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Just like the ancient legend, Dorland’s theory suggested that the crystal skull may really be able to provide us with important information from the past. Mayans today apparently also believe this to be the case. Even the scientists at Hewlett-Packard recognized that natural quartz crystal has information storage capacities and so were not entirely closed to the possibility that the crystal skull might have information programmed into it. But what sort of information might that be and how might we be able to access it?

When Chris and I were visiting Anna Mitchell-Hedges, we had already met a woman who said she knew how to access the information inside the skull. Like Frank Dorland, she claimed conventional scientists had failed because they were using the wrong approach. She said the secrets of the skull could only be uncovered using ‘the technology of the mind’. We were somewhat sceptical, but curious none the less. If this were really possible, what might we find? Perhaps secret knowledge that had been buried in this crystal store-house for thousands of years. Perhaps the hidden wisdom of esoteric societies that had long since vanished from the surface of the Earth, or some ancient formula, now long forgotten, left behind by the mathematical geniuses of Mesoamerica, or even the secrets of the Mayan cosmos, the knowledge of the ancients who understood the movements of the planets and the stars.

As we sat in Anna’s small living-room gazing at the skull, with its smooth transparent surface, it felt as if we were sitting in front of some strange computer but without the right password to log on. Would we ever be able to plug into this ancient Internet, let alone surf its multiple worlds? How could we extract the secrets said to lie hidden deep with-in its quartz crystalline structure? We awaited with interest the arrival of Carole Wilson, the woman who claimed to actually be able to do this. Then Anna revealed that Carole was in fact one of Canada’s best-known psychics.

Initially I was sceptical. I have always had grave reservations about psychics. The notion had always conjured up in me the image of an old woman dressed in gypsy-style clothing sitting in a small tent, gazing into a glass ball and making up any old rubbish. A stereotype, obviously, but it was my belief that all such people really did was to tell people what they wanted to hear and then charge them for the privilege of being so easily duped. I wondered whether we were about to meet such a charlatan.

When Carole arrived she turned out to be a quiet, well-dressed woman in her fifties with a very professional manner. I was somewhat surprised to find that she was accompanied by the former head of the Toronto police homicide department. It soon transpired that there had been many occasions when the local police had been investigating unsolved murder cases and where insufficient evidence or an absence of any leads had frustrated them. Once they had become so desperate that they had called on Carole. With the help of her psychic powers, in almost no time at all the case was solved and the murderer brought to justice. Since then the police had used Carole’s services many a time and had managed to successfully solve a whole string of murder and missing persons cases.

As Carole explained, ‘Dead people do a lot of talking,’ and she either hears them directly or can pick up information about them by working with objects which once belonged to them. This gives her psychic information about murder victims, which has almost without fail proved successful in explaining otherwise unsolved crimes.

Carole now works closely with police forces throughout the United States, Canada and Britain. Indeed, her work proved so invaluable to the Toronto police force that she was now married to the chief detective who had been responsible for homicide investigations and missing persons cases. This was John Gordon Wilson, the man who was now accompanying her.

Carole went on to describe her first encounter with the Mitchell-Hedges skull. She had first seen it during the 1980s while on a visit to Anna’s house with two friends who were planning to try to date the skull, although they were ultimately unsuccessful in their attempts. She had also heard some outlandish claims about the skull:

‘Before I first saw the skull, I was half expecting something amazing to happen. Yet when I actually saw it, nothing did, or at least nothing seemed to. It felt such a disappointment. All the people I was with were saying, “Look at the light, look at what’s inside it!” and I could see nothing. I thought it was a question of the emperor’s new clothes and that there was really nothing extraordinary about the skull at all. But as I sat there I found myself drifting off. My eyes were closing and I felt very sleepy. And the next thing I knew everyone was saying to me, “That was fantastic. How amazing!” Only afterwards did I discover that I had gone into a trance and had spent the last two hours conveying information from the skull, the message of the skull if you like, and I couldn’t remember a word of it.’

After that, Carole had continued to work with the skull on a regular basis. She was somehow able to access what Anna’s nephew Jimmy described as ‘incredible information’.

‘Once Carole had logged on to the system,’ he said, ‘the material seemed almost unending, reams and reams of data. But the information was of such a peculiar and awesome nature that we were pretty convinced that most people were probably not ready to hear such phenomenal material at that time.’

Carole explained that for several years she had not been willing to make any of her findings public, although much of the material had been carefully transcribed and recorded. She had felt most people would simply find it just too unusual, too hard to accept or too ‘out of this world’. Then she had started to make her work known by writing and self-publishing a book, The Skull Speaks.¹ Now she, Anna, Jimmy and her husband John all felt the time was right to start to share some of this information with a wider audience.

The work Carole was about to perform with the crystal skull is known as ‘channelling’. As she explained, this is a technique commonly used by psychics and mediums, whereby the psychic individual allows themselves to be used as a ‘channel’ for ‘spirit entities’ or ‘souls’ from ‘other dimensions’ to communicate.

Carole told us that these other dimensions are not physical in the same way as the dimension that we call ‘normal reality’, but exist in parallel to our everyday world. These other realms are usually invisible to us during normal waking consciousness, but in an altered state of consciousness, through meditation, hypnotism or a trance, a channel can gain access to them. Through this process the channel can communicate with the beings that exist in these other dimensions – the spirits, the ancestors and the dead. These spirit entities can be from the past or the future, for in the other dimensions our normal physical rules such as linear time do not apply.

The technique of channelling involves the channel or medium putting themselves into an altered state of consciousness or trance-like state in order to become a bridge between these worlds and our own. The channel has to suppress their own normal waking state of consciousness, their own ego, their own sense of identity or self, sufficiently to allow the consciousness of the non-physical being or spirit entity to enter their body and mind. The ‘visiting’ spirit entity is then able to use the channel’s body, movements and voice to communicate. Both during and after channelling, the channel is usually completely unaware of what they have said and done when they have been in this altered state, much like a person who has been under the influence of hypnotism. But Carole explained that there is nothing morbid about what she does: ‘What I do is not “paranormal” or “supernatural”. In fact, this whole process is actually quite natural and was used on an almost everyday basis by many societies prior to our own.’

As I sat listening to this extraordinary woman describing this strange process, I thought about the fact that police departments took her work so seriously that she was now working on cases on an international basis. It struck me as rather peculiar that those involved in solving criminal cases of the most distressing kind should act upon her advice. For this was a woman who believed she could communicate with a chunk of crystal! I couldn’t quite come to terms with it.

As these thoughts were going through my mind, Carole looked across at me and said, ‘Belief is a curious thing. Belief functions to maintain the status quo in your mind. It helps you to feel more secure. It’s the same for everybody. But belief can be very narrow. It likes the here and the now. It doesn’t like change.’ She added, ‘You don’t have to believe in what I do. Because whether you believe it or not, the crystal skull is a subtle and very powerful teacher.’

The plan was that Carole was going to channel the ‘entity’ of the crystal skull and we would be able to ask it questions. Carole requested that any questions we asked were very specific. She explained that the skull did behave a bit like a computer in that you had to give it very specific instructions and to be very clear about what you were asking, otherwise you might not get a very helpful answer. For example, someone once before had asked the skull what a skull was and had received the answer that it was ‘a bony structure’! She also warned that sometimes the skull anticipated the questions in advance and told us not to be put off by this.

Anna then placed the crystal skull on a small turntable so that Carole would be able to touch it from all angles and manipulate it as she wished during the channelling session. Carole sat down and the crystal skull was placed directly in front of her, where it glimmered softly in the lamplight (see plate no. 7).

Carole closed her eyes. She began altering her style of breathing and used a low hum to ease herself into the appropriate mental state. The whole room began to take on a somewhat eerie atmosphere of the kind you might expect during a séance, as Carole’s gestures and posture changed. Suddenly tense, she began to emit an incredibly high-pitched humming sound. Before I was even able to ask the first question she began speaking in a strange, somewhat staccato voice, with a very stilted use of the English language. I remember being struck by the fact that you could actually hear this new voice echoing strangely around the room.

‘You seek to know the origins of this receptacle which you call “the crystal skull”… I tell you that it was made many, many thousands of years ago by beings of a higher intelligence… It was formed by a civilization before those you call “the Maya”. Our level of civilization was, as you say, “at that time” far in advance of that which you now have by many factors…’

The speech was interrupted by high-pitched humming and then continued:

‘This receptacle contains the minds of many and the minds of one… It was not made using what you call the “physical”. It was moulded into its present form by thought. The thoughts and knowledge are crystallized into this receptacle … this receptacle is thought process crystallized … thus the information was crystallized into this receptacle…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Around nine months later, the prediction about the Earth’s magnetic field shifting also took on a sobering degree of truth when we read in an issue of New Scientist that it had just been discovered that the magnetic field is indeed beginning to shift. There are even some scientists who now predict that the whole axis of the Earth might be about to do a complete flip.²

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