hi kristine wowow! that sounds like a fully phenomenal happening.. i wish i could have seen it. i wondered like teresa about the 'format' but like you said, nobody had the same experience. so the skull might for each person just prompt a unique revelation.. recognition..

also the 13 might have something to do with the Cosmic, last, tone in mayan astrology..?

Then perhaps we have already ended 'time' and entered 'now'.. lol

;)

yeah, shadoan.........i dont know what to think about this, i just cant ignore the synchronicities of it all. it is pretty incredible that the specific year 2012 was shown to me, and its connection with the 3rd eye and pyramid and its connection with a new world as we will know it (not to mention the skull was found in a mayan ruin). it is such a magical experience. kirby the caretaker of sha na ra told me that no body else has seen the same vision that i had with the skull that he knows of. i cant help but think that in the year 2012 of our calendar, it will be a new begining of peace and higher vibrations and a "new ideal world" a jump into the next consciousness. it is obvious in the last year at least to me that, alot of us are raising our vibrations and moving into other dimensions on a mass scale. we are experiencing the begining of this higher evolution right now. new crystals are being revealed in the earth right now that are tools for us to tap into this energy. it is no coincidence, the earth knows when to give us these tools. i am just so grateful to be a part of it all.

thanks for listening

love!
kristine

"Sha-Na-Ra and Max were also examined. While the officials of the museum would not publicly comment as to the results, it was confidentially revealed, by the antiquity expert brought to the museum by its officials, that the method used to carve Max and Sha-Na-Ra, was used more than 5000 years ago!"

Yes, but I'd need some more details on this one. Confidentially revealed? Antiquity expert? Why all the secrecy? Who's the expert? What's the method? Lots of methods were used for working hard stones more than 5000 years ago, including pecking and grinding and drilling, so that really doesn't mean anything at all. It certainly doesn't imply that any crystal skulls were made 5000 years ago.

This article has a little more information, but it's one of many:

www.skepdic.com/crystalskull.html

If the ancient Maya made crystal skulls, why have archaeologists found no skulls made of obsidian? This material was much more common than rock crystal, and had a special place in Maya religion. Why no jade skulls? Jade is just as hard to work as quartz (they have the same hardness). The ancient Maya made many objects of jade, which also had deep significance for them. Why no skulls? Generally, where there's a speciric technology and iconography, it's found in a variety of materials. Why aren't there skulls made from basalt, calcite, or other minerals? Archaeological contexts usually have examples of stages of manufacture, unfinished objects, and broken objects. These are known for many different kinds of materials and objects, but none of these exist for the crystal skulls. It's a lot easier to make a crystal ball than a crystal skull. Why didn't the ancient Maya make crystal balls? We know an enormous amount of archaeological information about the ancient Maya. Why has no archaeologist ever found a trace of a crystal skull at a Maya site?

That said, crystal skulls are pretty cool. There are lots of places where you can buy one online.

I'll try to find some published references. A group of students in my "Archaeological Myths & Realities" class did their end-of-semester research presentation on crystal skulls. They concluded that the skulls are probably all modern artifacts.

No problem. I'm glad to know the links are helpful.

I'm curious. Are the numbers you're seeing written using Arabic or Maya notation?

i have been so fascinated by this post, and am curious about the ritual used to induce the trance...

i also wondered about the "beam" that was being sent into the crystal skull....maybe it could've been encoded with some kind of info, or awakened an invisible holographic image embedded in the skull...just the devil's advocate in me....altho' i'd much rather get into the concept that you were actually seeing a vision in relation to the crystal skull and the trance....

very cool images to contemplate...i am curious also, how is it you came to do this kind of exercise without much knowledge of 2012, the #13, or the pyramid-eye image?

care to share any more of your story with us? there is something about this thread, and the concept of the crystal skulls that i always find so utterly fascinating, like there is this huge mystery glinting right there that is waiting to be discovered....

Here's a Roerich-inspired image:

bannerofpeace.tribe.net/photos...8ab7ceb

The Crystal Skull: Mystical, or Modern?

audio ( skeptoid.com/audio/skeptoid-4098.mp3 )

It was 1926 when Anna Mitchell-Hedges, adoptive daughter of British adventurer and author Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges, was something of a real life Lara Croft. She was crawling through an ancient Mayan temple in Belize, long ago wrecked by the ages and the ravages of the encroaching jungle. Beneath a crumbled altar, she unearthed perhaps the most curious artifact from the ancient world: A perfectly clear crystal skull, expertly carved, and immaculately preserved, and about two thirds the size of a real skull. For nearly 30 years the Mitchell-Hedges family kept the crystal skull a secret, until F.A. Mitchell-Hedges mentioned it briefly in his book Danger My Ally. In this book he said the skull was 3,600 years old, and was used by Mayan priests to strike people dead by the force of their own will. After her father's death, Anna took this so-called "Skull of Doom" on tour throughout the world, and its strange powers became well known. Arthur C. Clarke even used the Mitchell-Hedges skull as the logo for his television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. The fourth Indiana Jones movie is about a crystal skull with mystical qualities, and furthers the theme originally proposed by Mitchell-Hedges that crystal skulls are alien in origin, coming from Atlantis or Roswell or some alien world. In fact, practically every reference to a crystal skull over the past 40 years or so has usually been specifically about the Mitchell-Hedges skull.

Some believers in mystical energy feel that the crystal skulls have a broad range of powers. They can be used to aid in divination, in healing, and even psychic communication. Others claim that they have refractive properties unlike other crystals. They are said to remain at exactly 70 degrees no matter what temperature they are exposed to. They possess spiritual auras that can be photographed. Some even speculate that when all the crystal skulls are brought together, it will bring about the end of the world.

Now, I'm reluctant to burst anyone's bubble, but before going further it's necessary to clear up a few misconceptions. The Mitchell-Hedges skull is not quite 3,600 years old, and Mitchell-Hedges found it a little closer to home than Belize. In fact, he bought it from Sydney Burney, a London art dealer, through a Sotheby's auction on October 15, 1943, as determined in hard black and white by investigator Joe Nickell and others. This explains why neither Mitchell-Hedges nor his daughter ever said anything about it following their alleged 1926 discovery. They had never heard of it, until they bought it 18 years later, and then invented their Mayan altar story.

So this Sydney Burney character, perhaps he was the one who actually found the skull in a Mayan ruin, and traced its history back to the Atlanteans? Well, there is additional hard evidence that Burney owned the skull as far back as 1933, because he wrote a letter about it to the American Museum of Natural History, which they still have. Three years later, the British anthropological journal Man published an article about Burney's skull, and this 1936 article remains the earliest known documentation of any crystal skull.

It seems clear, but has never been never proven, that Burney bought the skull from French collector Eugene Boban. The timing was right; the two men knew each other; and Boban is known to have sold at least two other crystal skulls about the same time Burney acquired his. If Mitchell-Hedges was the real Indiana Jones, Eugene Boban was the real Belloq. He was even French. And, like Belloq, he didn't actually go into the jungle tombs personally to acquire his artifacts. In Boban's case, he simple purchased them in bulk from the manufacturer. This time, the manufacturer was Germany's so-called "capital of the gemstone industry" Idar and Oberstein, a bucolic hamlet where artisans and craftsmen chip away at semi-precious stones in their workshops like so many Gepettos. In the 1870's, craftsmen in Idar and Oberstein made a large purchase of quartz crystals from Brazil, from which to make carvings. Nobody has ever found documented proof, but at about the time the Idar and Oberstein craftsmen were selling their cunningly carved art objects of Brazilian quartz, Eugene Boban left from there with at least three, and possibly as many as thirteen, freshly carved skulls made from Brazilian quartz. Any connection you choose to draw is purely speculative. According to documents found by Jane Walsh, a Smithsonian archivist, Boban sold one of his skulls to Tiffany's in New York City, which in turn sold it to the British Museum in 1897. Boban sold a second skull to a collector who then donated it to the Museum of Man in Paris.

For decades, the British Museum and the Museum of Man displayed their crystal skulls with the provenances originally provided by Eugene Boban, which was that the skulls came from pre-Columbian Aztec origin. But then, in separate studies in the 1990's, both the British Museum and the Smithsonian examined a number of crystal skulls, including all of those in museum collections attributed to Eugene Boban. Analysis of the cut and polish marks by electron microscope proved that they were made using 19th century rotary cutting tools, identical to those in use in Idar and Oberstein at that time. The British Museum now lists their skull as "probably European, 19th century," and "not an authentic pre-Columbian artifact."

The Paris skull, also from Boban, was subjected to even better tests in 2008, confirming that its polishing was done using modern tools. In addition, particle accelerator tests found traces of water used during the cutting and polishing, occluded within the quartz, that positively dated the carving to between 1867 and 1886.

Neither the Mitchell-Hedges nor their skull's current owner, family friend Bill Homann, ever allowed the Mitchell-Hedges skull to be tested with modern equipment; nor have any of the owners of other famous crystal skulls like the one called Max in Texas. The privately owned skulls now confine themselves to touring to mysticism conventions, New Age hotbeds like Sedona, and charging for private viewings and sessions. So far as I've been able to find, no private crystal skull owner has ever allowed controlled tests of their claims of any mystical powers they say their skull has. If they'd like to, this is my personal guarantee to fast-track them to the James Randi Educational Foundation's million dollar prize.

There is enough of a gap in the early history of the Mitchell-Hedges skull that we cannot absolutely trace its lineage from the Idar and Oberstein workshops in the 1870's to the hands of Sydney Burney in 1933. Everything known about the skull is consistent with that history, and no evidence has ever been presented that the skull might have any other origin. There is the Mitchell-Hedges' own story of having found the skull in their pulp-fiction Mayan tomb adventure, but that story has been conclusively proven to be a fabrication by documentation from Sotheby's and Burney.

All of this makes it rather difficult to form an opinion about the mystical powers of crystal skulls. If these powers are attributed to their Mayan, Atlantean, or alien origin, then that attribution is conclusively false, but that doesn't mean the mystical power itself doesn't exist. The first thing the claimants would need to do is articulate exactly what the supernatural power is, and then demonstrate it under controlled conditions. Neither of these has ever been done, so a truly critical analysis has nothing to advance it beyond a null hypothesis. And so there we have it: All known crystal skulls are of modern origin, with no unusual properties, and no coherent or testable claims of anything out of the ordinary. Indiana Jones might make great entertainment, but it makes poor archaelogical history.

whoa, i cant believe i missed that blog when you originally posted it.....i intuitively have been calling myself a rainbow warrior for peace :) awesome share kp.