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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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November 27, 2005: Remote Viewing, ETs, and Mind Warfare - Ed Dames

Nov 27, 2005
2h 29m
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Art Bell reads a major story about former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer calling on Parliament to hold hearings on relations with extraterrestrial civilizations. Hellyer declared that UFOs are as real as airplanes and warned that U.S. military preparations could provoke an intergalactic war. Art poses the central question: if we do not know whether visiting beings are friendly, should weapons be deployed in space?

Major Ed Dames joins to address listener questions about past predictions, including the space shuttle precursor event, the BTK killer case, and the long-promised gold discovery. Dames explains that his team had plane tickets to Wichita before BTK was caught and describes ongoing fieldwork to locate a gold strongbox in Nevada. He reveals that his team remote viewed the Bulgarian UFO footage, describing the craft as an energy projection from insectoid beings on a distant planet interested in creatures living in Caribbean marshlands.

The discussion shifts to space-based weapons, with Dames arguing the real military objective is a directed energy weapon on the moon. He warns of a destructive Seattle-Tacoma earthquake he places within 2006, deadly black mold spreading from hurricane-damaged regions, and a future prion disease that will devastate cattle herds.

Key Moments

  1. Art reads the listener critique: shuttle, BTK, and where's the gold?: Art opens by walking Dames through three failed predictions a listener flagged - the shuttle being forced down as the kill-shot precursor, identifying the BTK killer, and the long-promised buried gold bars - and tells him the audience deserves answers, one at a time.

  2. Walking back the kill-shot precursor: Pressed on the shuttle prediction, Dames concedes the shuttle was never forced down by the meteor shower as he'd said, but argues the prediction was 'through a lens darkly' and the broader sequence of solar hyperactivity still hallmarks the kill shot.

  3. Directed-energy weapon in a crater on the limb of the moon: Dames lays out his strategic doctrine: orbital weapons are too vulnerable, so the real high ground is a defiladed directed-energy beam director on the limb of the moon - and the Chinese manned-mission announcement is a race for that exact position. Art concludes 'we have got to rule space.'

  4. China is training children as psychic weapons: Dames claims the Chinese mind-warfare program uses children - minds not yet closed by adult skepticism - under PLA colonels to remote-view, attack, and damage-assess targets, citing Village of the Damned as the model. He refuses to teach the offensive skills himself.

  5. Art halts a live mind-warfare experiment to detonate Zarqawi's vest: Dames asks listeners to volunteer to mass-induce a transient electrical charge to detonate the suicide vest beside Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Art refuses on ethical grounds - he says he stopped these mass mind experiments because they were dangerous - and Dames walks the audience through what he was going to do instead of doing it.