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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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January 27, 2000: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Jan 27, 2000
2h 39m
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Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, the former military remote viewer known to listeners as Dr. Doom, for a wide-ranging session on psychic intelligence gathering. Art opens by asking whether Dames could remote view the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Dames explains a fundamental limitation of remote viewing: once a person dies, the viewer loses what he calls chain of custody and cannot track the essence of a soul, making it impossible to confirm whether the same being returned to life three days later.

The discussion shifts to Dames' earlier remote viewing of Satan, which he describes as one of the most unsettling projects of his career. He recounts the sensation of entering what felt like a war room where the entity appeared almost welcoming, as though confident nothing could stop its plans. Dames reflects on how the experience changed him and led him to contemplate the nature of divine intervention.

Dames also addresses escalating weather anomalies, connecting them to unprecedented solar activity he says his team had predicted before Y2K. He suggests the sun's behavior is driving increasingly violent storms worldwide and warns that solar-linked weather disruption and emerging diseases will intensify in the years ahead.

Key Moments

  1. Sun and Earth's magnetic field 'off the scale': Dames says technical remote viewers saw a non-Y2K event approaching: something happening to the sun. He notes today's solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field measurements have gone 'off the scale,' tying surging solar activity to coming weather chaos.

  2. Thor's Hammer: sun, microbes, and disease: Looking ahead, Dames warns that the future holds 'one thing and one thing only' -- very, very big storms driven by the sun -- combined with plant-pathological microbes and human diseases acting as 'Thor's Hammer' on civilization.

  3. Plant pathogens will hit the food supply: Dames recaps a forecast he had been making for over 18 months -- that microbial attack would target food crops, not just animals -- and Bell credits him with calling worsening storms and biological events while everyone else was fixated on Y2K.

  4. EgyptAir 990: altercation in the cockpit: Dames stands by his earlier remote-viewing call on EgyptAir Flight 990: not a missile, not wind shear, not a system failure, but an altercation inside the cockpit -- a finding the NTSB would later echo with its 'deliberate act' conclusion.

  5. NASA calls SciTech to rescue the NEAR Eros mission: Dames reveals he is halfway through a tasking on the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft's upcoming Eros asteroid rendezvous -- saying NASA, after a maneuver glitch, has quietly turned to his SciTech team for help on the first-ever asteroid orbital insertion.