But because the reaction is not immediate and not obviously near to yourselves, you continue and you continue until this very planet will erupt and destroy.
‘As we have said, your current mind seeks only separation. You have a desire to separate that will lead only to your own destruction. For this is the same mind that caused the Great Flood and caused the previous destruction of many a land mass. But this destruction has begun to happen again already. And we can already feel the influence of this separation in our world. But, at present, you are unaware of this separation because it is of your own making. But we tell you that your Earth will undertake great changes…
Even the body of your planet will change, as with your weather, as with all to do with your Earth as you now know it. There will be changes upon this Earth in the form of the human, the animal and that form you know as “vegetation” and that form which you know as “land mass” and that which you know as “atmosphere”.
‘There will be a disaster that is of great consequence. But, in essence, your “disaster,” as you would term it, has already begun. You will find much death amongst your life upon the planet. You will find that which is grown in the ground will cause much change and you will see that which feeds upon the ground will end up with much death. You will see much destruction due to what you call “radiation” and you will find much pestilence in that which now flies upon your planet. There will be eruptions and disruptions of weather patterns, and much separating of atmospheres. You will have much wind … and your livestock will die in great numbers. Your waters will rise where they should not rise and your land will be sinking underneath the waves. Land masses will disappear and seas and oceans will rise.
‘There will be a great splitting of the Earth … from within the Earth. The magnetic field will shift and is already shifting now. The Earth will be split asunder and the discharge will wander through the Earth and into the atmosphere. The atmosphere is already entering a state of negative pollution. This is what you are doing with your negative energies on the Earth.
‘And this is why we left these receptacles for you to find, in your time “long ago” when we realized that so many had forgotten their original purpose of incarnation into this physical dimension. When we realized that the mind of separation would take hold and that there would be a great catastrophe on this Earth, we chose to return to our own original dimension, but we left behind the legacy of our minds. We knew there would be those whose knowledge and seeking and spiritual progression would turn them towards this path. We knew that because of the disaster that would befall this planet, there would be those who would be needed to call upon their reincarnational memories to heal, to counsel and to love a world gone mad, a world without knowledge, a world without hope, where the fires of destruction would reign.
‘But when the time comes it will be the duty of all those who seek spiritual knowledge to instruct others when the Earth moves from its axis. Within this receptacle, and the others we have left you, lies that which you will need. Our knowledge, here crystallized, will be imparted when the right time arrives. It was determined that through these receptacles the minds of one would be activated and would present themselves when your Earth was in need. And this is now beginning to happen, as you say “at this time” and “in this place”. We are here to tell you that there is … will be … and has already begun, a great change within your Mother Earth. We urge you to make known to mankind the things which we are to give you, in the hope that the holocaust can be reduced. For although what is given cannot now be changed, its effects can be much diffused.’
At this point the voice explained that it was going to leave us now because it could sense that the physical body it was using, presumably meaning Carole, was getting very tired and so it would have to go. A long humming sound began again and as it faded away Carole slumped into her chair, completely exhausted and unable to speak for some minutes. It took a few glasses of water to get her to speak again, in a long drawl, like someone drunk. When she eventually came round she seemed completely unaware of the events that had just passed and was unable to answer any more questions.
We were completely baffled as to what to make of the information Carole had channelled. We had originally been sceptical enough about the idea of psychic communication with spirit beings, let alone beings from another planet or ‘dimension’, whatever that meant, warning us about imminent disaster on a global scale. But our cynicism had already been tempered by what we had heard about Carole’s valuable police work and by the fact that Carole herself seemed genuine and honest.
Everyone around us treated the information we heard with a great degree of seriousness and respect, and there was something about the predictions made that had an alarming but still undeniable ring of truth. Indeed, these became even more unnerving when John showed us transcripts of Carole’s channelling sessions with the skull from the 1980s. The channelled information always seemed to have been quite consistent. In a session recorded in 1987 the voice had predicted, ‘Livestock will die in great numbers.’ This seemed to have particular relevance for us now, having just come from Britain, where the BSE crisis had now led to the slaughter of tens of thousands of cattle.
Around nine months later, the prediction about the Earth’s magnetic field shifting also took on a sobering degree of truth when we read in an issue of New Scientist that it had just been discovered that the magnetic field is indeed beginning to shift. There are even some scientists who now predict that the whole axis of the Earth might be about to do a complete flip.2
At the time, however, we didn’t know what to make of everything we had heard. Was this really ‘the voice of the skull’ speaking through Carole? We just couldn’t say. But these strange words remained in our minds as we resumed our more everyday approach to the mystery of where the crystal skulls had really come from.
The debate over the true origins of the crystal skulls was to take a new turn when one of the world’s most powerful museums became embroiled in the controversy.
After our trip to Anna Mitchell-Hedges, we put in a call to the British Museum back in London. We wanted to see how their plans for testing their skull were progressing. But Elizabeth Carmichael now put us in touch with Dr Jane Walsh, Mesoamerican specialist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, because she had become interested in crystal skulls when one had turned up at her office unexpectedly. We were intrigued. It seemed that Carole Wilson’s channelled prediction that some of the other crystal skulls would soon be rediscovered was coming true.
The Smithsonian’s crystal skull had come into their possession only very recently, and under very sad and mysterious circumstances. It had just arrived one day at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, having been sent through the post by an anonymous donor. Dr Walsh told us the story:
‘I got a call one afternoon from Richard Ahlborn, who is the curator over at American History. He said, “I’ve got something here the Department of Anthropology might be interested in.”
‘At first he didn’t say what it was but I got the impression from the tone of his voice that whatever it was he seemed very keen to get it off his hands. Then he explained that he had received in the mail a box, which had a crystal skull inside it.
‘The skull had arrived accompanied by an unsigned handwritten note which read simply: “Dear Sir, This Aztec crystal skull, purported to be part of the [Mexican President] Porfirio Díaz collection, was purchased in Mexico City in 1960… I am offering it to the Smithsonian without any consideration. Naturally, I wish to remain anonymous…”
‘Richard asked me if I would be interested in taking it. Unaware of the pitfalls that lay ahead, I said, “Yes, by all means, I’ll come right over and pick it up.”
‘But Richard said, ‘No, no, it’s