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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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February 15, 2004: Luciferian Thought Remote Viewing - Aaron Donahue

Feb 15, 2004
2h 52m
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Aaron Donahue, a remote viewer trained by Major Ed Dames who identifies as a Luciferian, joins Art Bell to discuss Luciferian thought, remote viewing, lottery predictions, and peak oil. Art begins with open lines covering a purported classified CIA document about biological immortality, spontaneous fires erupting in a Sicilian village, and a caller's report of shadow beings triggering a motion sensor at a Starbucks drive-through. Art also discusses a BBC article about the most distant galaxy ever observed, located 13 billion light years from Earth.

Donahue describes spending three years in seclusion studying mathematical patterns derived from remote viewing, a process he claims allows him to predict numerical outcomes including lottery results. He presents a series of predictions including the reelection of President Bush and the confirmation of peak oil production by 2006, which he ties to potential global nuclear conflict.

Donahue offers a provocative cosmology in which Lucifer is an extraterrestrial entity responsible for genetically engineering humanity, while angels created the major world religions to turn mankind against itself. He warns that human extinction is now inevitable within 300 years, and describes a future where desperate humans transfer their consciousness into a computer matrix to preserve some record of existence. Art navigates the controversial material with characteristic openness while letting listeners form their own conclusions.

Key Moments

  1. Donahue claims he wins lotteries via RV: Donahue tells Art he is retired and lives off lottery winnings he gets through remote viewing, claiming to have cracked the long-standing problem of perceiving numbers via a formula he derived from Crowley's Book of the Law.

  2. Earth's carrying capacity breached in 1985-86: Donahue says his number-based RV pinpoints 1985-1986 as the year human population breached Earth's carrying capacity, fixing the trajectory of ecological collapse from that moment on.

  3. Lucifer as alien progenitor of humans: Donahue tells Art that Lucifer is an extraterrestrial that genetically manipulated primates into humans, and is the literal father of the human race rather than an evil being.

  4. Angels created the four great religions: Donahue argues the four great religions were authored by angelic intelligences hostile to mankind in order to turn humans against each other, and that mankind has been programmed to embrace its own extinction.

  5. Cyborg matrix in 2025, extinction in 300 years: Donahue forecasts that humans will reach critical mass for uploading consciousness into a computer matrix in 2025 and become extinct within 300 years, citing a vision of a woman in a blue dress saying '2025' and 'kill us'.