals? Not one tribe of Indians, but twenty, be has lived among. Each one distinct, each with its own strange customs and superstitions. He penetrated the very heart of the interior of the greatest […] of all and is in possession of the most amazing facts about primitive life that have ever been collected. Daily life in the primeval jungle. Night in the jungle, when animal life awakes and the darkness is jewelled with gleaming eves, and rent with strange cries, as the age-old battle of survival of the fittest is fought to the death. When dancing lights on the hillsides mark the stronghold of the witches for those who would consult the occult. What weird knowledge is sought by the Indians who creep through little known trails to visit the wizards?

GAINING the confidence of the Indians he learned secrets which have been closely guarded for centuries. How much of these strange legends are based on fact, only the patience and courage to push on year after year through solid jungle can ever tell. Many of the rumors have already proved fruitful, leading him in one instance to the oldest Mayan city yet discovered, which he named Lubaantun, (city of fallen stones). Its principal citadel covers eight acres, and it brought to light the first amphitheatre found on the American continent, having seating accommodations for at least ten thousand people.

LAND of Wonder and Fear. Mitchell-Hedges has termed his beloved Central America. For year alter year its wonders lure him hack for fresh discoveries, while the dangers lurking in its unknown depths are a constant challenge to this great adventurer. Will he ever find the great white city which legend avers as a place of immense pyramids, temples and courtyards, gleaming like frosted ice in the sun-light? Have the Indian- revealed its location to El Tigre Blanco? And where is the stronghold in which Tecum-Umane, last of the great Quiche kings, is said to have concealed the vast treasure of the Indians at the time of the Spanish Conquest? Wondrous tales of an ancient race are written on fallen stones, while only time can tell what unsolved riddles still await discovery in the vast unexplored regions of the land of Wonder and Fear.
He spent nineteen years in Central America, fought his way to jungle depths never before penetrated by white men, discovered a new race of people, unearthed the oldest Maya city yet discovered. His deep sea research in the waters of the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean brought to light many strange monsters in support of his theory that prehistoric life may still lurk in the depths of the sea. Shunning cities, refusing to be lionized, he returned only long enough to get supplies, arrange new expeditions and dispose of his amazing collection of hitherto unrecorded specimens which have been donated to the British Museum, the Museums of Oxford and Cambridge, the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, and others.

 

 

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When Paramount released the title of the fourth instalment of the Indiana Jones series, it was clear that the object of desire was going to be a crystal skull. When they released their press kit, it included a photograph of the crystal skull – clearly alien in nature. From the press kit, it also appeared that the legendary city of Akakor would play a role in this story – it’s name changed to Akator. The kit contained a photograph of the so-called “Akakor Chamber” – a reference to Karl Brugger’s The Chronicle of Akakor book, which inspired the likes of Erich von Däniken to go in search of subterranean networks – including the infamous “Gold Library”.
In pre-release interviews, Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg commented that they had initially dismissed George Lucas’ idea to base the new Indiana Jones movie around a mythical crystal skull. The actor, along with director Spielberg, were looking for ideas for a fourth movie featuring the legendary character, and turned down several script possibilities, including one that saw the Dr. Henry ‘Indiana’ Jones Jr. hunting for the Lost City of Atlantis.
When producer Lucas suggested a script focusing on the crystal skull - a quartz cranium believed to hold supernatural powers - both his colleagues laughed off the idea. Ford admitted it became a struggle between the three men as they resisted Lucas’ idea - but they eventually gave in, conceding that the Star Wars filmmaker was “always right”.

The premiere of the movie was at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18, with a worldwide theatre release on May 22. “Crystal Skull” begins in 1957 Nevada, with Indy and his partner Mac (Ray Winstone) trying to escape from the Soviets who have kidnapped them. Blanchett’s fearsome Irina Spalko wants them to locate the crystal skull within Area 51 for some kind of nefarious mind-control plan involving alien intelligence (a long-standing Spielberg subject). A former colleague of Indy’s, Professor Harold Oxley (John Hurt), also was after the skull – and went missing in pursuit of it. LaBeouf’s young tough Mutt Williams tracks Indy down and pleads with him to help find their mutual friend, which sends the two on a quest to determine the purpose behind the mystical artefact and keep it out of the wrong hands.

In the earlier Indiana Jones films, the objects of antiquity that seemed to drive the story acted more or less purely as MacGuffins: plot devices that advanced the action, but whose explicit usefulness and others details were not of paramount importance. Audiences never needed to know exactly how the Sankara Stones worked or what they actually did in “The Temple of Doom,” nor exactly how the Arc would be put to use by the Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” We knew the parties involved were evil, and that the artefacts were powerful, and that was reason enough to stop them. Even though Hitler believed in the mystical power of such ancient artefacts, it was never about that power for Indy, the consummate archaeologist. In “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” the nature of the artefacts is anything but understated.

Since The Da Vinci Code and the media-dumbing down, movies and books come with danger. Hence, members of Russia’s dwindling Communist Party called for a nationwide boycott of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, objecting to the depiction of Soviet troops invading top-secret American installations, killing guards and wreaking havoc. The Communists claimed that no Soviet terrorists were ever sent to the US in 1957. Instead, they said, the government successfully launched the first Sputnik satellite, “which evoked the admiration of the whole world.”
The film has two references to the name Mitchell-Hedges and his crystal skull. The only other skull mentioned is in the British Museum. And though the object of desire is not the Mitchell-Hedges skull, the crystal skull of the film is nevertheless equally carved against the grain, like the Mitchell-Hedges skull.
There is a further, somewhat obscure, reference to Mitchell-Hedges. At one point, Indiana Jones relates that he was once captured by Pancho Villa. It cannot be a coincidence that Mitchell-Hedges was captured by Pancho Villa too – suggesting that portions of Indiana Jones’ profile are indeed taken from the life and times of Mitchell-Hedges. Both are definitely larger than life characters.
Other topics in the movie address the Remote Viewing projects initiated by the US and Soviet governments, the alien theme, especially Roswell and Area 51, the Nazca geoglyphs, and the legend of Akakor, with a tiny addition of the El Dorado and Col. Fawcett stories.
However, of great interest is that the plot of the movie revolves around not so much bringing 13 crystal skulls together, but bringing back the 13th skull back to the place from where it was taken from, so that this “return” can set a sequence of events in motion.

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Mitchell-Hedges never came across extra-terrestrial beings, but he did come upon what experts told him was a unique human being – which looks as strange as no doubt aliens would look like.
This encounter with a bizarre “mummy” is the so-called ‘chief fetish’, which Mitchell-Hedges encountered amongst a tribe known as the Chucunaque. It is little known that it was actually Mitchell-Hedges and Lady Brown that discovered this tribe in Panama. It will therefore come as no surprise that on their arrival amongst the Chucunaque, the tribe decided to kill the white intruders as it was a tribal custom that death should be dispensed to anyone violating their territory.
Mitchell-Hedges’ intelligence and knowledge was put on display when he realised that the best methodology to deal with this lethal danger, was to pretend they were gods, and as such put on a spectacle: he had brought some flares and Lady Richmond Brown’s Queen of Sheba costume, resulting in a performance that convinced the Chucunaque that Mitchell-Hedges and Lady Richmond Brown were indeed gods sent to cure their ills.

A huge number of fascinating exhibits was collected. Amongst these was the ‘Chief Fetish’ of the Chucunaque tribe, used to treat males on the point of death. This was a human male foetus preserved by an unknown means. Professor Sir Arthur Keith F.R.S., regarded as one of the greatest anthropologist of his day, examined the fetish and declared it had a skull formation ‘hitherto entirely unknown’. This anomaly has never been solved and the unique specimen was presented to The British Museum along with hundreds of others.

To quote from Mitchell-Hedges’ Danger My Ally:

“Our experience with the San Blas Indians had warned us that sickness would be rife; but nothing we had seen there remotely approached the terrible condition of the Chucunaque. The village was rotten with disease.
[…]
Day after day Mabs and I went from hut to hut, dosing as many of the natives as we could and for as long as we could endure the dreadful diseases and the appalling stench – a matter of only four hours a day. Ruthlessly we threw out the witch-doctors’ ‘medicines’ – the wooden gods, the half-calabashes of pebbles, bone, crocodiles’ teeth, bark and the acrid, smoking herbs that forced the patient to cough and fill the steamy air of his hut with germs. Many of these fetishes – including the greatest of all – we were able to bring back to England.
This chief fetish was used only as a last resort, when an Indian was at the point of death. As far as we could discover only males were privileged to undergo the treatment, and if the sufferer subsequently recovered it was considered that a miracle had occurred. But to us the significance was in the fetish itself which proved to be unique, for it was found upon examination to be a human male foetus.
Professor Sir Arthur Keith, F.R.S., who is regarded throughout the world as one of the greatest anthropologists, gives it as his opinion that its age was from five to six months when it was removed from the womb of the mother. It had been preserved perfect in every single detail, even the fine skin; and under a microscope one can see the beginning of the eyebrows. This preservation of an embryonic child shows a scientific knowledge of the highest order in contradistinction to their habits and conditions of living. All anthropologists who have seen it are unanimous in their opinion that is has neither been smoked, sun-dried nor cured by any process known today, neither has it been treated with spirit; yet it is as perfect as when first removed from the mother.
Subsequent close examination disclosed that the foetus had a skull formation hitherto entirely unknown.
When we were told by experts that it was probably the only specimen of its kind in the world, we felt its proper place was The British Museum to which we gladly presented it.”

Various cultures have used foetuses in their magic; the practice is known to have been present in Roman times in Egypt. The foetus, of course, was a living human being. Normally, in magic, inanimate objects (stones, dolls, etc.) are used as a first grade of magic, e.g. the ushabtis that in ancient Egypt were used to help the deceased in the Afterlife, or the Terracotta Army to guard the Chinese Emperor. In cases where these objects cannot be animated, human remains – such as aborted foetuses – are used as, of course, they once had a “soul”.
Because of the rather extra-ordinary nature of these artefacts, little to no research has occurred. Furthermore, the fact that Mitchell-Hedges was able to have the tribe part with their Chief Fetish underlines the level of integration and gratitude he received from the tribe.

The Chief Fetish currently remains in storage at The British Museum. Jon Rolls and Cris Winter viewed the Chief Fetish at the British Museum in 2005. Jon says that it “was the most amazing object I have ever seen – and I have visited many museums. It had incredible detail and looked like it was sleeping, it was so lifelike I expected its eyes to open any second. As I examined it, a number of questions sprung to mind which remain unanswered to this day.”
These questions were:
1. How was it preserved? In his book, it is described as being by an unknown method.
2. Can the foetus be dated by some scientific means to determine its exact age?
3. Can it be x-rayed to see whether the skull formation is as unique, as was declared in the 1920s?
4. Is there anything unique about the bone structure and joints? Obviously most foetuses have bent legs and arms and are curled up within the womb. This foetus’s joints are unnaturally straight. It looks like it could have stood upright. Could it have been in this position in the womb or was it stretched out for preservation?
5. What is its DNA? Is it human? If so, is it similar to the Chucunaque tribe? Was it deformed?
6. If not human, is it a type of monkey or other form of animal life?
7. What stage of development was the foetus at? How many months? Why did the experts in the 1920s believe it was 5-6 months old when it’s surely far too small for this to be true – even if the mother was suffering from illness or malnutrition.
8. The fingers on both hands look to be in proportion to the other fingers on that hand. However, the fingers on the foetus’s right hand are noticeably longer than on the left hand. Is there an obvious explanation for this?
9. There appears to be some thick flesh on the back of the foetus’s right hand. What is this?
10. There seems to be no scar from an umbilical cord. Why?
11. Is it possible to determine the cause of death?
12. What do the foetus’s genes tell us? What was its eye colour?
13. Can we project what its adult skull formation would have been – size and shape?

As of yet, these questions remain unanswered. The object is about 4” high – making it too small to be a four to six months old foetus, whereas those who have seen it, also mention that the eyes and head is too big for that age. Further analysis is therefore definitely not a luxury.

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The German origin of the skulls

Claims exist that there is “near proof” about how the skulls have been traced to a German village that specialized in crystal. Though it is indeed true that this village had many experts in working with crystals, there is no evidence that they made any or several crystal skulls. Worse, there is not a single piece of evidence which connects the French antiquities dealer Boban (or any other Mexican antiques dealer) with the crystal manufacturers of this village. The claim made by some that it is likely or almost proven that several skulls were fabricated in this village, is unsupported by evidence. It is an unsubstantiated theory, and is hence without scientific validity.

The 1943 auction of the “Skull of Doom”

Certain people have made a lot about how Mitchell-Hedges bought the skull at auction in 1943. This is an undisputed fact. But this “revelation” takes the focus away from the fact that the skull is known to have existed in 1936, when it was studied by the British Museum. The report stated that it could not trace the skull’s existence beyond 1934.
No evidence has been uncovered how Burney acquired it, or that he felt it was of recent origin. If he did acquire it as a “modern fake”, he would surely not have taken the risk and submitted it for testing by the British Museum in 1936? Furthermore, noting that Burney and Mitchell-Hedges were friends, all the available evidence is definitely in favor of Mitchell-Hedges possessing the skull in the early 1930s – which in itself does nothing for or against the age or origin of the skull.

The “controversial” Boban

Jane Walsh should be commended for tracing the Paris and British Museum skull back to Eugène Boban. However, no-one has uncovered any evidence that the Mitchell-Hedges skull has any connection with Boban.
Furthermore, there is no evidence whatsoever that Boban ordered these skulls in Germany, or knew they were fake. As all art dealers, some fake artifacts did pass through his hands, but he is known to have been a man who spoke out against fakes, and felt the sale of fake artifacts was counter-productive for the market in which he was operating. He personally crusaded against frauds and fakes, such as in 1881, when he spoke out against forgeries that were being made in the suburbs of Mexico City.
A contemporary art dealer, Wilson Wilberforce Blake, at a time when he was openly claiming that everyone should buy from him, not Boban, did claim the skull was fake. No shred of evidence exists to substantiate this allegation – which had clear economical motives.

“A third generation skull”

Walsh has labeled the Mitchell-Hedges skull as a third generation skull, seeing it is the most detailed and best of the crystal skulls known to exist. She therefore considers it more modern than the Paris and British Museum skulls. It is implied therefore to be post-Boban. However, no evidence has been produced for her claim, and as the skull is allegedly even more recent than Boban’s, one would expect there to be evidence that is easily obtainable. However, none is produced.
Furthermore, as enticing as her generational approach to cataloguing the skulls is, it suggests a group of people perfecting their techniques over time and thus their end product becoming ever more refined. However, in the case of the crystal skulls, we are talking about 5 to 6 artifacts, which, if indeed of recent origins, were still apparently produced over a period of 40 to 60 years (ca. 1860-1900-1920 AD), which has innate problems:
a. one person would likely only do one skull in his lifetime;
b. there is no evidence at all to argue that the more basic skulls are older than e.g. the Mitchell-Hedges one;
c. there is no evidence that all skulls come from the same location, let alone the same “crystal factory”;
d. why would this German town only have sold to or via Boban, and not put such crystal skulls in their “general catalogue” and on sale elsewhere and locally?

Hence, this generational cataloguing is without any foundation in fact and at present pure speculation.

Evidence of wheels in production as proof of post-Columbian/modern origin

Walsh et al. claim that the presence of evidence on the skulls that wheels were used, is evidence of not only post-Columbian, but specifically modern origins.
However, this conclusion is at odds with the evidence. The crystal skull owned by Mexican Norma Redo supports a large crucifix on its top. This skull shows evidence of wheelwork. But from his analysis, archaeologist Dr Andrew Rankin has argued that the skull was sculpted from the same crystal as that of the crystal goblet from tomb no. 7 at Monte Albán, which is an uncontested archaeological find.
Furthermore, the 1571 hallmark on the crucifix is also deemed to be genuine, thus in general excluding the likelihood that this skull is of 19th century European fabrication. This suggests the skull dates from 1571 or earlier. Though it does not prove the skull is pre-Columbian, it does indicate that crystal skulls were made in Mexico before 1600.
Finally, Professor Michael D. Coe of Yale University stated that evidence of wheel markings in no way proves that the skulls are modern. He stated that although it has long been accepted that no pre-Columbian civilization used the rotary wheel, new evidence contradicts this scientific dogma. Wafer-thin obsidian ear-spools are now known to have been made using some rotary carving equipment and to be dated to the Aztec/Mixtec period. According to Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas in The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls, Coe concluded (p. 226): “People who sit in scientific laboratories don’t know the full range of the culture they’re dealing with. We really don’t know half as much about these early cultures as we think we do. People need to re-examine their beliefs.”

Psychic powers, Atlantis, and alien origins

We cannot be held responsible for other people’s opinions or theories about the origins of the crystal skull. Throughout her lifetime, Anna Mitchell-Hedges was accommodating to psychics, artists and scientists who wanted to work or study the artifact. Claims that she never allowed the skull to be scientifically tested, are erroneous.
Equally, F.A. Mitchell-Hedges never stated the skull was from Atlantis, or an extra-terrestrial civilization, or like. In fact, he is on the record, in his autobiography “Danger My Ally”, as stating his conviction that the skull was a Native American artifact, used by local shamans in their “esoteric rites”.

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How does one begin to unravel an enigma such as this; the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull? What messages, secrets, truths or codes are contained within this supreme mystical symbol? Down through the ages these questions surrounding this Skull have confounded both the scientist and mystic alike.

In this overview perhaps a link will be established between the past, present and the future. Or perhaps a bridge will be built between scientific theory and mystical experience. It has been written that when the marriage or blending of these two schools of thought occur, the birthing of a new consciousness on the planet is possible. Allowing for the discovery of truth takes only two things: an open heart and an open mind.

Sometimes referred to as one of the wonders of the world, this Skull is an extraordinarily intriguing object that no expletives can accurately describe. It has a mesmerizing appearance that is both breathtakingly beautiful yet unsettling at the same time.

It is the ancient symbol of death yet sparkles with life. It is like gazing on perfection.

It is one of the world’s largest and most valuable gemstones; the craftsmanship being exquisite in all its facets.

It is anatomically correct – so scientifically accurate that a face can be reconstructed from it; the face of a beautiful, young Mesoamerican woman.

It has realistically carved teeth, the cheekbones are smoothly contoured and the detachable jaw sets perfectly into the cranium.

It has a powerful presence that entrances and hypnotizes those who dare to stare deeply into its penetrating eyes.

As an object, it transcends the cutting-edge of both modern science and ancient traditions.

Theories surrounding the Skull challenge many basic assumptions about the past history of this planet and our own evolution.

It raises questions about how we think about the world, the universe and our place within it.

The Mitchell-Hedges Skull was allegedly found by English explorer F.A. Mitchell-Hedges’ adopted daughter, Anna, in a Mayan pyramid in Lubaantun, Belize (then British Honduras) in 1924.

What was this object doing there? How was it made? This is an object which, according to scientists, simply shouldn’t even exist. Current tools and technology today cannot reproduce this without shattering the quartz.

No wonder the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull is known as ‘the world’s most mysterious artefact’.

This Skull has defied rational explanation and dumbfounded archaeologists, scientists, mystics and art-critics for decades.

Federick Albert Mitchell-Hedges

F.A. Mitchell-Hedges himself poured gasoline on the fire of mystery.

He was an explorer and adventurer who has been called the real-life Indiana Jones. Indeed, a book critic who recently read his autobiography which was published in 1954 said “Indiana Jones isn’t fit to carry this guy’s bags.”

His life ambition was to find evidence of an unknown civilization such as Atlantis. He often scorned armchair archaeologists and textbook scientists who returned the compliment by having Mitchell-Hedges very publicly and humiliatingly branded a Baron Manchausen.

Anna said of him: “My Father’s great love was ancient archaeology. He had a very enquiring and doubtful mind. He liked to find things out about the past and prove them for himself. He questioned the way things were and didn’t ever accept what other people told him.”

Mitchell-Hedge’s motto was “Life without adventure is not life at all.” In his book, he described how he was captured by Pancho Villa and forced to ride with his bandits. Two bullet wounds sustained in a leg injury, eventually led to his death from gangrene, decades later in 1959.

He also fought with Central American rebel leader Lee Christmas, claimed to find Captain Morgan’s treasure chests and discovered and excavated the lost Mayan city of Lubaantun. He caught a man-eating shark and shot a man-eating crocodile. He won the second biggest natural reef in the world (off Belize) in a poker game.

He donated thirty-seven hundred ancient items which now reside in the British Museum and the Heye Foundation’s Museum of the American Indian. In his time, FA owned Queen Marie Antoinette’s mirror, Admiral Nelson’s silver vanity and cutlery set, Cromwell’s leather water bottle and a silver tankard Charles II gave to Nell Gwynn. He also owned the oak wedding chest Henry VIII had given to Catherine of Aragon, along with the Moses Chalice, an Elizabethan clock and the Black Virgin of Kazaan. This Russian icon is now hanging in the Kremlin after being returned to the people of Russia by Pope John-Paul.

But, most fascinating of all, is the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

Mitchell-Hedges delighted in showing his friends the Skull while telling them that it was known as ‘the Skull of Doom’. But in his autobiography ‘Danger My Ally’ he is curiously non-committal about the artefact.

“How it came into my possession, I have reason for not revealing.” Is it possible that he was worried a Central American government might demand its return?

FA also said, “It is at least 3,600 years old and according to legend was used by the High Priest of the Maya when performing esoteric rights. When the High Priest willed death, with the help of the skull, death inevitably followed. It has been described as the embodiment of evil. I do not wish to try and explain this phenomenon.”

Not only has the Crystal Skulls’ origin been the subject of much mystery and controversy but its purpose remains unknown as well.

Ironically, The Skull of Doom has also been called The Skull of Doon by the Mayans; “Doon” being a Mayan word for god. When the Skull was found, the local Mayans were awestruck and bowed in reverence. Some were shouting “Our god, our god” and as the word spread throughout the villages, hundreds came to view this long lost icon from their legends and oral traditions.

Legend says that there were originally thirteen life-size human skulls of solid crystal with movable jaws that were said to speak and sing. The number thirteen is significant for many different reasons, one in particular being the sun, moon and the ten planets in our solar system adds up to the number 12. The 13th place is saved for Quetzalcoatl, the serpent god, who will return again to rule all the planets. The Mayan year was made up of 13 months of 20 days. There are thirteen Mayan gods of the upper world.

Is this why the local Mayans shouted, “Our god, our god”? Did they recognize the Skull as a sign for the return of Quetzalcoatl?

The legend says that at a time of great crisis, for humanity, the skulls will be rediscovered and brought back together to reveal their knowledge.

Anna herself called it The Skull of Love because “everyone feels so much love around it”. When she was asked once why her father called it The Skull of Doom, she winked and replied: “He didn’t want anyone to steal it so he made up the story. I think my father took a little pleasure in scaring people when he said “doom”. He was quite the teaser. The Skull is really all about love and healing.”

Mayan Claims

Anna said that Mayan Priests told her that the Crystal Skull was over 100,000 years old and was modelled after the head of a great High Priest with the hopes of preserving his wisdom forever.

Anna also claimed that the Maya had told her that when a Mayan medicine man was getting too old to carry out his duties, a young man was chosen to replace him. The old medicine man would lie down beside the young man and then both would place their hands on the Crystal Skull. Then a High Priest would perform a ceremony during which all the knowledge and wisdom of the old medicine man would be transferred into the young man through the Crystal Skull. The old man would then go to sleep forever. Anna believed that this was the true “Willing of the Death Rite”.

It is also said that the Mayans used the Crystal Skull in healing ceremonies; The High Priest would combine the use of a 52 faceted crystal ball, the sacred numbers of 52 and 9, and the skull to perform the art of magic in removing unwanted, disease-causing spirits.

It is also believed that the crystal Skull was used to light the fire for the Sacred 52 Year Fire Ceremony, marking the beginning and ending of a cycle. If the Skull is left in the sunlight for only a second, a fire will start immediately.

The skull also has two small holes in its base, one either side of the cranium. It’s possible that rods were inserted into these holes allowing for the top part of the skull to be moved in relation to the jaw. In this way it would have been possible to move the Crystal Skull so that it appeared to be talking. Perhaps that was what the Mayan Priest meant when he told Anna it could be “made to talk”.

Descendents of the ancient Maya liken crystal to some sort of radio, TV or computer device. This device could be used to communicate between worlds; a doorway to other dimensions and as a means of communicating with the world of spirits and departed ancestors.

The depth of knowledge and wisdom of the Mayans (indeed, all Indigenous cultures) which has been carried down throughout the ages goes well beyond our scope of understanding. We cannot even begin to assume what their beliefs and practices were in relation to this incredible Crystal Skull.

Anna said “The Maya told me that the skull is important to mankind. It’s a gift from the Maya to the people of the world. They gave us the skull for a definite reason and purpose. I am not exactly sure what that reason is but I know this skull is something very, very important.”

The fact that the Maya might have used the Crystal Skull doesn’t necessarily mean they were the ones that actually created it. It could have been given to the Maya from the civilization before them.

Atlantis

There is no conclusive evidence that a ‘pre-civilization’ such as the mythical Atlantis ever existed. However, it was F.A. Mitchell-Hedges lifetime ambition to find such evidence. He was convinced that the American Indian and the ancient Mayan culture with which the Crystal Skull had been associated, had originated from antediluvian civilization. In an article in the New York American of 31 August 1930, he described Central America as one of the cradles of mankind where existed a people of an antiquity hitherto unsuspected who possessed knowledge that might have been envied by modern man.
Mitchell-Hedges, who had personal knowledge of at least twenty tribes of Indians, believed that the remnants of that ancient culture were still preserved in part today in the myths, legends and esoteric teachings and in tribal rituals and ceremonials. He believed that Atlantis really existed until it was submerged under the Atlantic Ocean and that another legendary continent, Mu, occupied a gigantic area of what is now the Pacific Ocean before it, too vanished under horrendous tidal waves. The peoples of both were said to be red-skinned.
* From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, “Island of Atlas”) is the name of an island first mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher Plato. According to him this island, lying “beyond the pillars of Hercules”, was a naval power, having conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa. Soon after a failed invasion of Athens, Atlantis sank in the waves “in a single day and night of misfortune” due to a natural catastrophe which happened 9,000 years before Plato’s time.

The possible existence of Atlantis was actively discussed throughout the classical antiquity, but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied. While basically unknown during the Middle Ages, the story of Atlantis was rediscovered by Humanists at the very beginning of modern times. Plato’s description inspired the utopian works of several Renaissance writers, like Francis Bacon’s “New Atlantis”. More than ever, Atlantis inspires today’s literature, from science fiction to comic books and movies.

And there are some intriguing possibilities connected with crystal…

Janet Taylor Caldwell wrote her novel ‘The Romance of Atlantis’ when she was just 12 years old in the early 1900’s. She recalls a past time when there was an advanced civilization that used crystals as a means of powering their systems. She wrote it at a time when we had not even heard about atoms, catastrophe or nuclear holocaust, yet all these themes are introduced into her novel. The most harrowing vision is that it chillingly mirrors almost exactly what is happening in our world today.

Her father, a newspaper artist, was amazed by the perception in the manuscript; its detail and insight. He sent it to the child’s grandfather, a book editor, in Philadelphia. The latter, horrified, suggested the manuscript be destroyed immediately. He did not feel that any child could have produced such an unusually mature work, both intellectually and philosophically. The only alternative was that she had borrowed freely elsewhere. In a way, he was right. She had borrowed from the past, not even knowing herself how or what she was remembering.

In her book, the civilization of Atlantis created its own downfall through the flagrant misuse of power. The gloating of all those in power had reached a point where by it was doomed to its own destruction. However, those who were pure of heart were given the greatest gift of all - to enter the rejuvenation chamber which housed a very powerful red crystal. Exposure to the crystal renewed all the cells in the body so that the person could live another 100 years.

Edgar Cayce – known as ‘America’s sleeping prophet’ also speaks about Atlantis and the Great Fire Crystal.

Atlantis has frequently been depicted as an advanced crystal culture, as well as a telepathic culture – both of which tie directly into theories connected to the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull. In fact, many people believe it is a type of Atlantean encyclopedia, where all the information of the time was encoded into it.

According to Dan Winter; an E.T. group that was primarily non-physical decided to leave a repository of knowledge for those who were evolved enough to understand it. This E.T. group created an object that contained within it the sum total of knowledge of the Mind of God as they knew it. They also programmed this object with the history of the universe and all the technology that would ever be necessary.

The E.T. group left the (Mitchell-Hedges) Crystal Skull with the first Atlantean civilization where it was placed in a temple pyramid to be energized by the Atlanteans over many aeons of time.

Those in power tried to use it for negative purposes, not realizing that this magnified and reflected back all their evil deeds and intentions. It has been said that the Crystal Skull was created in such a way that whatever is thought in its presence reflects back, becoming a part of the thinker’s experiences. The Crystal Skull teaches that the physical universe mirrors thoughts.

When Atlantis sank, high priests fleeing the continent brought it to Central America to where the Maya were living. Here, it was used as an object of worship and reverence until the Maya suddenly disappeared from the Earth.

Eventually, the Crystal Skull remained buried in ruins until its discovery in the early part of the 20th Century, when the Crystal Skull allowed itself to be discovered.

The Crystal Skull operates through the trinity of communication; colour, tone, and archetype. When any combination of these three is beamed or visualized in the presence of the Crystal Skull, it opens a program that is coded to a particular frequency resonance.

An infinite number of combinations can be used, any one of which will unlock a program in the Crystal Skull to teach mankind. The left-brain represents language, and the right-brain represents pure thought. The pineal gland of communication balances and translates the left- and right- brains with the use of archetypes.

Archetypes can be geometric shapes, letters, numbers, ancient Hebrew symbols, pictograms, or any combination of these. Colours are also part of the triad with a language all their own. The left-brain is dark, the right-brain is light, and once again, the pineal gland balances and translates this through colours. Tones also represent the trinity of sound, balancing music and silence. In the same way, the Crystal Skull balances the Mind of God and physical reality.

At times, the Crystal Skull becomes non-physical. The Crystal Skull is a bridge between all levels of reality. Anyone who knows the sequences of the trinity of communication becomes all-powerful and omniscient.

Does this Skull represent all humanoids, symbolizing brotherhood and harmony? Was crystal chosen because it represents the highest vibration possible in physical reality; purity, clarity, focusing, and magnification? Does the movable jaw piece symbolize the fact that it was a communication device?
Does it hold the greatest mysteries of life and the universe or does it hold the past history of this planet and the evolution of mankind.

The Native American legend of the 13 crystal skulls

There are many Native American legends that have been handed down for thousands of years. There are variations from the Mayan and Aztec versions of Central America to the Pueblo and Navajo in the South Western United States and also including the Cherokee and Seneca Indian variations from the North Eastern United States. In essence the basic legend is the same.

It states that there are 13 ancient Crystal Skulls. These are the size of real human skulls and have movable jaws enabling them to speak and sing. It is said the Crystal Skulls have encoded within them the origin, purpose and destiny of mankind as well as the answers to all the greatest mysteries of life in the universe.

The legend claims that, one day, all 13 Crystal Skulls will be discovered and brought together and their collective wisdom will be revealed. However, the human race must first be sufficiently evolved, both morally and spiritually so as not to abuse the knowledge.

The Twisted Hairs Society includes members of over 400 different tribes that represent all of North, South and Central America. They tell a more detailed version…

“Long ago North, South and Central America along with the continents that are now called New Zealand and Australia, were all one land mass, all one continent known to our people as ‘Turtle Island’.

The elders of the Twisted Hairs said that in the very beginning there were 12 worlds with human life. The cosmic elders met on a planet called Osiriaconwiya. They met to discuss the plight of the ‘planet of the children’ where we are today. It is called that because it is the least evolved of all the planets with human life. So we are one of a family of 12 planets.

Each of the other planets took the sum total of all their knowledge and encoded it in what can best be described, in modern terms, as a holographic image computer called a crystal skull. These are absolutely flawless, perfect Crystal Skulls. These skulls have moving jaws just like our skulls so they were referred to as ‘the singing skulls’ and the entire configuration was known as ‘the Ark of Osiriaconwiya’. Each Crystal Skull represents a different planet’s knowledge.

The cosmic elders brought the Ark with all its encoded knowledge in order to teach, heal and impart wisdom to the children of Grandmother Earth.

Due to this gift of knowledge, there was a period of great advancement. The cosmic elders found a way to be able to communicate with the people of Earth from their own planets with the assistance of two great domes, one red and the other blue that were located beneath the ocean. And they helped the people of Earth build four great civilizations of Lemuria, Mu, Mieyhun and Atlantis.

To help with the teachings, other Crystal Skulls were created here on Earth and although life-size, their jaws do not move and they are known as ‘the talking skulls’.

The Crystal Skulls were kept inside a pyramid in a formation of tremendous power known as the Ark. The Ark was comprised of the 12 Crystal Skulls from each of the sacred planets kept in a circle with a 13th skull, being the largest; placed in the center. The 13th skull represents the collective consciousness of all the worlds. This ark connects the knowledge of all the sacred planets.

Where does the Mitchell-Hedges Skull fit into this? Could it be one of the 12 Skulls which represent each of the sacred planets, including and possibly Earth, or is it the center Skull which carries the collective knowledge of all worlds?

The travelling people who first carried the Ark of the singing skulls were known as the Olmec. It was taken over in legacy by the Maya and then the Aztecs. But the Aztecs used the power of the Crystal Skulls to control others. They were becoming so powerful and destructive, they had to be stopped. The Ark was still in Teotihuacan when Cortes invaded. He heard of the Ark of the Crystal Skulls and so did the Pope… Cortes wanted the Crystal Skulls more than all the gold and riches of that empire. Although the Ark was hidden underground, Spanish soldiers found it due to a betrayal from within.

As the Spanish were about to seize the Crystal Skulls, jaguar priests and eagle warriors took the skulls and fled with them. And so the 13 Crystal Skulls were separated for the first time in their history.

It is said they will be brought together again when we learn to share with one another, care for one another, teach one another, heal one another and live in peace and harmony with Grandmother Earth.

Another legend even more surprising also exists.

“In the beginning, there was peace on Earth. The people who lived then were not Homo sapiens as we are, but Neanderthals. We call them ‘Earth people’. This was a golden age when people and animals could communicate with each other and lived together in harmony. There are many legends about this period. In some traditions it is referred to as the Garden of Eden.

Scientists have not been able explain the ‘missing link’ in our evolutionary history; or how such a major leap forward happened so quickly. It was precisely the time when the Earth’s population was in crisis and the sky gods (extra-terrestrials) came down from Pleiades, Orion and Sirius. They were looking for a new home on Earth; this beautiful blue-green planet. They brought with them the Crystal Skulls as gifts for the people of Earth. The Crystal Skulls contained all the knowledge of the sky gods; their culture, their math, their science, their astronomy, their philosophy, including their hopes and dreams. Everything they knew was stored in the Crystal Skulls.

The Crystal Skulls also had another function. They were to be the template of a new species.

The extra-terrestrials knew they would not be able to live long in our atmosphere and, just like the Earth people, they were dying. So there was an exchange. The extra-terrestrials spliced the genes of the Earth people together with their own in order to help both species survive in a new and different form from both previous ones.

Humans are now virtually at the same stage of development as our original extra-terrestrial ancestors were with genetic research and development.

The species created was Homo sapiens. The Crystal Skulls were the original blueprint for humanity and this is one of the many ways these vessels contain information of our origin and destiny.

An African tribe, the Dogon, have always maintained that their ancestors came from Sirius which they said had a double star system. No one believed them until telescopes became powerful enough to confirm what they claimed to be true.

Others say we came from Earth. Both are correct. That is why DNA has two strands. Originally one strand contained our Earth memories and the other our celestial heritage memories. Scientists are now close to confirming this.

Possibly one of the reasons why the Crystal Skulls were made of silicon quartz is because silicon was introduced into our genetic structure by the sky gods. Within us is a part of the whole crystalline matrix that can link us to the rest of the universe. Indigenous people have always known the Earth, sun and all the other planets are linked by an enormous crystalline web-like structure. This web is made of sound, light and colour.

Psychic Claims

Ever since the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull was discovered, truly incredible claims have been made about it.

Many people who view it believe it tries to communicate with their subconscious mind. It appears to have an almost hypnotic quality, especially when one dares to gaze deeply into its eyes.

Others who have spent time alone with it claim to have seen or heard things in its presence. On occasion, the Crystal Skull was said to have a distinctive glow like an aura, extending round it.

Many believe that the Crystal Skull is the ultimate crystal ball or oracle. Some have stared deep in its interior and have seen images of the past or future events. It is said that if you ask a question in its presence, the truth will be made known to you.

Indeed, the author Sibley Morrill thought that the Crystal Skull was missing one glaringly obvious feature that all human skulls have, to facilitate this very purpose. Real skulls have suture marks. These are seams formed as the skull grows. They would have been easy to add and created even more realism. Morrill believed they had been intentionally omitted so the Crystal Skull could be used as a crystal oracle.

It is also believed that the Skull acts like a giant mirror or reflector. When you stand before it, the essence of who you really are is reflected back to you. For each person, the experience is a unique one, offering the subjective opportunity and challenge to see where changes can be made in oneself. By bringing ones fears and shadows out in the open a release is experienced; thus beginning a healing process.

Some also feel that this Skull is vibrating at a very high frequency. When one is near it, the frequency of the body tries to match and align with the frequency of the skull. If there is no resistance, the body becomes balanced. Where there is resistance due to the lower frequencies of dis-ease, the body may feel discomfort, hot flashes, shakes, dizziness, etc. These are merely clues to where energy blocks are held within the body.

Others claim to have had solid objects magically manifest in front of the Skull. Some have seen smoke rise off the top of the Skull or have seen the room fill with sparks of energy. Many have heard noises, like the chanting of human voices or high frequency pitches. In fact, so many people have heard the skull ‘talking or singing to them that it is now known as ‘the talking skull’ or ‘the singing skull’ which ties in with the Native American legend.

Frank Dorland, an art restorer who was entrusted by Anna to look after the Crystal Skull from 1964 to 1970 claimed strange phenomena occurred in his home while he had the Skull. The following is an excerpt from his book ‘Holy Ice’ published in 1992.

“Soon, peculiar things started to occur whenever the skull was out of the vault. We noticed that when we were very quiet we could hear soft voices and music. Sometimes there was an odour – an elusive sweet-sour wet fragrance that reminded me of apple-blossom and vinegar mixed with the unmistakable smell of an icy mountain stream. If we put our hands close to the skull, we could feel a tingling like an electric current and there were other times when we clearly saw shapes and shadows moving about inside it.

When I looked at the skull, it seemed to turn cloudy then clear. If I kept gazing at it, scenes would appear with people, buildings, animals, meadows, trails and mountains. Mabel (his wife) also saw many visions within the skull. When we compared our happenings, we found neither of us experienced the same or even similar scenarios.

Anna also had several recollections relating to the Crystal Skull’s psychic power.

A journalist was interviewing Mitchell-Hedges and Anna when they lived at Farley Castle near Reading. The journalist asked to use the toilet and didn’t return. Anna and her father found that the journalist had snuck into another room and picked up the Crystal Skull. He had then been frozen motionless. When Mitchell-Hedges took the Crystal Skull from the journalist’s grasp, he collapsed.

At a dinner party at Farley Castle, Dennis Conan-Doyle, son of Arthur Conan-Doyle, was one of the guests. He claimed to by psychic, as his father was and also claimed that he could feel great power emanating from the Crystal Skull. Always being up for a bit of fun, Mitchell-Hedges and Sammy challenged him to prove his claim. They hid the Crystal Skull in one of Farley Castle’s many rooms and an unusual version of ‘hunt the thimble’ with a twist followed. But Dennis Conan Doyle proved himself right and was able to go straight to where the Crystal Skull was hidden.

When Anna owned the Russian icon, the Black Virgin of Kazan, the American President John F. Kennedy had offered to loan her his presidential jet to transport it back to Russia. On the day JFK was assassinated, Anna noticed water droplets had run down the Crystal Skull like tears.

Carole Davis-Wilson is a psychic who has worked with the police in many countries to try and find missing people. She formed a friendship with Anna who allowed her to work with the Crystal Skull frequently. Carole would go into a trance and channel information via what she called ‘technology of the mind’.

Surprisingly, some of the information the Skull gave her ties in with other theories. The following excerpts are taken from the book The Skull Speaks by Carole Davis and Brian Hadley James, Amhrea Publishing 1985.

This book was the results of many “trance-medium” sessions in the presence of the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull in which the Medium, Carole Davis, answered a variety of questions.

INT: Interviewer
VOICE: The voice of the Crystal Skull, as transmitted through medium Carole Davis

VOICE: The use of this artefact (the Crystal Skull) was to control weather, to control growth, to control personality, to heal, to soothe, to comfort and command. It is not difficult to understand that light refracted through this artefact becomes power. A power source that is well understood.

You would consider this, in your language, to be a “computer,” and when the right vibration is produced, it will give you the information you require.

The earth life of this artefact is seventeen thousand years. It has been handed down from generation to generation; polished with hair and sand. Its true life was as part of the “Great Crystals” of Atlantis, and within it are locked many minds. They, combined with the right vibration, will predict much. The Crystal Skull will also unlock many mysteries, for it is constant and living and it is fed with energies you do not yet understand. But we are willing to show you.

We hear your questions but we can only answer them if you will keep this one thought in mind. How may we help you?

INT: You can help me by giving me information on the origin of the Crystal Skull and the origin of the crystal and perhaps, the geographical location from which the raw crystal, or the Great Crystal, was taken to form the Skull.

VOICE: The origin is the great crystal of Atlantis. We do not take; we cultivated. When we realized there were those who had forgotten their original purpose in incarnation to this dimension and this world, and that there would be a catastrophe, many of us chose to leave behind the legacy of our minds knowing that we would not again reincarnate. We chose to remain in other realms until such time as your knowledge and your seeking and your spiritual progression would turn you toward this path.

The Crystal Skull was well-guarded. It was born of sea and fire: There will be others found, for no one man and no one mind were given all knowledge. When all are placed together, you will be “Keepers” of wondrous knowledge. But the time is not yet. Mankind still seeks to better all the original destruction of our time.

INT: What level of civilization had been attained at the time the Crystal Skull was formed?

VOICE: It was formed by a pre-Mayan civilization. Our level of civilization, at the time, was far in advance of that which you now have by certain factions. We were able to use that which you call your body as a further adjunct of our minds. Much as you would use your hand to grasp, we used the flesh to experience, for the mind cannot fully experience. But that was our downfall. Experiencing isn’t as great as desiring, and soon there were those who were slaves to their own creation, the body, and had forgotten the original thought.

INT: Can you teach certain gifted people the art of healing, or weather prediction and control?

VOICE: Locked within the Crystal Skull is everything you need for healing, weather… growing. It is merely a tapping of energy and, as you know, a crystal is living energy. Yes! It can be awakened in each and every mind.

INT: What are your feelings regarding the suggestion that A Foundation is form to take care of the Crystal Skull instead of it eventually being placed in a museum?

VOICE: This receptacle, the Skull, will not reside in such a place that it cannot be used. This receptacle, along with others, will be used to give pertinent information to the leaders of the world, those you call your scientists, and those you call your healers. If it is placed in the wrong hands, it will destroy itself. Never fear, it has been guarded and guided for many an age. No harm will come to it. This receptacle is a communicator and when the right minds are brought together, regardless of the “informer” (the communicating mind), there are many who can do what this mind does. Our knowledge, crystallized here, will be imparted. Each will be given as each can use and each is needed. No one person, no one mind, no one entity, will be given all.

INT: Is the receptacle through which you are now speaking (the Crystal Skull) accessible through any means other than a human mind? Is there a possible way of using a form of “radio” or other technologically advanced method to access it?

VOICE: We have placed it such that it would take only the vibration known as Love to activate all of these receptacles. We did not place it here so that ‘mechanics” could release the information, for that would mean it would be information released to all who came into contact with it. No, you would not be able to get such information merely by activating it with mechanical means. It has to be a mind that has been programmed to be of help within the Earth’s years, within the changes, and it has to be activated by empathy or, again this strange word for “energy” you use, Love.

INT: What is the difference between your trance-state here, using the Crystal Skull as a receptacle, and any other “trance-medium” state? Isn’t the same information accessible whether you are with the skull or not?

VOICE: We have put “Thought Form” into pure language within the Crystal Skull. This way it is easier for mind to attach to mind. Indeed, were the right “Thought Form” not placed within the area of the Skull it would simply be a work of art.

It is our belief that you, within the Third Dimension, need to see, to hear, and to touch. It is then asked that if you eliminate the need to see, to hear, and to touch then we have proven to the mind, to the transmitter, that we are such as we claim to be. We are then not needed to put anything within crystallized form.

Here you have the essence of computer and the essence of those which “program” and then transcribe it.

Yes, we understand your asking, “Could not the same be done without the receptacle”? But this is where you run into the difficulty of ‘personality” and pre-conceived ideas come into play. Here we are able to overrule the personality and, indeed, pass on information which the personality may disagree with.

INT: This question concerns “Vocabulary”. What is the range of your vocabulary, and is it determined by the mind of the Medium or by those brought to you?

VOICE: When information was relegated to this receptacle, you must understand that it was not programmed with a vocabulary. It was programmed with pure information. Therefore, it was processed into a language which would be hidden and concealed until the time when it would be of benefit to those seeking. Therefore, you must understand that the vocabulary, both in the receiver and to those who would put it into dimension, was taken into account.

INT: Do you have any other information to give us at this time?

VOICE: Receptacles are placed in the four corners of your earth, within the four pillars of your earth, within the seven seas of your earth, and we ask you to think on receiving of emanations. This will activate the “life-force” within the crystal receptacles and, as you know, “like-mind” attracts “like-mind”.

Should you seek, then the Teachers will come to you. You will have to be the seeker. We ask you to “think out”, for even now we activate all crystal receptacles. We are activating all of the “Receptacles of the Mind” that they might, at this time and in this space, be used for the betterment and the collectiveness of “one mind” of your small dark earth.

We came and we left, but before we left those of us who had come as we were bidden left a small part of our Intelligence that it might benefit in time of great tragedy upon your earth. The tragedy is not the destruction of the material world; the tragedy is the separation from One-ness. Seek now to join, for the receptacle seeks to find you. Open your mind and it will be within your hands’ to grasp.

Scientific Tests and Appraisal

In October of 1964, art conservator, restorer and expert on religious icons, Frank Dorland was given permission by Anna Mitchell-Hedges to conduct six years of test