June 16, 1999: Comet Lee - Stewart Best | Goodbye Terence McKenna
The program shifts to Comet Lee, recently discovered by amateur astronomer Stephen Lee in Australia. Earl Crockett and Gary Goodwin of the Millennium Group challenge NASA's dismissal of any potential Earth effects, arguing that comets are plasma discharge objects rather than dirty snowballs. They contend that electromagnetic interactions between the comet, the sun, and planetary alignments in September 1999 could trigger significant solar events and extreme weather.
Stewart Best then connects Comet Lee to Nostradamus prophecies about a great king of terror arriving from the sky in the seventh month of 1999. He links the comet's trajectory through the constellation Cancer and its timing near the August 11th solar eclipse to specific quatrains, while also noting Bible code references to September 1999 upheavals.
Key Moments
Terence McKenna's brain tumor diagnosis: McKenna recounts thinking he had the flu, then suffering a massive seizure and being told he has stage 4 glioblastoma multiforme - the fastest-moving brain tumor known to medicine - with 30 days to live untreated.
Feeling the audience's healing meditation: McKenna tells Art that during the group meditation Art organized just before the gamma knife procedure, he felt energy welling up out of the earth and pouring in, and he believes that is why he survived the operation.
Consciousness can exist outside the body: Asked whether we are more than biology, McKenna offers a philosophical conclusion drawn from a lifetime of psychedelic exploration: nature does not build patterns this complex only to discard them at the grave.
Walking down the street, seeing who is living and who is dying: McKenna describes a strange new perception since the diagnosis - looking into people's faces and being able to tell who has figured out the living condition and who is just spinning their lives away in money chasing and anxiety.
Did the CIA commission Deep Impact and Armageddon?: Stewart Best claims inside sources told him the CIA approached Hollywood to produce both Deep Impact and Armageddon as part of preparing the public for an extinction-level event tied to Comet Lee and Nostradamus' 1999 prophecy.