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