Skull Experiences

& Inspirations

Many thanks the skullkeepers who submitted these inspirational essays about their experiences with the skulls, and for granting me the permission to publish them here!

How A Crystal Skull Changed My Life

written by Robyn

I first heard about crystal skulls from a close friend of mine who quickly amassed a growing collection.  I enjoyed hearing about her conversations with her different skulls and her interesting experiences during meditations.  Karen’s experiences intrigued me so I began to think about possibly purchasing one.  One thing Karen said stuck in my head, “When you need a skull, it will come into your life and the right one will find you.”  I let it go at that.

  I was preparing for a trip out west with my children to visit their father and step-family.  Relations had failed and the children were refusing to visit unless I joined them.  It couldn’t have come at a worse time as I had just been diagnosed with a congenital birth defect that went unnoticed for 44 years.  Apparently, I had been living with a very large hole in my heart since birth that explained the extreme fatigue I had always experienced raising two active children alone.  As I packed for the trip, I decided to run to the local metaphysical bookstore to get some stones to meditate with on my journey.   On a whim, I asked the employee if he knew anything about crystal skulls.  He started talking about the discoveries of the ancient skulls when I interrupted him and asked him if he knew anything about modern skulls and their effects on people’s lives.  He said, “Wait a minute” and walked into the back room.  When he returned, he was holding a 2 ½ inch crystal skull and he handed it to me.  “You mean like this?” he asked.  I got very excited as I took the skull from him and immediately bonded with it.  It was beautiful and I did not want to give it back.  Chris started talking about how he had picked it up at a metaphysical fair about fours years ago and hadn’t done anything with it.  It had just been sitting on his shelf until I came in.  I reluctantly gave it back to him, fighting the impulse to ask him if he would sell it to me.  As I was decided if I should ask if he were interested in selling it to me, Chris seemed to be thinking the same thing.  He walked back with the skull asking me if I would like to hold it and if I wanted it, he would be happy to sell it to me at what he had paid for it four years ago.  I told him that I didn’t need to hold it because I knew it was for me.  My first skull had found me exactly when I needed it.  I could hardly contain my excitement.  On the drive home, he told me his name was Harry and he was very excited to be off the shelf and ready to start all the work we had to do together. 

 I’ve had Harry for about two months now and my life has been changing dramatically.  Just prior to getting Harry, I have made some major shifts in my attitude with regard to money, relationships and self-esteem.  I had been divorced for six years, raising two small children.  My ex-husband had left me for a woman he worked with, whom I had never met.  A month before acquiring Harry, I had decided that I was ready to go back to work and make my own money rather than being controlled and limited by the funds I received from my ex-husband.  Deciding to be financially responsible for myself was a necessary step in being fully responsible for my life.  At the same time, I decided that I was comfortable raising my children alone, without using the thought of a second marriage as a safety net should things get too tough as the children approached adolescence.   I felt empowered to be supporting myself and knowing that I was not intimidated about raising my children alone through the teen years. 

 As I faced this new responsibility and freedom, my doctor discovered a one-inch hole in my heart that I had had since birth.  I finally understood why I had always felt so tired and overwhelmed; it wasn’t just because of a bad marriage or raising two active children alone.  As I was learning about this medical condition, I was preparing to fly to Seattle to meet my children’s step-mother for the first time.  I found it symbolic that as I was healing old relationships, re-defining new relationships and finally facing my fear of being financially responsible for myself, the hole in my heart was about to be closed and I was facing a future better than anything I had every experienced to date.  Just as I was about to undergo all these changes, Harry showed up to help me through the process.

 I immediately bonded with Harry, sleeping with him at night and carrying him in my purse during the day.  I meditated with him each evening and things immediately began to shift.  I received Harry the night before I flew to Seattle to meet my children’s step mom.  Meditating with Harry helped me think clearly, feel centered as a unique individual and helped me gain perspective through memories or insights throughout the day.  When I finally met my ex’s second wife, she opened up to me and shared all of her frustrations with my children’s father and admitted that she was ready to leave him also.  She thanked me for meeting with her, saying that it really helped her deal with her situation.  It helped me more than I knew.  As I continued to meditate with Harry, I slowly found my self-esteem returning and found that I had released a lot of the pain from the marriage and the divorce.  Upon returning home, it was Easter.  As I dressed for Easter dinner, I rejected outfit after outfit.  My daughter agreed that everything I was putting on “made me look like Grammy”.  Finally, I reached into the back of my closet and pulled out a new suit I had bought.  I put it on along with a pair of high heels I hadn’t worn in years.  We both agreed that this was the outfit.  I looked at myself in the mirror and realized I was returning to the confident beautiful woman I used to be.  I had enough self-esteem to dress beautifully and walk into the room with confidence.  I hadn’t felt this good in years.

 As I was releasing the pain and self-blame accumulated from my marriage, I was also changing my ideas about current relationships.  I began to expect more from my partner.  I began to worry less about if I was hurting the other person and began to think more about what was right for me.  I began to understand my true value and demanded it from my partner.  I took greater and greater risk in expressing myself and the way I reacted in my relationship.  I had been meditating with Harry for about a month at this point and I was acquiring other stones that I used in conjunction with my daily meditations.  These stones mostly were used for healing, heart issues, relationship issues, better communication and clearer thinking.  Harry, being a clear quartz skull, seemed to amplify the energy and healing power of the other stones I used.  I had never responded to the energy of stones, but once I started meditating with Harry, I would literally buzz with energy when I was around certain stones.  Each day, I would feel stronger, more confident, clearer and happier.  I saw myself changing in the choices I was making, the responses I was making and the things I thought about. 

As all this was going on, I was learning more about my heart condition.  The more I learned, the worse it seemed to get.  It seemed that the hole between my upper heart chambers was so large that they doubted that it could be healed with the non-invasive method of attaching a clamp.  It was beginning to look like I may be facing open-heart surgery.  I had undergone a major spinal fusion requiring a three-month hospital stay and six months in a body cast, so I was not concerned about undergoing another surgery.  I was concerned about handling the responsibilities of caring for my children and meeting their school demands.   Open-heart surgery required a two to three month recovery and I had no one to drive them to school, cook or clean the house.  However, I was excited at the thought of repairing the hole and the new life it would give me, so I was ready to face whatever I needed to, to resolve the situation.

 As I kept meditating with Harry, old locked memories were returning and I was releasing them as quickly as then surfaced.  They were helping me recognize old patterns and intuit better patterns for my future.  Concepts and philosophies I thought I understood were sinking more deeply into my subconscious.  I was not just understanding them and acting on them; they were becoming a part of me.  I tried to explain my new revelations to friends, but they just responded like it was old news. I probably would have responded the same way.  It wasn’t the concept, but the fact that they had sunken in to a deeper level.  It’s like I had really understood basic metaphysical principals for the first time.  I could feel myself changing at most basic level, like I was being mentally and physically re-wired.  It was dramatic, profound and unexplainable.  I felt I was dropping all the ideas, fears and limitations that kept me from being my perfect self.   The more I meditated with Harry and the stones, the more things changed.  I tried different meditations that I read about or friends recommended.  I slept with stones taped to my chest and meditated in the sacred seven formation.  I went through periods of headaches and nausea when the energy was too intense, but I was fueled by the dramatic changes I was experiencing.  I was also fueled by the deadline to surgery. 

 My doctor had scheduled me for a non-invasive test under anesthesia to measure the size of the hole.  It was similar to the procedure to insert the clamp, but because they felt that I might not be a candidate for the clamp procedure, they were not willing to tie up medical staff unless they were sure it was going to work.  I was angry that I had to undergo anesthesia twice and possibly still need to undergo open heart.  I continued my meditations and kept wondering if the doctor would take another look at my case and decide to just schedule me for the non-invasive procedure anyway.  My friend urged me to meditate on closing the hole but I felt more comfortable meditating on resolving and releasing the heart issues that had created the hole.  I had a string of bad relationships, ongoing issues with my family, a bad marriage and was struggling not to re-create it with my children.  I felt that if I addressed the emotional and psychological issues, that the physical changes would follow.  My test was scheduled for the next morning and I had spent the better part of two days setting up arrangements for myself and my children.  Everything was in order and I arrived home at 7pm after a long day of work and after school activities with the children. 

To my surprise, one of the messages on my machine was a personal call from my doctor suggesting that I consider a new use for an MRI x-ray that may get the measurements of the hole without putting me through anesthesia.  He suggested I call him to discuss it.  I looked at the clock and knew that his office had been closed for hours and there was little chance of reaching him.  However, to my surprise, he had left his personal cell number and he was thrilled to hear from me.  He was doubly surprised that I was literally hours away from the first procedure and thought it was a “coincidence” that he had called when he did.  He gave me the number of the other doctor and asked me to call him at the hospital.  I called the number and the second doctor actually answered the phone.  He was shocked and also thought it was a “weird coincidence” that he was in the room when the phone rang and had answered it.  He repeated how he is rarely in that room and that he had just walked in “by chance”.  I was feeling more confident by the minute.  I had just called two of the most prominent surgeons in the country at a major medical center and had reached then both directly within about five minutes.  The procedure under anesthesia was cancelled and I was moved to the head of the list and underwent the MRI two days later.  Throughout all this, I continued to meditate.  I continued to see changes and feel the buzz of the energy from the stones, often feeling a familiar racing in my heart when I picked up Harry or other stones.  Harry continued to amplify the healing qualities of the stones I used and I continued to amass new stones directed at amplifying different qualities.  I felt like a marble sculpture taking shape.  With each meditation; old patterns chipped away and dropping to the floor to be cleaned up later.

As I awaiting the doctor’s decision, I read about a few healing meditations with crystal skulls.  I also learned that sometimes in children, the type of hole I had, closed spontaneously.   For the first time, I accepted that healing my heart through meditation with the use of the crystal skull and certain stone was a viable option.  I immediately did my first physical healing meditation before bed that night.  By morning, I had the appearance of a 24-hour flu and was vomiting up breakfast.  I wondered if this was a cleansing reaction to meditating with my skull the previous night.  After two days, I began regular healing meditations with my skull.  As I waited for the doctors’ decision, I began to notice that I wasn’t as tired at night and wasn’t sleeping as much.  I noticed more color in my cheeks and finally noticed that for the first time, I had a full set of short fingernails.  Because of poor circulation, I could never grow nails.  Was it my imagination or was it just the fact that I had been taking better care of myself.  I decided to pay a lot more attention to my energy level, symptoms and appearance.  All were noticeably better but I was unsure how much was attributed to slowing down and taking better care of myself and how much was attributed to the possibility that the hole in my heart was actually shrinking. I continued to think that maybe if I continued to work on my issues and physical healing while being willing to accept whatever came my way, that maybe the hole could be closed with the simple procedure.   After a month of testing, my doctor decided that we had a good change of closing the hole via the non-invasive procedure. 

 It looks like the procedure will be scheduled in the next 2-3 months, so I have plenty of time to continue with my healing work.  I am very positive that in that time, I will have been successful in shrinking the hole to a size where the clamp will fit on.  Even if I need to undergo open-heart surgery, I have experienced so many incredible changes in such a short time, the healing journey was worth it regardless of the medical outcome.

 I have only had my crystal skull for two months and I have evolved into a whole new person.  My relationship with my ex has become much less turbulent, and I am at peace with his new wife and his new family.  Now that I am taking better care of myself, I am more calm and more alert so I am a better mother to my children.  They have become more independent and more helpful in the house.  Our house is more loving and running with fewer arguments, less sibling rivalry and fewer outburst from an overtired mom.  Within the last month, I ended a two year relationship because I am finally refusing to accept behavior that doesn’t show me the respect I feel I deserve.  I look and feel better than ever and am dressing and expressing myself in a more confident manner.  My relationships with my friends and acquaintances are changing in appropriate ways, weeding out the true friends from the energy sappers and I am also expressing myself more directly and honestly so I have a more honest relationships in general.  I am also developing greater tact and sensitivity to others and making fewer judgments.  I also see my increased self-esteem and self-love reflected in my relationship with money.  I spend more money on myself, buy myself better quality things and feel I deserve it.  As I grow to love and value myself, I see everything around me reflect it.  Working with the healing stones and the crystal skull to amplify feelings of love and compassion have changed my life.  In the past two months, I have grown from a somewhat insecure woman, still blaming others and depending on others for financial and emotional support, to a happier, more loving, more honest, more confident truer version of my best self.  I feel I expressed the willingness to take this step and the crystal skull appeared to help me through the transition.  I never could have imagined the changed my life would take when I was handed that skull in that store that afternoon, but I thank the universe for sending it to me.  I look forward to working more with crystal skulls and becoming the best person I can be. 

How A Crystal Skull Changed My Life

written by Jeanne

Although I’ve been fascinated with and studied things metaphysical for as long as I can remember, if someone told me five years ago I’d be collecting skulls, I would have told them they were nuts. I thought skulls were creepy. They frightened me. I felt no draw at all. Even the Death card in the Tarot, despite my understanding of the card, still creeped me out! Then it happened…

In August 2001, my husband, Chris, and I welcomed our friends Theresa and Stephen, who were on a driving vacation, visiting friends and sacred sites. We enjoy a special friendship and were so thrilled to have them stay with us.

This visit was special in another way, too. For the first time, we were exposed to a crystal skull. I’d known for a long time about our friends’ work with crystal skulls, and through them, I’d become friendly via e-mail with JoAnn Parks, who is the keeper of Max, the Texas skull. I was curious, but the curiosity was not a burning one.

On the second afternoon of their visit, Theresa went to the car and came back with a travel bag, and she unpacked her crystal skull, Christos, and set her on her light stand. I was fascinated, even mesmerized. I was couldn’t help reaching out to touch Christos, to gaze into her depths. I really felt her presence, and, in hindsight, I think I was a bit nervous because the presence was so strong. (Christos has spent many hours in the company of Max, and I think I was getting a bit of "Max energy", too.) I was compelled to fetch the only two tiny skulls I had (received from JoAnn about a year prior to this visit); a small clear crystal (Little Max) and a small amethyst (Little Maxine). These two tiny ones had been sitting pretty well ignored in my home office for a long time. I set them in Christos eye sockets, where they insisted on being. And the insistence I felt from them startled me!

Later on that evening, someone suggested having a quiet meditation around the crystal skull. We set Christos, radiant on her light box, in the center of our diningroom table, and turned out all other lights. There were five of us – Theresa, Stephen, Chris, myself and my son, Geno, who was 9 years old at the time. I was having a hard time relaxing, because I was concerned that Geno would not settle down and that he’d distract the other adults, but eventually, we all quieted.

As I gazed at Christos, I was drawn to her left eye, and almost felt as if I was going through a tunnel of light. I felt a sense of communion, which again frightened me a bit. I mean, this was only a carved piece of rock, right? I found it impossible to relax and surrender to the experience, yet at the same time, I definitely felt "something" happening to me. I can only describe it as having my psychic and spiritual channels pried open, even as I fought this happening. (Control issues. Always control issues!) I wasn’t fighting hard, really. It was more of a subtle resistance.

Suddenly, I was knocked out of my reverie by my son, who had been asking sporadic questions. The questions had stopped, and, quite spontaneously, he said, "Mom, I see you the way you looked in a past life. You were very tall and blonde…" Then he moved to each adult around the table, telling us what he saw. My first motherly impulse was to hush him, so he didn’t disturb anyone else, but almost instantly, my jaw dropped, and I was amazed by what was happening. The others were very encouraging, and as I was filled with wonder and even pride at the way my son had opened to Spirit, I felt my own resistance fall away.

This was the moment that changed my life forever. Sometimes there just aren’t words to describe an experience. Epiphany would work in this case. And it was a surrender to Spirit, instead of trying to control this aspect of myself. An Awakening, most assuredly. And unblocking of energies. It was all of these and more, as a direct result of my interactions with Christos, and her wonderful caretakers, who I’ve always considered to be teachers.

When Theresa and Stephen departed a few days later, it was so hard to say goodbye. These are people we have known in other lifetimes, and I have always wished that we lived closer to each other now. We had our goodbyes with Christos, too. I removed our two tiny skulls, feeling very differently about them after this experience. And, with my hand resting on her forehead, I thanked Christos, with silent words and heartfelt emotions.

A note here to share that before Theresa and Stephen left, Theresa and I had taken some time to "play" on the computer. We did some internet surfing about crystal skulls, and then I was showing her the ins and outs of eBay. Before the end of that session, I had had my first encounter, via an eBay ad and photographs, with a large crystal skull with whom I connected immediately. This skull was being offered from a private collection. I thought it was not only beautiful, but I "knew" it would come home to me.

That crystal skull didn’t sell in that auction, but I contacted the seller after the fact. After some friendly negotiations, we sealed the deal, and less than a month after my incredible encounter with Christos, Aten arrived in our home.

Aten’s presence resulted in some major shake-ups in my life. First there was a period I think of as a "purging," where a lot of negative issues were dragged out into the light, and, though it was painful and difficult, were eventually resolved. Following these hard months, I suddenly found my interest in things metaphysical really sparked in a way that I hadn’t felt in years. It wasn’t just crystal skulls, but all kinds of crystals, gemstones and minerals that I began to study and collect. Tarot cards that had been collecting dust were pulled out and shuffled for the first time in years. Eventually, I found the courage to put myself on eBay, to offer spiritual readings for people. (I’d actually started going readings when I was 20, but life had gotten so busy, that I’d eventually drifted from doing them.) What I discovered – or REdiscovered -- was a real calling. This is work that was both fulfilling and rewarding, and with each reading, I feel myself grow stronger and more confident. I’ve also opened up an entirely new path, experiencing past life recollections that became extremely vivid and intense. It wasn’t long before I found that I could access the past life experiences of others, as well. I continue to grow spiritually and psychically, with a passion and commitment fired by my experiences and work with the crystal skulls.

My son has also continued to grow spiritually and loves the skull collection. He even has his own milky quartz skull, Socrates. Socrates looks most excellent on the multi-color laser lightbox because he absorbs the colors. He really BECOMES the colors! As a mom, it is very special to have a son who shares these interests, and I really believe he will go so far beyond my own experiences.

So, there have really been a few skulls who have changed my life, and always in positive, exciting ways. And, in turn, I have introduced other people to the magic of crystal skulls. I believe we are all part of a network striving to bring light, wisdom and love to our chaotic, troubled world. It is my hope that sharing my story will encourage others who are drawn to crystal skulls to join us on this path, as well.

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