Thinking With A Clear Head

Meet Max. A Mentor, Yes, And He's Quite the Hunk.

Wrapped in a leopard-print coat and a salmon-colored scarf, Jewels Crowe-Muoz walked into the TeleSpectral Living Light Center in Gaithersburg on Friday, eager to see Max.

"I love Max," she says. "The last time I was with Max, blue light shot from his third eye and I had a download of information."

Max is out on the porch, perched atop a rabbit skin on a makeshift altar, surrounded by crystals and plants and a statue of an angel. Max the Crystal Skull is an 18-pound piece of quartz crystal, carved in the shape of a human skull, complete with eye sockets and perfectly straight teeth. Max's owner, a Texas housewife named JoAnn Parks, says Max is more than 3,000 years old and possesses mystical powers.

Right now, Max is busy, meeting with a woman who paid $55 for a half-hour session with him. So Crowe-Muoz has to wait. She takes off her leopard coat, revealing a necklace made of beads as big as Ping-Pong balls. She sits on a couch in the living room of the TeleSpectral Center, which doubles as the suburban home of Jim and Sandy Young, who do "angelic readings" and host an "AngelicTalk" cable access TV show in Montgomery County.

"I feel as though I have had a personal experience with Max," says Crowe-Muoz, who says she is "over 50" and is a "master hypnotherapist" from Wheaton.

"On the way over here," she continues, "I already felt his resonance. I'm in a slightly altered state now, and I'm getting some communication. I feel it's an 'old friends' communication. It's a type of mentor energy."

Soon, the porch door opens and Sherry Dmytrewycz emerges from her session with Max.

"I feel an increased energy," says Dmytrewycz, 58, a "spiritual counselor" and "intuitive energy consultant" from Centreville. "It's almost like I'm sitting on a huge vibrator. The energy leaves you just, like, trembling."

During the session, Sandy Young, who translates angelic messages professionally, translated Max's messages for Dmytrewycz.

"According to Max, I've had past lives with him," Dmytrewycz says, smiling. "I have been with him before in other lifetimes."

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There's a story behind Max the Crystal Skull and JoAnn Parks is eager to tell it, but she warns that it'll take a while.