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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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April 25, 1997: Sacred Amulets - Robert Ghost Wolf | Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 25, 1997
3h 27m
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Richard C. Hoagland opens the program with stunning news that NASA has quietly ruled out sending a probe to Europa, just two weeks after celebrating its potential as the most likely harbor for extraterrestrial life. Hoagland calls it proof that the space program is politically rigged, urging listeners to flood ABC Nightline and CNN with faxes demanding answers about why the most promising discovery in decades simply did not make the cut.

Native American researcher Robert Ghost Wolf then joins with a remarkable presentation of 10,000-year-old stone amulets recovered from a burial chamber inside an Illinois pyramid. The carved stones depict winged beings wearing helmets, figures that Ghost Wolf connects to petroglyphs found across North America, South America, and beyond. He describes the amulets as memory holders carrying healing energy, linking them to a vast network of pyramids and sacred sites spanning continents and millennia.

Ghost Wolf weaves together Hopi, Mayan, Iroquois, and Navajo prophecies into a unified tapestry suggesting humanity has been visited before and is now approaching a threshold of transformation. The combination of NASA's suppression and ancient evidence of contact creates one of the archive's most compelling arguments that we are not, and have never been, alone.

Key Moments

  1. NASA cancels Europa probe two weeks after celebrating it: Art opens with the news that NASA, just two weeks after the Nightline celebration of mind-blowing Europa images, has ruled out sending a probe to Jupiter's icy moon - passing over two proposals at Cape Canaveral.

  2. Cape Canaveral dateline: a strange decision: Art reads the wire-service article: two weeks after crowing about life-sustaining ocean photographs, NASA on Wednesday passed over two Europa probe proposals - described by space experts, including Richard Berenstain, as 'a strange decision.'

  3. Amulets from an Illinois pyramid burial chamber: Robert Ghost Wolf describes the provenance of two stone amulets posted on Art's website: recovered from a burial chamber alongside an Illinois pyramid, found on the bodies of a male and female buried with hands crossed, accompanied by four-to-five-foot statues mirroring the amulet imagery.

  4. Winged-being amulets dated to 10,000 years: Ghost Wolf says the amulets are over 10,000 years old and depict winged beings - figures that look like Horus and that recur in petroglyphs from central Idaho to Illinois, Minnesota, New Mexico and South America.