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A Cultural History of Art Bell

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June 5, 2004: Revealing Spiritual Truth - Maurice Cotterell

Jun 5, 2004
2h 52m
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Engineer and scientist Maurice Cotterell joins Art Bell to discuss revealing spiritual truth, solar cycles, ancient wisdom, and the body-soul question after Ronald Reagan tributes and Michael Bednarik's first-hour appearance. The first hour covers constitutional principles, drug decriminalization, the Patriot Act, and the origins of marriage licensing; Bednarik says marriage licenses originated as tools to prevent interracial unions before the Civil War, a detail that surprises Art.

Cotterell explains his discovery that long-term solar magnetic cycles drive fertility, personality, and civilizational collapse on Earth. He describes how the sun's 28-day rotation produces four distinct radiation sequences that cause genetic mutations at conception, providing a scientific basis for astrological personality types. A 1984 Bethesda laboratory study confirmed that magnetic fields weaker than Earth's own can produce genetic mutations, supporting the plausibility of solar influence on human biology.

Cotterell explains that ancient sun-worshipping civilizations encoded advanced scientific and spiritual knowledge into their monuments and treasures as messages to their own reincarnated future selves. He describes how decoded images from Mayan and Egyptian artifacts reveal that figures like Lord Pacal, Tutankhamun, Krishna, and Jesus represent the same spiritual energy returning periodically to teach humanity about soul purification and the true nature of existence in the physical world.

Key Moments

  1. Art mourns Reagan and his own political evolution: Art opens distressed by the death of Ronald Reagan at 93, recalls being a vocal Reagan defender on his 1980s political talk show, and explains he became a Libertarian afterward when he saw winners govern nothing like they campaigned.

  2. Cotterell: God blew himself up to make the universe: Maurice Cotterell argues that across all scriptures God is described as light, that light is electromagnetic energy, and that E=mc^2 implies God sacrificed energy and 'blew himself up' to create the physical universe at the Big Bang.

  3. Cotterell: we are literally in hell: Cotterell pushes the algebra further: move God to the other side of E=mc^2 and the sign flips - so by his model, everything in the physical world, including our own fingers and toes, is the devil and we are in hell.

  4. Cotterell: pyramids as soul-launching microwave generators: Cotterell endorses Christopher Dunn's Giza Power Plant as a microwave generator but reframes its purpose: the pharaoh's soul modulates the microwave beam, fires to the stars, and the soul itself can become a star and seed new planets.

  5. Cotterell: stars are old souls, our Sun included: Cotterell extends the model: a soul becomes a star, the star births planets, those planets evolve life, life purifies and grows the star - making stars living packages of electromagnetic energy and our own Sun an old soul.