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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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June 8, 1999: Overcoming Negativity - Alan Mesher

Jun 8, 1999
2h 42m
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Art Bell welcomes spiritual healer and author Alan Mesher to discuss his book The T-Zone and the concept that humanity has entered a prolonged dark period at the end of a 500-year cycle. Mesher explains that the world is experiencing a massive discharge of collective negativity, and that increasing instability, violence, and social breakdown are symptoms of an energetic shift occurring on the planet. He argues that individuals have the power to shorten this dark period by taking personal responsibility and healing their inner wounds.

Mesher shares striking cases from his 25 years as a healer, including a woman whose cervical cancer traced back to a past life in Nazi Germany where she was attacked for smuggling Jews to safety, and a man whose testicular cancer connected to his castration and death during the Inquisition. These accounts illustrate his view that unresolved trauma from prior lifetimes lodges in the body and manifests as disease until it is consciously confronted and released.

The discussion turns to how collective healing could reshape civilization. Mesher describes his discovery of healing through a gifted woman named Eleanor Moore and explains that the energy he channels comes from a higher source. He and Art explore whether mass consciousness and directed prayer could alter planetary outcomes during this turbulent transitional era.

Key Moments

  1. Roper poll: 1 in 4 Americans would freak out over confirmed ET contact: Art reveals results of a Roper survey commissioned by Bob Bigelow's NIDS - the first major follow-up to the 1960 Brookings Report - finding that 1 in 4 Americans would totally panic and 80% of influential Americans believe the U.S. government would suppress evidence of extraterrestrial life.

  2. Mesher on the cosmic battle of light and dark intensifying: Alan Mesher describes a 500-year cycle ending in the early 1990s and a 20-40 year 'trough between the ages' marked by an internal war between soul and ego - manifesting as road rage, school shootings, and accelerating social instability worldwide.

  3. Past-life trauma manifests as same-spot cancer 500 years later: Mesher recounts a client who, on the healing table, relived being a priest castrated and killed during the Inquisition while swearing eternal revenge - the same man who in this life developed testicular cancer in exactly that location, plus a wife whose Andean starvation past life drove her chronic overeating.

  4. Mesher's healing client recalled SS officer past life: Another client - a major-corporation executive plagued by insecurity around his own power - relived a past life as an SS officer in a Nazi concentration camp who was hanged as a war criminal. Mesher uses this to argue for a universal forgiveness available even to perpetrators of great evil.