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A Cultural History of Art Bell

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April 30, 2001: Phenomenon of ET Identity - David Wilcock & Dr. Scott Mandelker

Apr 30, 2001
2h 48m
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Art Bell hosts Dr. Scott Mandelker and David Wilcock for an expansive discussion on what they call the Time of Global Shift. Wilcock presents data showing a 230 percent increase in the sun's magnetic field strength since 1901, a 500 percent rise in worldwide volcanic activity since 1875, and a 400 percent increase in significant earthquakes since the mid-1970s.

The guests connect these physical changes to the Bermuda Triangle and its Pacific counterpart, the Devil's Triangle off Japan, arguing that these vortex points represent areas where higher-dimensional energy bleeds through Earth's geometric energy grid. Wilcock describes a National Airlines flight that vanished from radar for ten minutes, with every clock and watch on the plane found to be exactly ten minutes slow upon landing in Miami.

Dr. Mandelker introduces the concept of ET souls or wanderers, beings who have incarnated on Earth from higher densities of existence. Both guests point to the Mayan calendar endpoint near 2012 and channeled material suggesting that Earth is approaching an energetic transition into what they term fourth density, a transformation they believe will fundamentally alter both the planet and human consciousness.

Key Moments

  1. Sun and Earth as conscious beings; the recent solar flare as 'a shot across the bow': Mandelker frames the show's premise that the sun and earth are sentient beings, and proposes that the largest-ever recorded solar flare was deliberately deflected by the sun because earth could not yet absorb the full energetic flux it intends to send.

  2. '99.99% of people won't take it in the physical body': Pressed by Bell on the casualty side of the coming shift, Mandelker estimates that 99.99 percent of humanity will not survive the transition in their physical bodies, citing 'raw material' sources that say a 3D body fully exposed to a 4D electrical field would simply fail.

  3. Bell's spontaneous out-of-body experience over Paris: Bell describes how, after years of hosting OBE shows without ever having one, he instantaneously found himself far above the city of Paris suspended in overwhelming, indescribable joy before being snapped back into his body.

  4. 12 global vortexes and the platonic-solid earth grid: Wilcock summarizes Ivan Sanderson's mapping of 12 evenly spaced disappearance zones - including the Bermuda Triangle and Japan's Devil's Sea - and argues these correspond to platonic-solid geometries on a vibrating planet, with Hans Jenny's cymatics experiments offered as supporting science.

  5. The quickening by the numbers: 230%, 500%, 410%: Wilcock cites Lockwood's finding of a 230% increase in the sun's magnetic field since 1901, Mandeville's 500% rise in worldwide volcanism since 1875, a 400% rise in earthquakes above 2.5 since 1975, and Dmitriev's 410% rise in natural catastrophes 1963-1993.