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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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May 27, 1998: Hopi Prophecies - Robert Ghost Wolf

May 27, 1998
2h 39m
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Art Bell welcomes Robert Ghost Wolf, a Metis of mixed Native American and European descent, to discuss the Seven Thunders, a series of prophetic warnings compiled from elders across multiple tribes including Hopi, Lakota, Algonquin, and Cherokee. Ghost Wolf explains that these prophecies were compared at a council in the Taos Mountains in the early 1980s and describe a sequence of escalating global crises.

The first three thunders, which Ghost Wolf says have already occurred, encompass mass starvation ignored by the world, the arrival of Comet Hale-Bopp as a celestial marker, and the spread of mysterious fungal diseases linked to experimental agricultural chemicals sprayed on fields. He connects the smoke drifting from burning Mexican fields into the United States to contaminated crops carrying what he calls stealth viruses that attack at a frequency level.

Ghost Wolf reveals that the prophecies have now reached the fourth and fifth thunders, a point of no return marked by catastrophic weather patterns, devil winds exceeding 200 miles per hour, and the collapse of social, religious, and financial structures worldwide. He announces that Hopi elders feel the changes are so imminent they have agreed to speak publicly on the program for the first time.

Key Moments

  1. All life is connected - five atomic bombs in the belly of the Earth: Ghost Wolf argues the recent underground nuclear tests are felt by all life on Earth, citing whales beaching, migratory birds vanishing, salmon failing to spawn, and aboriginal peoples in Australia choosing not to bring children into the world.

  2. Past four Thunders cannot be undone - First Thunder: starving children: Ghost Wolf explains that between each Thunder humanity had time to change course, but by the Fourth Thunder events become inescapable. He then begins the prophecy at the First Thunder: millions of starving children whose cries go unanswered, spreading from third-world regions into America itself.

  3. Second Thunder - the comet with a blue and white tail: Ghost Wolf identifies Hale-Bopp as the Second Thunder: a comet with a blue and white tail described as a marker preluding the coming of the Purifier. He says the Hopi prophecy speaks of 'the twins' returning to Earth - guardians of the inner Earth at the north and south poles - who would shift the Earth's frequency and human consciousness.

  4. Atmosphere as the Earth's largest organ - tainted wheat and DNA experiments: Ghost Wolf describes the atmosphere as the planet's largest organ, now diseased - holes in the ozone, holes in the ionosphere being plugged by scientists. He alleges Canadian wheat-fungus crossbreeding experiments produced contaminated grain that was sold to pasta companies and given as surplus food to Native American and third-world communities, contributing to liver disease, respiratory illness and Alzheimer's.

  5. Sixth and Seventh Thunders - chain of Pacific volcanoes from Mexico up the coast: Ghost Wolf reads the Sixth/Seventh Thunder prophecy: undersea volcanoes erupting, sulfur breezes, black dust on cars, and Mississippi Valley/Great Lakes uplift to Himalayan heights. He recalls predicting in December that a Mexican volcano would kick off a chain reaction up the California coast into the Cascades and the San Juan Islands, with land breaking off into the sea - already visible, he says, in South America.