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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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January 16, 2002: Blindsided by Planet X - Mark Hazlewood | Sensory Deprivation Experiment - Vincent Lords

Jan 16, 2002
2h 40m
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Vincent Lords describes a sensory-deprivation experiment after nine days buried alive, and Mark Hazlewood joins Art Bell later to discuss Blindsided by Planet X and a 2003 Earth-changes scenario. Lords, a hypnotist, claims that after spending nine days buried alive in a coffin to beat David Blaine's record, he began experiencing levitation, seeing light beings, and predicting future events. Lords says the sensory deprivation experiment was documented by cameras and covered by California media through Clear Channel radio. He shares a photograph on his website appearing to show him floating off the ground during meditation and offers to demonstrate for any skeptic, including the Amazing Randi.

In the second half, Hazlewood, son of singer-songwriter Lee Hazlewood, discusses his book Blindsided: Planet X Passes in 2003. Hazlewood argues that a rogue planet on a 3,600-year orbit, consistent with the Sumerian concept of Nibiru, is approaching Earth and will pass between the sun and Earth by late May 2003. He claims the approach is already causing increased volcanism, seismic activity, and weather disruption across the entire solar system.

Hazlewood suggests that NASA insiders know about the inbound object and that multiple layers of disinformation are keeping the public unaware. Lee Hazlewood himself briefly joins the broadcast from Texas to discuss the origins of Some Velvet Morning and the Greek goddess Phaedra who inspired the song.

Key Moments

  1. Vincent Lords beat David Blaine's burial record: Last-minute guest Vincent Lords describes how he was buried alive in a coffin under dirt for nine days, fasting twelve, to break David Blaine's seven-day record, supervised by a Dr. Silcini with code words to pull him out.

  2. Lords claims he can physically levitate: Lords tells Art that since coming out of the coffin he sees light beings, can predict things by touching people, knocks out electronics, and physically lifts off the ground in meditation. Art pulls up the photo on Lords's website live and reacts: 'By God, he is levitating.'

  3. Hazlewood lays out Planet X / Nibiru: Mark Hazlewood (son of Lee Hazlewood) describes Planet X as a rogue planet on a 3,600-year orbit between our sun and a dark twin star toward Orion, citing the 1983 IRAS announcement and Zecharia Sitchin, due to pass between sun and Earth.

  4. Pole shift, two-thirds dead in an hour: Hazlewood says a NASA insider whisper has Planet X passing late May or early June 2002, triggering a 45-to-60-minute crustal pole shift; two-thirds of humanity will perish in that hour and two-thirds of the remainder within six months from exposure and starvation.

  5. Lee Hazlewood explains 'Some Velvet Morning': Art surprises Mark by patching in his father, songwriter Lee Hazlewood, in Texas. Lee explains 'Some Velvet Morning' was written for a 1967 Nancy Sinatra TV special and that Phaedra is his favorite loser Greek goddess, whose stories he read to Mark and his sister as bedtime fare.