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By JOHN CHRISTOPHER FINE
January 28, 2009
Ocean explorers in West Palm Beach found the treasure of Hernan Cortez. Long after the conqueror of Mexico's death, his family was shipping some of his personal fortune back to Spain. The cargo contained Aztec crystal skulls. The ship was lost in a fire at sea. It burned to the water line, then sank in deep water off Florida's coast.
Diver, art expert and undersea explorer Dr. Victor Benilous was contacted by a representative of the Cortez family and given information about the shipwreck. Benilous was well known for his work on the oldest shipwreck in the western hemisphere, found off Juno Beach. The information he was given was sparse.
With the use of world-renowned psychics, Benilous and his team of divers located the wreck. One of the psychics was taken aboard the dive vessel. "Dive here," the psychic said. Deep below the spot where the psychic said dive, not 10 feet from the place where the anchor was dropped, an Aztec crystal skull was recovered.
Power? Special properties? Healing and spiritual abilities? Margaret Ann Lembo thinks so. She is the affable owner of The Crystal Garden on North Federal Highway in Boynton Beach. She invited Bill Homann from Indiana to speak at the Boynton Woman's Club and bring the famous Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull with him.
He came to Boynton Beach with a presentation that showed F.A. Mitchell-Hedges and his daughter, Anna, during their exploration and digs in Central America. The vintage photographs depict the jungle around the Mayan city of Lubaantun in Belize, where the crystal skull was found.
The crystal skull was found in 1924 inside a pyramid.
"It is a perfectly made quartz crystal. Anatomically correct for a Meso-American female aged 25 to 29. The jaw and the top cranial part are the same crystal. It was one piece of crystal at one time. It is very hard to separate crystal. It's brittle. The skull contains three prisms and two lenses built into the crystal skull. The only way you can do that is in zero gravity," Homann said.
The crystal skull itself was perfectly smooth, clear-glass colored with a detachable bottom jaw that could be made to open if the skull was pulled back. After the lecture, Lembo took attendees in the auditorium by rows and lined those up that wished to place their hands near the crystal skull to do so.
Linda Loparnos, a pilot from Tarpon Springs, made the long drive to attend. She placed her own small crystal skull on the table in front of the Mitchell-Hedges skull and placed her hands on either side of the large crystal.
"I bought it here tonight," Loparnos said of the small crystal skull. "I cleared it with my own intentions so I could charge it. It came to me in a meditation while I was sleeping. The only thing I'd heard of crystal skulls before was on Indiana Jones. I read about this program in a magazine. I had to come see it. I'm on call, that's why I'm dressed in uniform."
Benilous echoed the sentiment that ancient crystal skulls are symbols of special powers. They were used for healing and were said to possess the ability for learning and knowledge. Time magazine featured Benilous on a cover story about treasures recovered from the deep after his discovery in 1993 of the Aztec skulls. There were then only 12 known to exist in the world.
"We don't even know how the ancients made these things or if they made them or if they were there when they built their pyramids and cities," Benilous said from his office in West Palm Beach.
"I really believe in what the crystal skull is all about. A lot of people find it interesting. Others have a greater connection. Call it a skull of love. Love for people, animals, plants. We are all connected. The time now is speeding up. Things are happening. By 2012, according to the Maya, it is the end of a 26,000-year cycle. The change depends on the consciousness of the human world. How we go through this change. If we can open up to a higher consciousness, it can be a beautiful thing," Homann said.
January 28, 2009
Ocean explorers in West Palm Beach found the treasure of Hernan Cortez. Long after the conqueror of Mexico's death, his family was shipping some of his personal fortune back to Spain. The cargo contained Aztec crystal skulls. The ship was lost in a fire at sea. It burned to the water line, then sank in deep water off Florida's coast.
Diver, art expert and undersea explorer Dr. Victor Benilous was contacted by a representative of the Cortez family and given information about the shipwreck. Benilous was well known for his work on the oldest shipwreck in the western hemisphere, found off Juno Beach. The information he was given was sparse.
With the use of world-renowned psychics, Benilous and his team of divers located the wreck. One of the psychics was taken aboard the dive vessel. "Dive here," the psychic said. Deep below the spot where the psychic said dive, not 10 feet from the place where the anchor was dropped, an Aztec crystal skull was recovered.
Power? Special properties? Healing and spiritual abilities? Margaret Ann Lembo thinks so. She is the affable owner of The Crystal Garden on North Federal Highway in Boynton Beach. She invited Bill Homann from Indiana to speak at the Boynton Woman's Club and bring the famous Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull with him.
He came to Boynton Beach with a presentation that showed F.A. Mitchell-Hedges and his daughter, Anna, during their exploration and digs in Central America. The vintage photographs depict the jungle around the Mayan city of Lubaantun in Belize, where the crystal skull was found.
The crystal skull was found in 1924 inside a pyramid.
"It is a perfectly made quartz crystal. Anatomically correct for a Meso-American female aged 25 to 29. The jaw and the top cranial part are the same crystal. It was one piece of crystal at one time. It is very hard to separate crystal. It's brittle. The skull contains three prisms and two lenses built into the crystal skull. The only way you can do that is in zero gravity," Homann said.
The crystal skull itself was perfectly smooth, clear-glass colored with a detachable bottom jaw that could be made to open if the skull was pulled back. After the lecture, Lembo took attendees in the auditorium by rows and lined those up that wished to place their hands near the crystal skull to do so.
Linda Loparnos, a pilot from Tarpon Springs, made the long drive to attend. She placed her own small crystal skull on the table in front of the Mitchell-Hedges skull and placed her hands on either side of the large crystal.
"I bought it here tonight," Loparnos said of the small crystal skull. "I cleared it with my own intentions so I could charge it. It came to me in a meditation while I was sleeping. The only thing I'd heard of crystal skulls before was on Indiana Jones. I read about this program in a magazine. I had to come see it. I'm on call, that's why I'm dressed in uniform."
Benilous echoed the sentiment that ancient crystal skulls are symbols of special powers. They were used for healing and were said to possess the ability for learning and knowledge. Time magazine featured Benilous on a cover story about treasures recovered from the deep after his discovery in 1993 of the Aztec skulls. There were then only 12 known to exist in the world.
"We don't even know how the ancients made these things or if they made them or if they were there when they built their pyramids and cities," Benilous said from his office in West Palm Beach.
"I really believe in what the crystal skull is all about. A lot of people find it interesting. Others have a greater connection. Call it a skull of love. Love for people, animals, plants. We are all connected. The time now is speeding up. Things are happening. By 2012, according to the Maya, it is the end of a 26,000-year cycle. The change depends on the consciousness of the human world. How we go through this change. If we can open up to a higher consciousness, it can be a beautiful thing," Homann said.
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