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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

Essential Art Bell Episodes About Remote Viewing

Remote viewing gave Art Bell a subject that could sound like psychic phenomenon, military intelligence, and consciousness research at the same time. The archive includes well-known figures such as Russell Targ, Ed Dames, and Stephan Schwartz, each bringing a different view of what remote viewing was and what it could do. These five episodes are a guided introduction to the topic rather than a claim that remote viewing is settled science. They give listeners a starting point for psychic spying, protocol, and mind-at-a-distance claims, with links into Ed Dames, prophecy, consciousness, time travel, and government-conspiracy material.

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February 20, 2005: Remote Viewing - Russell Targ

Feb 20, 2005
2h 54m
Art Bell welcomes physicist Russell Targ, co-founder of the Stanford Research Institute's remote viewing program, for a conversation spanning two decades of government-funded psychic espionage research. Targ describes how the CIA program began in 1972 after Ingo Swann demonstrated the ability to accurately describe...
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January 1, 2005: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Jan 1, 2005
2h 53m
Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames for a New Year's Day conversation that begins with a gold-hunting adventure. Dames describes his team's attempt to locate a stagecoach robbery stash near Flagstaff, only to find a new house built directly over the site. A second expedition south of Pahrump uncovers gold-bearing soil...
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October 9, 2004: Remote Viewing Our Doom - Ed Dames

Oct 9, 2004
2h 53m
Art Bell sits down with Major Ed Dames, the decorated former military intelligence officer and remote viewing instructor, for a wide-ranging and sobering discussion about global threats on the horizon. Dames opens with his assessment that a nuclear weapon will be used on the Korean Peninsula, pointing to North Korea...
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September 4, 2004: Remote Viewing - Stephan Schwartz

Sep 4, 2004
2h 51m
Art Bell begins with live reports from listeners across Florida as Hurricane Frances batters the coast, stalling at the shoreline and dumping relentless rain. Callers from Fort Lauderdale to Punta Gorda describe sustained winds, power outages, and the eerie calm of the hurricane's 70-mile-wide eye. A truck driver st...
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March 27, 2004: Remote Viewing - Russell Targ

Mar 27, 2004
2h 52m
Art Bell sits down with physicist Russell Targ, co-founder of the Stanford Research Institute's remote viewing program, who reveals for the first time how the CIA program truly began. Targ describes how retired police commissioner Pat Price identified the leader of the SLA from a mug book and psychically located the...