Hall - Crystal Skulls: Ancient Tools for Peace, Knowledge, and Enlightenment

This is a book on crystal skulls I would absolutely buywhich is unusual for me as I find most books out on the skulls either too strange or too dry.

Edwin Courtney, skullkeeper, spiritual teacher, and channel

Wow. That's a slow, stopped-in-the-tracks and reverential wow, the wow of someone who really enjoyed the opening of this book, recognizing quite how special the subject is. It ticked the boxes for meinformative, fun, enticing. I simply hadn't anticipated the solidity, the depth of the crystalnot to mention colour, pattern, chaos, order... Please pass on my apologies to Horace, I underestimated him in my imagination!

Richard Bryson

As a relative newcomer to the world of crystal skulls, I found this book a fascinating mix of a walk through history with really workable and easy-to-understand suggestions on how to start to work with them. It is an extremely good read. I thoroughly recommend it.

Stephen Chapman, President, College of Psychic Studies, London

This edition first published in 2016 by Weiser Books, an imprint of

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Copyright 2016 by Judy Hall

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ISBN: 978-1-57863-594-8

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hall, Judy, 1943- author.

Title: Crystal skulls : ancient tools for peace, knowledge, and enlightenment / Judy Hall.

Description: Newburyport : Weiser Books, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016019933 | ISBN 9781578635948 (6 x 9 tp : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Crystal skulls.

Classification: LCC BF1442.C76 H35 2016 | DDC 133/.2548dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016019933

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My deepest love and thanks go to skullkeeper Edwin Courtney, not only for his friendship and support over many years, but also for so generously sharing information with me. You are a one-off, Edwin, and I treasure you!

No medical claims are made for stones in this book and the information is not intended to act as a substitute for medical treatment. Healing properties are given for guidance only and are, for the most part, based on anecdotal evidence and/or traditional therapeutic use. Illness is a dis-ease, the final manifestation of spiritual, environmental, psychological, karmic, emotional, or mental imbalance or distress. Healing means bringing mind, body, and spirit back into balance and facilitating evolution for the soul. It does not imply a cure.

PART I
WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE CRYSTAL SKULLS?

PART II
HOW TO WORK WITH YOUR CRYSTAL SKULL

My deepest love and gratitude goes to all the skullkeepers, carvers, and others who have so willingly shared their knowledge and experience with me, sometimes in the midst of profound life changes and the darkest of times. Being a skullkeeper isn't all sweetness and light, so I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Every effort was made to trace holders of what might be copyrighted material referred to in the book. Some skullkeepers proved particularly elusive. The Internet obviously isn't as effective as the crystalline net in communicating! So my thanks in absentia to all those from whom it was not possible to obtain consent. References have been given wherever possible, but occasionally the primary source was impossible to determine.

Special thanks, too, to my crystal group, who take the time for new adventures with me every month. Without you I would know less of crystal qualities and of sharing without limits. My love to you all and my heartfelt thanks for your contributions, whether in the book or not.

And last but certainly not least, to Terrie Birch who has joined me on so many healings adventures and to the crystal skulls and skull beings for their wisdom, care, and inspiration, my love and thanks.

Crystal skulls are a conundrum. The skulls are here to bring peace and knowledge, so they tell us. They seek to awaken higher consciousness in humanity. To offer healing to the Earth. But they have stirred up vigorous controversy. There is little authentic empirical evidence as to their origins. Some of the well-known skulls, such as the Mitchell-Hedges and Max, are said to be exceedingly ancient. Modern technology is, however, showing that virtually all crystal skulls are comparatively recent, although, of course, the material from which they are carvedthroughout this book generally referred to as crystalis exceedingly ancient.

When it comes to crystal skulls, we need to ask if there are just too many caveats for them to be credible. Although, given that it is postulated that a separate higher consciousness animates the skull, we could ask whether it really matters how old they are. What about the hundreds of contemporary skulls sold around the world? Are these a cynical marketing ploy as claimed by skeptics? Or is something extraordinary going on?

In the chapters that follow, well explore how a crystal skull might enlighten and enliven your life. First, well look at questions that the skulls invoke. Sifting fact from fable is a major challenge. So much is presented as certainty when it is anything but. It is virtually impossible to consult primary source material. Hearsay is rife, especially online, but print authors are equally culpable. Speculation is dressed as fact, and fabrications and deceptions abound, deliberately or otherwise. Stories are passed around, and get embroidered in the telling. Without provenance and documented archaeological context, there is no certitude. But, as has been said, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Who knows what a validated archaeological dig may soon reveal?

Merit-Aten. The author's Egyptian Sodalite head. Not all skulls are clear crystal. (Courtesy of Sandra Birch, www.ksc.crystals.com)

In talking about crystal skulls, departures from truth inevitably occur. But what is truth? Just because the origins of a skull are dubious does not invalidate people's subsequent experiences.

First, I'd like to share with you how I was beguiled by a skull. I'll also take the opportunity to introduce a rather idiosyncraticand somewhat anarchiccharacter: Horace, my Smoky Quartz skull. He appears at intervals throughout this book.

Have you ever come face-to-face with a skull and had it call to you? I did, in 1975 in the Museum of Mankind (now once again part of the British Museum) in London. The skull was a life-size, flawless crystal with more than a tinge of blue about it (you can see its picture on page xvi). The mesmerizing eyes were alive with intense intelligence. It was a truly awesome experience, like being pulled in by a powerful tractor beam. I gazed into it, watching an ancient South American temple going about its daily business. I thought I stood there for a few minutes, but it was almost two hours. I had been seduced.