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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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November 25, 1998: How to be a Prophet - Alan Vaughan

Nov 25, 1998
2h 54m
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Art Bell interviews Dr. Alan Vaughn, documented by the Central Premonitions Registry as the most successful predictor among 3,500 participants from 28 countries over two decades of recorded forecasts. Vaughn describes how he transitioned from skeptical science textbook editor to psychic researcher after unexplained experiences in the 1960s, including a Ouija board session that accurately predicted the worst blizzard in 80 years and a prophetic dream about the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

Vaughn explains his theory linking ESP, precognition, and UFO sightings to periods of low geomagnetic activity, suggesting consciousness extends into other dimensions where time does not exist in linear form. Art shares his own vivid premonition experience in Santa Barbara, where overwhelming waves of feeling warned him seconds before a driver reversed into his parked car.

The conversation turns to predictions, including Vaughn's published forecast that Clinton would not be impeached or resign, and a more alarming vision of a major earthquake centered roughly 100 miles east of Los Angeles in 1999, potentially reaching magnitude 7.8 to 8.0. Vaughn also discusses his software designed to train intuitive abilities and the potential of group consciousness to influence physical events.

Key Moments

  1. Vaughan's dream of Robert Kennedy's assassination: Vaughan recounts dreaming that Robert Kennedy would be assassinated and writing dream researcher Stanley Krippner on May 25th to pass a warning - but the letter arrived June 5th, the day before the killing.

  2. Predicting Primakov would take over Russia's economy: Vaughan's 1993 Fate magazine prediction - naming a man named Yevgeny Primakov who would take over managing the Russian economy - was fulfilled when Primakov became premier years later.

  3. How to train yourself to see the future: Vaughan describes his teaching method: still the mind through meditation, project consciousness out of the body to contact the higher self, and from that vantage point sense possible futures - especially emotionally charged events.

  4. Psychic Reward intuition training software: Vaughan introduces a $33 software trainer that shows a wheel of letters and asks users to predict which letter a random chip will pick - using weighted feedback to teach people to recognize the gut feeling that accompanies a correct hit.