1. F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, Danger, My Ally, Elek Books Ltd, London, 1954; Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1955; reissued Mitchell-Hedges & Honey, St Catharines, Ontario, 1995
2. Ibid., p. 183
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., p.243
6. Ibid.
7. Frank Dorland, Holy Ice, Galde Press Inc., St Paul, Minn., 1992, p.4
8. Ibid., pp.27–8
9. Sibley S. Morrill, Ambrose Bierce, F. A. Mitchell-Hedges and the Crystal Skull, Cadleon Press, London, 1972, p.13
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
1. Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell, The Mayan Prophecies, Element Books, Shaftesbury, 1995, p.199
2. Quoted in F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, Danger, My Ally, Elek Books Ltd, London, 1954; Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1955; reissued Mitchell-Hedges & Honey, St Catharines, Ontario, 1995, p. 9
3. Ibid., plate section
4. Ibid., p.243
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., p.247
7. Sibley S. Morrill, Ambrose Bierce, F. A. Mitchell-Hedges and the Crystal Skull, Cadleon Press, London, 1972
8. Ibid., pp.28–9
9. Quoted in Simon Welfare and John Fairley, Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World, Book Club Associates, London, 1981, p.53
10. G. M. Morant, A morphological comparison of two crystal skulls’, Man XXXVI, 142–78 (July 1936), 105–7; Adrian Digby, ‘Comments on the morphological comparison of two crystal skulls’, ibid, 107–9
11. Digby, p.108
12. Joe Nickell and John F. Fischer, ‘Crystal skull of death’, Fate magazine, July 1984 (Part 1), pp.48–54
13. Quoted in Welfare and Fairley, op. cit., p.53
14. Mitchell-Hedges, op. cit., p.174
15. Quoted ibid., plate section
16. Welfare and Fairley, op. cit., p.53; with further details from Nickell and Fischer, op. cit., and August 1984 (Part 2), pp. 81–7
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2. F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, Danger, My Ally, Elek Books Ltd, London, 1954; Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1955; reissued Mitchell-Hedges & Honey, St Catharines, Ontario, 1995, p.243
3. Adrian Digby, ‘Comments on the morphological comparison of two crystal skulls’, Man XXXVI, 142–78 (July 1936), p.108
1. Joseph Alioto, ‘Introduction’ to Frank Dorland, Holy Ice: A bridge to the subconscious, Galde Press Inc., St Paul, Minn., 1992, p.xii
2. At the time of going to press Professor Brindley’s research has not yet been published.
3. Dorland, op. cit., p.17
4. Ibid., p.115
5. Ibid., p.115
6. Ibid., p.134
7. Ibid., pp.134–5
8. Ibid., p.117
9. Ibid., p.104
10. Ibid., p.112
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1. Jane MacLaren Walsh, ‘Crystal skulls and other problems or “Don’t look it in the eye” ‘ in Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of representation at the Smithsonian, Amy Henderson and Adrienne L. Kaeppler, eds, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1997
2. Ibid., p. 134
1. Star gave the reference J. J. Hurtak, The Keys of Enoch, Academy for Future Science, California, 1977
1. Sandra Bowen, F. R. ‘Nick’ Nocerino and Joshua Shapiro, Mysteries of the Crystal Skulls Revealed, J & S Aquarian Networking, 1988
2. Quoted in Jane MacLaren Walsh, ‘Crystal skulls and other problems or “Don’t look it in the eye” ‘ in Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of representation at the Smithsonian, Amy Henderson and Adrienne L. Kaeppler, eds, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1997, pp.123 and 125
3. Ibid., p.129
4. Ibid.,
5. Quoted ibid., p.127
6. Ibid., p.129
7. George Frederick Kunz, The Precious Stones of Mexico, Imprenta y Fototipia de la Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1907, quoted ibid., p.121
8. Ibid.,
9. Ibid., p.131
10. Quoted ibid., p.127
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., p.133
1. De Sahagún, A History of Ancient Mexico, quoted in Miguel Léon-Portilla, Aztec Image of Self & Society, University of Utah Press, 1992, p.200
2. Ibid., p.29
3. Diego Durán, The History of the Indies of New Spain, 1581, quoted in Serge Gruzinski, The Aztecs: Rise and fall of an empire, Thames & Hudson, 1992, pp.19 and 21
4. Ibid., p.76
5. Gruzinski, p.60
6. De Sahagún, quoted ibid., p.74
7. Gruzinski, p.75
8. Durán, quoted ibid., pp. 162–3
9. Michael D. Coe, Mexico, Thames & Hudson, p. 176
10. Durán, quoted Gruzinski, op. cit., pp. 163–4
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., pp.76 and 82
13. Bernal Díaz, quoted in Coe, op. cit., p.158
14. Warwick Bray, Everyday Life of the Aztecs, B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1968
15. Gruzinski, op. cit., p.40
16. Friar Diego de Landa, Yucatan before and after the Conquest, trans. William Gates, Producción Editorial Dante, Merida, Mexico, 1990, quoted in Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, Mandarin, 1995, p.105
17. Ibid.
18. Quoted in Coe, op. cit., p.168
19. Gruzinski, op. cit., p.97
20. Friar Diego de Landa, op. cit., quoted in Hancock, op. cit, p.121
21. Ibid.
22. Father Burgoa, quoted in Lewis Spence, The Magic and Mystery of Mexico, Rider, London, 1922, pp.228–9
23. Ibid.
24. Quoted in Miguel Léon-Portilla, Aztec Thought and Culture, University of Oklahoma Press, 1963; also in Gruzinski, op. cit., pp.130–1
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., p.132
28. Ibid., pp. 132–3
29. Ibid., p.133
30. Adela Fernandez, Pre-hispanic Gods of Mexico, Panorama Editorial, Mexico, 1992, quoted in Hancock, op. cit,. p.108
31. Quoted in Gruzinski, op. cit., p.130
32. Hancock, op. cit., pp.185 and 187
33. George E. Stuart, ‘The timeless vision of Teotihuacan’, National Geographic 188, no.6, December 1995, p.22
34. Hancock, op. cit., pp. 191–5
35. Stuart, op. cit. p.30
36. Hancock, op. cit., p.190
37. Quoted ibid., pp. 180–1
38. Stuart, op. cit., pp.12 and 15
39. Mexico: Rough guide, Harrap-Columbus, London, 1989, p.217; quoted in Hancock, op. cit., pp. 189–90
40. Stuart, op. cit., p.15
41. Ibid.
42. Nigel Davis, The Ancient Kingdoms of Mexico, Penguin, London, 1990, p.67, quoted in Hancock, op. cit., p.178
43. Stuart, op. cit., p.22
44. Ibid.
45. Hancock, op. cit., p.195
46. Quoted in Stuart, op. cit., p.22
47. Hancock., op. cit., pp. 188–9
48. Quoted in Stuart, op. cit., p.22
49. Ibid.
1. Adrian G. Gilbert and Maurice M. Cotterell, The Mayan Prophecies, Element Books, Shaftesbury, 1995, pp.17–18
2. Ibid., p.19
3. Ibid., p.145
4. Ibid., p.19
5. Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods? Souvenir Press, 1968
6. Ibid., p.122
7. Linda Schele and Mary Ellen Miller, The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and ritual in Mayan art, Thames & Hudson, London, 1992, pp.268–9
8. Gilbert and Cotterell, op. cit., pp.72–6
9. Popul Vuh, quoted ibid., p.76
10. Popul Vuh, trans. Albertina Saravia E., Editorial Piedra Santa, 1977, p.43. In the translation by Dennis Tedlock, Simon and Schuster, 1985, the head is called a bone.
11. Popul Vuh quoted in Karl Taube, Aztec and Maya Myths, British Museum Press, London, 1993, p.57
12. Quoted in Gilbert and Cotterell, op. cit., p.87
13. Ibid., p.148
14. Wilbert E. Garrett, ‘La Ruta Maya, National Geographic, October 1989
15. Colin McEwan, Ancient Mexico in the British Museum, British Museum Press, 1994, p.45
1. Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods? Souvenir Press, 1968, pp. 123–4
2. José Arguïlles, The Mayan Factor: Path beyond technology, Bear & Co., Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1987, p.19
3. Adrian G. Gilbert and Maurice M. Cotterell, The Mayan Prophecies, Element Books, 1995, pp.141–2
4. Diego de Landa, The Relacion, quoted ibid, p.132
5. J. Eric S. Thompson, The Rise and Fall of the Maya Civilisation, The University of Oklahoma Press, 1954; Pimlico, 1993
6. Popol Vuh, trans. Albertina Saravia E., Editorial Piedra Santa, 1977, p.120
7. Quoted in Guardian Online, 19 December 1996
1. Jane MacLaren Walsh, ‘Crystal skulls and other problems or “Don’t look it in the eye” ‘ in Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of representation at the Smithsonian, Amy Henderson and Adrienne Kaeppler, eds, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1997, p.134
1. Frank Dorland, Holy Ice, Galde Press Inc., St Paul, Minn., 1992, p.44
1. C. Norman Shealy, Miracles Do Happen, Element Books, 1988
1. Stanislav Grof, MD, The Holotropic Mind, HarperSanFrancisco, 1993, pp.7–10
2. Ibid.
3. David Deutsch quoted in Time Lords, BBC Horizon programme, transmitted 2 December 1996
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Dr Fred Alan Wolf, The Dreaming Universe, Simon and Schuster, 1994, pp.238–40
8. Ibid., p.240
9. Time Lords, op. cit.
10. Ibid.
11. Le Point 1256, 12 October 1996
12. New Scientist, 9 December 1995
13. ‘Universe may be honeycomb of huge voids’, Guardian, February 1996
1. Jamie Sams, The Thirteen Original Clan Mothers, HarperSanFrancisco, 1994
1. Plato, Timaeus, Penguin Books, London, 1965, p.36
2. Ibid., pp.37–8
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, Mandarin, 1995, p.5
7. Ibid., pp. 5 and 9
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., p.9
10. Ibid., p.13
11. Otto Muck, The Secret of Atlantis, Collins, 1976
12. Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis the Ante-diluvian World, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1950
13. Ibid., pp. 132–7
14. Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell, The Mayan Prophecies, Element Books, Shaftesbury, 1995
15. ‘Meltdown’, Guardian Weekend, 6 July 1996, pp.30–5
16. Edgar Cayce on Atlantis, Warner Books, 1968, p.114
17. Atlantis: Fact or Fiction? Association for Research and Enlightenment Press, Virginia Beach, VA, 1962, p.24
18. Lost Cities of North and Central America, Adventures Unimited Press, Stelle, Ill., 1992
19. Atlantis: Fact or Fiction? op. cit., p.24
20. Ann Walker, The Stone of the Plough, Element Books, Shaftesbury, 1997
21. Atlantis: Fact or Fiction? op. cit., p.27
22. Ibid., p.15
23. Quoted in Murry Hope, Atlantis: Myth or Reality? Arkana, 1991, p.298
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid., pp.298–9
27. Atlantis: Fact or Fiction? op. cit., p.17
28. Jamie Sams and Twylah Nitsch, Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours, HarperSanFrancisco, 1991
29. Ibid., pp.68–9
30. Ibid., p.69
31. Ibid., pp.72–3
32. Ibid., p.76–8
33. Ibid., p.78