Crystal Skull

[Sideshow Shaman]

Yes, it is interesting how people tend to focus on a skull that they can argue about while ignoring a skull (Max) that defies modern explanation. Or any other skull for that matter. Blah blah blah. Milk & Honey even goes so far as to try to put words in someone's mouth. "rediculous to give any external object or person the credit for greater intelligence than one's own soul/spirit. " Who said that anyway? Other than M&H that is.

Thanks to Mizar though for mentioning Harley Swiftdeer's words in relation to this topic. Now i will know to ask questions of a certain older relative that studied with him in the 70s.

[THE eXchanger]

http://www.mitchell-hedges.com/2008/...ts/?show=slide
Hewlett-Packard tests
History or hokum?
Santa Clara’s crystal lab helps tackle the case of the hard-headed Honduran…

Let the doors squeak, the shutters rattle, the curtains shake, the cats run, the dogs whimper, the bats flutter, the mists swirl and the moon blaze. Ignore the heavy footsteps in the hall, the creaking stairs, the labored breathing beyond the door. Listen, instead, to a tale of true mystery involving prehistoric cults, lost civilizations, the “granddaddy of all crystal skulls,” and some scientific sleuthing by members of the HP crystal lab at Santa Clara Division. Centerpiece of this tantalizing tale is a clear quartz crystal sculpture the size and shape of a human skull estimated to be as much as 120 centuries old. Known as the Mitchell-Hedges Skull, after the name of its discoverer, it is an object of fantastic sculptural perfection. No other quartz crystal sculpture approaches its quality; even the British Museum’s crystal skull, discovered in Mexico in 1889, is classed as a “rough cut” in comparison.
The now-elderly owner, Anna Mitchell-Hedges, discovered the mysterious skull in 1927 on an expedition with her explorer father to the ruins of a Mayan Temple in British Honduras. The two-part sculpture – head and detached jaw – lay under a collapsed altar. Since then, it has alternately been under study or in safe keeping, most recently in a house on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais to the north of San Francisco. Here, in the temporary custody of a free-lance art conservator and restorer named Frank Dorland, it came to the attention of Dick Garvin, writer and supervisor of the Hewlett-Packard advertising account at the San Francisco office of Lennen & Newell. In a co-authored new book titled “The world of the twilight believers”, Garvin discussed the other-worldly aspects of the skull in one of the chapters on far-out phenomena. Then he arranged for Dorland to bring the skull to the HP Santa Clara lab in order to test certain theories and speculations about its composition.
The lab, of course, is exactly the right place for testing quartz crystal. That is one of its day-to-day occupations. Its major mission, according to Jim Pruett, components manager for the Frequency Standards team, is the production of precision quartz oscillator crystals used in HP oscillators and quartz crystal thermometers. The lab purchases raw one-pound Brazilian crystals and, with the aid of many skills, converts them into gold-plated wafers that vibrate at a precise frequency.
For the Mitchell-Hedges skull the lab performed two significant tests. Submerging the sculpture in a bath of index-matching fluid, and viewing it under polarized light, the lab people first determined that it was almost certainly a single crystal of quartz, rather than a composite of three crystals as Dorland had suspected. Next, they probed the lower-jaw question. Was it originally an integral part of the crystal? The orientation of its X-Y axis and the “veils” revealed by the polarized light showed that it had indeed come from the same crystal.
These findings raise again many of the same questions that have followed the skull-shaped rock crystal since its discovery – or rediscovery – in the ruins of Lubaantun. Where did it come from? Is it phony or for real? Some experts assign its origin to various Central American civilizations including the Aztecs, Mixtecs or the Olmecs. Dorland suggests it may have come from Egypt, Tibet or China, and may have been roughed out as much as 12,000 years ago. How then did it come to British Honduras?
Dorland believes the skull originally was used in prehistoric religious ceremonies. At that time it resembled the British Museum work, its jaw attached, its workmanship less finished. Later, sea-going Phoenicians brought it to Central America, perhaps even by way of the lost city of Atlantis. Mayan or Aztec craftsmen then detached the jaw so that it could be animated and made to serve as an oracle, dispensing judgments from atop a trick alter. This fateful role was enhanced by the prismatic qualities of the skull; flames or light placed under or behind the skull are projected eerily through the eye sockets.
If it is phony, it’s a very artistic one. Quartz crystal is an extremely hard material – hard in the sense that a diamond is hard, and hard to work with. The size and clarity of the 11-pound, 7-ounce Mitchell-Hedges skull made it a rarity. The workmanship is exquisite, a compound of patient hand crafting (using sand and water to smoothly abrade the rock) and technical precision requiring an estimated 300 man-years of effort.
“One of our guys kidded that he might be able to duplicate it if you gave him a year and $100,000″, said Jim Pruett.
“There’s no way of proving its age. A lot of the occult aura – tales of mystery and evil – that have sprung up around it could easily come from its eyes. By shifting a light source or when an observer moves his view even slightly, an infinite variety of refraction patterns can be seen. They could be quite hypnotic.
“I look on it as a very beautiful work of art irrespective of its age or authenticity. There’s no denying that!’

Photo captions
Frank Dorland, keeper of the Mitchell-Hedges skull for a number of years, demonstrates its prismatic qualities. Dorland has advanced many of the far-ranging theories concerning the skull, including the belief that it originated in China, Tibet or Egypt, then was transported by ancient sea-goers to South America by way of Atlantis. The skull is now back in possession of Miss Mitchell-Hedges who discovered it under a ruined altar in an abandoned Mayan temple in British Honduras in 1927. Its sale price to museums is said to be $250,000 but it also is described as “priceless”.

The Mayan mystery head attracted lively attention among Santa Clarans during its two-day stay there last December [1970]. Tests run in the division’s crystal lab help establish its composition. It was found to be a single quartz crystal. It was also determined that the detached jaw came from the same crystal. But other mysteries surrounding its origin remain unsolved.

Jim Pruett, components manager on Santa Clara’s Frequency Standards team, reviews one of the polarized-light setups used to the test the skull. Later, the quartz crystal object was immersed in an index-matching fluid that allowed polarized light to reveal veils and crystalline structure.

Published in Hewlett-Packard’s Measure, February 1971.

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The article is published here conform to the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107, specifically to allow verification for researchers that the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull was indeed subjected to an analysis at Hewlett-Packard.

[orionsbelt]

While watching a video of a SKULL -

I put my hands up on my video monitor and could feel the mysterious energy radiating from the monitor!

That SKULL is EVIL and full of zORGONITE CRYSTALS.

Look what It has done to ....

Oh, it was only static electricity from the monitor, my mistake.

[milk and honey]

Originally Posted by Sideshow Shaman

Yes, it is interesting how people tend to focus on a skull that they can argue about while ignoring a skull (Max) that defies modern explanation. Or any other skull for that matter. Blah blah blah. Milk & Honey even goes so far as to try to put words in someone's mouth. "rediculous to give any external object or person the credit for greater intelligence than one's own soul/spirit. " Who said that anyway? Other than M&H that is.

I haven't put words in "someone's" mouth. I stated what seems to me a plain truth from my own.

Regardless of their associated rhetoric about "relying on your inner truth" (which i agree with) i feel in my bones that the "skull myth" is just another set up which has been constructed as a kind of new age 'catholicism' for 'believers'. It's bad enough that the skulls are mere external objects, (although all crystal is a vessel for higher universal energies) but it is more dubious that only a few "elders" can supposedly interpret the skulls' message for the rest of us. How unfortunate and so passe. I don't think you could concieve of a religious system with more potential for abuse by a special few than this one.

As i said, it reminds me of the old catholic system when only the priesthood had custody of the scriptures (the revered external object) and only the priesthood could interpret their meaning for the rest of us. (the "divine" message).

I forsee the probability of the abuse of power and the excommunications that will inevitably arise in the community between the skull 'priesthood' (the mediators between the skull messages and the people) and the relatively few individuals who will actually be receptive to the intuitive guidance of their own inner-spirit. In that event there are 2 external layers of authority to confront in the "skull myth" and any private or public dissagreement with the "skull priests" by an inspired individual would most likely be shunned and frowned upon by those external 'authorities' and by community members who rely on them for adjudication and guidance.

In a conflict between the "higher- knowing" of external authorities and our own intuition, how might we fare as individuals in a 'skull' community? A reading of church history can provide some of the most degenerate examples.

The attempt to present the skull objects and the 'elders' as the central facillitators of the 2012 "shift" is in my view a bald attempt to position them as an indispensable power of ultimate credibility. A power worthy of our reverence.

As i see it, the "cryst-al" of most relevance at this time is the "christ-all" within ourselves. If we can shift our consciousness into resonance with the Christ within we can assist in raising the frequency of the planet. For that, we don't need external physical objects or their external mediators. The highest frequencies of intelligence and love can come to body and mind through the only crystal that really matters --- the christ-consciousness. The seat of authority is within you.