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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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December 11, 1997: Winds of Change - Robert Ghost Wolf

Dec 11, 1997
2h 48m
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Art Bell welcomes Robert Ghost Wolf, a mixed-blood Native American author and ceremonial leader, to discuss his manuscript "Winds of Change" and the prophetic traditions of indigenous peoples. Ghost Wolf describes participating in the first Ghost Dance ceremony held in 108 years, attended by pipe carriers from numerous tribes on Blackfoot sacred land. He explains the purification practices of the sweat lodge, where participants enter a structure mirroring the geometry of the Great Pyramid''s King''s Chamber and can experience shifts in consciousness through heat, fasting, and prayer.

Ghost Wolf presents research connecting the Lakota star maps, Mayan calendars, and biblical accounts of Christ''s birth. Using NASA''s Star Globe program, his group identified a celestial alignment on September 15, 5 BC, where the stars Regulus and Venus merged into a single brilliant light, correlating with the Star of Bethlehem. A corresponding alignment at the ascension date showed every star identical except Venus, which had moved. He proposes a five-year calendar correction that would place 1998 at the actual year 2003.

The conversation also addresses environmental warnings from Native prophecy, including accounts of mountain lions in Montana actively stalking hunters rather than avoiding them. Ghost Wolf introduces the Seven Thunders prophecies, ancient warnings describing widespread starvation, holes appearing in the sky producing green mist, and strange bacteria emerging in the waters. He notes the first three thunders have already occurred.

Key Moments

  1. First Ghost Dance in 108 years: Ghost Wolf reveals that this past summer - right after his July appearance on Art Bell - they performed the first Ghost Dance ceremony in 108 years, with elders from many tribes, prompted by a song Bell had received from Cusco and played for him privately.

  2. 94-97% accuracy claim for Native prophecy: Ghost Wolf tells Bell he places the historical hit-rate of Native American prophecy 'anywhere from 94 to 97 percent accurate,' arguing it stands up against Nostradamus and modern prophets.

  3. Mountain lions stalking hunters in Montana: Ghost Wolf reports that in Montana mountain lions are actively stalking elk hunters - finding puma tracks inside the hunters' own bootprints - with three incidents in the past 30 days, plus a Spokane mountain lion that walked through automatic doors into a school freight elevator.

  4. 150 mph winds at the ceremony: Ghost Wolf describes the conditions at the Ghost Dance gathering: 150 mile-an-hour winds knocked down 'gazillions of trees' and picked up bleachers and carried them across football fields, which he frames as part of the prophecies of the seven thunders.