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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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November 20, 2009: Time Anomalies - Starfire Tor & Whitley Strieber

Nov 20, 2009
2h 36m
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Art Bell hosts researcher Starfire Tor and author Whitley Strieber for a discussion of time anomalies, time shifts, and parallel timelines. Starfire Tor introduces her theory of the Core Matrix, a framework she developed to explain how reality can shift and change in ways that leave physical evidence behind. She describes documented instances where buildings and objects have appeared or vanished within short time periods.

Whitley Strieber shares a personal account from December 2007 in which he experienced movement through five simultaneous parallel lives in a single night, including versions where his wife had died, where they lived in poverty, and where he found himself in entirely unfamiliar rooms within his own home. His account underscores the disorienting nature of these experiences and their emotional weight.

Starfire Tor presents what she considers hard evidence, including video footage from June 2001 showing an empty parking lot where a large Circuit City building later appeared, complete with signed affidavits from store employees confirming the building had been there for over a year. She describes sharing this documentation with approximately 50 academics and experts, many of whom were astonished but unable to publicly acknowledge the findings due to professional constraints.

Key Moments

  1. Strangers around the world remember Mandela dying: Tor describes one of the seed cases for her 'core matrix' research - large numbers of people who do not know each other and do not communicate independently contacting her to insist they remember Nelson Mandela having already died, while he was very much alive.

  2. Whitley Strieber lives five lives in one night: Strieber recounts a December 2007 incident where, after a glowing object outside the bedroom and fingers grasping his hand, he walked into a living room with four plants that wasn't his, then experienced five parallel lives unfolding simultaneously - including one where his wife Anne had died of her 2004 stroke.

  3. Circuit City appeared in 45 minutes on a parking lot: Tor presents her central piece of hard evidence - a 2001 establishing-shot video by stage magician Brandon Scott of an empty Southern California parking lot, then a months-later return where a warehouse-sized Circuit City stood in that exact spot, with affidavits from staff swearing the store had been there over a year.

  4. Reality-shift rainmaking on the wildfires: Tor says her interdimensional research group used 'reality shift manifestation' on 31 August 2009 to draw rain into California's deadly wildfire zones, and Art recalls his own on-air rain experiments years earlier that he says worked so well he stopped because the implications scared him.

  5. Copy and paste a rainy timeline into this one: Tor lays out her actual mechanism - use the brain as an interface to roll through coexisting timelines, find one where the desired outcome (rain over a fire) is already happening, and copy-paste-edit it into the dominant timeline.