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June 23, 1998: Earth Changes - Sean David Morton

Jun 23, 1998
2h 17m
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Art Bell welcomes back self-described prophet Sean David Morton to review his remarkably accurate predictions from earlier broadcasts. Morton discusses his forecasts about President Clinton's political troubles, correctly predicting the Paula Jones case dismissal and emerging China scandals. He asserts that Clinton will leave office due to health problems and that China-related controversies, not sexual scandals, will ultimately be his undoing.

The conversation shifts to earth changes, where Morton presents a theory linking the nuclear tests by India and Pakistan to earthquake activity on the opposite side of the globe, specifically along the New Madrid fault and in the Appalachian region. He describes his method of running his hands over maps to detect energy signatures and predict geological events. A listener emails during the broadcast confirming a 3.4 magnitude earthquake near Omaha, matching Morton's prediction about the antipodal effects of the Afghan quake.

Morton also addresses the HAARP project, describing military applications including ionosphere hardening, jet stream manipulation, and potential weather modification. He forecasts severe heat waves across the American Southwest, massive wildfires in Colorado and California, and warns of coming power grid failures tied to electromagnetic shifts in the planet.

Key Moments

  1. Void-of-course moon and Clinton's term: Morton claims no U.S. president inaugurated on a 'void of course moon' has ever finished his term, that Clinton's noon swearing-in shared the exact astrological aspects as Nixon's 1973 and Kennedy's 1961 inaugurations, and predicts Clinton will not finish his term - leaving via political resignation for stated health reasons.

  2. Antipodal nuclear-test seismic signature: Morton lays out his thesis that the recent India and Pakistan hydrogen-bomb tests jammed nuclear devices into the Hindu Kush fissure, triggering the Afghanistan quakes, and that the antipodal shock from the India tests targets the New Madrid fault near Memphis while the Pakistan tests target the Appalachians and the Pennsylvania-New York stress line.

  3. U.S. is in prophecy and not falling into the ocean: Morton explicitly breaks with the Earth-changes consensus: he refuses to predict California sliding into the Pacific, jokes he'd owe everyone a refund since he lives in Hermosa Beach, and argues the United States has a constitutional and prophetic destiny rooted in the only government in 5,000 years patterned on Old Testament law.

  4. Humans as the planet's neural net and seventh chakra: Morton argues humanity itself is the seventh chakra and neural net of Earth - symbolized, he says, by the Great Pyramid's missing capstone - and that mass thought-patterns are physically connected to the sun's behavior, sunspot cycles and the changing weather.

  5. HAARP as cosmic radiation shield: Morton's uncle in Office of Naval Intelligence offers an unstated rationale for HAARP: as the sun remakes itself with record solar flares, HAARP can harden the ionosphere into a 'lens' that shields Earth from a cosmic-radiation storm, possibly explaining 'silence in heaven for half an hour' from Revelation.