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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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June 30, 1999: The Brain & Cloudbusting - Neil Slade

Jun 30, 1999
2h 20m
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Art Bell welcomes brain researcher Neil Slade, a student of pioneering neuroscientist T.D.A. Lingo, for a deep exploration of untapped human brain potential. Slade explains the three-layered structure of the brain, from the survival-oriented reptile brain through the emotional mammal brain to the advanced primate frontal lobes, and introduces the amygdala as a master switch that directs neural energy either backward into fear responses or forward into creativity and higher consciousness.

Slade describes a simple visualization technique he calls clicking the amygdala forward, in which a person imagines tickling the front of the almond-shaped organ located one inch inside each temple. He claims this practice can produce waves of pleasure, heightened intuition, and dramatically improved fortune. The conversation turns to cloud busting, where Slade explains that focused frontal lobe energy directed at a cumulus cloud can cause it to dissipate within minutes, with video evidence posted on his website.

Art and Slade debate whether advanced brain functions can be used for negative purposes, using Hitler as an example. They discuss research showing that frontal lobe activation correlates with extended sexual response, drawing on Stanford University studies and ancient Taoist practices. Callers share personal experiences with the amygdala clicking technique and its effects on mood, intuition, and intimacy.

Key Moments

  1. Caltech rogue planets validate Sitchin?: Art opens reading a same-day Caltech announcement: Earth-like planets ejected from infant solar systems could remain warm and watery beneath hydrogen blankets, drifting through interstellar space carrying life. He frames it as scientific cover for Zecharia Sitchin's 12th planet theory.

  2. Lingo the Drifter from Lookout Mountain: Slade tells the origin story of his teacher T.D.A. Lingo: WWII Patton's Army scout, first into Dachau, dropped out of a Chicago neurology PhD because his professor told him to, became a folk singer on Groucho Marx, won $16,000 on a game show, asked viewers for a mountain, and bought 350 acres at 10,000 feet to run a private brain lab.

  3. Click your amygdala forward: Slade explains the central technique: the amygdala is a real almond-shaped structure one inch behind your temple, and by mentally clicking it forward you redirect life-force energy out of the survival/reptile brain into the frontal lobes - triggering creativity, intuition, and even cloud-dissipation.

  4. The one-hour orgasm: Slade claims that by clicking the amygdala forward and channeling kundalini energy via techniques pioneered by Stanford researcher Alan Brower in 1983 and Taoist master Mantak Chia, men can experience extended, multi-minute orgasms typically only documented in a small subset of women.