Shortly before our visit, Coran had a vision that when we went to see the skull, time would stand still, the door of the case would open, and the skull would come into his hands to be taken home, leaving behind a holographic image of itself that would lead people to think that it was still there. Once this had happened, time would then resume. We had visions of newspaper headlines screaming 'crystal skull disappears from locked case!'
To our chagrin, this did not happen, but it seems that the skull did download part of its consciousness into Coran's energetic structure, so that in the future it could attach itself to another skull, that we have since acquired. In order to make way for this information the skull consciousness first had to remove certain negative energies from Coran's system. This caused a temporary loss of energy due to the depletion of life force, which goes some way to explaining why he felt so strange.
More recently, Coran started to re-connect with the skull, seeing images of it in his minds eye. He also had the strong feeling that we needed to check the British Museum website for information. For various reasons however, we omitted to do this, until I received an e-mail from American skull researcher, Joshua Shapiro. Joshua stated, in his e-mail that during his recent visit to England, he had had the opportunity to spend time with the skull. The Curator of the Ethnography Department, Jim Hamill, had decided to make the skull available for private viewing for a limited period of time, as the move was now imminent, and he had been inundated with enquiries.
Naturally we were both overjoyed to read of this, and quickly contacted Mr Hamill to check the details. He confirmed that this was correct, and that the skull was available for viewing on Thursday afternoons, until the middle of June. As I was due to go on holiday for 2 weeks at the end of May, the only date available for us was May 22. Coran duly arranged to take the day off work.
That morning, one of our skulls, Ruby, requested to come with us. As Coran was feeling somewhat ungrounded that day, he also decided to take Herbert, a smaller skull made from haematite, a mineral which is generally considered to have excellent grounding properties.
When we arrived at the Museum, the receptionist ushered us into Mr Hamill's office, where the Museum skull was situated. He asked us to sign the Guest Book, and the skull was then unveiled, sitting in its glass case, next to his computer. We asked him if it would be possible to remove the skull from its case, so that we could touch it, explaining that I was a crystal skull researcher, but were told that this was not possible. Both of our own skulls were then placed (with permission) on top of the glass cabinet where the skull sat, so that could be imbued with its energies and power.
Almost immediately I became aware of a slight pain to the right of my crown chakra, which diminished as I watched the same area of crystal within the skull itself becoming clearer. We have often noticed this phenomena with our own skulls, particularly Talisman. When we first acquired Talisman, he was very cloudy, but since November last year (when I took him to Rosslyn Cathedral) he has become much clearer.
We noticed several indentations and air bubbles within the structure of the British Museum skull, which on closer examination seemed to resemble a map of our galaxy. Several lines of bubbles ran from the bottom right to the top left of the skulls cranium, indicative of the plane of the ecliptic in our galaxy. It has been suggested by some that this particular skull contains a holographic map of the universe. From what we both saw, this is certainly the impression that we got.
These lines also seemed to me to be indicative of the tapestry of life, the crystalline web of colour and sound that surrounds planet Earth, and links us to the other stars and planets throughout our universe. When we look at a crystal skull, we are therefore reminded of the silicon structure within our own being that links us to the rest of the universe, as certain components of our bodies are also crystalline in nature. The web, or tapestry of life can be likened to the glow which is given off by a candle. If we imagine that the candle flame is The Void, the source of creation, then the web is the light that The Void casts off, The Void's emanation. The skull can also therefore be seen as a portal to the Void. When I looked into the eyes of the skull, I felt as if I was being sucked through a black hole, deep into space.
Coran commented that looking at the centre of the skull, and moving his head up and down, it reminded him very much of the glass trinkets, which contain Christmas scenes with fake snow. When you turn these upside down, and give them a shake, the snow starts to fall onto the scene, giving the appearance of real snow, which is of course an illusion. The skull's remembrance of this, for Coran, was the fact that the physical world in which we live, is also, like The Matrix, an illusion. It was interesting that the premier of the second film in The Matrix trilogy, Matrix Reloaded was shown in London that night.
Some have said that skulls are a repository of knowledge, and we would certainly both agree with this. How does a skull retain this information though? Coran believes that the information is contained within the crystal lattice itself. As the human brain is a collection of synaptic pathways, with axons and dendrites (the pathways through which neural impulses are transmitted), our memory is created by the relationship between these synapses. Likewise, a crystal lattice consists of many atoms connected together to create the crystalline form. Each atom can be compared to a synapse. This is what Coran believes holds the memory and information that the crystal contains.
While we were there, Coran asked Mr Hamill what he thought about the skull, and whether he had had any unusual experiences with it. He replied that he had not, as he treated it as just another Museum artefact. This was probably the reason why the glass case was put next to his computer! He did say however, that he was interested in the views and experiences of others, so had placed a book beside the case for people to write their comments. It was very interesting reading. Naturally we added our own comments as well.
After we returned home, almost straight away Coran began to feel extremely dizzy and disorientated, so much so that he had to lie down for a few hours. The skull was no doubt doing some more re-balancing work of some kind, and had the compassion to wait until he returned home safely before it began its work. As the evening progressed, I started to feel slightly heady and ungrounded, so I decided to have a bath and an early night.
Whilst I was in the bath, I had a message from Ruby and Hector, the two skulls who had accompanied us that day. The skulls requested that we place them by the bed for the next seven nights so that they could continue the work that the British Museum skull had started. It seems that they both being used as conduits for this energy to pass through. I also saw the image of Kosh, one of the characters from Babylon 5, saying one of his more cryptic quotes 'and so it begins'. I wonder what he means in this instance. No doubt all will be revealed in due course.
