During the first hour, callers discuss a range of topics including a Y2K glitch that struck two Victoria, British Columbia hospitals, causing their phone systems to crash and display January 1, 2000 on their screens weeks early. Art reads listener correspondence debating President Clinton's reassurances about Y2K preparedness, with skeptics pointing to the 50 percent of 911 systems still not compliant as reason for concern.
Dr. Semkiw walks through his methodology for identifying reincarnation cases, emphasizing that he approaches the subject as a trained physician seeking empirical patterns rather than relying on past-life regression or anecdotal testimony alone. Callers weigh in with their own experiences and questions about the implications of soul return for personal identity and spiritual belief.
Key Moments
A board-certified MD says reincarnation is provable: Art introduces Dr. Walter Semkiw, occupational physician and former medical director for Unocal 76, who claims unequivocal proof of reincarnation via more than 50 paired colonial-American portraits and modern photographs of the same people, with recurring family units.
Semkiw: 'It's not that I believe - I know': Pressed by Art on whether he merely believes in reincarnation, Semkiw replies that he knows it is true and has 'an encyclopedia full' of evidence, not just regression fragments or childhood memories, accumulated to the point that organizing it has become his task.
Origin story: a $50 medium reading sent him searching: Semkiw explains how a 1984 medium session in Chicago, billed as a guide-channeling, unexpectedly named him as a specific colonial-American figure on the East Coast, an idea he tucked away for 12 years until a sudden compulsion after his divorce sent him to Harvard archives where portraits, family connections, and matching faces appeared.
Recurring family units in colonial-portrait research: Semkiw describes how he reached personal conviction not from his own portrait alone but from identifying multiple family units - same mother, father, children - appearing intact across colonial portraits and modern photographs, with similar personality traits and vocations.
Karma forces you back with the people you fought: Asked whether one would have to reincarnate with a 'screeching, hellish ex-wife,' Semkiw says yes - bad relationships generate karma that must be worked out, and people who failed to reach amicability in one life will be paired again until they do.