Recently, cinemas have featured Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which centres around Indiana Jones’ quest for the legendary and mysterious crystal skulls. What many people don’t know is that the legendary crystal skulls really do exist, and that authors and film-makers Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas made a documentary and wrote a book about them in the late 1990s. They first heard the legend of the mysterious crystal skulls whilst holidaying amongst the beautiful Mayan jungle ruins in Central America.
Legends and prophesy
According to an old native American legend there exist thirteen skulls, the same size and shape as human skulls, but made of pure crystal. Left behind by the earliest ancestors back in the mists of time, these skulls were said to be the source of great knowledge and wisdom. They were said to contain important information about mankind’s origins, true purpose and future destiny. The legend also prophesied that one day, at a time of great crisis for humanity, all of these crystal skulls would be rediscovered and brought back together to reveal information vital to the very survival of the human race.
When Chris and Ceri first heard this legend they considered it merely a colourful story. Until they found out that a real crystal skull had been discovered on an archaeological dig deep in the jungle interior in the 1920s, by the daughter of a British explorer named Frederick Mitchell-Hedges.
He was your archetypal and flamboyant upper class British adventurer-explorer, widely believed to be the inspiration for the original Indiana Jones character. He believed that Atlantis was a real civilisation, that its remnants could still be found somewhere in the region of Central America, and he was determined to prove it.
So, in 1924 he gathered together a party of explorers who set sail from Liverpool bound for British Honduras (now Belize). There, one day, trekking through the rainforest, they stumbled upon some mounds of stone overgrown with moss and foliage: a lost Mayan city, known to the locals as Lubaantun, a Mayan name meaning ‘the city of the fallen stones’. It was here, inside one of the great temple-pyramids that his daughter Anna claimed to have found the magnificent crystal skull. It is highly anatomically accurate,with a separate lower jaw bone, just like a real human skull.
Anna Mitchell-Hedges, who was seventeen years old when she found the crystal skull, claimed that it had healing powers, keeping her happy and healthy all her long years until she died only last year – aged 100!
Mysterious origins
This crystal skull was loaned to Hewlett-Packard’s crystal research laboratory for scientific tests to try to establish how old it was and how it had been made. Unable to carbon date it, as crystal has no carbon in it, instead they looked for tool-markings to try to find out how, and therefore when, it might have been made. Even under extreme magnification they were stunned to find no evidence of any tool-marks on the skull, leading one member of the team to comment ‘This skull shouldn’t even exist!’ and others since to speculate that perhaps the skull is of ‘no earthly origin’!
Since then, several other crystal skulls have come to light. All are of controversial origin and all are surrounded by tales of supernatural powers. As George Lucas has said, ‘True believers attribute all sorts of abilities to the crystal skulls, ranging from the skulls being psychic amplifiers to repositories of ancient knowledge.’
Perhaps one of the most interesting test results is that the crystal skulls are made from precisely the same type of quartz crystal that is used inside all our modern electronic devices. Every one of our computers and mobile phones contains a tiny quartz crystal microprocessor enabling massive amounts of information to be stored and communicated.
And if you think how much information we now store inside these tiny silicon crystal chips inside our computers, just think how much information might be stored inside a crystal skull! Perhaps there might be some truth in the original legend which said that the crystal skulls are a source of great knowledge, wisdom and information that is yet to be discovered.
That the crystal skulls are now the subject of a major movie is no surprise to authors Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas. ‘It’s great news’ said Ceri ‘There is something about the crystal skulls that needs to be out there in the consciousness of people all over the planet’.
Reappearance of the Crystal Skulls
It certainly seems that the crystal skulls are reappearing now just as prophesied by the legend. In fact, authors Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas attended a very special event – a sacred gathering of indigenous elders at a secret location deep in the jungles of Guatemala. The purpose was to discuss the coming earth changes and the coming to pass of the indigenous prophecies as we approach the ‘end of the current world’ in 2012.
The indigenous elders believe the crystal skulls are reappearing now for a purpose.
They believe the crystal skulls are here now not only to ‘warn us’ but also ‘to awaken us’. They believe the crystal skulls are here to ‘change the mind of humanity’, to ‘awaken us all to a higher form of consciousness’, to ‘help us to function at a higher level as a species’, before it is too late.
To find out more, visit:
www.themysteryofthecrystalskulls.info
© 2008 Chris Morton & Ceri Louise Thomas
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