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October 14, 2013: Parapsychology and the Paranormal - Loyd Auerbach

Oct 14, 2013
3h 12m
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Art Bell welcomes Professor Loyd Auerbach, director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations and a leading figure in parapsychology for over 30 years. Auerbach, who teaches parapsychology at multiple universities and serves as president of the Forever Family Foundation, brings academic rigor to a field often dominated by reality television sensationalism.

The conversation ranges across the full spectrum of paranormal research. Auerbach explains the Princeton random event generators that detect shifts in global consciousness during major world events, and Art recalls his own experiments directing millions of listeners to collectively visualize rain over drought-stricken regions. They discuss the science behind psychic healing, the distinction between genuine mediums and cold readers, and the certification processes used to vet mediums through organizations like the Winbridge Institute.

The most surprising revelations come from Auerbach's work on an upcoming book about Cold War psychic programs. He describes how Russian military leaders placed trained psychics inside tanks during the Chechnya War and details Soviet efforts to develop psychotronic generators as potential weapons. Auerbach also shares his own field experiences witnessing psychokinesis, including objects moving on command in haunted locations, and explains why the decline of traditional religion has fueled growing public interest in paranormal phenomena.

Key Moments

  1. Eggs spiked 24 hours before Diana died: Auerbach explains the Princeton EGG (Global Consciousness Project) network of 50+ random event generators around the world, which appear to go non-random during emotionally charged events. He notes a major spike began roughly 24 hours before Princess Diana's death.

  2. Why Art quit the rain experiments: Art recounts running on-air mass-meditation rain experiments that 'worked' within 30 minutes - until listeners asked him to turn a hurricane around. He realized a redirected storm could rebuild into a Cat 5 and quit, with Auerbach warning that you must put an end-date on the rain or be careful what you wish for.

  3. Is the medium reading the dead - or you?: Art proposes asking a medium specific questions only Ramona would know. Auerbach explains the parapsychology conundrum: if the medium gets it right, they may be reading the deceased - or they may be reading ESP from the sitter. Either way, something paranormal is happening.

  4. Russian remote viewers riding in tanks: Auerbach reveals that according to Russian generals (including a former KGB deputy), Russia placed trained remote viewers - also trained as Army personnel - inside frontline tanks during the Chechnya war for offense and defense. Art says he has never heard this anywhere before.

  5. Dim Mok: the delayed death touch: Auerbach says the martial artist who trained the U.S. military's 'men who stare at goats' actually taught Dim Mok, a legendary kung fu strike where touching a target disrupts the nearest organ and kills them sometime later.