It was these qualities and many more which shone out at Joshua & Desy's workshop in Colne. It was also clear from the outset that our mutual beliefs bore some striking parallels. Although I had not anticipated, or expected it, Joshua and Desy were able to provide very accurate descriptions of certain of Skully's 'properties' which, to date, have not been released into the public domain. Joshua's visit also proved to be a catalyst that set in motion a curious chain of synchronicities, events and experiences. It also marked the onset of the bombing of Iraq.

The following section is taken (with kind permission) from Joshua & Desy's new book on crystal skulls. This book is well worth reading. Details how to order it an be obtained from Joshua's own web-site (Go there.)

Crystal Skull Tour of England (March 13th - 30th)
Part II: Stop 2: Yorkshire, March 18th (continued) and Glastonbury March 19th

(For those who were intriqued about David Leslie and his Crystal skull called Skully, you can visit their website at: http://www.tobew.com)

We had arranged to meet David Leslie on Wednesday, March 18th in the Afternoon and setup to initially met him at a local pub near his home. Then David guided us to his apartment.

First we talked for a bit to get better acquainted and discussed some things related to our workshop we have given that past weekend. Then David said he needed to prepare the room where "Skully" was before we entered. After a few minutes he invited us to this room where we saw "Skully" sitting on a table completely surrounded by some type of a box or structure which was a securely protected area. On the table were also a number of stones and some candle lights surrounding the skull.

David told us that we could touch "Skully" but not to pick the skull up or it would set off the alarm. But neither Desy or I touched "Skully" during this visit, we just kind of observed the skull and felt the energy. After this brief visit we went out of the room and then came back a second time with three of our five personal skulls ("Portal de Luz", "Moses of Peace" and "Unity"). David was seated on the floor in the back of the room watching us and listening to what we felt.

Before we left to meet Edwin Courtney, who was about an hour from David, David invited to come back to his place to spend the night. Here is a more detailed reported of what happened to both of us (including our afternoon visit and when we sent the night at David's apartment sleeping in "Skully's" room):

Desy's Report:

I could feel Skully (immediately when we entered the room), I could really feel the energy in the room, but it was a mixed energy. It was a beautifully crafted skull and looked a bit like (the ancient skull known as) "ET" (it was almost totally clear quartz). I felt the sweet loving female presence in the front part of the skull and a more heavier dense energy, more macsuline in the back of the skull which for me felt angry and frustrated.

This part (the masculine side) didn't want us to be in the room because it knew what would happen to it, it would have to leave. When we were allowed to be in the presence of the skull (we were not allowed to move it or lift it as it was very protected by a security system, so I didn't touch the skull for fear of setting off this loud alarm), the female entity in the front whispered to me, 'Help me!!' And when we left the room, I knew that we had to come back.

So then we (Joshua, David and I) came back into the room with "Skully", I was holding our crystal skulls "Moses of Peace" and "Unity" and Joshua held "Portal de Luz" (we only brought three of our five skulls because these three have been fully activated and thus are protected) -- I stood at the front part of the skull so I was looking at the face of the skull and Joshua stood behind the skull, immediately the energy of the room and the skull changed (as soon as we stopped around Skully holding our skulls).

While holding the two crystal skulls, I made my sacred hand signs (one involving the 5th dimension) that I have received from Spirit and I use when I work with these skulls and especially When I give or share the energy essence of all the skulls ... The female presence whispered to me, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!!" and I felt she was free from now on. I feel that this skull will now takeon another name since the female presence is now in charge. I felt very happy that we were able to help the skull in this way ...

Lastly, we had a chance to sleep in the room that Skully is kept although David took the skull to another location so it was not in the room with us. But I could still feel the energy of the skull very well.

Joshua's Experiences with Skully.

Having seen various of what I believe to be ancient crystal skulls -- versus working with a new crystal skull, the personal experience I have about the difference is that I always have some type of a sensing of a somewhat different energy or presence that is around the ancient skulls. There is really no way to fully describe this, its more of a felling, as if the ancient skulls access so deeper level then the newer ones (but as you will see later each skull has a specific purpose and thus one is not more special or better then another).

So when I walked into the room with Skully the first time, I did pick up a strong presence around the skull, and I felt exactly the same as Desy -- there was a dense energy in the back of the skull that felt masculine and angry and a lighter more feminine presence in the front of the skull which seemed to be dominated by the masculine energy.

There is a special pattern I draw and move with my hand that involves 13 skulls (shown to me by my guides or the Blue Skull we are looking for), that I use when I work with the energy of the crystal skulls. So, I attempted to draw this pattern with my hand when I was in the back of "Skully" and the energy there would not allow me to effortlessly complete this pattern ... I could only draw it part way. (It's a form of the box I use that holds 13 skulls and can be used for protection which we more fully discuss in our new book).

While we were there, I saw that David was just in the back of the room and watching us but I could also see that as we were doing our personal way of feeling the energy, David seemed to be responding as he would move his body around as if he is very sensitive to whatever happens around "Skully". This is a similar process I have observed with other crystal skull caretakers, how connected we can become when people begin to work with our crystal skull(s) (sometimes when _Portal works with one of our clients, I can feel exactly what is happening inside of the person and "Portal" as well). David did confirm for us afterwards that he (and possibly others) have had a bit of trouble with the energy of the skull at times (Note: Could this be due to the rituals done by the secrets societies which had the skull before perhaps?)

Then all I heard in my head, quite loudly was, "Its important "You" go back into the room with "Skully" and take your personal crystal skulls with you!!". So we left and went back in with the three skulls as Desy described before, and I remember that as soon as we were near "Skully", while I was holding "Portal", the entire energy of room went from very intense and a bit heavy to totally one that was at peace and in balance. All we had to do to acomplish this was to just bring in our skulls. And even David experienced this as well, it happened instaneously. I think David said something like "Wow".

Now the type of security system that David had around _Skully (it was sitting like in a container around the skull with lights) prevented me from seeing the full features of the skull but the quartz was clear as glass and as I starred at the front of the face, its features look a little bit monkey like. The skull was larger then "Portal" so its at least human size and it was very skillfully crafted. It reminded me of a crystal skull I have seen with our friend Wendy Willett in Glastonbury (that she found in a crystal store in Spain after having a vision of this skull while she was in Peru) which also has a monkey face.

Then I inwardly tried to link into the energy of the skull to see if any images would come to me or a feeling ... as far as its history or age, it felt like it was definitely an old skull but I couldn't sense if it could be ancient per say. It was like in between these two definitions although I did feel for some reason there is some type of "ET" connection with this skull. I felt this connection while looking at the face.

Another interesting thing that happened during our visit is that David showed us on his computer, pictures of "Skully" using the reverse image system we have used as part of our research (quite a few of these images will be in the next book including some with "Skully") that we shared at our presentation that weekend. David understood completely how to create these specialize digital images from any crystal skull, and created some of his own with pictures of "Skully". In these reverse images, we could clearly see people and other recognizable shapes inside of his skull.

Another thing we spoke about this day, was the timing of our visit. As we knew that when we woke up the next day (March 20th), war with Iraq would probably be starting. We thought that perhaps this war is indirectly a trigger that is waking the skulls up as they prepare to help humanity for peace. And this is a concept I remember David talking about -- the waste of war and man's inhumanity to man, how senseless these actions are -- that if we could only just respect and love each other, everything would change.

We also received a message for David that he might want to take "Skully" to Stonehenge in the future and this might be the key catalyst that would require a new name for the skull. (Although you will see on his website the skull has already told David there is a new name which we didn_t know&) I offered many suggestions for David how to work with his crystal skull that day, which he tells me he is serious thinking about. How it could be shared with other people and possibly be open to join other caretakers of skulls, to do some joint work together for the planet.

The way that "Skully" reacted to our skulls, in my mind, really adds a great deal of support about the importance of creating other events or opportunities to bring different crystal skulls together so they can pass information and all kinds of special energies to each other, regardless is the skull is new, old or ancient. For example our skulls have visited with the Amethyst Skull (known as "Ami") and another skull called "Synergy" (Shery Whitfield) plus "Portal" has been near "ET" (Miss Van Dieten), Windsong, "Rainbow" and "Madre" (DaEl Walker) and around the British Crystal Skull. So this might give have given to "Skully" a chance to reconnect with the essence of these other skulls. And personally I think the crystal skulls want to connect with their other brother and sister skulls.

And then for me after sleeping in Skully's room, I woke up feeling a happiness in side of myself which didn't make sense since the Iraqi War had started but maybe this was the female presence in Skully thanking us. Only time will tell what happens next.

Visit with Edwin Courtney March 19th, Early Evening.

It was very easy to find the town Edwin lived in but for some reason it took us about an hour going back and forth to finally locate his home. Edwin gave me some of his materials so I made a bit of a mistake in our last message on the spelling of the main crystal skull he works, its Koara (again a dark green obsidian). From these materials let me explain what type of spiritual channel Edwin is and how he is able to receive information through his skull called Koara.

Edwin claims he channels a group called the "Conclave", which is a crystal skull collective (dimensional consciousness) of a group of 7 Atlantean crystal skulls, some of which still exist in the physical and others in the ethers. Furthermore, he claims that the essence of one of these crystal skulls works through Koara the skull he has (we have eard this comment from others that crystal skulls which are destroyed in the past, their essence or soul remains in spirit and can at times move into another physical skull depending on who is the caretaker).

When we finally arrived at Edwin's home, he took us to his attic so we could meet his collection of skulls and of course we shared with him our skulls. I remember feeling some vibration linked with "Koara", but not so much with his larger clear quartz skull (which Edwin said he had not worked with so much having just received it). So we let our skulls sit with each other, again for the purpose of exchanging energies.

After we visited a bit, Edwin took Desy and I out for dinner. There he asked us some questions about how people responded to the crystal skulls as sometimes people were not comfortable around "Koara". After dinner, we returned back to his home where Edwin held each of our skulls and both Desy and I were amazed at how he was able to link into each one and perfectly describe to us how each skull functioned (which matched we have observed and felt ourselves). Then we received a personal reading which also contained some amazing insights we are still digesting and was quite profound and insightful. Edwin said he has not been so active recently with the skulls as before when he had offered various workshops and did these type of personal consultation working with his skull "Koara".

For us, this was just another example of a different approach to working with the skulls, as each person helps to give some new insights related to these mysterious objects and how they truly work.

Desy did have a strong connection with "Koara", which she described as follows:

I only had a good experience with Cora (the main skull that Edwin has worked and taught with and channeled) and I really liked the energy of the skull, it was very vibrating for me. Also I saw this skull was crying rom the right eye (there was two big tears that went from the eye and dripped on my thumb and onto my pants) so I asked Edwin if he ever cleansed this skull with water and he said he never had done so. My thinking is, after this experience is that this was related to the war in Iraq was officially began in the early hours of the next day (the first missiles were sent in the early morning, March 19th). Then Cora made me feel like signing so I sang with this skull. Edwin said that this skull generally likes women and really likes singing or music around her, so this made sense.

If you would be interested to learn more about what Edwin is doing, he has a website you can visit at: http://www.selfindulgence.freeserve.co.uk

Stop 3: Glastonbury Tor (enroute to Wales) March 20th.

Well as like all of you, we woke up that morning with news the war in Iraq had officially begun. We decided since we had to drive from the Northern part of England to the Southern part (and then toward Wales), we would make a brief stop in Glastonbury and go visit the Tor (the hill with the large stone tower on it, rumored to be once a small island totally surrounded by water). Desy had never been to the Tor.

So we arrived around 1 PM and parked near the downtown area, we then met one of our close friends there (Angela Garrett, who has a number of skulls she personally owns) for lunch and to catch up. Then about 4 PM, we found the same spot we parked last year when we visited Chalice Well (a special well attributed to King Arthur that has a great energy and peaceful gardens). We were only away from our car for an hour but unfortunately someone smashed the back window (driver side) and we lost my notebook computer (fortunately the book had been backed before we left), some of good clothese for our talk and another bag containing the small crystal skulls Desy brought to sell, one of our healing crystals for our session and Desy's bundle (we wonder what our lesson was from this as this has never happened before).

There is a woman I have known for a long time, who now goes by the name of Rev. Mtr. Maia Christianne Nartoomid, that we interviewed for the new book. She claims to be a channel for Thoth (the Atlantean who who wrote the Emerald Tablets and later incarnated as Hermes). In any case she had discussed that buried under the ground of the tall stone structure of the Tor is a crystal skull. So Desy and I both did meditations at the very center of the Tor & and this is what happened:

Desy:
As I was doing my meditation at the center of the structure -- I was holding my crystal skull "Moses of Peace". I honored in this mediation the four directions and from each direction I saw: The East -- I saw a Mexican Pyramid with the Sun just coming up from behind it ... in the South -- I saw a circle of children playing ... in the West was nothing and in the North -- Mother Mary came to me and told me not to be afraid of the future of the earth, that everything will eventually be very well. And she stood with her feet on the earth and the Earth looked totally healed, recovered and beautiful.

For Myself:
I also located myself in the center, there was actually an open space to stand in the center (not sure if stones below my feet were damaged on purpose or this damage has occurred over time but there was a spot to stand) and I focused on the energy and held "Portal" in my hands. I did not receive any visions but I did feel a strong energy pulse through my body and felt as if an energy beam was rushing up from the ground and shot straight over my head into the sky, far above us and then move to connect With other parts in the world, whether this was other sites or skulls I didn't know. I could not confirm or sense if there was a crystal skull under the stones, just that there was a strong energy link when I meditated here.

(In the next message will be part III of our journey, the final part which will discuss our experiences with the British Crystal Skull in the Museum of Mankind in London and a few notes about our stops in southern Wales and Bournemouth) thank you everyone have a great day Joshua and Desy The Crystal Skull Explorers.