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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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May 8, 1998: Earth Change Prophecy - Lori Toye

May 8, 1998
3h 7m
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Art Bell speaks with Lori Toye about her prophetic "I Am America" map, born from recurring visions she experienced beginning in 1983. In those visions, four white-robed beings she identifies as Ascended Masters presented a detailed future map of the United States showing catastrophic earth changes. Over 80 meditation sessions conducted from 1988 onward, Toye received precise geographic details including new coastlines, submerged states, and massive inland waterways.

The map depicts California, Nevada, and Utah completely underwater, with Arizona becoming the new Pacific coastline. The Mississippi and Missouri rivers widen into a vast bay, Lake Michigan disappears, and much of the East Coast breaks apart. Toye notes striking similarities between her map and those of Gordon Michael Scallion and Billy Meier. She describes five protected "Golden City Vortex" areas across the country that the masters identified as safe zones during the changes.

Toye emphasizes that prophecy is not prediction but a spiritual teaching meant to inspire change. She discusses the sequential nature of the changes through a new six-map scenario and connects current extreme weather patterns, El Nino, and Antarctic ice shelf instability to the early stages of the prophesied transformation. Art openly shares his belief that these changes are underway and his acceptance of remaining at what Toye calls ground zero in southern Nevada.

Key Moments

  1. 1983 recurring dream: four white-robed beings present a U.S. earth-change map: Toye dates the genesis of I Am America to a 1983 recurring dream in which four beings in white robes unrolled a map of a radically reshaped United States showing future earth changes.

  2. 80 meditation sessions producing kilometer-precise coastlines: Toye describes drafting the map across 80 meditation sessions using vinyl overlays and felt markers, with the beings dictating new coastlines down to 60 or 75 kilometer precision.

  3. Identifies the four as Ascended Masters: St. Germain, Sananda, El Morya, Kuthumi: Toye, a longtime student of Ascended Master teachings, names the four white-robed beings as St. Germain, Sananda (Jesus), El Morya, and Kuthumi.