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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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January 1, 2005: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Jan 1, 2005
2h 53m
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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 so saturated with mineral deposits that the metal detector goes haywire, but yields no nuggets suitable for a dramatic presentation at Art's gate.

The discussion shifts to catastrophic predictions. Dames reveals a map posted on the show's website pinpointing the next nine-plus magnitude earthquake off the northwest tip of New Guinea, projected for March 2005. He explains that his remote viewing team will now systematically forecast major geophysical events in sequence, each prediction triggered by the occurrence of the previous one. Art presses him on why the recent tsunami was not foreseen, and Dames acknowledges his team was focused on other targets.

The conversation turns to animal behavior during the tsunami, with not a single animal found dead despite 150,000 human casualties. Dames connects this to the nature of mind itself, arguing that animals lack the mental clutter that blocks precognitive signals in humans. He describes mind as existing outside of time, making what humans call precognition simply cognition for creatures unburdened by linear thinking.

Key Moments

  1. Tsunami zone - no dead animals: Reuters out of Sri Lanka confirms not a single dead wild animal - no elephants, not even a hare - was found in the tsunami zone. Art treats it as proof that the so-called sixth sense is real.

  2. Thailand suppressed tsunami warning for tourists: Art reads a translated Bangkok 'Nation' / Washington Post report that Thai meteorologists met within an hour of the quake and decided not to issue a tsunami warning out of 'courtesy to the tourist industry,' fearing a lawsuit if no flood arrived.

  3. Dames gives gold-mine GPS coordinates on-air: Live on the air, Ed Dames hands out the exact GPS coordinates of an undiscovered gold deposit in the Spring Mountains so any prospector listening can stake a claim - North 35 degrees 48 minutes 33.5 seconds.

  4. Mind is outside of time: Dames explains that remote viewers and animals are not precognitive but cognitive - the mind itself sits outside of time and tunes in like an oscillator. Modern noise is what drowns out the signal in most humans.

  5. Dames briefed NSC: no WMD in Iraq: Responding to a Pravda article, Dames says he personally briefed the Vice President and the National Security Council that remote viewers had found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, only a nascent biological program hidden in the Department of Agriculture.