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THE CRYSTAL SKULL'S MESSAGES FOR MANKIND 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 [John Gordon Wilson, her husband]. It soon tran- spired that...the Police had used Carole's services many a time and had managed successfully to solve a whole string of mur- der and missing persons cases... Carole now works closely with police forces throughout the United States, Canada and Britain... 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 com- puter 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 antic- ipated 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 manipu- late 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. Carole closed her eyes. She began alter- ing 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 ques- tion she began speaking in a strange, some- what 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 civilisation before those you call "the Maya". Our level of civilisation 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 mind 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 Dorland's theory suggested that the crystal skull may really be able to pro- vide us with important information from the past. The Maya today apparently also believe this to be the case. Even the scien- tists at Hewlett-Packard recognised that natural quartz crystal has information stor- age 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 [in Canada], we had already met a woman [Carole Wilson] who said she knew how to access the informa- tion 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 tech- nology of the mind". We were somewhat sceptical, but curious nonetheless. If this were really possible, what might we find? Perhaps secret knowledge that had been buried in this crystal storehouse for thou- sands of years... When Carole arrived, she turned out to be a quiet, well-dressed woman in her Je like the ancient legend, [Frank] NEXUS - 59 DECEMBER 1997 - JANUARY 1998